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Have you ever noticed how there are things in this world that cannot help but produce something magical when brought together? Think Yo-Yo Ma and a cello … Jasper Johns and a canvas … and Paul Scholes and a pigskin.

Add water and limestone to that list.

If limestone were an instrument, water would be its virtuoso master.

Los Tres Ojos (The Three Eyes) in the Dominican Republic would certainly make its list of greatest performances. The spectacular lake and cave system, surrounded by the lush vegetation of the Parque Mirador del Este, is the result of thousands of years of erosion.

Tour buses to the site run daily from Santo Domingo.

Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…

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Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

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