Wales was a red dragon and England a white one. Interestingly, albeit irrelevantly, when England and Wales were warring back in the day, Welsh mythology depicted the two countries as feuding dragons. The UK looks a bit like a dragon blowing a few puffs of smoke out of his nostrils. SPEND A WEEK IN CUBA ON THIS TRIP, EXCLUSIVE TO 18 TO 29-YEAR-OLD TRAVELLERS 7. In sum, Cuba’s a bit like a Rorschach test. The resemblance is made all the more uncanny by Cuba being naturally situated in water. In this regard, Cuba is a bit like one of those optical illusions where you can’t tell which way the ballerina is turning. towards the American mainland) or coming out of one (swimming away from it). The swimmer’s torso and head are underwater and all you can see is their arm either going into a stroke (I.e. Even spookier though, the Gambia is also a river that runs right the way through the Gambia the country…and its river mouth IS WHERE THE MAN’S MOUTH IS.Ĭuba looks like someone swimming freestyle. Senegal looks like one of those health posters at a doctor’s clinic that tells you how to put food in your mouth. GET A TASTE OF SCANDINAVIA ON THIS 7-DAY ADVENTURE 5. If you don’t know but would like to, go ask one of the big kids at school. If you don’t know what Sweden and Norway look like, good: your mind is unsullied and pure. Sweden and Norway are so rude that our illustrator Rosa refused to draw them. So rude in fact that we’re not even going to say (or show) what they look like. With their geographical powers combined, Sweden and Norway are two very rude countries. It’s also pretty convenient that Lesotho exists, as that’s the rhino’s eye.ĮXPLORE THE REAL SOUTHERN AFRICA ON THIS 17-DAY ADVENTURE 4. Did you know that Asian rhinos only have one horn? True story. It’s particularly coincidental that the rhino-that-is-South Africa has two horns, as that’s the exact number of horns that African rhinos have. That it does is a pretty massive coincidence, as there aren’t too many rhinos left in the world and one of the few places they still are in is South Africa. Harsh.ĬHECK OUT THE BEST OF JAPAN ON THIS 10-DAY ADVENTURE 3. The Japanese word for seahorse is 竜の落し子, which sounds like Tatsunootoshigoand and translates to ‘Dragon’s bastard child’. JapanĪlthough Japan has to borrow a few of Russia’s islands to pull off the likeness, when it does, it looks quite like a seahorse. FinlandįANCY SPENDING WINTER IN FINNISH LAPLAND? YOU CAN ON THIS 8-DAY ADVENTURE 2. Introducing the very first – and very likely last – installment of ‘Maps that Look Like Things’. And so, with nay an ado or adjunct further, get ready to see the world like you’ve never seen it before. Was this perhaps something our readers might be interested to learn we eventually asked ourselves? Probably not, we collectively conceded… But should we share it anyway? Yes. We spend a fair bit of time poring over maps, and countries quite often occur to us as looking like things. And sometimes it simply means looking at a map of the world and proclaiming: ‘This country looks like a bunny’. Usually, ‘seeing the world differently’ refers to going someplace and realizing it doesn’t quite correspond to your expectations that it’s far more complex/safer/less dusty than you’d imagined.
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