Sentences with phrase «limestone crags»

The limestone crags of Railay Bay, Thailand; the gleaming white hillside town of Mojácar, Spain; the torch - lit tour of caves in central Vietnam full of hand - sized spiders and their glinting jewel - like clusters for eyes; the volcano - pierced horizon of central Mexico; the humbling beauty and breadth of national parks in New South Wales, Australia — these all have similar proportions in my memory to Angkor, in that they compare favorably to what I've seen in video games.

This enables you to take in the full magnificence of the beauty of the bay with its limestone crags and dazzlingly - blue water.

It has earned Sarawak a must - visit spot on the world map due to its many claims to fame including its signature attraction, The Pinnacles — jagged bleach - white limestone crags with deadly - sharp peaks bunched together over the green jungle canopy.

At both times the limestone crags that surround the town really come into their own.

Helping my husband with his botanical fieldwork, I spent days at a time up in the alpine meadows and limestone crags.

Not exact matches

In April Oxford archaeologist Paul Pettitt and two colleagues — Paul Bahn, one of Britain's leading Ice Age art specialists, and Sergio Ripoll, an archaeologist at the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid — descended into a cave at Nottinghamshire's Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge frequented by Ice Age hunters.

At a time when sport climbing has just become an Olympic sport, pupils can tackle outdoor, limestone sport climbs such as «Gigg South» literally on the doorstep, and traditional crags within the school's main grounds.

The caves in the limestone gorge of Creswell Crags have provided archaeologists with important evidence of human activity towards the end of the last Ice Age when the area was right at the edge of the ice sheet.

With beautiful surrounding limestone cliffs and crags, Railay is an epic destination.