All around, and screened from the frenetic seaside by her towering crags, were deep wooded valleys that my memory ?
Here, when a radiant moon bathes the sleeping streets, the palm tree in the square and the tops of the towering crags cut the sky sharply.
We floated along in the early morning under the towering crags, listening to birds singing and the calls of distant monkeys as bamboo and banana leaves drooped into the water.
Instead, I'm rewarded with the dramatic view south – the wall from barbarian country, still rolling imperiously over the towering crags.
The landscape is pure magic - snow-capped peaks, towering crags and plunging waterfalls.
You arrive at a bright area of grassland, which comes sweeping down from a towering inland crag to the rocky shore below.
Beneath the towering sea crags of Bolus Head, we could feel it.
Distance 4.5 miles (7km) Classification Easy Duration 2 hours Begins Great Wood car park OS grid reference NY271214 Walk in a nutshell From the car park the path rises through the woods with the giant cliff of Walla Crag towering above.
It flows into Aurlandfjord, itself no slouch in the beauty division - green water, towering wooded cliffs, crags, geological ramparts, buttresses and rounded towers, picturesque little shore-side villages clambering up the hills, snowy summits, scores of waterfalls, some narrow silvery threads, others broad thundering cataracts, under one of which the Bergen ferry now stops for a photo op.
Great monsters slowly appeared in the half-light, towering granite cliffs with crags and deformations frosted with ice, and snow nestled in ancient chasms.
He named the land Crags Ranch for the towering sandstone cliffs that shelter this valley like a prayer.
