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Australian Bush Racing | Jasper Winn

Just to get to Innamincka for its annual 'picnic races' entailed flying by bush plane for a fair few hours, skirting the Simpson desert in a 4X4 jeep for a day and bobbing around in a boat for half an hour on Cooper Creek

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Flight of the Reindeer | Jasper Winn | Finland, other areas of Finland, Levi

"You know about animals...you drive," Senja suggested. Then voiced an underlying fear: "How do we stop the thing if it takes off?"

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Friesland Ice Sleighs | Jasper Winn | Netherlands, other areas of the Netherlands, Friesland

Skating for the Dutch is the equivalent of Guinness and traditional music for the Irish - a symbol of who they are and where they've come from

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Home on the range - Dude ranching in Arizona | Jim Keeble | United States, Arizona, Phoenix

Cisco trod carefully, up and down ravines, past the Saguaro cacti, as tall as trees, past spikey ‘jumping cholla’, whose thorns ‘leap at you when your back’s turned’

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Husky Sledging from Finland to Russia | Dea Birkett

It was a little like riding a roller coaster blindfold. The track dashed through the thick forest, and even the weak headlamp only cast up strange shadows. You had to put all your faith in the dogs

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Silent Runnings | Roger Moss | Canada, Quebec, Quebec City

Outside it’s struggling to make -15ºC and there’s an added wind-chill factor we don’t even want to think about as our rented 4x4 rolls reassuringly through the whiter-than-white landscapes of a Quèbec winter

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To the Manure Born | AA Gill | United Kingdom, South West England, Stoneleigh

Here, no equinity is left unworshipped: hitching, harnessing, plaiting, braiding, contests by age, height, breed and sex; they skitter past for three days, like Genghis Khan’s Girl Guides

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