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...Humidity is evoked in “Selva” with tremolo guitar and rainsticks hissing like snakes....
...Locals come to this region to kayak in the rivers adjacent to these roads, and hike the cliffs above them....
...There are more, too many to name – most renowned, a few still secret – that flow through the plains or snake through the alpine slopes. These rivers are etched in the hearts of anglers everywhere....
...At night, hippos chuckle in the river and elephants pad delicately into camp to shake the thorn trees for seeds....
...Snakes squirm at ground level, though the deadly Russell’s viper which bit some of Alexander’s officers is better attested further south....
.... £49.95 Simple Vodka This farm-to-bottle vodka is made using locally sourced Idaho Russet potatoes and spring water from the Snake River Aquifer....
...You know, is it really chicken or is it snake? So it sort of became part of western prejudice about Chinese food....
...These were Samburu women, draped in cloth of cerulean and vermilion, metal anklets blinking under the African sun, forearms wrapped in thick, beaded bracelets like coiled snakes, necks and shoulders buried...
...Arriving by helicopter – a spectacular, 30-minute commute over plains, rivers and mountains from Christchurch – illustrates how well the building is positioned to best capture the station’s views: a long...
...For Cambodians, this is a sacred space: the birthplace not just of the great Angkorian Empire but also of the holy rivers that watered its plains and lapped around its most precious temples....
...But he had not put his potatoes aside for this. “I have got a lot of experience,” he said indignantly....
...If it’s really warm, we take the boat out to where all the river plains are, throw the anchor and dive into the Amstel....
...In the library of the monastery, in which I’d stayed for a week, I’d read in a book of folklore how at the start of time a snake had led the first herder to a river. On the floodplain, cattle grazed....
...The world’s largest accumulations of coccoliths are plain to see....
...Given the current state of the nation, perhaps this is a smoke screen to hide the ministerial incompetence that’s allowed significant housebuilding on flood plains or the inactivity that’s seen rivers go...
...In the course of the week, I see otters slouching on the bank, snakes whispering through the water, the eyes of caiman just above the surface....
...We are looking out over St Paul’s Cathedral, the City and, round the bend of the river, Tate Modern and the London Eye. “There’s religion, there’s power, there’s tourism,” says my guest....
...You can crack open the complimentary Nightjet sparkling wine as the train snakes along the Rhine Valley, dusk lazily enfolding the vineyards, riverboats and hilltop castles....
...The Indus River Basin Authority believes the country will suffer a shortage of 37 billion litres by 2025....
...I am walking four different stretches (taking the bus between them), each stage between 20 and 25km and encompassing a different landscape: from the undulating agricultural plains of the Hamar region, through...
...After the dryness of the plains around Nouméa, the tropical abundance felt like a different world....
...O Moinho, a few miles outside the town of Chaves on the river Támega, was a “restaurante típico” where the family let motorhomes park in a field by the river for free....
...The hotel will be fed by Chola en Borsalino, a Bolivian-Italian restaurant promising dishes such as red beet risotto with llama salami and a pork terrine with five different Andean potatoes....
...3.5tn insects, blackened the air, “arriving at racehorse speed”, making the sound of thousands of pairs of scissors snipping, breaking trees under their weight, destroying millions of dollars’ worth of potatoes...
...After 20 minutes, we arrived at Bamurru, a collection of 10 safari bungalows arranged along the edge of the Mary River floodplains....
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