The nameless narrator of this powerful first novel spends his youth playing cricket with homemade bats in a beautiful valley high in the mountains.

You can make your visit a little safer by employing one of the many guides available to help you explore this remarkably beautiful valley.

Whatever it was, their shadows still lie long across this beautiful valley and the hill that overhangs it.

It was generally assumed that he had finally come home to stay and live out his days in peace and quiet in his beautiful valley.

Her kindly spirit hovers near the bubbling waters and beckons weary travelers to pause in the beautiful valley and drink of the magic waters.

The grey-roofed hillside village lies along its jitties, a tight tangle of laneways that overlook a beautiful green valley.

The path soon swung inland, up and over a ridge of pastures, down into a green valley.

I'm hurtling at more than 50mph on it over thick impenetrable rainforest towards another platform far, far below me in another green, green valley.

In the event, however, they're actually in the middle of a particularly beautiful and green valley.

The northern and southern sides of the village are protected by tall hills and a beautiful green valley emerges in between the hills.

You pass a valley view on your right and later pass to the left of a cairn, following the edge (very steep in places).

Prices start at 144,000 for the smallest one-bedder, rising to 373,000 for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house with valley views.

The living room has french windows leading to a south-facing balcony with picturesque valley views.

Suspended 35ft above ground and easily accessed by a level platform, each has valley views through floor-to-ceiling windows.

It comes with beamed ceilings, fireplaces and slate floors, with windows framing river and valley views.