If you can not sleep, you can make out the Alps by moonlight and the Italian Lakes in the early morning before stepping off the train into a different kind of crowd and noise in the Lagoon City.

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Yes, with all the nonsense about homeopathic treatment for animals although most of them do stop short of having to bury a cow horn in the dung pile by moonlight (no, really, there is a wing of the movement which insists that this helps in some manner).

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As our motor launch sped up the Grand Canal in the moonlight, I noted all the palazzos were unlit, owned by absentee plutocrats whose hearts belonged to Venice, too, at least two weeks out of the year.

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The Moonlight was co-designed by a Dutch team and local residents of a small fishing village outside of the capital, Phnom Penh.

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The Moonlight uses energy efficient LED bulbs and is powered by a small solar cell that comes with the lantern.

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Tour goers can choose between two coastal tracks: the 4km hike ends at Curracurrang, where the guides tell aboriginal stories and set up an impressive midnight tea and coffee stop, and the 8km hike ends at Eagle Rock, where you can take a dip in a secluded waterhole by moonlight.

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