From Mangaratiba, the road hugs the coast as it wends its way westwards, rising and falling between towering green-clad mountains and the ocean. Roughly 60km west of Mangaratiba lies the shabby and rather unprepossessing little town of ANGRA DOS...
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The small Mississippi port of HELENA , roughly sixty miles south of Memphis, was once the shipping point for Arkansas's cotton crop, when Mark Twain described it as occupying one of the prettiest situations on the river. A small...
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Connected to the rest of Isla ColÛn by a narrow causeway, the provincial capital of BOCAS DEL TORO is by far the best base from which to explore the islands, beaches and reefs of the archipelago, and also a charming place in its own right,...
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