Sentences with word «tufa»

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We added an extra night to our Yosemite itinerary to experience sunset and sunrise at the otherworldly tufa towers at Mono Lake and the remote ghost town Bodie.

We were there to visit the unusual tufa rock formations at Mono Lake at sunset and sunrise, just a 20 - minute drive away.

This is a tranquil place to base yourself while exploring the many nearby attractions including the Kruger National Park, the Blyde River Canyon, Bourkes Luck Potholes and the Kadishi Tufa Waterfalls.

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The thirteenth century Cathedral of Santa Maria della Bruna made from tufa stone, stands tall overlooking the Sassi from the hightest point on Civita hill.

An exceptionally porous form of travertine is known as calcareous tufa.

Top three women, Mary Keitany, Aselefech Mergia, and Tigist Tufa celebrating their finish!

(The reason visitors see so much tufa around Mono Lake today is because the lake level fell dramatically after water diversions began more than 60 years ago.

The shoreline also boasts extraordinary tufa towers, vertical shafts of limestone that grow when underwater springs, rich in calcium, bubble up and come into contactwith carbonates in the lake.

In complete awe of what I was witnessing, I studied the breathtaking tufa spires while contemplating my next move.

The Trona Pinnacles are a natural geological formation comprised of more than 500 spires composed of a porous calcium carbonate rock called tufa.

Blyde River Canyon There are a couple of trails available from the Blyde Canyon Forever Resort in Mpumalanga that include the Guinea Fowl and the Leopard Nature Trails, but the Kadishi - Tufa trail is the one to look out for,...

The sun rose further, slowly illuminating the magical landscape below with towering fairy chimneys, chiselled canyons, caves and pigeon houses carved out of soft tufa rock, and a distant volcano on the horizon.

Marettimo is very far from the madding crowd; it is great for people looking for some peace and quiet with just a few hundred white houses built from indigenous Tufa, nestling close to the shoreline and the harbour.

Grotwork is a colloquial term referring to the 18th Century horticultural trend of accumulating Stucco and imported Italian Tufa to produce artificial grottoes.

I planted some succulents in a bowl shaped tufa rock that I got out of a nearby lake.

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The water temple had been built from the cenote's tufa stone, and its floors had been covered with broken water jars, teeth, and claws dredged from the sacred pool.

Tufa towers grow underwater, some getting more than 20 feet tall.

Rift Lake cichlids, brackish - water environments, and of course, marine fish and reef tanks must use gravel made from aragonite or similar organic - based materials such as coral rock or tufa.

These would include items such as lace rock, tufa, limestone, coral rubble, holy rock and marine substrates.

Also perfectly acceptable for environments requiring hard alkaline water are lace rock, coral rock, tufa and limestone.

Linking the Blyde River Canyon with Limpopo's game reserves, this pass gives you a vantage point over a tufa waterfall on the northern side of the JG Strijdom Tunnel.

Visit Deruta for ceramics and Orvieto, perched on a tufa hill with caves to explore below has a beautiful gothic Duomo.

Designed to double as a private spa, the Tufa Suite custom bathroom also features a concealed massage table, a soaking tub and double vanity.

Tufa Suites offer ultimate comfort and the benefits of a spacious design.

Designed to double as a private spa, the Tufa Suite's custom bathroom also features a concealed massage table, a soaking tub and double vanity.

The park was inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1979, in recognition of its «outstanding natural beauty and undisturbed production of travertine (tufa) through chemical and biological action».