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Around the world
NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF

TRAVEL & FOOD

INFO NUGGETS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE

NEPAL & CHINA ITALY

Mount Everest is around 27 times taller than
the Eiffel Tower! Part of the Mahalangur range,
the international border between Nepal
and China runs across its summit, measured
at 8,848 metres above sea level.

THE CARIBBEAN

The Duomo Cathedral in Milan took nearly six centuries to complete! Even today, restoration work
is still on to maintain the 14th-century edifice, and there is a public campaign on to raise funds for
its preservation.
The idyllic island of St Maarten-St Martin in
the Caribbean is one of a kind – it’s governed
by both the Netherlands and France. It is the THE NAMIB DESERT THE USA
smallest inhabited island to be divided between
two nations, in a division dating back to 1648.
ISRAEL

Temperatures in the Namib desert, lying across It is estimated that, if you were to spend a night
Namibia, South Africa and Angola, can reach in all of Las Vegas’s hotel rooms, it would take
Tel Aviv owes its UNESCO World Heritage a sweltering 60°C in the day and fall below 0°C you nearly 288 years to do it. This city in the
status to its 1930s Bauhaus architecture. It is at night. This coastal desert may be the oldest state of Nevada bills itself as the entertainment
called the White City for its over 4,000 buildings desert in the world and contains some of capital of the world, and is famous for its mega 123RFX7
in this style – the largest number of any city the driest regions in the world. casino hotels.
42 in the world, which can be seen on a tour.
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