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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....
...It’s been enraging to watch the explosion of get-rich-quick products labelled “decentralised finance” when so many are just Ponzi schemes hiding in plain sight....
...At night, hippos chuckle in the river and elephants pad delicately into camp to shake the thorn trees for seeds....
...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....
...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....
...Osaka and Tokyo, which accommodate large populations, have no choice but to locate near river mouths due to the country’s large number of mountains and lack of plains....
...But he had not put his potatoes aside for this. “I have got a lot of experience,” he said indignantly....
...Later this week, a huge new solar array on Colorado’s southern High Plains will officially launch — and proponents of a global energy transition will have a new beacon for their cause....
...Zhengzhou sits in the low-lying and flood-prone north China plain, on the south banks of the Yellow river....
...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....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 6, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...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...
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