This swim is very calming thanks to the trees and greenery lining the river banks, causing you to forget that you are swimming in a river that divides a major US city.
With trees and greenery lining the top and coming down the sides a little, the rock juts up from the face of the hillside, too sheer for houses to be carved onto it, with many different colorings beautifying it.
Signage in English directs tourists to Jochiji temple, the entrance to which is partially concealed by tall cypress trees and lush greenery that line the stone steps of the temple's approach.
Just off the north shore of Staten Island lies Shooters Island, inhabited only by a wide variety of birds and greenery, and lined with decaying wooden structures.
As some of the slopes were too prohibitively steep to build on, there is also a lot more greenery on this line, and you will rise to much higher points than on Line K. Keep an eye out for small planes gliding down the length of the valley, coming in for a landing at Medellín's domestic airport.
I follow a line of greenery out along a spit of sand and rock to a sandbar, where I come across a sea rose perched on, or, really, around, a granite boulder.
This probably meant that the graves had been completely lined in greenery, effectively protecting them from the sharp objects within.
Even the scenery is harsher; the greenery from below the tree line disappears, replaced by a rocky, almost lunar landscape.
A TRIP to the High Line, a ribbon of greenery on a former elevated rail line at the western rim of Manhattan, can be a test of patience, to be sure.
That's what gives the picture its clean lines and gently folding greenery.
