Without a sense of scale, every slope was magnified and stream rivulets resembled gorges.
The coastline here is best known for its gorges and eroded limestone rock formations that protrude offshore.
Waterfalls skid down from the mountains, and far below, the Dudh Kosi wriggles its way through inaccessible gorges.
Companies involved in the accusations include China Three Gorges Corp and China Unicom (CHU).
There are 36 domed rocks shoulder to shoulder forming deep valleys and steep-sided gorges.
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It was done over "extremely challenging" terrain, officers said, including mountains, gorges, streams and waterfalls.
That overtakes the second-place Three Gorges Dam, which cost a mere 203.9 billion yuan.
For several years to come, though, the diverted waters at the Three Gorges will run fast.
Deep gorges, verdant mountains and a mild climate make the Central Balkan park an easy-to-explore biodiversity hotspot.
That may be just as well, given the spate of unfavourable publicity Three Gorges has received of late.
The two countries share the Itaipu hydroelectric dam (still the world's largest until China's Three Gorges is completed).
His remarks, widely reported in China, seemed to imply that serious problems are brewing at the Three Gorges.
Unable to climb through the clouds, they threaded narrow gorges in lashing rain.
The real excitement happened on the sidelines, in the network of about 75 named and countless unnamed side canyons and gorges.
In addition to traversing mountaintops and valleys, hikers will need to tackle gorges and chasms, sculpted by aeons of water and wind.
Voith Hydro, makers of the vast turbines fitted to gargantuan dams like the Three Gorges in China, is also involved.
German 22nd seed Julia Gorges also progressed along with Romania's No. 31 Monica Niculescu and Czech No. 32 Petra Cetkovska.
The scale of the dam it will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric station after China's Three Gorges and Brazil's own Itaipu is epic.
The Geopark covers an area of unspoiled panoramic mountainous landscape including the most impressive gorges in northwestern Greece, Vikos and Aoos.
Environmental activists concede that the Three Gorges Dam is already a reality, and no amount of criticism will make it go away.
Residents point to a spot where they say the factory dumps polluted water at night, which flows into the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The meeting was inaugurated in presence of Mr Shan, director of the Chinese State Administration of Heritage in the Three Gorges museum.
Perhaps no project better exemplifies this challenge than the Three Gorges Dam.
To characterize somebody with a high annual income as wealthy is like assuming anybody who gorges himself at a meal must be fat.
The Seti river brings down heavy sediment of limestone and has formed several gorges in and around Pokhara, making it even more vulnerable.
Wadi Rum is a varied desert landscape consisting of a range of narrow gorges, natural arches, towering cliffs, ramps, massive landslides and caverns.
Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 300 million wind turbines, 2, 500 nuclear power plants or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif.
Second seed Julia Gorges of Germany also advanced, again in three sets, as she saw off Garbine Muguruza of Spain 7-5 5-7 6-2.
Gorges and karst plateaux feature 700 caves, hundreds of sinkholes, a 9-km-long thermal-water maze under a town and more than 1, 600 clear-water springs.
Often listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the falls and their surrounding gorges are a truly awe-inspiring sight.
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