Perched on the side of mountain, the Tiger's Nest temple complex is a striking and memorable sight, especially after the three-hour hike it takes to reach it.
One hour on the high-speed train to Taichung, then an hour's drive into the mountains, away from the industrialised, built-up coastal strip, brought me, round a final bend, to a memorable sight: the shimmering waters of famous Sun Moon Lake, a small, hidden sea in the heart of Taiwan, a secret Xanadu encircled by mountains.
On one memorable occasion he defended a mountain bridge against heavy odds, and a companion remembered seeing him "lift his saber, as a thresher lifts his flail, and each time the sword was lowered a man fell".
Gyllenhaal has been memorable in the past ("Brokeback Mountain," "End of Watch," "Prisoners"), but, as impeccably written by Gilroy (whose credits include co-writing "The Bourne Legacy" with brother Tony), his Lou is a creature apart.
Seven-night stays from £895 for family of four Taking the little angels to the mountains may be a lot of things (memorable, hilarious, rewarding) but there's no point pretending it's relaxing.
Beyond busy, shabby West Side streets, nine named, vaguely distributed locales — New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles — and the odd mountain do for what's memorable in a tidily rectangular nation, which ends at a notional Pacific Ocean.
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The golden pipes of McDonald, playing the Rev. Mother, opened the broadcast, but her memorable scene came later, singing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most enduring numbers from their 1959 Broadway musical. .
Other, less painful but equally memorable, days were spent walking in the stunning mountains surrounding the stone cottage we'd rented for the week.
But Kenyan-born Froome, 27, looked stronger than Wiggins in the mountains at times and, in a memorable moment, was ordered back to assist his team leader after breaking clear on Stage 11.
