Picking his way over the rocky canyon floor, he noted how the ... the only example at Petra of a monument not sculpted out of rock, is a large temple. A tetrastyle structure (with four columns ...

The Temple of the Sun and Moon Sunrise ... These works of art were carved into the sheer rock wall of the canyon hundreds of years ago, yet remain for us to admire today. Starting in the 1800s ...

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Your meal at Bistro Na’s is meant to be regal, or as close to regal as one can come in a Temple City strip mall ... salads of tomatoes and stone fruit carved into half-moons and parsnips ...

The most thrilling part of the 16-hour journey is the viaduct that spans the width of a desert canyon in La Polvorilla ... Clinging on to the mountainside, the train passes through tunnels carved into ...

The trail begins by immediately climbing a set of steps carved into the sandstone (with ... the highway snakes its way up the south wall of Pine Canyon before it enters the 1.1-mile-long tunnel ...

as is the marble-hewn temple of Zeus, which once held a 43ft-high gold statue of the deity, to whom the games were dedicated. But the biggest thrill is to jog out along the 650ft/200m-long race ...

On the edge of the Kumtag Desert, the Mogao Caves—there are some 500 of them—are carved into cliffs and house sanctuaries ... The 200-room complex is laid out like a traditional Bedouin settlement but ...

Take advantage of the off-season period from April to May by hiking along emerald cliffs in Waimea Canyon ... a warren of tunnels carved out of limestone more than 5,000 years ago. The burial ground ...

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