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Two continents, one breakfast table that takes three hours.

Desert emirates that turned a trading coast into a global interchange.

Rock-cut tombs, Red Sea reefs and a tourism industry built from scratch.

Eight of the world's fourteen 8,000m peaks, and the trails that reach them.

17,000 islands, 130 active volcanoes and reef water you can read a map through.

Twenty-two official languages and a train network that ties them together.

Nine time zones' worth of landscape squeezed into one clock.

Skyscrapers, sampans and hiking trails, all within an hour of each other.

A 1,650km coastline strung between two very different deltas.

Limestone islands, night markets and temples that never quite close.