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Dog-sledding in Greenland | Nigel Tisdall

Dogs outnumber humans by almost five to one in Uummannaq, a robust Inuit community 590 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Until May, when the frozen sea relinquishes its grip on Greenland's northwest coast, the only way to get here is by helicopter from Ilulissat, site of the most magnificent and effusive iceberg factory in the northern hemisphere.

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Gascony Villa | Nigel Tisdall | France, Aquitaine, Gascony

"We've rented this fab mansion in France" I would casually let slip down the pub, "if you fancy it." At the same time Alice would be in a wine bar, enthusing about this idyllic French villa we've just found

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Madagascar | Nigel Tisdall

Wearing a dapper outfit of black jacket with white trousers, they look like cuddly toys - until one opens its mouth to scream. Then I see a vivid red gash, and stand listening, terrified, as it all comes pouring out. The cry of the indri... A haunting, blood-turning siren call, lifted straight from the soundtrack of the universe.

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Rafting on the Klaralven | Nigel Tisdall

It is remarkable how we will pay out good money so that others can give us arduous, even dangerous tasks. All along the river aspirant rafters were scampering around like panicking Noahs

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Southern India | Nigel Tisdall | India, Kerala, Lake Periyar

I am on an early morning game-viewing cruise on the misty waters of Lake Periyar, in the green hills of Kerala, southwest India

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Touring the Holocaust sites of Poland | Nigel Tisdall | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

It sounded like a holiday in Hell. Seven days touring some of the most harrowing Holocaust sites in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto

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