Costa Rica’s capital, San José, is in the Central Valley. It has world-class museums, parks, hotels, theaters, and historic buildings. It’s an extensive plain, guarded by majestic volcanoes and green hills, honoring the natural richness that exists throughout the national territory. Striking clouds enhance the landscape surrounding San José.
The crowning glory of Golconda Fort is the Durbar Hall, which stands atop a hill overlooking the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. It is approached by a thousand-step stairway with a great view of the cities below – including (on a clear day) the famous Charminar itself.
At the Highest Point at Golconda
Tarn Hows is one of the many gems in the English Lake District. There are a lot of ‘tarns’ and ‘hows’ in that part of the world: tjörn is an Old Norse word meaning ‘small mountain lake’ and haugr is from the Old Norse for hill or mound.
Tarn Hows
Glastonbury Tor is a conical hill, rising to an elevation of 500 feet, in Glastonbury, England.
Climbing to Tor
A hills with wild flowers, a waterfall and lilies surround this golf green at Tierra Rejada Golf Club in California
A Green by the Waterfall
A golf green nestled by a hill with wild flowers at Tierra Rejada Golf Club in Moorpark, California
A Green Nestled by the Hill
Remnants of Fall colors on trees growing on the side of the hill
Colors on the Hillside
The day ends with a sunset over the hills creating a brilliantly colored sky
End of Day
Sunset over the hills of Virginia …..
Sunset Hills
Photos by Ravi 