Low effort, high value: Black pearl farming in Polynesia
While globetrotting around the islands of the Pacific, Teja discovers the intricate art of pearl farming - and the jewellery grown in nature.
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A surreal drive across Madagascar’s highlands
Jetlagged and confused, John Gimlette finds himself slipping in and out of reality on a - very slightly dangerous - drive across Madagascar's highlands, now a deforested, landslipping plain.
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A thoughtful stay in the not-so-Democratic Republic of Congo
The DRC is a strikingly mis-named country, finds Ben Cooke. It's undemocratic, for a start, and a republic only in name. He starts in Lubumbashi, heads into the hinterlands of small-town Kipushi and then braves the capital, Kinshasa. He finds the Congo's reputation for being dangerous has been superseded by its capacity to relentlessly hassle any visitor - especially if carrying a camera - and he finds the unremitting focus on a lone white traveller forces his mind into solitary reflection.
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Face to face with a Nepalese rhino
Deep in the jungles of the Chitwan National Park, Alex Jones tracks a rhino by elephant, jeep and finally foot, braving the area's tigers and snakes. Success, hard-won, is all the more valued.
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