DEIR MAR MOUSA, Syria — As darkness falls over the vast Syrian desert and the first winter stars emerge, a trail of modern-day pilgrims is slowly climbing the stone steps of this remote cliff-top monastery.
The police have set up roadblocks at border crossings in hopes of recovering a 700-year-old Byzantine icon of the Virgin Mary stolen from the remote, cliff-side Elona Monastery in the Peloponnese.
A boat trip takes one up Loch Glencoul, between its remote cliffs that are a haven for birds of many kinds.
The dam has changed the geographic face of China, its reservoir forming a giant man-made lake amid stunning and once splendidly remote cliffs.
A13 NATIONAL A14-19 Preserved Indian Ruins Uncovered in Utah Archaeologists unveiled the pristinely preserved ruins of an ancient civilization that was lost to time in the remote cliffs of eastern Utah, then protected over the last 50 years by a local rancher.
A Dogon who grew up in the remote cliffs of central Mali, Mr. Dramé fashioned his first guitar out of tin cans, he told me during a break, and had done so well that he was recently hired as a guitarist by Mali's National Orchestra.
Set in a barrenly beautiful area that sees relatively few visitors, the route took in the gorgeous beaches at the town of Downies, the remote cliffs of Bloody Foreland and the beautiful Glenveagh National Park.
Head back down to the coast to stunning Cape St Vincent – you'll find remote, barren cliffs, crashing waves, an ancient fort and a lighthouse that shines its powerful light 60 miles out into the Atlantic.
"As you explore you can see how it compresses its secrets into tight parcels: dune-fringed beaches, remote hills, cliffs, caves, peat bogs, standing stones, lost parliaments, abandoned townships and Celtic memories," Michael Jackson wrote in "Whiskey: The Definitive World Guide" (DK, 2005).
The stage is an open-air belvedere on the bank of the river Rhône that looks like a stand overlooking the water, the cozy buildings of the area, and the remote green cliffs of the Croix-Rousse in the distance.
It's about a 40-minute drive from Pago, and from the road you can see spectacular sea cliffs, remote beaches and rain forest.
