Stretching for more than 3km along a shallow, gently curving bay, the village of HOPKINS is home to around a thousand GarÌfuna people. GarÌfuna Settlement Day, on November 19, is celebrated enthusiastically here, and at other times it's a...
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JABIRU , a couple of kilometres east of the Park HQ, is a company town, originally built to serve Kakadu's uranium-mining leases before the park was established. There are four mine leases in the park (and another in Arnhemland) but only one or...
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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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