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	Badlands National Park is situated in South Dakota and it has been viewed over the centuries by humans with a mixture of dread and fascination.
	It is a region of peaks and valleys of delicately banded colours, that shift in the sunshine. In the early morning, when shadows are cast upon the infinite peaks or on a bright moonlit night when the whole region seems a part of another world.  The peaks, gullies, buttes and wide prairies can be challenging to cross, yet they have long attracted the interest and praise of travellers.
		The Badlands are a place of extremes. A visit in summer may have heat and violent thunderstorms.  A winter visit may be chilled by winds roaring unhindered out of the north.
	The so-called emptiness of the plains is full of traces of ancient life.  Eagles may be seen hunting wings outstretched over grasslands that seem to go on forever. Above all it is an experience of quiet and a near absence of human noise.

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