GUILIN (Osmanthus Forest) is one of China's worst tourist traps, entirely dependent on visitors for its income and flaunting an expensive service industry tailored to the well-heeled tour groups that are forever passing through. Well planted with...
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CLERMONT-FERRAND lies at the northern tip of the Massif Central. Although its situation is magnificent, almost encircled by the wooded and grassy volcanoes of the Monts-DÙmes , it has for a century been a typical smokestack industrial...
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Sprawling across the Valle de las Hamacas at the foot of the mighty Volc·n San Salvador is the urban melee of SAN SALVADOR , El Salvador's chaotic, frenetic and polluted capital. It's a city which is unlikely to win many hearts - on first...
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