In the highlands we found enclosed fields and scattered hamlets interspersed within large extensions of scrubland.
The southern part of the province forms a portion of the southwestern highland and basin area, which is characterized by double-cropping, wet-field agriculture, and forestry production.
I could see the emerald tea fields of the highlands, the waves of forested ridges going down into the Rift Valley and the flamingo-pink-fringed lakes on the valley floor.
But every day we went through the tortuous order of "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright," or "Behold her single in the field yon solitary highland lass," or Shakespeare, "There is a place where the wild thyme grows," and many more.
However, the combined palaeoenvironmental and archaeological study of highland human management at a micro-regional scale remains a largely unexplored research field, especially in the Pyrenees.
From our top-floor window, we could see a field of llama and highland cattle, and a steady stream of tobogganers hurtling down a long, perfectly pitched slope.
He passed through Khe Sanh and Hue, but spent most of his time in the jungles and fields of the central highlands, serving, initially, as a forward artillery observer, one of the more dangerous combat posts.
Agriculture in the highlands depends upon traditional burning of the fields for cultivation of millet, beans, oats, and potatoes.
Grain is imported from the highlands to the south because the dry fields around Dire Dawa (which means "empty plain") yield little to cultivation.
By 1600, irrigated paddy fields were developed in the central highland Betsileo Kingdom, and were extended with terraced paddies throughout the neighboring Kingdom of Imerina a century later.
