But it stands now where none can avoid seeing it, on a bend in the river at the centre of Moscow.

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Sheltered and hidden away at a bend in the river, shaded by trees, stands a yurt in one of the most beautiful locations in a country of beautiful locations.

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You can travel for hours though pristine terrain and only occasionally be jolted from your reverie by turning a bend in the river to be confronted by the raw scar of a Chinese-financed dam under construction.

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The stage, a water treatment plant in Anbar Province near a bend in the Euphrates River.

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We came to a wide bend in the river, a stretch of good, flat growing land with broad poppy fields.

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On its tidy streets, cradled in a bend of the Sundays River, are more than 220 buildings designated as national monuments, many of which now house museums, galleries, guesthouses and restaurants.

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