Outdoorsy GIRDWOOD , 37 miles south of Anchorage, lies two miles inland in the shade of the Alyeska Resort ( ; $45), Alaska's largest winter sports complex and the lowest-elevation ski resort in the world - Mount...
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Frequent trains, bus #58 (and bus #358 in school term-time) make the journey four miles north of Stirling to DUNBLANE , a small, attractive place which has been an important ecclesiastical centre since the seventh century, when the Celts...
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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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