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Cycling on Rottnest Island | Andrew Bain | Australia | Western Australia | Perth
If ever an Australian place was made for cycling, it is Rottnest Island. Ringed by roads, yet traffic-free (private vehicles are banned on the island), it’s flat, comfortably compact and has an infrastructure built around bicycle travel.Bike racks...

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Snow on Wheels: The Athabasca Glacier | Andrew Bain | Canada | Alberta | Calgary
Canada’s Icefields Parkway is promoted as ‘the most beautiful road in the world’ but it has one imperfection: from the road, as you wind through the Rocky Mountains between Lake Louise and Jasper, you can see almost none of the 13 eponymous...

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Rafting Tasmania's Franklin River | Andrew Bain | Australia | Tasmania | Launceston
If rivers are a metaphor for life, Tasmania’s pristine Franklin River is breath itself. Doused by three metres of rain a year, water levels rise and fall so quickly it’s as though the river is inhaling and exhaling. In the Great Ravine, a high-sided...

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Dogsledding in the Yukon | Andrew Bain | Canada | Yukon Territory
Canada’s Yukon Territory is canine country. Home to the Yukon Quest, an event billed as the toughest dogsled race on earth, it’s the kind of place where even the capital city, Whitehorse, offers courses on doggie massage and physiotherapy. If you’re...

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