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A beach with a 450-person quota and seven orcas you cannot book: what there is in Baja California

Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez the world's aquarium - 900 marine species and 33 mammal species back the name...

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The Suitcase That Does Not Fit the Frame: Ten Mistakes That Turn a Cheap Ticket Expensive at the Desk

Half an hour of reading before you pay for the ticket solves all ten. The question is why we never...

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Forty percent was flattened in 1945, then rebuilt stone by stone: the town in Bavaria where advertising signs are not allowed

Rothenburg ob der Tauber kept the street layout of six hundred years ago, and the wall around it runs four...

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97 Per Cent of the Land Is Protected and the Animals Don't Run from People: The Islands Where Darwin Saw Evolution

A thousand kilometres out into the Pacific, 13 large islands and species that exist nowhere else. The strict rules there...

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The Train from Bern Takes Half an Hour, and Most People Pass Through Without Getting Off: the Town with a 38-Metre Panorama Beneath the Alps

A 12th-century castle, a museum with 17,000 objects and surfers in the river in the middle of town. Thun is...

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The Island That Sent Venus to the Louvre and Kept a Copy: Milos Has 70 Beaches and No Two Look Alike

White rock polished as if it were poured, sea in a colour that looks overdone, and a statue the whole...

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Neither Santorini nor Mykonos: the Cycladic island with an opera house from 1864 and two churches on the same hill

Syros has no windmills to photograph. It has neoclassical facades, a Venetian labyrinth built against pirates, and a life that...

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Eight Wooden Walkways Over the Ocean: Galicia Did Not Find Better Nature, It Found a Way to Open It Without Trampling It

The only waterfall in Europe that falls straight into the sea, a dune more than a kilometre long, and a...

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Bogorodica 109 Minutes, Dojran 20, Medzitlija 10 - Three Crossings in the Same Afternoon

In the same hour on 18 August, the gap between the three exits to Greece was more than an hour...

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A Hundred Residents, Two Thousand Years of History and a Two-Euro Ride to the Beach: The Village on the Edge of the Algarve

At low tide you walk to the sand. At high tide you either wade the channels with your things over...

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Ten Coves on the Costa Brava: Half Are Only Reachable Before Eight in the Morning, the Other Half Only in Proper Shoes

A coastline where the pine forest comes down to the water still looks like itself - but only for those...

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UNESCO Protected a Village Because of Two Colours: The White and Blue of Sidi Bou Said Were Prescribed by a British Baron in 1915

Twenty kilometres from the Tunisian capital, the most photographed village in the country. The aesthetic the world now protects was...

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