Were it not for the cathedral, few travellers would stop at AMIENS . Badly scarred during both world wars, and with heavy traffic pounding along the ring road built over its old city walls, it's not an immediately likeable place. Yet there is...
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Chiclayo is the commercial centre of northern Peru, so it's better famed for its banks than its heritage. Nevertheless it has its attractions, even if most of the city is an urban sprawl modernizing and growing by the month. The heart of CHICLAYO ...
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Set on the western side of the Red Basin, CHENGDU is a city with two faces: a modern provincial capital whose smoggy streets sport glassy skyscrapers, Japanese four-wheel-drives and fluorescent-coloured bicycles, coupled with narrow back lanes...
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