Plans have been unveiled to expand cycling facilities in the Scottish Borders with a mountain bike centre near Kelso.
Physically, the valley lies in the Hindu-Kush mountain ranges, but climatically it resembles the bordering Himalayan mountain range.
The northern part of the Duars, immediately bordering the mountains, consists of a rugged, irregular, and sloping surface.
This high tableland, which is also regarded sometimes as a large interior drainage basin between the bordering mountain ranges, is drained by the Dzavhan, Selenga (Selenge), and Kerulen rivers.
She could walk out the back door and down to a stream bordered with mountain laurel and trillium.
The eastern and western limits of the lobe, where the glacier impinged on the bordering mountain fronts, are identified by crystalline erratics of British Columbia provenance and local delta moraines built into mountain valleys.
It's a route that crisscrosses the path of the Odyssey, and like that epic poem "The Walking" is also lyrical and deeply emotive, as Khadivi takes the brothers to a border crossing at a mountain lake, to the teeming neighborhoods of Istanbul, and to an island and an ocean archipelago.
With a veterinarian's help, she eventually deduced that the bones belonged to poodles, plucked from the elite suburb bordering the mountains.
Together, the two parks occupy more than 1,060 square miles (2,750 square km) of the desert region bordering the mountains.
Accessible only by floatplane and set on a lake bordered by mountains, the camp offers guests a chance to swim, bike, hike, kayak, canoe, fish and watch wild moose feed.
