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A Better Canadian: Ice-Fishing | Amy Rosen | Canada, Ontario, Toronto

It's beautiful and sad and such a sincerely Canadian scene, it almost brings a frozen tear to my eye. Even so, I am bored out of my skull

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A Museum and a Compound | Pelu Awofeso

The tombs of deceased emirs (there must be no less than nine of them) are preserved in two groups

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Catch and Cook at Glacier Bay’s Bear Track Inn | Martin Li | United States, Alaska, Glacier Bay

Being eaten by a bear wasn’t in the script. I was supposed to be the hunter gatherer on this trip!

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Close Encounters with Cod | Fiona Dunlop | Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island

The bubbles gurgle upwards as our small group descends into the Hole to meet our first specimen. Immense and silent, it weaves between us. I extend a tentative hand and stroke the firm, slimey, slightly scaley back

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Cycling Bali | Andrew Bain | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

The road is a river, awash with monsoonal rains. The midday sun has darkened to a candle of light and thunder resounds like cannon fire across the sullen Bali sky

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Paradise Valley Montana | Jim Keeble | United States, Montana, Paradise Valley

Montana calls itself ‘Big Sky’ country, and it’s not joking. This much blue can leave you feeling a little agoraphobic

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Paxos | Martin O'Brien | Greece, Cyclades (south), Naxos

One of the smallest of the Greek Ionian Islands and still relatively unknown, Paxos has remained resolutely under-developed. Too small and hilly for an airport, with limited supplies of fresh water

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Strolling through Cuba's Greatest Gardens | Isabella Tree

The gardens Christopher Columbus saved for the Queen, a large uninhabited archipelago, may seem empty at first, but one only need to look deeper to find what he must have seen

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The End of the Road | Alf Alderson | Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia

The name alone, which translates as Land of Fire, is enough to have Indiana Jones rushing to book his ticket - indeed, visitors from Charles Darwin to Bruce Chatwin have described their fascination with the place

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Treasure Island | Paul Miles

Men venture off into the milky blue sea to spear fish from outrigger canoes...

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