On the horizon are the crater walls, now a ring of tree-covered mountains and national parks.
Copacabana and Ipanema brought fame to Rio in the 20th Century for golden sands and the lush, forest-covered mountains that framed them.
The easy ride along tree-lined roads has few hills, and the snow-covered mountains, off-shore islands and deep forests make for majestic scenery.
The wild geography and topography around Killary, with its gorse-covered mountains, sweeping valleys and white sand beaches, presents both stark beauty and physical challenges.
The television ad for Suntory mineral water looks as idealistic as it did ten years ago, featuring vistas of snow-covered mountains and a perfect Japanese family.
But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.
Until a few years ago, it used to be dumped in landfills, but it is tricky to find much space on an island where more than 70% of the land is covered by mountains.
Past the meadow are the Jura mountains covered with the flaming reds, oranges and yellows that represent the leaves of autumn on this late October day.
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Most importantly, these mountains were covered in bamboo, making Jiuzhai a haven for pandas.
The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.
The lush pine forest that covered every inch of these pristine mountains had been cleared here.
It is a valley surrounded by mountains many of which are always covered with clean white snow.
Forested mountains cascade down to the lake shore, the mist-covered peak of Mount Nkungwe rises up in the background and crystal-clear waters teeming with fish lap against white sand coves.
Curious, she travels out of Lagos to corners of the country many Nigerians never see: to the Transwonderland Amusement Park, to the beauty of the eastern mountains and to the northern city of Kano with its modestly covered women and its forest of ancient minarets.
There's a separate bedroom for guests and a portal (the outdoor covered porch) where Mr. Kellerman takes writing breaks, peering down at the canyon below and the mountains beyond.
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