Travelling by train in the central mountains, there's a sudden jolt and a terrible grating sound.
Running along a thin strip of land between the Central Mountains and the Pacific, Taiwan's East Coast Highway is easily one of East Asia's most beautiful spots for cycling.
The core area is made up of the preserved district of the Aya Forestry Ecosystem Protected Area and is included in the Kyushu Central Mountains Quasi National Park.
He has beautifully engaged his readers to the anarchic situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan as he refers to the successive presidents and Al-Qaeda leaders to make his storey central to the current global unrest in the mountains of Central Asia.
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This valley is located in the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia.
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Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama says he needs his own personal bodyguards, and the men usually stay in his bush camp in the Gorongosa mountains in central Mozambique.
The problem is most acute in the Central Valley, where nearby mountains tend to trap the pollution sent to the skies from heavy auto traffic and other machinery.
In Wasilla, a railroad town nestled among the mountains of south-central Alaska, she has earned a reputation for pursuing agendas with such doggedness that critics and supporters alike are compelled to acknowledge her fighting spirit.
Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
But the country has no big natural resources aside from water 40% of all Central Asian water originates in Kirgizstan's mountains and it is too small a market and too remote a place geographically to accrue much advantage from foreign trade.
Deep gorges, verdant mountains and a mild climate make the Central Balkan park an easy-to-explore biodiversity hotspot.
In the valley, politicians dream of an independent country linked to old Central Asian trading routes, looking anywhere but south over the mountains to Delhi.
Central to the case against bottom-fishing is the protection of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, which are especially rich in marine life of all kinds.
He and about 1, 000 followers headed for Tora Bora, a complex of caves about six miles long carved into the mountains of southwestern Afghanistan a decade earlier with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.
It is also one of the traditional "Three Holy Mountains" - along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, both in central Japan.
Olivier Roy, a Paris-based specialist on Central Asia, points to the cultural split in the region between the nomads from the steppes and mountains, mainly Kirgizs, Kazakhs and Turkmens, and the sedentary, mainly urban Uzbeks and Tajiks who settled in the river basins of Transoxania.
One is up in the high Meseta of central Spain, at 1, 000m or more, with a very harsh climate and the other is in the mountains of Granada - again in a very harsh environment.
Unlike Swat, where the militants' influence is concentrated in the central plains of the valley and the road network is good, Kohistan is 7, 400 sq km of sheer mountains rising from 2, 400 to 3, 700 metres, with virtually no plains.
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