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Blowing through the Andes | Andrew Bain

A serrated skyline of rock spires loomed ahead, and beyond rose the dominant figure of the Tronador volcano, glaciers wrapped like scarves around its neck

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Dewdrops over the Mountains | Raaja Bhasin

From Kipling’s ‘world within a world’, we were over the ragged rock of the Kunzam pass and in the vast arid spaces of Lahaul that seemed to have been pulled out of a painting by Dali

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Down Around Chile's Ankles | Jasper Winn | Chile, Patagonia, Torres del Paine National Park

The wind - la escoba de Dios, the ‘broom of God’ – whips the snow off the summits in swirling contrails. Avalanches fall from the cornices high above the valleys. Condors turn slow cartwheels through the sky

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Four Moments in Thailand | Bradley Winterton | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

What I remember most fondly of Thailand are a temple and a lake, a river and a ruin, none of them major tourist destinations but all of them replete with a spirit that for me is close to the heart of the country

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La Grotte de Niaux | James Henderson | France, Midi-Pyrenees, Niaux

It was a reassuring surprise to see evidence of tourism nearly 400 years old - I always imagined that being a tourist was a peculiarly 20th century activity, born of an idle curiosity and too much leisure

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Lake Como | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Como/Menaggio

It is a lake which in the savage beauty of its green and white shores, in the way the wind whips the surface into wayward textures, in the way it is very difficult to be there and not be in love

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Letter from Hawaii | Norman Miller | Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii

Twain described the view from the top of Mauna Loa - the “long mountain that had neither beginning or end” in his apt words - as taking in “all the climes of the world at a single glance of the eye”.

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Morocco – The Northern Frontier | Mark Eveleigh | Morocco, Northern Morocco, Chefchaouen

Legend has it that Hercules once pulled the two continents of the Old World apart at the point where Djebal Tarik (now Gibraltar) and Djebal Musa, the two Pillars of Hercules, lie today

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Namibia Unreal | Jonathan Begg | Namibia, Etosha National Park, Etosha National Park

Slowly its huge nothingness (the literal translation of "Namibia") starts to take on a haunting personality of its own as a long line of gemsbok (or oryx) file into view across the great panorama.

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