Nature’s Best: 5 Must-See Parks In Costa Rica
With a quarter of its territory protected as national parks and reserves, and nearly 6 per cent of the world’s biodiversity, you’ll find remarkable nature and wildlife just about everywhere you turn in Costa Rica. The challenge is choosing where ...
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Scenes of Sri Lanka: Photo Gallery
Sri Lanka is an island treasure, a diverse landscape of lush rainforest, ambient highland tea plantations, dazzling white sand beaches, bustling cities that never feel crowded, resilient and warm people, and over 2000 years of fascinating history and culture. Easy to ...
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A love affair with Petra
Petra – where camels are touted as ‘air-conditioned taxis’, donkeys finally get the credit they’re due as ‘Ferraris’, ‘happy hour’ prices and ‘buy one get one free’ rides come into play at a moment’s notice, and horse rides to the ...
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A Camping Safari In East Africa
We’ve visited some cities with seriously bad reps in our travels, but none has had our arrival nerves jumping quite like Nairobi, or Nairobbery as it’s notoriously nicknamed by some. It didn’t help that we were carrying a small ransom in cash ...
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Colours of Morocco: A Photo Gallery
Morocco is a country of vivid colour: from the skilled polychrome zellij and mosaics of its palaces and the eye-catching spices in the markets, to the burnt orange hues of the rippling Sahara sands, the iridescent blues of boats and skies, the lush ...
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Living the high life in the Andes
We’d heard good things but nothing quite prepares you for the business class comfort of Argentina’s long-distance buses – as far as our backpacker budget goes, they’re not particularly cheap but when you’re staring down the barrel of a 14 ...
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A Classico Football Match: River Plate v San Lorenzo
His game: It’s a football fan’s dream to watch a local derby in Buenos Aires, and while this one wasn’t the ‘Super Classico’ between River and Boca, it was the next best thing – a ‘Classico’ with River (or “Los Millonarios’ ...
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