I hadn't seen much through the minibus window of what must have been a lovely journey across the mountains. At Brașov it was still snowing lightly at 7 pm, and it felt too cold to walk to the hostel. In ...
... are found near the river, some of which look abandoned. A rocky crag up in the mountains gives out a flow of white smoke as if the furnace down below was connected to it by an invisible underground vent. ...
... to reach not only the monasteries tucked away in the mountains, but sometimes even make logical connections between two points of my itinerary. And whenever it was feasible and I felt like it, if hitchhiking ...
... end, where the dry mountains reflect magically in the water. The isolation of the monastery in the middle of this huge high-altitude lake must have been sublime when the water level used to be 20 meters ...
... to cover using my own legs.
The first part of the paved road was inside a canyon overhung with two walls of sheer rock, a deep shady cut in the mountains that eased the high temperature a bit. Gradually ...
... calculator. It was hilarious.
Before the lady left I asked her a favour: go up to the terrace for a top floor view. I had been impressed by the bare rugged mountains around Yeghegnadzor, and now the ...
Sisian is a town set in the midst of yellow fields with a distant crown of mountains all around. Coming from Goris, 400 m higher, I spent one night here in order to see the prehistoric standing stones. ...
... was intoxicating. I had come from Paleochora, stayed at Soughia during the night of the storm, continued walking to Loutro and then left the coast in the direction of the mountains. However, by the time ...
... all: it had been a long walk, all things considered, and I had made it much more tiring with this fear of losing my way and being caught somewhere for a long cold night out. If you're alone in the mountains ...
The top of Mount St Primo offered a magnificent sweeping view over Lake Como and the highest Alps, a combination of snow-speckled mountains and blue waters in the frame of early summer greenery. The temperature ...
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The Table Mountains, approximately 10 kilometres from Kudowa, are a singular sight. The strange rock formations on their flat top are unique and a walk along the trail also offers rewarding panoramas. ...
... mountains that exceed 3,000. Under arms I was not in a mood or had much free time to enjoy the charms of this town, but this time in just one day I made up for missed chances coming under the charm of ...
Finally a clear Sunday was announced. I brushed up the text message that Danilo had sent me during the week to propose a hike in the mountains. It read: "Climb to Mount Barbarossa starting from the hamlet ...
... ordinary people breathe the dust raised by their wheels. I had a sinking feeling I would have to give up Nechisar.
From the roundabout the backdrop of mountains looked like a painting with boosted contrast ...
If the first day in the Web Vally had filled me with expectation for what still lay ahead, the second day was rather disappointing. We backtracked for a very long way, then our route cut across the hills ...
... a trail across fields scattered with recently built huts, a bit up from the village, then we turned towards the mountains. If the relationship with the scout at the start had been a difficult one, he managed ...
... to Dodola, in the heights of the Bale mountains. There was a friendly conductor on board wearing a professional green smock, but better still was the driver who drove carefully. All his concentration was ...
... This sport-loving boy made it a habit of training by running up the mountainside, and always wore the same flat shoes he had on.
We crossed an area of sheds which made me cringe at the prospect of having ...
... around while I convalesced in a hotel room, and even after I felt good enough to get up I still hadn’t recovered enough strength to enjoy myself to the full.
Then I took another trip to the Atlas mountains ...
... its surroundings.
Shidong was my first visit, after a longish ride over the mountains. Its ethnic market was incredibly interesting and big, spreading along the main street and down all over a river ...