Results: "No-Way-It's-True" Travel Trivia -- Part 4

The African nation of Uganda is a birder's paradise. With more than 1,060 species, it contains 60 percent of Africa's birds and 11 percent of the world's avian population. Bird lovers can see many species both in the wild or in nature preserves, including the Crested Crane, the national bird of Uganda, and two birds exclusively found only in this country, the Fox's weaver Ruwenzori and the double-collared sunbird. Have you ever gone on a trip specifically to go bird watching?

In Uzbekistan their citizens have several superstitions surrounding bread, which is considered sacred in this former Soviet republic. These include not placing bread upside down, as that's considered rude, and breaking off a chunk of bread when leaving home, so it's preserved when you come back. Maybe they have reason to be this superstitious about their bread -- Uzbek bread, called generally non or lepeshka, is round and flat and is baked in tandyr (clay oven), after which it comes out toasted and crispy. Have you ever tasted this type of bread?

In Yemen, at the edge of a desolate expanse of desert known as the Empty Quarter, the 16th-century Walled City of Shibam remains the oldest metropolis in the world to use vertical construction. Once a significant caravan stop on the spice and incense route across the southern Arabian plateau, British explorer Freya Stark dubbed the mud city "the Manhattan of the desert" thanks to its impressive mud-brick highrises and grid layout. Can you see how this ancient city resembles Manhattan?

Venezuela is home to an everlasting lightening storm. Formed over the mouth of the Catatumbo river, when cold mountain air collides with the heat of Lake Maracaibo, the 'Catatumbo lightning' entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2015 as the most likely place on the planet to see lightning. Sometimes there are more than 100,000 lightning strikes a night. Have you ever been struck by lightening?

Often called "Africa in miniature," Cameroon touts 1,738 different linguistic groups and over 260 national languages, but only 40 are taught in schools. English and French are Cameroon's official languages. Between 1916 and 1960, Cameroon served as a colony of both the United Kingdom and France. Although the country is now independent, the legacy of its colonial past is visible in the selection of its official languages. Do you speak more than one language?