Tamanrasset, Algeria

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Read about Tamanrasset and the old forts of the Sahara.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, Russia

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Read about Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The building with the red roof is the train station. From there you can catch a train to Nogliki further up north. White Sun of The Desert is an interesting blog by Tim Newman about Russia, Sakhalin and the Far East where you can read about the train trip to Nogliki. The oil industry is moving in on Sakhalin. Read about it in Businessweek and the The Guardian.

Iquitos, Peru

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Read about Iquitos, the worlds most populated city that cannot be reached by road! You can travel on the Amazon river via Manaus ,"The Paris of the Tropics", all the way down to Belem in Brazil.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

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Read about Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This picture of the harbour is fantastic. Someday I will travel there.

Close to Kumkent, Kazakhstan

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Read more about this area in Justin Jansens Kazakhstan Travel Page at Virtual Tourist!