But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.
Then it does so again, as out-of-power and out-of-fashion conservatives who angrily react to the situation descend into anti-literary, anti-wonktastic anti-journalism.
So when wars erupt and their attendant human rights abuses emerge, the response if there even is one is often tentative and muted, and conflict-ridden countries easily descend into a free-fall.
International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (August 11-19): Every August, more than 125 balloonists descend on Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, midway between Montreal and Vermont, for the largest hot-air festival in Canada.
The YP-U2 flash player appears to descend from the YP-U1, but we're not sure exactly what the difference is (other than cosmetic), as the specs are basically the same.
Unless the U.S. reverses course and vigorously pushes free-trade policies, we could well descend into a mini-Smoot-Hawley trade war that would devastate economies, including ours.
Visitors from around the world -- including celebrities, politicians and rabble-rousers -- descend on Louisville to enjoy everything from mint juleps on Millionaire's Row to mudslides in the Churchill Downs infield.
But as an antidote to hokum, the authors' mission to help you "descend into better-informed cynicism" to find the "least dysfunctional" of all possible dysfunctional orgs is the kind of literary stock that pays greater dividends.
Each party took 41 seats, most of the rest going to mild Islamists, Turkomen, Christians and Yazidis (followers of a sect that is said to descend from Roman-era worshippers of the god Mithras), nearly all with the blessing of the two big Kurdish parties.
The tunnel, which is the longest in the second phase of the high-speed rail project, will descend at Davenport Green to the north-east of the airport.
These commando-like management teams descend on the newly acquired company and act as in-house consultants.
It also reflects the tendency of America's admirable checks and balances to descend into ridiculous self-parody.
In the Philippines, thousands of stargazers are expected to descend on the far-flung town of Languyan on the southern island of Tawi-Tawi.
Trump says he provided Maher with a New York birth certificate that proved he didn't descend from an ape -- but Maher hasn't paid up.
The clothes that do get made in commercial quantities and reach us in the stores may have touches here and there--a color, a collar, a line of cut--that descend from a runway presentation in Milan or Paris or New York several years before.
Or will Spain be allowed to descend into a catastrophic 1930s-style banking crisis and Great Depression?
The Kremlin is clearly loth to see another Muslim-majority region descend into anarchic violence.
Click the arrow and a drop-down will descend with a couple options.
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Through the First Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, and WWI Japan fulfilled its ambition of becoming a major power, only to over-reach and descend into ruin on 8.15.
Given the isolation of the islands, and the branching of the family tree, the chances are that all descend from a single off-course flock that arrived about 500, 000 years ago.
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Today the situation we are facing even in Iraq is that aid vehicles are being looted, supply lines closed, and this has allowed humanitarian aid to descend to practically the minimum - so just the survival of the fittest, which is not our aim.
Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.
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This wildlife, however, also includes the swarms of intellectuals and politicians who descend each January for the so-called Renaissance weekends.
It also faces the Seattle bandwagon: at the Fund's spring meetings on April 16th, thousands of anti-globalisers plan to descend on Washington.
But it would be a blow to the hard-core European supporters who descend in droves on circuits like Monte Carlo throughout the season.
As if that wasn't enough, same-sex marriage radicals will descend on Charlotte and demand that the cause become a central plank of the Democratic Party platform.
About 80, 000 revellers are expected to descend on Edinburgh city centre for an open-air concert, ceilidh and street party.
Soon, emergency managers will soon be able to descend into the chaos and confusion of post-disaster settings like those that prevailed in earthquake-ravaged Haiti last year equipped with reliable cell-phone service.
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Supporters started to descend on the Welsh capital late on Friday - travelling by road, rail and even plane with Arsenal chartering a jumbo to transport more than 700 fans to Cardiff.
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