The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surround it.
VOA: special.2009.02.16
Wineries are clustered along the length of the 132-mile long Okanagan Valley, which has a string of lakes running through its middle and is surrounded by mountains on either side.
The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT guys are pretty tough fellas, but several of them had to be airlifted out of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of an adventure race.
The newly-emerged Asian middle classes have now seen much of their wealth buried under mountains of bad debt or else destroyed as stockmarkets have crashed, currencies have lost value and property bubbles have burst.
