Sentences with phrase «carved out of the river»

The property's five residences, created with local stone, woods, and ylang - ylang thatching by Malaysian architect Cheong Yew Kuan, are scattered among sunny clearings carved out of the river - banked jungle and the mountain turf of Northern Ubud.

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Once a port for the ancient Maya, then a base for Spanish forces in the 1500s, Xel - Ha's location on the coast leads is picturesque, but it's also where the sea meets the maze of underwater rivers and caves as well as carved out lagoons, that makes it a «natural aquarium».

Ten miles from the Columbia river, in the treeless hills of Arlington, Oregon, a monumental dump for domestic waste has been carved out of farmland.

The mountains are made primarily of rock - hard water ice; the dunes are most likely ice granules coated with hydrocarbons; volcanoes probably belch methane and ammonia, and methane fills the lakes, evaporates to form clouds, and rains back down to carve out river channels.

Arches National Park, UT In this part of Utah's canyon country, more than 2,000 natural arches are carved out of red sandstone high above the Colorado River.

Recent models indicate that the rain comes in twoforms: a constant, light drizzle over most of the surface, adding up totwo inches or so of precipitation per year, and occasional cloudburststhat carve out river channels and fill the lakes, only to evaporateagain when temperatures rise.

It took 6 million years, in fact, for the Colorado River to carve out the Grand Canyon in the U.S. state of Arizona.

The Kuranda Scenic Railway is now pulled by a locomotive and in recognition of the Djabugay people of Tropical North Queensland the engine is adorned by Buda - dji, the carpet snake who according to legend carved out the Barron River.

The sheer cliffs plunge down 120 metres to the gorge floor, where a sliver of a river has been diligently carving out its course for the last 500 million years.

Caves Branch Cave is one of several subterranean sites that were carved out of the limestone foothills of the Maya Mountains by the very active Caves Branch River.

Queenstown was carved out of the land by glaciers, rivers and lakes, but it has been shaped by adventurers drawn to the region from all over the world.

The sacred peak of Huayna Picchu juts out above a bend in the Urubamba River and is accessed via a trail of steps originally cut into the mountainside by the Incas with a section of tunnel carved into the rocks.

- Garden bathroom with twin basins, walk - in rainshower and a huge couples bathtub carved out of a single river - rock boulder.

Carved out by the Urubamba River, this valley was the heart of the Incan Empire and, owing to its fertile land, was a major agricultural source for the Incas.

There are a number a ancient sights to see in the area including temples and palaces as well as areas of extreme natural beauty showcasing the classic Balinese and Indonesian landscapes of rice paddies that stretch over the lowlands where you will also find coconut groves and carve out the hills leading up to mountains and volcanoes which are covered in tropical forests, lakes and rivers.

The Natural Bridge is a unique rock which has been gradually carved out over time by the powerful Kicking Horse River to resemble a bridge, with a variety of waterfalls flowing around it.

Carved out by the Urubamba River, this valley was the heart of the Incan Empire.

In this work water, in the form of rivers and falls, is separated out from the surrounding darkness, reflecting the slow, gradual process of water carving its way through rock and earth.

Milkier areas show the history of the river, as it carved out portions of shoreline.

She grew up in homes near rivers and tending the plot that her father carved out for her in a garden filled with fruit trees, edible plants, flowers, and an assortment of animals.

Like great rivers of ice, glaciers have sculpted mountains and carved out valleys.