Georgia's long history is reflected in its ancient Georgian Orthodox churches and remote mountain villages.
It began in Beirut but quickly spread to nearby mountain villages in the Mount Lebanon area and to Tripoli.
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You have sunny beaches, temperate mountain villages, college towns where there are plenty of cultural offerings, and historic colonial cities.
For the first six months, I had close contact with Afghans as a member of a propaganda unit, driving around mountain villages to hand out food and fuel and show films.
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The national parks here cover the deep valleys and steep cliffs of the ancient volcanic crater with an extensive network of walking tracks, while the quaint mountain villages and rainforest retreats seduce romantic souls.
Locals in Viggiano, Villa d'Agri, and Tramutola, three mountain villages where much of the action is centred, are adamant that some of the oil revenues should be used to help develop their economy.
For travellers seeking a local excursion, a 30-minute drive northward on paved roads leads to the Zagorohoria, a region of developed traditional mountain villages overlooking the awe-inspiring Vikos Gorge, said to be the world's deepest.
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Over the coming four weeks all parts of the country will have a chance to vote, except that is, for the Israeli-controlled zone - and a handful of mountain villages where a lack of reconciliation between Christians and Druze has delayed the return of displaced inhabitants.
The rolling hills around the Irish capital are endowed with an array of easily accessible day trips, from charming coastal villages to breathtaking mountain scenery, all just a car or train ride away.
Between these villages on the mountain fringe plains of Afghanistan, and the peddler of heroin in Britain and elsewhere, there's a shadowy chain of people, beginning with traders in local bazaars who buy the opium.
The American pilots dropped first from the sky, injured and scared, into the Hmong villages on Phou Bia Mountain, and we helped them get better again in the depths of the jungle.
In the valleys of what is now the Swiss canton of Valais, small groups of farmers left their villages and set off east across the mountain passes in search of new lands.
In spite of the harshness of the landscape, the Berbers who live in villages such as Tagoudiche still manage to grow the mountain staples of wheat, barley, olives, figs and almonds.
He talks lyrically of hill farmers on high mountain pastures, whose grazing herds prevent avalanches and provide jobs in remote villages.
As you get closer to the mountain you leave the main road and wind your way through a series of Kurdish villages many of which have borne witness to the persecution and struggle that the Kurdish people have endured over the past few decades.
Its six villages are cut off from the rest of the country, except for a single mountain road that runs through a broad belt of virgin forest that forms part of the Swiss National Park.
On the border of Spain, with the great spiky Pyrenees mountain range as backdrop, the Midi-Pyrenees is an area characterized by magnificent architecture, medieval villages, river valleys, rolling farmlands, and food that is fabulous as only the French can deliver.
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