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...This is wilderness as pure as it gets, you might think, until you learn that most of the forest here is plantation....
...The name means “between two rivers”, the two being the Tigris, which we had now crossed, and the Euphrates to the west....
...I hiked the trail out of Beceite up El Parrizal, a paradisiacal valley with plantations of walnuts, cherries and almonds, narrowing into a gorge with a fast-flowing river in its depths....
...At 70, we’re negotiating a dangerous bend in the river....
...The launches of these towers – located next to each other on a picturesque bend in the Chicago River – are seen as a major sign of economic recovery in the third-largest US city, of the resurgence of Chicago...
...Between small towns dominated by minarets, wheat fields, rice paddies, orchards and banana plantations stretched down to the river much as they have for 2,000 years....
...Great River Road Start: Memphis....
...The lodge sits on a bend in the river, surrounded by gorgeous tropical flowers and exotic birds....
...Their leader had to be close now, perhaps just around the bend in the trail. Then we saw him....
...Digitised backdrops could never have captured the spell of these shimmering sandscapes, treacherous ice-rivers and white walls of mountain....
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