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Are there any flights which fly above the Bermuda Triangle?
The premise of your question is incorrect. The Bermuda Triangle is not mysterious. From the Wikipedia article:
Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery. The vicinity of ...
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Are there any flights which fly above the Bermuda Triangle?
At this moment, FlightRadar24 shows more than 30 commercial flights in the area, and that's likely true at almost any time of the day. I'm betting most will survive ;)
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How can I legally visit the United States Minor Outlying Islands in the Pacific?
I can answer for Palmyra Atoll, as I happend to have come across this recently.
From time to time, the US Fish and Wildlife Service seeks volunteers to work on Palmyra Atoll. The last call for ...
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How can I legally visit the United States Minor Outlying Islands in the Pacific?
Join or sponsor an Amateur Radio expedition.
Many Amateur Radio enthusiasts like to collect radio contacts and postcards confirming these contacts (called QSL cards) from rare and distant locations (...
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What's the easternmost place in Asia?
Tongue-in-cheek answer:
The easternmost place in Asia is where the Russian Far East touches the 180° meridian. It’s actually a line of over 400 km (estimated by grabbing coordinates from the southern ...
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Is October a decent time to whalewatch for orca pods in Vancouver, B.C.? Question about migratory patterns in the Pacific Northwest?
Is October a decent time to whalewatch for orca pods in Vancouver, B.C.?
Wild Whales Vancouver claims Fall may be the best time:
Posted on September 12, 2016 by admin
The tree lines are sprinkled ...
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Is October a decent time to whalewatch for orca pods in Vancouver, B.C.? Question about migratory patterns in the Pacific Northwest?
Pnuts provided an excellent answer above ^^^. I'm just providing a delayed update on what my personal experience was (for others who might be wondering about their chances to see orcas in October in ...
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Is it possible to go from Battambang to Phnom Penh by bamboo train?
Is it possible to go from Battambang to Phnom Penh by bamboo train?
Unfortunately I think the answer to this is: No. So to:
what's the price for this trip?
the answer would be: there isn't one. ...
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Are there any flights which fly above the Bermuda Triangle?
I was stationed in the bahamas at a base that is situated well inside the "Triangle" in the NAVY. I was there for 10 years, and not a single incident involving military or any other ship or air craft ...
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Is it possible to go from Battambang to Phnom Penh by bamboo train?
[sources for most of what follows: lot of searches on Internet and a bit of common sense]
Your key here is the word "on demand". For example, the sentence
"you can travel from Oslo to Paris on ...
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Are there any flights which fly above the Bermuda Triangle?
Others have covered the Northern hemisphere. But, what about the southern hemisphere equivalent?
Map the antipodes of the Bermuda Triangle into the Southern Hemisphere and see what you get!!! People ...
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What truly cross-continental train trips still exist?
The Panama Canal Railway offers one-seat passenger service across the North American continent, with a travel time of one hour.
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Can you mail yourself to another country? Any country?
It is not possible today to stowaway in a crate internationally! I know this because in 1965 I actually did it! I traveled from Melbourne Australia to LA USA - although I was bound for London. I spent ...
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Are there countries aside from the US where I can go on storm chasing (tornado) tours?
I see this post is now 6 years old and you stated you're on a 5 year assignment, so you might be back in the USA now. If not, I recommend Jimmy Deguara at Thunderbolt Tours in Australia. I'm from NSW ...
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What truly cross-continental train trips still exist?
In addition to the Vladivostok-Moscow train going through the entire Trans-Siberia Railway, there is also the China Railways K3/4 train which goes from Beijing to Moscow through Mongolia. After ...
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Can a person fly to the Moon as a tourist?
Wikipedia has a page on that topic: Tourism on the Moon:
Space tourism companies which have announced they are pursuing lunar tourism include Space Adventures,[4] Excalibur Almaz,[4] Virgin Galactic[...
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London to Hong Kong over land
I'm quite sure you can't travel into Armenia from Turkey. But, you should be able to do Turkey to Georgia to Azerbaijan. Though to get into Georgia, and onwards to Azerbaijan, you have to travel, at ...
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Suggestions for Outdoor Activities in Cambridge?
In the current situation no.
The British Government has ordered all non-essential businesses to close and has banned gatherings of more than 2 people unless for essential reasons.
So places like go-...
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Suggestions for Outdoor Activities in Cambridge?
It might be a bit extreme, but you could try skydiving? Either way, thinks are going to be locked down for a couple weeks and most of these kinds of activities are closed now.
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Paragliding late afternoon/sunset available in Interlaken, Switzerland (Bernese Alps)?
Butterfly and Bones,
There was/were, at least in 2011/2012 season, a paragliding operator or two operating in or near Mürren, which is just above Lauterbrunnen at the foot of Jungfrau massif.
Can't ...
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Are there any trains where roof riding is legally possible?
I remember seeing roof riding as normal on the Nile Valley Express in Sudan from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum. But this was on the BBC series Pole to Pole so around 1994. I don't know how much has changed ...
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What is the LEAST visited country by tourists?
Someone requested a per-capita statistic, so I've used UNWTO data combined with UN's latest population estimates to arrive at the top-10 least visited nations:
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Visitors/thousand residents
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What on earth has yet to be explored?
There are a surprisingly large number of unclimbed mountains left. Most of the tallest ones are off limits for political and/or religious reasons, but an even more surprising number of peaks have ...
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