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The world’s most beautiful countries named
NEPAL
There is certainly a difference between glamour and true beauty. Glamour is show-stopping, loud, perfect. It’s the stuff that knocks us off our feet - the people and places we might find on the covers of magazines. But true beauty?
Well, that’s more quiet and unassuming, more nuanced and deep and real. It’s what lies beyond the obvious and, when we’re around it, what makes us feel more alive.
By this measure then, Nepal must surely be the world’s most beautiful country. Aesthetically, one could argue that Nepal is show-stoppingly gorgeous.
KENYA
This is a landscape bred in our bones. In the country’s barren north, where Lake Turkana flows sea-green into the Great Rift Valley, the fossils of some of our earliest ancestors lie concealed beneath a crust of earth.
Perhaps this is why Kenya taps into our souls, communicating in a language we can all understand. Shouts of “Karibu!” (“welcome”) ring out everywhere I go; but it’s the salutation “Welcome home” that strikes the deepest chord.
I’m returning, after all, to the cradle of humankind. When those hominids first stood upright hereabouts, a vast world awaited discovery. But our ancestors needn’t have ventured far, since untold beauty was already close at hand.
South of Lake Turkana, the Great Rift Valley cuts a trench lush with grasslands, forests, swamps and volcanoes.
Escarpments are chalked onto the skyline, and mountain peaks arise like ancient skyscrapers. To the west, the land spills away to the shores of Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake.
This basin sizzles with colour: the flush of flamingos tiptoeing across shallow lakes; the flare of the Masai’s shukas as they herd livestock in a timeworn ritual. Africa’s wildlife coexists with its people: big cats and their doe-eyed prey, scavengers loitering on the peripheries and disposing of the entrails, birds blackening the skies in their supple murmurations.
JAPAN
Consider the “kuromoji”. It’s a toothpick, essentially, a small shaft of wood that you will find lying across the plate holding your wagashi, an exquisite Japanese sweet traditionally paired with matcha tea.
The kuromoji needn’t be anything special – it’s just a utensil, something to lever the confectionery from the plate to your mouth. And yet this is Japan, so of course it has been deeply considered.
Kuromoji are thin and flat, cut from the aromatic wood of a black willow, with a look as if they’ve been whittled by hand, the tree bark still in place, the shaft tapered to a smooth point.
Its presence and its prettiness tell you much about Japan. It embodies the love of nature here, of things that are natural and real, just like the tatami-mat floors you’re sitting on, and the ceramics, fired from clay, from which you eat and drink.
It shows the love of small details. And it shows, most importantly, the love of beauty. It’s everywhere you look in Japan.
Yes, the scenery in this country is gorgeous, those mountains covered in cedar and pine, endless alpine vistas captured so memorably by Japanese artists for millennia.
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