highland

The drink was a Laphroaig whisky - a smoky, peaty Scottish malt, like pouring a wistful but rather melancholy highland walk into a tumbler.

For example the German highland region of Spessart, in Bavaria and Hesse, is shifting its focus to year-round tourism by developing new trails and promoting activities such as hiking, biking and wellness.

Resources are scarce in Lesotho - a consequence of the harsh environment of the highland plateau and limited agricultural space in the lowlands.

But using remote sensing technology, archeologists have now found at least two highland cities that sat along a key crossroad of the trade routes.

Pregnant people living in highland regions who have never had malaria before are worst-positioned to survive the bite of an infected mosquito.