Rayagada is a district of meadows, forests, water falls and terraced valleys, peopled by many primitive tribal groups.

"This is the peace of the bulldozers," Ali Musa, a villager, said as he surveyed his trampled vines in a terraced valley of fig, almond and olive trees.

It was separated from the city by a terraced valley planted with fig, almond, and olive orchards.

The multileveled valleys, terraced with crops, are stunning in their jewel-green richness.

This afternoon, in a second search today of a rocky, terraced valley between Ramot and the Arab village of Beit Hanina, volunteers found the two mutilated bodies.

Fog rolling into the terraced valleys leaves hill-top villages the only things visible, and the effect can be dramatic, like islands floating in the clouds.

Far more pleasing was neighbouring Valldemossa, clinging to the sides of a terraced valley and crowned by an ancient church and monastery.

The whitewashed houses and red-tile roofs scatter about a sun-dappled, green terraced valley.

Beneath the peaks are alpine forests and a green terraced valley.

Stella looked down the terraced valley; she turned and looked up at the scarred face of the golden moon, and then she looked at me.