1. Sunshine, warm smiles and a skyline of gently rounded peaks dressed in verdant green meadows and lush forests. 2. This maintains the important illusion that one has stepped into a warm stream in a lush tropical forest. 3. But even awash in the splendors of blue skies, green hills, and lush forests, Clinton cannot resist a note of complaint. 4. But it is hard to see anything move in this lush forest. 5. From the air, the lush forest of northern Colombia looks endless and serene, concealing a civil war that has raged beneath the canopy for years and years. 6. Lush forests of fir, pine and spruce line the banks of rivers born in the high peaks. 7. Much of southeast Afghanistan was once lush forest watered by monsoon rains. 8. Regions that were lush forests hundreds of years ago have become grass plains and plains have dried into deserts. 9. The rest of the country steams under a blanket of lush tropical forest broken by marshy fields, mangrove swamps and peanut farms. 10. Their main destination is the tropical island of Bali and its pristine beaches, lush forests and picturesque rice fields. |