The road across the mountains sets off very confidently as a smart new motorway from Da Lat then suddenly expires in a swamp of red mud.
This is particularly true in the basin-and-range type of areas of parts of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the western United States, Chile and Peru, Sinai and western Arabia, and Central Asia, where the basic landscape configuration consists of mountains set against adjacent basins.
This has made it harder for them to get everyday essentials like food and clothing, so they come down from the mountains, set up a roadblock -- miraculous fishings" -- and stop everyone.
"It is," she says, "a surpassing picture, framed in the foreground by dark, pine-covered crags; beyond that by the sharply outlined profiles of mountains set off by superb trees; and in the background by the rounded humps of hills, which the setting sun gilds with the warmest shades".
A three-storied building rises against an indistinct mountain setting.
The capital of the Austrian state of Tirol neatly combines an impressive mountain setting with a storied and historic past.
Basic treatments from €60 for an hour TwinnyDip The Enchanted Mountain centre offers yoga sessions morning and evening in a mountain setting five minutes' drive from stunning beaches near Garopaba.
The tart exchange between the officials, Douglas E. Lute, President Obama's top adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, took place during a conference in this bucolic mountain setting.
Scientists reinstated the alert to its highest level in the afternoon, just before sirens began blaring across the mountain, setting off the instant evacuation of thousands of villagers in trucks and cars and on motorbikes.
