Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.
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In between came Camus's two best-known works, "The Stranger" (1942), in which the collaborating sun, sea and sand play a deadly role, and "The Plague" (1947), a loose allegory of occupation (by rats) set in Oran, Algeria's second city.
The fairways are bracketed with heather, and then with gorse, so that at the right time of year when everything is blooming, the course becomes a sea of green, purple and yellow that is compounded by the sea, the sand, and some of the most incredible sunsets anyplace.
Plus, the combination of crisp sea air and the cool sand beneath bare feet does wonders for a pub-inspired headache without needing to strip down at all.
This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.
Gulls swoop off the sides of the winding path, down the sheer drop to the white sand and turquoise sea hundreds of feet below.
They claim holes left in the sea bed from ships extracting gravel and sand are being refilled with sand from the shoreline of their local beaches.
Soon they walked, drunk, surrounded by a pack of hungry strays, toward a glaring white strip of beach and the black sea and blue froth crashing on the sand.
It forms a perfect medley of sand, sun and sea and is an ideal spot to slip away from reality.
Formed by storm tides as early as the 10th Century, the Wadden Sea is responsible for the distinctive formations of its many islands, characterised by high sand dunes and lush, wide beaches on the open sea side and a shallow coast towards the mainland.
Because you'll be a sleeping beauty in an oceanfront hotel for two nights, skip over the sand and glimpse under the sea with Discover Diving Dive Center.
But the Gold Coast can also surprise even the most dedicated beach snob with its sea hazed dunes, warm waves and soft, clean sand.
Sections of fence have been put up with sea buckthorn planted behind, which has caught the sand and created new dunes.
Because the land underneath Songdo didn't exist, the government of Incheon dumped 110 million cubic yards of dredged sand and mountain rubble into the Yellow Sea.
One of the reasons why Plakias and other southern getaways have remained relatively immune from mass tourism is the terrific summer wind that roars through everything, pelting beach-goers with sand and whipping up whitecaps on the sea.
And while towns fortify beaches and dunes and put up sea walls, rock barriers or even sand-filled fabric tubes to guard against future storms, state governments are readying hundreds of millions of dollars to buy out homeowners in flood-prone areas who want to leave.
Then the water sucked back into the sea and when it went back he was able to see the sand.
You can "hold the line" with expensive sea walls, retreat and leave the beach, or compromise with sand dunes and beach replenishing.
Girguam Chowpattty is the next stop for a late-afternoon amble along a beautiful swathe of sand edged by sparkling (if toxic) sea and backed by the Mumbai skyline.
In the Western Cape, towering sand dunes run to the edge of the sea and you examine a stunning and extensive collection of ancient rock art.
The project involved removing the silt and sand with excavators then dumping it out to sea as well as replacing all the chains that were holding buoys in place.
The average temperature is above 40C, the sea is like a warm bath, the golden sand burns your feet and the ubiquitous tarmac is starting to sizzle.
Half a million tonnes of sand has been pumped onto a Conwy county beach to improve sea defences and tourism.
The familiar golden sand beaches were totally black and no life existed on any of the sea cliffs.
These islands appear in Homer's Odyssey, and their epic landscape seems fitted to mythology, with fine-sand beaches, towering volcanoes, and a fierce-blue skirt of sea.
The sea is coming, and his carefully built castle, it turns out, is little more than sand.
The beach is sheltered by sand dunes overgrown with juniper bushes, and at one point runs between the sea and a saltwater lagoon that is often home to flocks of flamingos.
Also the sand blows in on the roads and that has to be cleared off and the sea wall has to be maintained.
Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.
It involves learning where sponges grow, picking the right one, prying an intact sponge from the sea bottom, and using it on their noses to root around the right areas to find fish concealed in the sand.
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