But I happened to know of a few watering holes sprinkled around that beautiful landscape that would be the perfect places to set our weekend crooked.

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They had been returning from a visit to Waza National Park - which is described as a beautiful landscape, trodden by giraffes, elephants and antelopes - where they had spent the previous night.

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Train travel is a beautiful way to see the landscape and, at about 65km, it is a relatively quick trip between both points.

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Say what you will about Diablo III, but climbing up stony steps in the fog, and glancing down into the forested, 3-dimensional landscape below, can be quite beautiful.

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Situated within the stunning, rolling hills of South Devon, Torbay's geology has created a beautiful coastline, linking the rich diversity of the landscape with its wildlife, people and culture.

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Soon the window glass becomes cool to touch as the train climbs more than 1, 000 metres into a bare, otherworldly landscape of boulders and snowdrifts, navigating beautiful but treacherous mountain country through high passes and tunnels hewn from solid rock.

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Once the parachute opens you fall slow enough to take in the landscape, preferably at sunset or in a beautiful spot like the fiordlands or at the Franz Josef glacier.

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Users can now capture beautiful, seamless 360 degree panoramic images of the entire surrounding landscape with one easy "press and sweep" motion.

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Only one place on Earth holds big, beautiful T. rex-like dinosaurs in relatively soft sand, in a vast, remote landscape that all but insures privacy.

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