Sentences with phrase «with acacia trees»

Here there are vast open savannahs dotted with acacia trees and a few rocky hillocks.

With endless grasslands sprinkled with acacia trees, this is «Out of Africa» and «Born Free» country.

Using a catapult powered by a bungee cord, the experts launched a small airplane over the deep and dark landscape, thick with acacia trees sporting 5 - centimeter (2 - inch) thorns.

Not exact matches

The scenery was pure savannah, with open spaces, brush, acacia trees, and the occasional watering hole.

It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, with an ecological twist: In African savannas (regions with both trees and grass), acacia - dwelling ants can repel voracious, tree - eating elephants, according to new research by published online September 2 in Current Biology.

Scientists tested the two hypotheses with wild colonies of acacia ants (Pseudomyrmex spinicola), which make their nests in the hollow spines of acacia trees in Panama.

They examined three sites invaded by the bigheaded ants and found five times as many acacia trees with moderate or worse damage from elephants, relative to uninvaded sites.

The scenery is as persistent as the local flies: a breathtakingly silent expanse of parched grasses clinging to cracked clays and dunes, dotted with gum trees, acacias and gnarled shrubs.

«The books are spread out on grass mats beneath an acacia tree, and the library patrons, often barefoot, sometimes joined by goats or donkeys, gather with great excitement to choose their books,» writes Hamilton, who wrote a novel about the library.

This family - run lodge offers safari - style tents, with en suite bathrooms and their own private decks, in amongst sausage, acacia and marula trees overlooking a dry river bed, the Drakensberg mountains and the bush.

With the help of contractors, seven acres of French broom and cotoneaster was removed, and small acacia and eucalyptus trees were cut from the leading edge of groves to reduce the expansion into oak / bay woodland.

It is located within the central savannah region, with long grasses, wide acacia trees and plenty of opportunities to spot all of the Serengeti's main wildlife.

Full - day wildlife game drives through the beautiful reserve with its rolling savannah, punctuated by the iconic flat topped acacia trees, in search of the best possible game viewing.

This oasis of beautifully designed safari tents is nestled amongst cordia and acacia trees, located in a gorgeous wilderness area teeming with game, and enjoys panoramic views of the plains.

Lake Manyara, a small breathtaking National Park with an immense natural richness is home to over 380 bird species and the famous tree - climbing lions, which for reasons unknown sleep in the branches of acacia trees.

Boasting a beautiful location and idyllic setting with water pools, home to resident hippos, and yellow barked acacia trees which surround the tents.

Halfway down the flight of stairs is a temple that overlooks the surf, and sharing the coastal forest features with Uluwatu, you will occasionally witness playful grey long - tailed macaques playing around the stairs on the Balinese «gapura» gate, and high up in the acacia trees.

On the other side of the world, in Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.

Plot filled with a variety of with shrubs and trees including acacia, palms, bamboos and crab apple.