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Puerto Princesa
Philippines · City or town

Puerto Princesa

Puerto Princesa is identified as the departure point for liveaboard boats carrying visitors to Tubbataha, where they stay aboard for the entire trip.

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Coastal boardwalk through mangroves at Chek Jawa Wetlands, Pulau Ubin.
Singapore · Region or area

Pulau Ubin

Pulau Ubin brings together a lived-in village, shrines, former quarries and wetlands. Its paths reveal how human activity has shaped the island’s landscape.

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Pumapunku
Bolivia · Place of interest

Pumapunku

Pumapunku is an area of Tiwanaku with fragmentary architecture. Its remains invite close attention to joints, platforms and stone-cutting techniques rather than a search for a single complete panorama.

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Punakha Dzong beside the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers.
Bhutan · City or town

Punakha

Punakha is best understood through its rivers, religious buildings and cultivated landscape. Punakha Dzong, at the Pho Chhu–Mo Chhu confluence, anchors a cultural walking visit.

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Punakha Dzong beside the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers.
Bhutan · Place of interest

Punakha Dzong

Built in 1637–1638, Punakha Dzong stands at the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers. It remains a district administrative seat and the central monastic body’s winter residence.

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Pungo Andongo
Angola · Place of interest

Pungo Andongo

Pungo Andongo brings together the Black Rocks, monoliths rising from the savanna, and a cultural landscape connected with the former mbanza and the history of the Ndongo kingdom. Local narratives are part of the place’s living memory.

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Pyongyang skyline seen from an elevated public viewpoint.
North Korea · City or town

Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. The articles describe severely restricted visitor movement and limited consular assistance; they advise postponing tourist travel while access remains uncertain.

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Azraq
Jordan · Place of interest

Qasr al-Azraq

Qasr al-Azraq is a basalt-stone fortress linked to the oasis. Its courtyards, mosque, rooms, well and stone doors show how architecture, water and movement across the steppe were connected.

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Qrendi
Malta · City or town

Qrendi

Qrendi, in Malta, is included in an itinerary covering the island’s megalithic sites. The article recommends planning it as a separate day from Paola–Tarxien and Gozo.

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Quinchao Island
Chile · Region or area

Quinchao Island

Isla Quinchao is part of a heritage route linking Achao and Quinchao with Dalcahue on Isla Grande. The visit offers a comparison between island churches and a church associated with a port town, but requires planning the crossing and allowing time for travel.

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Quito
Ecuador · City or town

Quito

Quito is Ecuador’s capital, located in Pichincha Province. The available information identifies it as a national reference point but does not detail its neighbourhoods or attractions.

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Rabat
Morocco · City or town

Rabat

Rabat is the capital of Morocco, a country in North Africa. Available information establishes this administrative reference but does not describe specific places in the city.

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Tavurvur volcano beside Simpson Harbour near Rabaul.
Papua New Guinea · City or town

Rabaul

Rabaul’s ash, surviving buildings and port activity reveal how the 1994 eruptions transformed the city and its relationship with Kokopo.

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Ramiers
Haiti · Place of interest

Ramiers

Ramiers is part of the National Historic Park alongside the Citadelle Henry and Sans-Souci, a complex linked to Haitian independence in a mountainous landscape near Milot.

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Reka River
Slovenia · Region or area

Reka River

The Reka River flows underground through the great canyon at Škocjan Caves. Its water quality and the conservation of the karst landscape also depend on processes beyond the park boundaries.

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Rendova Island
Solomon Islands · Region or area

Rendova Island

Rendova Island is linked to local communities and serves as an arrival point for some coordinated visits to Tetepare. Access may include a ferry to Ughele followed by a pre-arranged local pickup, so planning depends on operators and changing conditions.

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