Sentences with phrase «rocky mountain landscapes»

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The landscape changes drastically from tall, mountain pines to rocky, desolate desert in such a short time.

The state is known for its beautiful landscape and scenery, including islands, rainforests, mountain ranges and rocky coastline.

For now, we are walking between mountains and valleys in a beautiful rocky landscape, with here and there a palm tree.

But perhaps the most singular aspect of Jujuy is its dramatic landscape: more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site.

Pico Island is known for its remarkable pattern of stone - walled vineyards (currais) which paint its stunning green landscape, for its rocky lava shores and for the imposing Pico Mountain.

The dramatic volcanic landscape of La Palma, reputed to be one of the steepest islands in the world, is little - known outside the Canaries, but offers an ideal winter walking destination for walkers of most abilities featuring rocky treks and mountain paths.

After 7 kilometers uphill through the magnificent landscape of rocky mountains, valleys and flood plain and changing views of Mount Salkantay above us.

While traveling in Croatia you can discover a wide range of different landscapes including the Dinaric Mountains, eight national parks (e.g. the world - famous Plitvice Lakes National Park), the long and rocky Dalmatian Coast or almost eighty islands on the Mediterranean Sea.

What is most striking about the landscape around Salalah is its variety, from the long beaches that stretch hundreds of kilometres along the clear Indian Ocean, to craggy mountain ranges, green rolling hills, rocky deserts, and beyond those, the formidable sand dunes of the Arabian Empty Quarter.

The low - lying mountains surround a rivercarved landscape, where rushing streams wind through the rich green forests, and rugged rocky outcrops rise up towards the towering mountain peaks above.

The Red Centre is an extraordinary landscape of desert plains, weathered mountain ranges, rocky gorges and some of Aboriginal Australia's most sacred sites, including Uluru and Kata Tjuṯa.

The gulf coast offers sports opportunities aplenty, including golf and windsurfing, while the region around Dubai is worth exploring for its arid desert landscape, ancient villages and the eastern rocky range of the Hajjar Mountains.

Tenerife is an island formed during a volcanic eruption which created a dry and rocky landscape with large mountains.

Upon exiting Harran through a cave you come out on top of a rocky mountain overlooking a luscious landscape of open fields and land.

In 1818, the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich painted Wander Above a Sea of Fog, in which a young man stands atop a rocky escarpment, surveying an untamed landscape of forest and craggy mountains.

Cezanne, Hiroshige, and Hokusai's preoccupation with mountains in the landscape, Homer's fixation on Maine's rocky coast, and Ryder's evocative depictions of clouds as objects are all manifest in Hartley's Maine paintings.

Occasionally painted abroad with a nostalgic gaze toward home, his paintings examine the state's folk culture as well as its pastoral landscapes, rough - hewn mountains, and rocky coastlines.

An edition of 25, the work illustrates a mountain scene; while evocative of traditional Eastern landscape painting, Cutler's inclusion of the comical goat and the traveling hybrid women — they are half human and half rocky terrain — both imbues the work with whimsy and makes for a witty visual pun.

These pictures portray scenarios set against the sort of landscapes Smithson was known to favor: rocky gorges, gaping chasms, natural bridges, and mountain ranges.