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This unique architectural idea was medieval India’s ingenious answer to perennial water shortage.
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In Hong Kong’s northeast, an oft-overlooked island is returning to life after decades of solitude.
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Extreme traveller Kolja Spori frequents conflict zones, lonely ice roads in Siberia and unrecognized breakaway republics.
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The Broomway is known as the most perilous path in Britain – and is a favourite walk of writer Robert Macfarlane, who describes it in this adaptation from his book The Old Ways.
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Impassioned and perceptive, the king of TV travel doesn’t disappoint in his interview. We talk about Persian chicken, interviewing Obama in Vietnam and the sauces of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Although there are about 2,000 species of fireflies in the world, synchronous fireflies – ones that can coordinate their flash patterns – exist in just a handful of places on Earth.
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The sandstone for the White House and Capitol – as well as a few other historically important US government buildings – was quarried by slave labour in Virginia.
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A celebration of this planet and the pure joy of travelling around it
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BBC Travel uncovers the hidden side of the parks through its people
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While other countries close their borders, Albania harbours those in need
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Which came first – the precise timekeepers or the precise people?
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Will this desert wasteland see new life?
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From rocket ships to flying cars, these kids inspire us to love the world
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