Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes

Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes UNESCO World Heritage Site

From the World Heritage inscription: In the 1940s the Twyfelfontein land was granted on licence to a settler. At that time a few Damara people lived close to the spring in 32 huts. The land was transferred to communal use for Damara farmers in 1964 on the recommendation of the Odendaal Commission. But no farmers …

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The Namib Sand Sea

The Namib Sand Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site

From the Namib Sand Sea World Heritage inscription: The Namib Sand Sea lies along the arid African coast of the South Atlantic lying wholly within Namibia’s Namib-Naukluft Park. It covers an area of 3,077,700 hectares, with an additional 899,500 hectares designated as a buffer zone. The Namib Sand Sea is a unique coastal fog desert …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 153

Regular hosts Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guests Travel Writer Tim Leffel and Kash Bhattacharya from BudgetTraveller.org Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Being Married to a Pilot: Luck or Suck?

Being Married to a Pilot – Luck or Suck?

When it comes up that I’m married to an airline pilot, I usually get told how lucky I am and how they’d love to be in my shoes. I usually just smile and nod, but I know all they see is that you can fly standby for free. Truth is, just like everyone else’s life, …

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Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church world heritage site

From the World Heritage inscription: Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for almost five centuries. St Martin’s Church, St Augustine’s Abbey and the cathedral are directly and tangibly associated with the history of the introduction of Christianity to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The influence of the …

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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site

From the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage inscription: The Blaenavon landscape constitutes an exceptional illustration in material form of the social and economic structure of 19th-century industry. The area around the Blaenavon ironworks provides an extraordinarily comprehensive picture of the South Wales coal and iron industry in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th …

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Where We Get Our Food : Corn Harvest in the Texas Panhandle

I’ll admit it. I’m a city girl. That’s not something most Texans admit. There’s a lot of country pride in my state. But I grew up in a big city suburb and I’ve never lived in anything even remotely close to a town. I don’t know anything about farms. My husband is a farm boy. …

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Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast

Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast UNESCO World Heritage Site

From the Giant’s Causeway World Heritage inscription: The site lies on the north coast of the County of Antrim, Northern Ireland, and includes the Causeway Coast extending for about 6 km between Causeway Head and Benbane Head. The Causeway Coast has an unparalleled display of geological formations representing volcanic activity during the early Tertiary period …

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Sceilg Mhichíl

Sceilg Mhichíl UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ireland

From the Skellig Michael World Heritage inscription: Skellig Michael is an outstanding, and in many respects unique, example of an early religious settlement deliberately sited on a pyramidal rock in the ocean, preserved because of a remarkable environment. It illustrates, as no other site can, the extremes of a Christian monasticism characterizing much of North …

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