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Deep in the Brazilian rainforest there is a town built around a church where worshippers drink hallucinogenic tea. Alex Bellos took a trip up the Amazon to sample the high life in Céu do Mapiá...  read more »

In our latest photo essay, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre travelled across America taking photos of abandoned buildings. Edward Carr finds an unlikely beauty in their dilapidation...
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Snapshot: Rebecca Willis explains how a scene of eerie stillness was once the setting for an infamous event...  read more »

A leading landscape architect chooses his favourite things, from a view in the Lake District to a journey in Peru...  read more »

The Tana is a river even most Kenyans have never seen. And now its ancient way of life is under threat from a super-port. J.M. Ledgard finds glimpses of paradise in its chocolate waters...  read more »

Being There: Simon Reid-Henry on day-to-day life in a city that changes drastically from season to season ...  read more »

The funder of the Ondaatje prize, awarded to the book that best evokes a spirit of place, picks the highlights of his well-travelled world ...   read more »

In our latest Snapshot, Chad Carpenter captures nacreous clouds that are 10 miles high. Rebecca Willis gives a chilly explanation ... 
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Being There: Fiona Maharg-Bravo reports on life in a city that never sits down to a meal until it has to ...  read more »

Tonci Bibic and his family have been fishing off the islands of the Dalmatian coast for six generations. But that may be about to end. James Hopkin reports from Hvar ...  read more »