Riverbank Plaza

... the fishermen, where we saw the renovations being carried out in traditional style. After this, we went for another long walk along riverbank paths (about 4km each way, not too strenuous but not easy) to Tiexi - an amazing, but small, vivid blue lake. ...

... just in case the venom didn’t kill the person, but instead only rendered them unconscious. Once a body is brought to the riverbank it is prepared. Including placing the head north towards the temple and the feet down the river. Fire is placed in the ...

... would be but I have always liked kingfishers but had never seen so many at one time. I enjoyed spotting the other birds along the riverbank. We had been lazily moving along the river and soon our journey came to an end. We climbed out onto the bank ( very ...

... elusive.   For the next three days we cruised the Yacuma by day...   ...and slept on the riverbank in a wooden lodge on stilts by night.    We were stalked by psycho cows that glared ...

... the trail to avoid the Landcruiser traffic on the main road.  More little homes and tents are tucked away along the riverbank.  A handwritten cardboard sign outside one tent said, "Hand Stand Babaji, For Tweelfs Years For World Piss, Love, and ...

... Aires Ecological Reserve, Reserva Ecológica de Buenos Aires - a 865 acre tract of low land on the Río de la Plata riverbank.  Along the bank were lots of what I could describe as 'burger vans' but they were serving Argentinian steaks and sausages ...

... through a mountain range! We could still see the village so decided to make our way back up to the village by walking along the riverbank - it wasn´t the best terrain to be walking over has it wasn´t very stable (it was made up of loose sand and a ...

... Lovely sitting in comfy seats, sunning ourselves, just watching the scenery pass by. Pass smoe girls panning for gold on the riverbank. Backbreaking stuff but apparently on a good day they can make about $10 between four of them. Captain again pulls over ...

... , the "Museo de las Bellas Artes" , which sits at the end of a park , Parque Forestal" not far from Bellavista just along the riverbank. It was free to enter and you just have to put a tip in the box. Really enjoyed this museum - in the main hall ...

... after our recent experience in Cuenca. The next morning we went for a walk down to the malecon, set against a rubbish-strewn riverbank, but the main square and iglesia were quite nice and all the little mototaxis gave the town a quaint feel compared to ...

... a map should have warned us about that. Luckily a truck came by, we let it pass and followed it to a spot on the riverbank where they put vehicles on barges, then push the barge across the river using a boat with a little outboard motor. The barge ...

... outshines Mao's. Although Deng Xiao Ping is the real father of today's China, we have seen only one big picture of him: a riverbank town had a school which had been built about 20 years ago with help from a school in GuangDong (Canton) after GuangDong ...

... to our side of town and checked out the bull ring and Torre del Oro, a 13th century Islamic watch tower that sits on the riverbank. The tower’s name translates to 'Tower of Gold’ as it is said its dome was once covered in gold. We headed ...

... we met a rushing river.  Here is the plan:  a guy wraps a rope around his body, you lower yourself down to the riverbank using his body as your anchor (I want two people please), throw your backpack to the guy in front of you on the other side ...

... up a nice exterior shot that wasn't populated with scores of tourists. I abandoned it and instead headed along the opposite riverbank toward the London Eye. After a brief rest to apply more factor 50 sun lotion to my face, I began grabbing ...

... trunk of a tree at the water's edge. The iguana population is striking in the number and variety you see living along the riverbank in circular holes dung into the mud. We were amazed at the size of many of the animals that sunned themselves on tree ...

... however the highlights were probably; the giant otters cruising around and feeding their bellies, spying 4 capybaras on the riverbank, monkeys, monkeys everywhere (I flippin love monkeys...) and being only about 10 yards from the colourful Hoatzin aka ...

... . A couple of areas were closed, preparing for new exhibits. We left just as a big group arrived, and walked along the riverbank (a few folk fishing) through some gardens (where a couple of elderly folk were doing Tai Chi) to the New Town Shopping Plaza. ...

... the valley floor, but we did nothing but descend one after the other for around 45 minutes. By the time we reached the riverbank, our legs were trembling from the effort and we were happy that all that remained was an easy, relatively flat, half-hour ...