Sentences with phrase «stretch of small villages»

The Sacred Valley of the Incas is an incomparably beautiful stretch of small villages and ancient ruins spread across a broad plain and rugged mountain slopes northwest of Cusco.

The Sacred Valley is an incomparably beautiful stretch of small villages and ancient ruins spread across a broad plain and rugged mountain slopes northwest of Cusco.

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The western part of the seat is within the Peak District and is largely desolate moorland, stretching up into the pennines, below that are small villages like like High and Low Bradfield, Dungworth, Worrall and Ringinglow.

There are several beaches in Gouves, which is one of a string of small seaside villages along this stretch of Crete's northern coastline.

Another favourite of our small towns in KwaZulu - Natal, the village of Southbroom stretches between two rivers on the south coast of KwaZulu - Natal, its long four kilometre stretch of sand, two tidal pools, and two swimming beaches a subtropical backwater holiday resort that is extremely popular over December.

The settlement pattern is similar to the one found northward with small villages stretched out along the edges of the Western Highway and other villages well off the roadside and back into the very rural areas.

Ucluelet is a small village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, with a range of beautiful scenery... from our rocky beaches along the Wild Pacific Trail to our long stretches of soft sand beaches in the world renowned Pacific Rim National Park.

Between Montezuma and Mal Pais on a beautiful stretch of coast full of small hidden, almost secret coves, is the quaint village of Cabuya, only 2 km to the Cabo Blanco Reserve.

The small village is proud of the long strip of golden beach that stretches for miles along which one can walk for hours without coming across another person, and the access to bird life, particularly oyster catchers, is notable.

Now listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site, Geirangerfjord has some of the steepest cliff sides of any of the world's fjords and is uninhabited for much of its stretch as a consequence save for the small village of the same name, which clings precariously to the shore edge.

A small Urak Lawoi village stands behind the island's only school just off the northern stretch of Sunrise Beach, and a smaller village stretches further inland behind the far western end of Pattaya Beach.

We walked through a small village filled with livestock and children playing volleyball before continuing through to our second night campsite, La Playa (2400m) Day 3 and it was necessary to stretch our sore muscles following yesterday's 18 kilometres of ups and downs.

But arts - led developments are deep - rooted along this stretch of coast: in Margate, where the kernel for the Turner Contemporary gallery can be traced right back to 1994; in Folkestone, where the Creative Foundation, led by entrepreneur Roger De Haan, was taking hold at the turn of the millennium; and across many smaller coastal towns and villages, from Broadstairs to Dungeness, where artists have settled because of the quality of the light, following the late Derek Jarman, who moved there in the mid-1980s.