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Travel
(n.)
A place or gathering you travel to, whose scale and atmosphere offer a sensory experience that dwarfs any photo.
She quickly stopped taking photos of the Norwegian fjords; some awescapes refuse to fit through a lens.
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Awe + escape + landscape. The travel experience that can’t be captured in a social feed, or even by near-perfect virtual reality. The Grand Canyon is the awescape you hike through and feel its emptiness; Mathura is the birthplace of Krishna where you feel the colors, smells and sounds of Holi most deeply.
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