Sentences with phrase «ancient rock wall»

This intimate boutique hotel has 11 rooms and suites, and clings to the side of the ancient rock walls of Eze, a thousand - year - old medieval village.

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The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

At the western edge of the rotunda, however, some ancient rock - hewn tombs are still to be seen, showing conclusively that the area was used as a burial ground before it was enclosed within the city wall.

We enter an alcove, about the size of a squash court, and Cockell points out a honeycomb - like pattern on the rock salt walls, a possible haven for ancient forms of life.

Waller knew that echoes played a role in many ancient myths, such as Native American tales of sprites who speak through portals in rock walls.

They report on their work studying ancient glass and rock defense walls in a paper published in the May issue of American Ceramic Society Bulletin.

They piled boulders left by ancient glaciers into two large rings, put black amphibolite rocks on top, layered the wall with charcoal and burned it.

The first of the Gajalaka Doodles you can find in the Ancient Forest is located in Area 5, on some rocks on the west wall.

Samples of speleothems, ancient cave deposits, wall rock and video records collected by The Cambrian Foundation provided necessary data to scientists.

• Next door to Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary Visitor Center • Oceanfront pool • Ancient Hawaiian fish pond (rock - wall - protected beach right in front of property for calm ocean lagoon swimming) • Monsoon Indian oceanfront restaurant and bar on ground floor • Access to large private rooftop deck with amazing ocean and Haleakala views, propane barbecues, and picnic tables • Shuffle board courts and equipment • Free Parking • Walk along unobstructed white sand beach for miles

Ancient hale (houses), heiau (places of worship), rock walls, petroglyphs and fishponds are plentiful along the Hana coast.

This rock - walled enclosure was hand - built by ancient Hawaiians to maintain a ready supply of live ocean fish.

In this small valley is a carved stone gateway, ancient disused bathing places (the king's on the left, the queen's on the right), and three meditation niches hewn out of the rock face, with slanting roofs and carvings decorating the wall above.

Day Three — We travel past the Great Wall of China rock formation to the Brachina Gorge where you will see one of the oldest mountain ranges on earth and ancient fossils.

Along the way, we passed ancient pictographs on rock walls that marked sacred, Native burial grounds.

There is also a cave nearby where one can witness ancient aboriginal art carved into the rock walls.

There are embedded footprints on the walls of the Footprint, about six waterfalls in Waterfall, and Maya's ancient rock drawings from 300 to 900 A.D. in Petroglyph.

Banderas Bay is home to an astounding array of unique underwater attractions, including unusual rock formations, expansive coral gardens, schools of exotic fish, pinnacles created by ancient lava flows, as well as undersea walls, cliffs, and shelves.

Haji Omar's On the Wall project is an architectural and visual meditation inspired by the hundreds of years worth of handwritten Sinhalese and Tamil poetry found on the «mirror wall» at Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress in the artist's native country of Sri LaWall project is an architectural and visual meditation inspired by the hundreds of years worth of handwritten Sinhalese and Tamil poetry found on the «mirror wall» at Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress in the artist's native country of Sri Lawall» at Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress in the artist's native country of Sri Lanka.