Hints and tips:
...“When it’s you and some sand and some sea and you’ve got an ice cream in your hand, that’s fine,” he says....
...Winds from the Dead Sea whisked sands across the church floors, covering and revealing them in turn....
...The cellar-like coolness of the canyons. The rooftop of the summits. “Friedrich found his peace here,” said Kristin, as we emerged on to a plateau....
...Early risers can accompany a guide into the canyons that mark the bluffs miles inland; in Mandu Mandu Gorge, you might spot a tiny, shy, endangered black-footed rock wallaby....
...The shed in the sand reimagines “Triple Bluff Canyon” (2004) by inserting the photographer’s darkroom from “I, Impostor” into its interior....
...The not-too-broad rim casts enough of a protective shadow over the eyes and face, it’s breathable (lined in a pretty blue-and-white graphic-printed cotton), and looks good on both the sand and the summit...
...In Valldemossa, I picked up lingering echoes of Chopin at the monastery where he and George Sand spent a holiday from hell over the damp winter of 1838-39....
...An Oman voyage Hud Hud Travels is known for its mobile camps throughout Oman, from the Selma Plateau in the eastern Hajar Mountains to the remote desert of Wahiba Sands....
...“Here it was salt,” says my guide, leading me on a short hike through a strange canyon filled with glistening boulders, blades of sodium, and fan-shaped slices of gypsum....
...I also recommend taking a slow cruise along North Indian Canyon Drive at sunset, when the resolutely turning blades are silhouetted against the apricot sky....
...That morning we had been at our hotel on the coast, with the rocky shoreline, blazing sun and black sand the Canary Islands are famous for....
...A few miles downstream, where powerful currents are compressed between canyon walls, it becomes a cauldron of white water....
...From £550; lundies.scot Discovering Sardinia’s interior secrets on foot White sand, limpid sea: the key signifiers of Sardinia, as most know it....
...We sit on sawn-off logs, wet sand clinging to our feet....
...In a quiet canyon beyond the town bubbles a thermal spring, turquoise as the sky....
...Now, at the heart of the canyon, all was about silence and safety....
...As you head south on Upper Great Highway, cars have to turn inland, but you can stay on the paved road that continues behind the sand dunes....
...From here, the course heads north, covering a total of 275km, with an elevation difference of +/- 10,000m, passing sand dunes and red rock canyons....
...After a time the road began to climb, rising out of the narrow canyons to slant across bare slopes....
...With 2km to go, we obeyed the computer’s instruction to turn off the road, and found ourselves on a winding gravel track that suddenly dropped into a desert-like canyon....
...There were Dorcas gazelles, olive baboons, Nubian bustards and, if my eye could have reached deep enough into the canyon, the last of the Sahara’s desert crocodiles....
...Of varying sizes, placed flush in the ground and lit from underneath, the trampolines resemble pools of water in the red sand of the canyon, at least when seen at a distance....
...Gold Coast and the slopes of New Zealand’s Mount Cook by RV; toured the Dingle Peninsula and the Game of Thrones film sets of Ireland and Northern Ireland; we drove across Death Valley, around the Grand Canyon...
...(FT) The ‘Rolex of chocolate’ The Marañón Canyon in northern Peru is home to the Pure Nacional tree, which produces the world’s oldest and rarest variety of cacao....
...Rather than white sands and smart restaurants, the draw here is the pristine rainforests, remote mountain gorges and waterfalls....
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