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From playing volleyball between countries to ringing
a doorbell in one country and running to the other, check out list of
nine fun things to do at a country's border that don't involve high
security measures and endless paperwork.
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Residents of Naco, Arizona join residents of Naco, Mexico for a
volleyball match every year during the fourth "Fiesta Bi-Nacional" at
the fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico. The two communities used
to be one with people passing freely across the road, but that all
changed years ago when a 13-foot-high border fence formally split Naco's
US and Mexican sides.
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A spectacular snowy route marks the border between Sweden and Norway,
and is a perfect challenge for adventure-loving snowmobilers. To one
side is Norway, where riding a snowmobile for fun is illegal, while to
the other side is Sweden, where it is allowed.
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The Green Zone Or Tornio Golf Club is a
unique golf course with 9 holes in one country (Finland), and the
remaining 9 in another (Sweden). The border follows the Tornio River,
which runs through the course. Due to its location, it is possible to
play golf at any time of the day or night in full sunshine during
golfing season. If that isn't a unique golfing experience, I don't know
what is.
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Craig Robinson – author of the popular blog "Flip Flop Fly Ball" and a
book of baseball infographics – found all the baseball fields in Canada
and Mexico where one could conceivably hit a home run into the United
States, or vice-versa. From Canada into the U.S. you have two places to
do it, one from the U.S. into Mexico and six from Mexico into the U.S.
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A two-hour tour navigates the Iguazu River on a boat around the Three
Borders Landmark where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. On your way
back, you can catch another boat trip that goes right under the Iguazu
Falls, one of the world's largest.
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In the far north of China, on the border with Mongolia, you'll find the
statues of two towering brontosauruses on either side of the main
highway, with their long necks stretching until their mouths meet as if
to share a kiss. Called "The Dinosaur City," nearby Erenhot was once the
home of dinosaurs. Many fossils have been discovered in the area,
including the biggest and best-preserved dinosaur fossil in Asia.
Besides the scenic boulevard, the city also has a dinosaur museum and a
theme park called “Dinosaur Fairyland." The arch of the kissing
dinosaurs was built in 2007 to showcase the region's reputation as a
fossil hot-spot.
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It's not like anyone can do it, but artist Jaroslaw Koziara grew this
gigantic "crop circle" fish in a field between Horodyszcze (Poland) and
Warez (Ukraine) for the Land Art Festival of 2011. He wanted to
symbolize the history of unity and trade along the border between the
two nations, showing that nature and culture exist beyond the
geopolitical borders laid down by humans. The artist grew the
installation by sowing 23 kinds of plants along the border in the shape
of two fish.
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There's a house on the border of the Belgian town of Baarle-Nassau and
the Dutch town of Baarle-Hertog. It has two addresses and two doorbells.
Let the 5-year-old in you ring them both, then run away to either
country.
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In 2011, Alex Mustard dived 80ft into the crevice between the North
American and Eurasian plates near Iceland to capture some spectacular
photos. The area is riddled with faults, valleys, volcanoes and hot
springs, which are caused by the plates pulling apart at about one inch
per year. It should be pointed out, however, that tectonics are more of
a zonal thing. You can't necessarily say that the rocks on the left
belong to the North American plate, while the rocks on the right belong
to the Eurasian plate. The geologic processes that are occurring in the
area are creating these valleys and canyons, but it is more of a fuzzy
divide instead of a sharp, clear one that the pictures make it out to
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