The most famous Dong bridge, the magnificent Chengyang Wind and Rain bridge, is almost 80m long and 11m high, adorned by delicate carvings.
He shows up in Paris with his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and the past is all around him — art, magnificent buildings, winding cobblestone streets.
Woods thick with magnificent ash, wind-pummelled into harmonious, sweeping symmetry, line the banks, the occasional Monterey pine, poking above the canopy.
For a visitor trekking up metal steps to the top tier, where the vistas are magnificent but the winds blustery, that's easy to believe.
Draws include Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, flat-topped Andean mountain ranges, imposing colonial towns and the magnificent Orinoco River, which winds its way some 2150 miles through Amazonian jungle to the Caribbean.
I started my own tour by enjoying a look at the Victorian architecture of the Gaiety (which was showing "Riverdance" at the time) in the heart of the city's shopping district before wandering around the corner to St. Stephen's Green, the magnificent city park of winding paths, open heaths and memorials honoring some of Ireland's greatest writers.
"If I toss up the word, and close my eyes, it conjures up gardens and fragrances," wrote novelist Bapsi Sidhwa who grew up in a city also cherished for its winding canals, magnificent mosques and graceful British colonial buildings.
To the north, narrow roads wind up into magnificent landscapes of dense pine and cedar forest, lakes, mountain crags, bizarre rock formations, colonial mining villages and old Spanish silver haciendas.
The ultimate termite artist, according to Harvey, is Douglas Sirk, the intellectual German émigré assigned by Universal to film a string of soap operas ("Magnificent Obsession," "Written on the Wind") starring an unformed mannequin named Rock Hudson.
