Refuge La Monta Ristolas, France France's Queyras national park is the time-warp many mountain visitors are looking for.
Riding horseback up and just over the mountain, visitors were first greeted, here and there, by lone, stray butterflies gliding or flapping their way past.
During a recent supra in Signaghi, a hilltop fortress town with sweeping views of the Caucasus mountains, visitors on tour with Mr. Graham were serenaded by the Zedashe ensemble, which sang songs with harmonies as pungent as the local cheeses.
There are numerous mentions of Silver Mountain in old texts like the "Records of the Mountains and Waters of Changping" by the 17th century scholar Gu Yanwu, a sign on the mountain tells visitors.
The mountain welcomes visitors from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the summer season, so be sure to wake up bright and early to catch the best riding of the day.
There is no lodging available at the mountain; however, visitors can stay in nearby Wanaka or Queenstown and must commute along the steep and winding access road to get to the resort.
Her sheet-metal huts were ten thousand feet up in the mountains, and visitors arrived exhausted and dizzy from the altitude.
The silhouettes of saguaro cactus (which, if you don't want to sound like a city slicker, you'll pronounce sa-WA-ro) at sunset and the ochre light on the faces of the mountains remind visitors that Tucson is an urban oasis in a vast desert basin.
