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In The Guardian’s Rwanda Gorillas in the mix: touring Rwanda, Homa Khaleeli goes on the trail of the mountain gorilla, relaxes on one of Africa’s great lakes – Lake Kivu – and goes on safari in the Akagera national park. “there is a breathtaking amount of beauty to protect,” writes Khaleeli, “At dawn, as the dark lifted, the mist remained, turning the hill tops into islands in a seascape of cloud.”

“Most people fall for Rio de Janeiro the moment they glimpse it from the plane,” writes Stanley Stewart in The Times. “It had never occurred to me that there were people who jumped into that view…Rio is made for altitude junkies. Its sheer-sided mountains make it a climber’s challenge and a hang-glider’s paradise. In a moment of bravado – inspired by half a dozen caipirinhas – I signed up for the hang-gliding.” Stewart takes a leap of faith and goes Hand-gliding over Rio de Janeiro.

In The Observer Carol McDaid discovers Bergs and brutal beauty in Greenland’s magnetic north. “In early September the nightless days are over, the endless nights still to come, and home for me for a few otherworldly days was a sleek Norwegian cruise liner heading north up the west coast and bound for Disko Bay, which in my dreams at least was full of mirror balls.”

In The Times, Nicholas Roe is on the West Coast of Scotland “on the summit of a 946m Scottish Munro in a 50mph wind that was dashing hail and ice chips painfully into our faces, me regretting that I was without goggles so was near-blind up there – stumbling, falling, flailing. My face felt raw.” This is Wild winter walking in Scotland. “The scenery was magically appearing and vanishing in fierce snow bursts. I was panting. It was cold. It was wonderful.”

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