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...“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....
...The rift and its tributary canyons — some, such as Wadi Mujib, rival the Grand Canyon — are a Gothic landscape of melodrama and convoluted excess, of escarpments and precipices, caverns and gorges, dizzy...
...There are many layers of habitats and ecosystems, which my walking guide Kristin Arnold described as being “like the storeys of a house”. The cellar-like coolness of the canyons....
...onto a small, private, sand beach in a placid cove, for the swimmers and sunbathers....
...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....
...— and these are among the biggest in the world, the result of an underwater canyon that runs some 140 miles out to sea and reaches three miles in depth....
...“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....
...Dating from the 1980s, these ungainly artefacts tell an entertaining evolutionary tale of gyroscopic forces and sand in your magnets, obsessive inventors and pioneering machines such as the Kenetech KVS-...
...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....
...The Futaleufú is one of the world’s great white-water rafting rivers. 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....
...In the permanent semi-gloom of the redwood forest, the scattered settlement of Canyon is like a lost hamlet and the city of Oakland, just across the hill, feels a million miles away....
...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....
...I thought of Neruda — “Night, snow and sand/Make up the form of my thin country/All silence lies in its long line.”...
...It took me into “pure” desert — not the scrub I’d experienced in Morocco, but a wilderness of wind, sand and stars, of diamond-cut dunes, and towering, fragile rock arches that looked like they might collapse...
...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....
..., around the Grand Canyon and down the avenues of Las Vegas in a 25ft campervan....
...(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....
...sandstone mountains in the north of the country, filled with dramatic canyons, cliffs and arches as well as rock art that dates back 7,000 years....
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