But despite the cacophony of animal sounds coming from below, the canopy is dense and the view stretches for such a distance that visitors may spend a couple of hours on the walkway and see very little.
But there was perhaps no clearer illustration of the disconnect between how emergency officials view the situation at a distance, and how it is viewed by those actually living it on the ground, than Brown's comments to CNN's Wolf Blitzer Thursday evening about the evacuation of hospitals in the city.
It was also an outpost of the Venetian empire in the 15th century: a Venetian tower dominates the view of the site from a distance.
Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels and takes them a short distance outside Whitehorse to view the auroras from heated, walled tents.
The side-view mirrors on most cars are flat, and while they give drivers an accurate sense of the distance of cars behind them, they have a narrow field of view, leaving a space behind the vehicle -- the blind spot -- that a driver can't see.
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It is the investing approach of the day, meaningful mostly because fund managers want to distance themselves from the widely held view that unit trusts in Asia used to concentrate more on industries than companies, letting the region's strong growth pull them along regardless of the inherent quality of the companies selected.
Calderon has tried to capitalize on that, calling himself the disobedient son, in order to distance himself from Fox, who some here view as a disappointment.
Under President Hosni Mubarak Egypt used to take the same view, but the new government has moved quickly to distance itself from Israel, helping broker the Palestinian reconciliation deal last week.
Nothing has prepared me for the view: a vast valley of black gravel sweeps into the distance under a sapphire sky.
Still, the floor-to-ceiling walls of windows offered a mesmerizing, if a bit gray and dreary, view of the Thames and the newly dwarfed skyline of Canary Wharf in the distance.
Simply use an iPhone or iPad to display the estimated distance to the pen, which is displayed intuitively in a radar-style view.
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Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.
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