Shrouded by dense greenery and palm trees, the hotel wraps around a garden with a cosy swimming pool and popular bar.
Beyond the furry cactuses and palm trees, Singapore's ever-expanding skyline will be seen, somewhat surreally, through the greenhouse glass.
The masts are eyesores: the tallest structures on most islands, they jut up through the coconut and palm trees.
We see a jumble of buildings and palm trees and abandoned streets.
Bal Harbor may be a mall, but it's no ordinary mall, open to the elements and landscaped with fish-filled ponds and palm trees.
Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.
"I have retired three times prior, but I am a deal junkie and I love the challenge, " admits Rossi, 66, who on this day has traded a suit for a Hawaiian-style shirt emblazoned with surfboards and palm trees.
Outside I could see a half dozen wooden stilt homes surrounded by muddy patches and palm trees, a clothesline hung with shirts and sarongs, tree branch kindling stacked under a storage shed, a scrabbly vegetable garden where smoke plumed from a dying fire.
From here it is a two-minute stroll to Piazza Navona, a square as big as a stadium (it was in fact built on the former Domitian's stadium, which dated from 86AD), and crowned by the Bernini's fantastical Baroque fountains, complete with rearing horses, muscular gods, and palm trees.
The house itself had an open-air courtyard, intimately connected to the gardens and the sea by large rooms that could be opened in such a way that no walls interrupted the flow of people or air from the patios to the courtyard, which was filled with sun and palm trees.
Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.
Fine, white sand and swaying palm trees plus distance from noisy crowds and close proximity to both great snorkeling and an atmospheric beach bar (at Na Balam, see below) puts this spot at the top of the list.
Nicknamed "Fantasy Island" for its idyllic setting, the pool is about 6km from Siwa Town, and surrounded by palm trees and lush greenery.
When Agnelli bought it in 2007, it was in shambles, an underwhelming expanse of parched grass and tattered palm and olive trees.
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Authorities gave 20th Century Fox permission to landscape Maya Bay, on Phi Phi Island by uprooting vegetation, levelling it and planting palm trees, which were removed after filming 12 months ago.
The ornate pool was transformed from a rock quarry in 1923, and includes decorative canals, fountains, waterfalls and coral caves, while palm trees and porticos provide some welcome shade.
It brings out the best in us and unites us in a way that palm trees and easy living can't.
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- It's the week before finals at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and all over campus, students are hunched over books and laptops under the shelter of immense palm trees and sprawled out on the cement benches lining the campus' long, grassy mall, the anticipation palpable.
They hired Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park, to create an open campus with no walls, vast gardens and thousands of palm and Coast Live Oak trees, and California mission-inspired sandstone buildings with red-tiled roofs.
As you can see in the above screenshot, the blue-gray original is replaced with a full spectrum of colorful beaches and bright green palm trees.
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Various wellness programs -- detox, stress and burnout, yoga, sleep enhancement -- are provided among palm trees and boulders, a perfect tonic for pent up bitterness.
Imposing white gates and a grand corridor of palm trees lead to the tiled and whitewashed house that rambles over two wings set around cobbled courtyards with splashing fountains.
We squeeze two children into each bunk, dim the compartment lights, and watch each fall asleep as villages outside, their streetside strings of naked bulbs silhouetting palm trees and mud cottages, ebb and fade away.
Lofty palm trees and emerald tropical plants dot the sidewalks and the charming plazas.
Colombo 025 was blasting the leaves off of palm trees and the sand off rooftops.
About 360km from Windhoek, Swakopmund feels like a German Baltic beach resort -- apart from the palm trees and desert sand.
One example is Floral Villas, whose palm trees and white facades wouldn't look out of place in Southern California.
Palm trees and brush could be seen on either side of the road.
Today the tearoom sticks to its roots, serving delicate pastries among palm trees and wicker furniture in an old-fashioned conservatory.
Flanked by palm trees and encompassing 24, 500 square feet, the St.
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