It started with a 20-minute ride in a festive horse-drawn carriage to Erhai, (roughly translated as "Ear-Shaped Sea"), an alpine fault lake situated close to Xizhou.

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Home to the University of Nevada, which places more emphasis on science than on basketball, and situated a mere 45 minutes by car from lovely Lake Tahoe (the same by plane from San Francisco), affordable Reno is well positioned for a run of good luck.

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Mont Rubavu is situated in Gisenyi, a city of more than 100 000 inhabitants which shares the highest lake in Africa, Lake Kivu, with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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After a stroll or cycle, grab an outdoor table at Seehaus, idyllically situated in the north of the garden on the shores of Kleinhesseloher See, a little lake where you can rent paddle boats.

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