It looks like an immense mountain of rugged terrain, like the surfaces one sees in the formidable countryside of Iceland.
As we drove on into the park, the landscape opened out into an immense mountain plateau, with limitless views in every direction.
Asia's immense mountain ranges, varied coastline, and vast continental plains and basins have had a profound effect on the course of human history.
But though the crisis diverted the Bush administration's attention from Japan's immense mountain of bad loans, Japanese leaders seem finally to be focusing on the issue.
Several minutes later, as it becomes clear he still has an immense mountain of food to get through, he appears sickened and woozy – presumably because his blood sugar levels have hit a dangerously narcotic high as his stomach desperately tries to break down the busload of beef that's just appeared inside it.
Behind me, lost in cloud, the immense mountain wall breathed cold air down my neck and the words of the poet Francisco Icaza, speaking for a poor beggar, went through my mind: "Give him alms, woman/ For there is nothing in life, nothing/ So sad as to be blind in Granada".
This is an old-fashioned guesthouse up the hill from the glitzy beach resorts and has a breakfast terrace and big pool with views over Camps Bay and its immense mountain backdrop, a comfy lounge and honesty bar – which is often presided over by the garrulous owner, Bernie.
Every year the geese make an epic migration from sea level in India up over the immense mountain range to their summer breeding grounds in Central Asia.
