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Flowers can enhance your travel memories in many ways. There you are, visiting the Spanish Colonial city of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and the blooming jacaranda trees surrounding the buildings and throughout the plazas are so striking, they take your breath away. Or you are in Tokyo in April and come across the Kameido Tenjin Shrine covered with 100 wisteria plants on 15 trellises that were planted 320 years ago. At either location, the perfumed air and the lavender-colored light from so many purple flowers will create a scene you'll never forget.
Our nose offers another effective travel memory trigger. The aroma that fills the air--a plaza of blooming orange trees in southern Spain, the "pizza" scented hills of Crete, a coffee plantation in Costa Rica, or Turkey's commercial fields of roses grown for their oil--provides a powerful reminder of the entire trip when we're exposed to that fragrance again.
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