Cherry and apple orchards line whispering mountain creeks, which suddenly burst into waterfalls on exposed rock faces.
Footpaths wind gently upward to the Berber hamlet of Tamatert, wedged snugly between two stern rock faces.
The pigeon houses riddling the rock faces, traditionally used to collect the birds' droppings for use as fertiliser, mostly stand empty.
Generally we're on top of things, as far as the general stability of the rock faces through the gorge are concerned.
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By means of steel cables and iron brackets anchored into rock faces, climbers reach a high-altitude world that would otherwise be seen only by hardened alpinists.
Nibbling at the edges of the asphalt, the river pressed the road against red cliffs so that at times the rock faces seemed to scrape the windows.
Spend a day strolling the Pearl Street Mall or join the healthy, outdoorsy locals scrambling around the trails and rock faces of Chautauqua Park.
We set out paddling on the water to enjoy a spectacular landscape featuring rugged, forested mountains, large rock faces, small islands and a plethora of nature.
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"This is pretty spectacular, " he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces after emerging from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury.
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West Angle Bay, on the southern shore of Milford Haven, faces directly out to the mid-channel rock where the Empress foundered and has also been used for many years as a living laboratory by the nearby Orielton Field Studies centre.
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