Word: verdant
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Hilton professed that Shangri-la is not on any map, but that hasn't stopped numerous countries?Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, among others?from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve...
...chose to come in February despite the intense humidity, frequent downpours, flooded roads and dramatic electrical thunderstorms that are regular features of the wet season (December-March). Sweating, drenchings and startling natural sound-and-light shows notwithstanding, the "wet" is also the time to see the park at its verdant best...
...whimsical New York City, Anderson and Wilson’s third feature film together is an unpredictable love letter to the magic of the city, filled with gypsy cabs, majestic hotels and lushly verdant parks. Anderson notes that, “In a way, some of the inspiration for the movie is the architecture of the buildings there. The libraries and clubs and houses and things are unlike those any other place in America.” While the film features locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Paris and Jamaica, a large brownstone in Harlem that doubles as the Tenenbaum?...
...Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzerí and cafés. Warehouses have become fashionable nightclubs. Neoclassical buildings with gateways on to verdant courtyards have been converted to stylish galleries and quaint tavernas. That uneasy coexistence between the district's old and new, its mix of shabby and swish, is the area's most lively feature. Look behind the designer glitz...
...pick a path along one of the terrace tops and simply follow it. By switching course no more than half a dozen times, walkers should be able to construct a largely flat circuit through layered rice and tobacco fields, along steep riverbanks and past villages set in the rolling, verdant landscape. This is true Marlboro Country. The red and white murals of cigarette packs painted on the sides of drying towers show where farmers dream of sending their truck-wheel-sized leaves. Tobacco may be a pernicious business, but here at its roots, as villagers strip plants and carry...