Huffing to the top of the sloping town, I found a well-equipped wooden hostel, the STF Vandrarhem Sunne, built around an old herrgård, or manor house, with a slew of hay-lofts amid acres of forest.
In Mr. Follin-Arbelet's cellar, it is time to move on to the 2009 Corton-Charlemagne, a grand cru white from the steep slopes above town.
But it is the natural hot springs on the slopes above town that have brought Papallacta its fame, turning Ecuador's highest town – 3,300m above sea level – into one of the country's most appealing travel destinations.
Go out and enjoy the scenery or take a hotel bus tour to the nearby tourist areas (Hoover Dam, the ski slopes, around town).
Not far from Taxhof is Steinalmdorf, chalets that opened in 2007 on a slope overlooking the town of Leogang.
Hussein Jan, a 51-year-old farmer, tossed a stone into a shallow pit dug on a slope above this town.
Notable landmarks include the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Presbyterian churches, on the central ridge; Fort George, at the promontory's tip; and Government House, on a slope overlooking the town.
The site of the monastery, on a wooded slope above the town, in terrain remarkably similar to the Himalayan foothills that have nurtured Tibetan Buddhism for centuries, was chosen by the 16th Karmapa before he died while visiting the United States in 1981.
This sample was collected in agricultural soil on the slope above the town in the southeast direction.
Collection was made on a slope near the town of Ambodimangavalo in the district of Vavatenina, on the d'Ihofika river near the Andranofantsona camp, at coordinates 17°39′07″S 048.9705500 (−17.651948.970550005500).
This paper deals with three large Deep-Seated Landslides (DSLs) at a front of a subalpine meridional chain, on the "La Marbrière" slope near the town of Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes, France).
