There are also cheetahs hiding out in the short grass plains and leopards silently waiting in the treetops.

BBC: Migration and the Masai Mara

During the long, 540km bus trip east along the coast from Cide to the small seaside city of Ordu, the landscape transitions from dense green forestland to rolling plains with gorgeous yellow sunflower fields to meadows dotted with wild purple grass.

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On the plains, there was nothing else to be seen: a vast, boundless expanse of scant grass under massive, low clouds, and no indication that a town might be near.

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