51. 1000 square miles of herbaceous border in Kazakhstan.
52. The Terracotta Warriors, another of the few better-in-reality renowned sights.
53. Finding a Saussurea in a rock crevice high above the Inylchek glacier, below Khan Tengri . An extraordinary plant with the outside of a rather delicate iceberg lettuce, inside cowers a bunch of what look like sea anemones.
54. The Masai warrior standing outside our room at the Mblageti tented camp in Serengeti, in case of furry visitors, and seeing the Ngorongoro crater, as described by Armand & Michaela Dennis when David Attenborough was still a slip-of-a-lad.
55. A dewily cold beer after the 5Km along the road between the end of the Gorge de Verdon and our hotel, a long hot slog after a brilliant day.The beer was so good Roger had two, unheard of decadence.
56. Sleeping under the stars in Fish River Canyon, watching shooting stars, seeing the Southern Cross and the Milky Way really milky
57. The way warthogs run, tails flagging their movements.
58. Calcutta airport "transit lounge" in 1968: a goat field with a leafy hut selling jewellery. The exciting-exotic smell of frangipane.
59. The purple of Jacaranda against the turquoise of the lake at Udaipur.
60. Not-a-memory, but the buzz of planning what's next
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