Sentences with phrase «arid hills»

His early - 20th - century landscapes based on his travels through the Flinders Ranges helped establish a national iconography of arid hills and gnarled gum trees aflutter with roseate cockatoos.

Roaring through the arid hills of Montalcino, home of rich - and - famous Brunello di Montalcino wines, the Ghibli delivers its own vintage performance.

In addition to the arid hills, where Tolson has studied the hutia, the base is surrounded by water — the bay itself, and the Caribbean Sea.

Indeed, it is surrounded by low, arid hills with no view of the wonderfully blue Caribbean Sea.

The bumpy road that winds through the arid hills of Sora Sora is under construction, so we all file out of the van to let our saint of a driver maneuver his way out of the ditch between the old road and the new.

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In the shadow of its snow - covered mountains are hundreds of arid rocky hills, where horses and cows perch as skillfully as mountain goats upon the steep slopes where people too make their homes.

Among the errors in the book are the following: the wild progenitor of wheat, emmer, did not grow «only in the upper Jordan Valley around Jericho» — it grew in the hills of the Mediterranean zone (Galilee, Lebanon, southern Anatolia) and was brought into the arid Jordan valley by Neolithic farmers who learned to grow it under irrigation.

Treeless hills rising to a flat top — much like the arid mesas of the desert Southwest — are separated by valleys filled with broken rock and barren streams.

You can find everything from arid desert - like hills (as seen here) to verdant forest, majestic lakes, wildlife filled marshland, scores of beige beaches and plenty of other settings to enjoy and take photos in the beautiful presence of.

Those in awe or enthralled by the mere spectacle of Mars and its arid, red hills may be transfixed at the visual accomplishments.

In contrast to the volcanic peaks and lush green vegetation of the majority of the archipelago, Sumba has a landscape of mainly dry and arid limestone hills, and the best time to visit is during the dry season between May and September.

Culebra has many beautiful beaches including Flamenco Beach (Playa Flamenco), the beach extends for a mile of white coral sand and is framed beautifully by arid tree - covered hills.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has flagged the desirability of a new HVDC line from Moomba to Brisbane and better connections between South Australia and New South Wales, ideally across New South Wales» arid west and through Broken Hill.