The Bolivian Salt Flats. If you havent already been to the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, put it on your bucket list.

When we meet travelers headed to South America, Bolivias Salar de Uyuni is among our top recommendations. And while the all-white salt flats are the goal, its the 1000 km (620 miles) four-day jeep trip from Tupiza to Uyuni that features some of the worlds most beautiful and otherworldly landscapes around.

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Argentina is probably better known for her sporting feats, tango or beef than for her films. This roundup of films, while by no means comprehensive, is an attempt to reverse that and, hopefully, to provide a small glimpse into Argentinean culture.

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009 crime thriller), directed by Juan José Campanella and starring Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Guillermo Francella. The action of this Academy Award winner is set in the present interspersed with continuous flashbacks to the 1970s. This thriller is about unrequited love, an unsolved crime, an unfinished novel and the political situation in Argentina in the seventies. M

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    A hang gliding student catches air at Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina.

NAGS HEAD, N.C. – Magical things happen atop the great sand dunes here. The dunes include the largest on the East Coast, which soars 25 to 30 metres above most everything else and offers fine views in all directions: the gleaming Atlantic to the east, a picturesque estuary to the west and beach houses and tourist swarms below.

“I’ve been living here 25 years, and every New Year’s Eve we go up to the dune to watch the sun set,” Leslie Deligio, 59, a nurse, said as we sipped beers at Outer Banks Brewing Station brew pub on the teeming strip along this state’s coast. “Then w

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Digg Digg

Where: Historic Columbia River Gorge Highway, the first planned scenic highway built in the U.S. (back in 1922). You pick it up on the outskirts of Portland, at Troutdale and it goes all the way to The Dalles, about 75 miles east. We took it as far as Hood River.

When: July 3-4.

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HALF MOON RESORT, JAMAICA – There are resorts. And there are RESORTS.

Half Moon, just outside Montego Bay, would have to be included in the latter, not only for the insane number of amenities and attractions but also for the sheer size of the place.

The resort was born in 1954 on a half moon crescent of sand east of Montego Bay in the Rose Hall district. A mere 35 acres it was. A baby. It has since grown to a full, Dolly Parton-esque 400 acres.

You like oceanfront? They’ve got two miles of it, much of it lonely, deserted beach. You want swimming pools? T

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