Hints and tips:
...There’s a new gondola and chairlift, the beginners’ area has been moved up to the “Greenhorn Ranch” at mid-mountain, and there are 650 acres of new experts’ terrain at Mahogany Ridge....
...Straddling one ridge, I look down at a riot of lavender, wild oranges, and jaunty red Canary bellflowers, then turn to meet a sloping desert: spiked candelabras of euphorbia succulent rising from orange...
...Amal showed me where her fiancé proposed to her in the Ksar el Mourabitine, a 15th-century warehouse-cum-fortress on a rocky desert ridge, like a honeycomb spaceship made of clay....
...Having suitably thrilled ourselves, we take another of Richard’s suggestions, and go for height, following a trail to a 5,000ft ridge and Chloride City, a ghost town....
...Our descent to the sea saw us losing 1,000 metres’ altitude, and we switchbacked down a basalt ridge, fine views to either side....
...Back in January, I took a cable car up from the village of Ortisei, rising over a steep, shadowy mountainside to crest the ridge and find the plateau beyond bathed in afternoon sun....
...We touched down on a ridge after a couple of minutes, clambered out, then huddled on the snow as the helicopter roared off....
...The inherently isolated nature of the Maldives island resorts also lends itself to a controlled, Covid-safe environment....
...the temperature outside steadily climbing, mile after mile of nothingness, closer and closer to Oman’s northern border with Saudi Arabia, until the flat landscape began to undulate, rising into peaks and ridges...
...Georges pointed out the 19th-century fort on the ridge at 2,390m, the arrival point of what had been La Rosière’s highest lift....
...The wind had risen, whipping across the ridge; the temperature was somewhere around -10C....
...all-conquering reason to check in here is the emphatic sense of release that comes from being marooned, albeit temporarily and with some fine Coppola wines to see you through the balmy nights, on a remote desert...
...Double rooms at the Al Baleed Resort Salalah by Anantara cost from £225 Photographs: 4corners; Andrew Eames...
...It costs €64,000 per person; the next departure is November 18. white-desert.com Italy Carmaker Aston Martin and tour operator Elegant Resorts are collaborating to launch a series of luxury driving holidays...
...Banks have to rely on central banks as lenders of last resort....
...And then we were off, feeling every ridge and pothole of the dusty lanes that wound among the vineyards....
...Gas-rich Qatar is investing heavily overseas as the desert Gulf state seeks to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons....
...The jewel of Taos skiing is its infamous Ridge, a high crest with precipitous snowy steeps on one side, and a vast view over the desert 5,000ft below to the other....
...I never knew the mountain walls were so forbidding, or the high ridges so enticing, or the waterfalls so precipitous, or the isolated farms quite so lonely!...
...For diving, consider Lissenung Island Resort (www.lissenung.com; from $141pppn), Walindi Plantation (www.walindi.com; from $115 pppn) or Tufi Dive Resort (www.tufidive.com; from $162 pppn)....
...The crowds, of course, often go to lovely places, and for a first-time visit you could join them on the well-worn itinerary – Cape Town and its beaches, the wine country, the east coast seaside resorts of...
...From a distance, the cream coloured pipes and rusty conveyor belts of the old Molycorp Minerals rare earths mine could become lost in the desert backdrop....
...There is just one village, a jumble of whitewashed cubes, which at first glance could be a dusty north African desert town – it is closer to Tunis than Rome, after all....
...But at the end of the day our group buckled down to an hour’s march towards a point on the ridge called Tiger’s Claw....
...A sign notifies us that we’re in a military range and then we notice the gun emplacements on the ridges and, around one corner, an abandoned tank....
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