... and continue by bus. We climbed in altitude, crossed beautiful conifer forests. The weather turned to overcast and, higher in the mountains, rainy. The grey clouds were not passing. Finally I got to the ...
I moved on to Xingyi with excitement. I expected a lot from the journey and was not disappointed. The smooth highway crossed a landscape strewn with conical mountains and gouged by valleys across which ...
... villagers will be left with an encumbering cut across the wood-covered mountainside and the unsightly viaducts cutting across the valleys. On the upside, fewer lorries will ply the battered bank-side road ...
... and the walks on the mountains. Just as I had taken possession of the public transport system in my town and got comfortably around by myself like a grown-up, I availed myself of my experience to ride ...
Last night I attended the show of a local festival whose theme are feature films about mountains. I was attracted by one title in particular, Marpha apples, because it talked about a remote Nepalese ...
... peak, but paradoxically I didn’t feel as alone as before. I sat down in a sheltered spot and admired the mountains, Monte Rosa, Cervino-Matterhorn and Gran Paradiso were all around me. Only Mont Blanc ...
... took a bus to the Ily river, flowing down from the faraway mountains with a strong current. There was a sort of pathetic fairground with different attractions like the throw of the rings, merry-go-rounds, ...
... trees, and distant rocky mountains.
The village houses were made of trunks. No concrete was used save in the basement, the only innovative sign of modernity to replace what formerly was build with stones. ...
... the end of limitless prairies dotted with wild flowers, snowy mountains appeared in a distant haze.
Here and there, a greener patch of grass was the sign that there was water underneath. I walked down ...
... day without a base, but more importantly I would not enjoy the spectacular road across the Tian Shan mountains. The only choice was hitchhiking for the 250 km long stretch.
Before anything, I visited ...
... mountains to India. Sadly, practically nothing remains of the old town, too.
With my two travel companions we got an excellent hotel room at the same conditions as last night, i.e. three people on two ...
... at the lake. The journey crossed a wonderful valley with impressive mountains. It was their bare rock as much as the vivid red colours that were extraordinary. For a long time the bottom of the valley ...
... Zhangye to Jiayuguan this morning, I could see the Qilian and the Beishan mountains on either side of the plain. Vast as it was, it did not look like a corridor at all. The flat plain bristled with electric ...
... to the necessity of being cased once again in the Chinese tourist machine, only mitigated by a faint hope of doing some spontaneous open air activity in the nearby Qilian mountains.
I took the bus to ...
... the weather was sunny, therefore perfect for a visit to the Danxia mountains. Before alighting from the bus I met two tourists who I took for Chinese, but were in fact from Korea. We got a hotel room together ...
... Republic of Venice. It originates in the Alps, flows along Veltlin, then into Lake Como and out of it leaving the mountains behind and finally it crosses the plain before throwing itself into the river ...
... mountains. On the other hand, the vast Communist era railway station was described as “tiny”, whereas the “huge” Kazanlâk market consisted of a few stalls along one dreary street – and it was supposed ...
The wind has swept the sky to a state of absolute clearness and from the hilltop I can admire an enchanting view of the town of Plovdiv that stretches deep as far as the horizon. Snow-capped mountains ...
... from the telly, but the quietness is otherwise enveloping, as is the darkness.
Lalibela lies among remote mountains a long way off from the major roads that link the main towns. The drive from Mekele ...
... mountains that are impressive not much for their shape, but the dark stone they are made of. Some have distinctly conical shapes. At Enticcio, where a mosque minaret sticks out of the second row of houses, ...