Finally, I pass through a Sussex chalk grassland with accompanying fences, hedges, ponds and dancing common darter dragonflies.
The next day finds us 700km further south, bumping along a straight dirt road through a mosaic of grassland and swamp.
The term wood-pastures is usually applied to areas with trees or other woody vegetation, scattered through a mainly grazed grassland area, and reflects one of the oldest land use types in Europe, which plays important ecological, agricultural and socio-cultural roles.
Leaving Saskatoon, travel is through a moist mixed grassland ecoregion.
After a drive on a bumpy dirt road through grassland, Sio emerged in a clearing, a collection of mud-brick houses.
Their jeep is the last in a line of five, nosing along a dirt road through grassland whose apparent brown masks a wide internal spectrum of color: purples, greens, reds.
I drive slowly, as is now my habit, windows down, on a two-lane road through open grassland.
In a few square miles there may be a visible succession from swamp with papyrus, through swampy grassland and broad-leaved woodland and grass, to a patch of forest on richer hillside soil, and finally to succulents on a nearly naked rock summit.
The second night, when there were no crowds about, men came to help Tashi's uncle take his body across a nearby river and through the grasslands to a holy mountain.
It follows a gentle 120m climb through beautiful countryside – open grassland, broadleaf woods, farmland and pasture.
