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A green oasis in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, the Botanical Gardens are a UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve, home to part of the Atlantic Forest.
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It is rare to see the gardens of the Château de Versailles in the snow. The stone and marble statues are wrapped in a green sheet, the foliage bends under the weight of the snowflakes and the topiaries are made up in white. Take a stroll through this setting so beloved of the Sun King, which has established itself as a masterpiece of 17th-century French art.
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The toque macaque (macaca sinica), named after the tuft of hair on its head, is a cunning, thieving little monkey often seen near temples or in parks. Not shy,...
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With its white houses and fuchsia bougainvilleas that seem to grow out of the windows, this former fishing port is a tempting mix of the fisherman of Halicarnassus and Kate Moss on a detox cure! Bodrum is...
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His name is forever linked to a colour, the deep cobalt blue that Jacques Majorelle, the visionary painter and gardener, painted on the walls of his villa-workshop in Marrakech in the early 1930s. And to an enchanting garden, the work of...
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