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Adrenaline on the Rocks | John Borthwick

The brochure promised "Blades gently breaking the water; nature all around.'' Too right it was all around. White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom

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God’s Highway | John Warburton-Lee | Zimbabwe, Zambezi National Park, Victoria Falls

Alone in your tiny craft, each rapid is a hectic battle of skill, nerve and determination as you battle your way through the Zambezi’s stomach-lurching drops

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Lake Maggiore | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Lake Maggiore

The Borromeo family has a bit of a monopoly on sightseeing around central and southern Lake Maggiore. They own the palaces and gardens on the Isola Bella and the Isola Madre

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Mississippi Days | Greg Breining | United States, Minnesota, Wabasha

We headed down the biggest and best-connected river of them all - Mark Twain's river, America's river, the river of unwritten Indian legend. Beyond the next bend is always another town, another city, a gulf, an ocean

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Mosedale Horseshoe | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Wasdale

It was a view of little colour but marked contrasts, an abstract of snow and precipice, white and black, against a backdrop of the dark green forest and sunlit, bracken-brown slopes

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Raven Brings the Sun | Linda Ballou | United States, Alaska, Tatshenshini River

The headwaters of this river in the Yukon Territory of Canada flow free for 140 un-interrupted miles through a 24-million-acre roadless wilderness that encompasses the largest non-polar ice field on earth

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Sunday by the Seine | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

You don't need a car or a fat bank balance to experience the pleasure of lunch by the river within an hour of Paris. But you do need a sense of adventure

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Superior Refuge | Greg Breining | United States, Wisconsin, Lake Superior

I was beginning a week-long foray among the Apostles, a compact knot of 22 rocky islands along Wisconsin's northern coast. The Apostles have become a haven for kayakers, who shelter in the channels between islands

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The Ganges | William Dalrymple

Below on the bank of the river, small groups of newly-arrived pilgrims were busy setting up camp. One or two - older men - were already standing in the shallows of the river, stripped to the waist

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Up Dark Creek with a Paddle | Jasper Winn

As the light snuffed out vision, my other senses sharpened. In the faint moonlight the open waters glittered dully like crumpled-up-then-flattened-out silver foil

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Up the Nile on the Golden One - Dahibiya | Barnaby Rogerson | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

Cairo cannot disappoint, most especially when you arrive during the last two nights of Ramadan

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