It also offers a great way to cover lots of ground while taking in different countries' scenery and culture.

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Cape Town also boasts more than a dozen different sorts of scenery within a 250 kilometre (155 mile) radius.

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"The net is not just one internet controlled by one centre, regionalisation has already started and I suspect that in a few years, the scenery of the internet will be a quite different one, " commented Mr Utsumi.

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The change in scenery serves as a trigger for thinking in a different way as well.

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