COSENZA , Calabria's first town of any size if you're travelling from the north, is also the region's most interesting, and makes a useful base to explore the surrounding area, particularly the Sila mountains. Historically it has always...
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CONG , a few miles south of Ballinrobe, lies on the narrow spit of land that divides Lough Mask from Lough Corrib at the point where the dramatically mountainous country of Connemara to the west gives way to the flat and fertile farmland that makes...
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Just three hours to the west of Hohhot by train or bus lies Inner Mongolia's biggest city, BAOTOU . Its primary significance is as the chief iron- and steel-producing centre in China: if you're arriving at night from the direction of Yinchuan,...
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