The most expensive ZIP codes are, for the most part, the kinds of places you would expect them to be--at the ocean's edge, in lush valleys, on hillsides with magnificent views.

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The Anti Atlas around Tafraoute has rugged, barren rocks and lush green valleys aplenty.

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The last significant mountains before the Sahara are the arid, pink-and-ochre-coloured chain of the Anti Atlas, and beneath the arid, jagged mass of its two major peaks lie lush irrigated valleys and a string of oases.

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Visitors start their hike in lush, grassy valleys, trekking past thick bamboo trunks and babbling brooks.

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The climate resembles a perfect English summer's day: skies are blue and the valleys are lush.

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Kigali unfolds across a series of lush mountain tops and deep valleys, with homes and businesses clinging to nearly every inch of hillside.

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Valleys, which were moonscapes, now verdant and lush and giving life and jobs and eighteen thousand Birr a year to the farmers of that neighbourhood.

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