Sentences with phrase «high desert plateau»

This route has very diverse terrains, from high desert plateau to tropical Andean rainforest and takes 4 days.

To minimize this problem, radio telescopes are placed at high altitudes — the tops of mountains or high desert plateaus — but incoming clouds, rain, or snow can still take an observatory offline.

It's an extremely varied and beautiful region, and one of the most amazing off - road experiences, where the ancient collide with the modern, the forests run into deep lagoons, high desert plateaus bask in the sun, and the people, living in the shadows of moldering pyramids and temples, believe in magic.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array became operational in 2011 at Llano de Chajnantor, a high plateau in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

[Michael Heizer] is happiest when recklessly driving a big - wheel open truck across the Nevada desert, racing toward his Complex I which rises like an ancient and atavistic pyramid on a high plateau in the vast and endless desert space.