Iquitos → Vancouver

From a floating market on the Amazon to a market tour on the Atlantic — both cities prove that the soul of a place is always found where vendors shout and bargains are struck.

Dakar's markets are steeped in the ghost of colonial and slave-trade history, and Lalibela's rock-hewn churches carry centuries of African spiritual resistance — both cities wear their past like a wound and a crown.

From churches carved into the Ethiopian earth to monasteries perched on Mongolian steppe — faith has a way of finding the most dramatic landscapes on the planet to make its home.

Mongolia's Przewalski's wild horses roaming reintroduced steppes connect beautifully to Vancouver's ancient forests and old-growth giants — both are stories of rare, wild things that somehow survived against the odds.