Ask someone to pin Madagascar on a map and there’s a slim chance they’ll manage to locate it. But, lying some 400km off the east coast of Africa, it is the Indian Ocean’s largest island. Having broken free from the Continent many millions of years ago, it evolved in its own individual way and is one of the most biodiverse countries with, astonishingly, around 80% of its flora and fauna (of which there are around 250,000 species) found nowhere else on earth.
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On the Road in Southern Patagonia
Patagonia is known to be where the world ends. Or is it where the world starts mused my guide, Dennis, as we sat sheltering from the rain and the 100mph wind that had whipped up as we hiked up Cerro Paine in Chile’s famed Torres del Paine National Park.
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Buzzing Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires has a lot going for it. A cosmopolitan and culturally rich city, it combines European influences (it was rebuilt in the early 20th Century and modelled on Paris and Madrid) with true Latin atmosphere and a passion entirely its own.
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Where to in 2024?
The one thing that always gets me through January and is guaranteed to put a smile on my face, is the thought of the travels I have planned for the year ahead.
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