Despite recent and rapid economic progress, CHIANG MAI - Thailand's second city - manages to preserve some of the atmosphere of an overgrown village. The old quarter, set within a two-kilometre-square moat, has retained many of its traditional...
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Twenty-two kilometres north of Mount Gambier, PENOLA , gateway to the Coonawarra wine region, is a very simple but dignified country town of well-preserved nineteenth-century architecture. For information, head for Penola Coonawarra...
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By far the largest city in Queensland, BRISBANE is not quite what you'd expect from a state capital with almost one-and-a-half million residents. Although there is urban sprawl, and high-rise buildings, slow-moving traffic, crowded streets and...
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