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January 2026
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- The main sight of the former mining town of Schefferville might be the huge Caniapiscau Reservoir (pictured), the largest body of water in Quebec.
- Studying abroad is also an opportunity for language learning.
- The Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile long warp in the Earth's crust, defines the Capitol Reef National Park.
- The ruined Matosavank Monastery in Dilijan is not terribly interesting from the outside, but the inside (pictured) is a cool, moist, green, mossy world unto itself.
- First documented in 799, Martinskirche in Linz is regarded as the oldest original church still in existence in Austria.
- The Rason Special Economic area is in many ways a separate country from the rest of North Korea.
- Planes land and take off unusually close overhead to sunbathers (pictured) at Maho Beach on Saint Martin.
- Catedral Metropolitana Ortodoxa in South Central São Paulo is one of the few remarkable examples of Byzantine architecture in Brazil.
- The Jordan Pass provides free entrance to more than 40 sites in Jordan within a two-week period, and the cost of your tourist visa is waived if you stay at least 3 nights in the country.
- A speciality of Niger is kilishi (pictured): beef jerky that comes in three flavours: regular, peanut-spiced, and hot-pepper-spiced.