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Day7 Sunday, August 5, in East Glacier
A Travel Blog entry by chere from East Glacier Park, Montana, United States
... Wildflowers included yellow columbine, false hellebore and lots of fireweed in the avalanche balds and recent burn areas. Granite Park Chalet - rugged luxury for the rich There is a refuge at the end of the Highline trail. Three stone ...
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Montana's crown jewel -- Glacier National Park
A Travel Blog entry by drfumblefinger from Many Glaciers, Montana, United States
... a little for a meal or a drink if you don't plan on staying the night. These places have a lot of character.. Granite Park Chalet and Sperry Chalet offer the opportunity to have comfortable facilities and decent food in a back-country ...
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Walking In The Sand
A Travel Blog entry by boydandrose from Namib Naukluft National Park, Hardap, Namibia
... is unbelievably barren and desolate but it still has a stark beauty that grows on you. There are endless flat granite plains glistening with garnets, jagged mountain peaks and sculptured ones, an ever vanishing horizon, all laced with desert ...
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Giant Sequoias and Stunning Scenery
A Travel Blog entry by markandchar from Yosemite National Park, California, United States
... trees and some crazy squirrels then got back in the bus and drove to a place where there was a great view of the granite mountains, forest and various waterfalls, as well as half dome (a high point) and El Capitan, the biggest monolith in ...
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Tongariro - Now you're Tolkien
A Travel Blog entry by robandemma from Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
... can see why the area was chosen because it is so vast and rugged. We walked to one of the filming spots - a large granite looking wall - Meads Wall which we vaguely remembered seeing in the film. From the clean fresh air and quietness we are now ...
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Week One - Drakensburgs and Kruger Park
A Travel Blog entry by estherbunny from Pretoria, South Africa
... Don't forget you can sponsor us by following the link on www.miriam-hyman.com or directly through the ORBIS website Panorama Chalet Park 20th to 23rd October: 1. Red-winged Starling 2. African Pied Wagtail 3. Garden Warbler 4. Black-eyed Bulbul 5. ...
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Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia
A Travel Blog entry by worldtwowrights from Punto Natales, Chile
... -bus transfers later we were deliberating staying overnight at a refuge for the early-morning walk to the base of the famed vertical granite towers (Torres) but the rangers talk of snow, water and cloud soon convinced us to return to Puerto Natales (Casas ...
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glacier national park
A Travel Blog entry by purepoweryoga from Glacier, Montana, United States
... the occasional deer, mountain goat, or pika would tag along with us. (We even glimpsed our first bear!) We stopped at the Granite Chalet for a short rest before hauling ass the last 4 miles in order to make the shuttle back to our car. Robert ...
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South Africa Encompassed
A Travel Blog entry by pinkkaz from Harare, Zimbabwe
... National Park in search of white rhinos and leopard. Inevitably we saw neither! We did get to see the massive granite boulders which have been beaten up by the weather over the years to produce a sort of balancing rock formation. ...
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Day 1 hiking in the stunning Torres Del Paine NP!!
A Travel Blog entry by nikandads2008 from Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile
... taken away again by the turquoise waters all around us, almost running over a mountain fox in the process! Set within the granite rock formation, a greyish brownish mix, the lakes were vibrant and beautiful; this place was out of this world! ...
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Southern Patagonia on Route 40
A Travel Blog entry by ness010 from El Chalten, Patagonia, Argentina
... our first glimpse of Mt Fitzroy - stunningly beautiful - one of the most dramatic mountains I've ever seen, all sharp and pointy granite... located at the gateway to the southern ice fields... I have to fess up to my naivety at this point and mention ...
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Malawi - the Warm Heart of Africa
A Travel Blog entry by mikeandmhairi from Chiponde, Southern Region, Malawi
... bays. There are also so many fabulous examples of Rock Fig, which seemingly grow in the thin air of the cracks of the massive granite boulders which make up the island. From the 5 – 6 pairs of Fish Eagles calling all day to the sound of ...
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CHAPTER 8 - ITALY, GREECE AND TURKEY
A Travel Blog entry by barneyandpier from Istanbul, Turkey
... peer down 1000 metres to the rocky coast below. The terrain makes us feel like an ant in a giants rock garden, with huge granite outcrops coated with trees that grow like two toned moss on the surface. Basilicata, the region of our stop tonight, is ...
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Two sides of the same **** off mountain!!
A Travel Blog entry by barnandmel from Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
... giving Mel chance to acclimatise. As we pushed on the mountain began to reveal itself, we were now walking along hard granite slabs, with the jet black silhouettes of false summits splitting the immediate rock we were on from the brightest stars I have ...
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