Has the thrill faded from your latest vacation plan? You may be short on time to sift through a guide book to find what really grabs your interest. Let me help. Consider adding a getaway adventure, a little nugget to revive your holiday and re-energize your entire trip in the process. Here are three options across three continents:
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Written in dedication to World Oceans Day after visiting this sea-turned-to-desert from its Uzbekistan shores in 2019. Thirty years ago, my eyes would have been blinded by the reflection from the Aral Sea’s waters. Today, they stared at sand and saxual bushes that merged into a hazy horizon no matter which direction I turned. Our Landcruiser had been bouncing along a four-wheel-drive track for nearly ninety minutes. We were driving on the seabed, or what remained of it. A rusted-out bus rested upside down and scorched at the side of the road near where we had left the Ustyrt Plateau and entered the Aral Sea’s former seabed. Since then, I had seen little else beyond the occasional gas rig or pipeline marker - the latest business of choice in a fishing region erased of its sea.
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