Rather than pouring the obligatory champagne this New Year’s Eve, try one of these traditional regional beverages.
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28 December 2012
The festival of Takanakuy features music, dancing and a series of public fist fights.
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24 December 2012
In a city known for its downpours, an interactive installation in the Barbican Art Gallery lets you feel as though you are controlling the weather.
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24 December 2012
A city-wide trend for new museums, exhibition spaces and art galleries displays where this rapidly changing city is going, rather than where it has been.
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20 December 2012
From opera glasses that are as fashionable as they are functional to a self-guided tour of US public art, these gifts will amaze any travelling culture vulture.
07 December 2012
Starting as early as the Neolithic Age, the tradition of the public bath has changed over the years to adapt to evolving cultures and social norms.
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30 November 2012
An ambitious initiative to restore 31 adobe missions near the Bolivian border is helping to revitalise the fading indigenous culture and open up the region to travellers.
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30 November 2012
Like the Emirates before it, oil-rich Qatar is building a desert paradise for visitors with a variety of openings that would raise an eyebrow in New York, let alone in the Middle East.
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26 November 2012
India’s jam-packed festival calendar is as rich and diverse as its traditions and topography, and Diwali is the star of the show.
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13 November 2012
Despite being declared endangered by the United Nations, there are still vibrant communities of Garinagu people along Belize’s southern coast.
12 November 2012
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