A dramatic skyline with glittering sky-scrapers rising above bustling streets packed with purposeful people, Atlanta, capital of Georgia, is a thriving city throbbing with entertainment, shopping malls and cultural attractions. On holiday in Atlanta it is impossible to ignore the past, its museums encapsulating the horrors of the Civil War and the hope generated bymore Martin Luther King Jr, who was born here, but equally it is obvious this energetic city is embracing the future.

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The commercial centre of the Texas panhandle, the city of Amarillo is also where tourists flock on holiday to experience the legendary life of the Wild West, rodeos and livestock auctions attracting cowboys and cowgirls in full regalia, set on working up a thirst in the dust to slake later in the saloon. Amarillo ismore not a particularly attractive or historically interesting town, but it puts on a good show.

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The historic pioneering town of Australia’s “Outback”, Alice Springs started out as little more than a waterhole and a telegraph station. Then the railways and airways reached it and today the town is a busy, modern hub-bub of tourists who come on holiday to take excursions to Uluru (Ayers Rock), the daunting Simpson Desert, andmore visit Aboriginal sites.

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Famous for its annual hot air balloon fiesta, Albuquerque, spread across the desert plains of New Mexico, can be appreciated on the ground too, at any time of year. The core is an historic Old Town, where museums, galleries and shopping centres fill the space where Spanish colonists first put down roots in 1706. Formore a holiday Albuquerque has plenty to do and see, including a top zoo.

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A holiday in Adelaide is relaxing and pleasant, the capital of South Australia having a Mediterranean flavour with its riverside gardens, open air cafes and intriguing art galleries. The central city, laid out on a convenient grid, is easy to explore. Among the main attractions is a multi-arts Aboriginal culture centre and a vintage trammore running to the seaside town of Glenelg. Eating in Adelaide is also pure pleasure, with a variety of cuisines from the numerous ethnic immigrant communities on offer.

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The vast country of India spawned the world’s oldest civilization and two of its greatest religions, Buddhism and Hinduism. Today a holiday in India is sometimes frightening, with the poverty and pollution that pervades the teeming cities, and often sublime, when one gazes at sights like the graceful Taj Mahal or soaks up the sunmore of the beaches of Goa. This is a land of contrasts, from the snowy Himalayas in the north to the steaming Indus River Valley and stretches of desert.