1.   Quaint cottages dot the countryside.

2.   At Angkor, the problem was thick vegetation, engulfing the thousands of ruins that dot the countryside.

3.   But houses with the roofs blown off and huge shell craters in their sides dot the countryside.

4.   Most of the government-owned eateries that once dotted the countryside have been torched.

5.   More time on the road allowed us to inspect the curiosities dotting the countryside after the built-up areas slid away south of Ensenada.

6.   Or so almost everyone in Spain is now passionately affirming since the Ministry of Public Works has condemned dozens of huge metal cutouts of bulls that dot the countryside.

7.   Rubber plantations dotted the countryside.

8.   Their ancient monasteries and cathedrals dot the countryside today.

9.   Police backed by army troops scoured the hills for guerrillas and roadblocks dotted the countryside in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico and Puebla.

10.   Another addition is an interactive computerized map of the killing fields, mass graves of Khmer Rouge victims dotting the countryside.