1 Today, the Playa is a table-top of sand that cracks beneath the desert sun and floods after monsoon rains.

2 For its setting, form and attitude, Playa de la Concha is the equal of any city beach in Europe.

3 Playa lakes are depressional wetlands that collect water runoff during rainfall events.

4 Su's new film, a road show to playa " madman draft. "

5 It was presumed that KBP may playa role in the regulation of metabolism of tissue kallikrein on the level of biosynthesis and excretion.

6 For years the running joke on the playa was to burn the man early.

7 Playa Nicuesa is accessible only by small boats from villages across the Golfo Dulce.

8 Playa Tamarindo also hosts a number of other fantastic water activities and is famous for its fishing hotspots.

9 Playa Tamarindo is as close to picture perfect as you can get.

10 The hotel, which is in Playa del Ingles, has four stars and is centred on a big circular pool.

11 Though swimming here is more dangerous than at Playa de la Concha, it has more of a local vibe.

12 Our guides escort us to Playa Nicuesa's onsite gardens, with a brief stop among a prolific stand of mature coconut trees.

13 The hotel, in Playa de los Pocillos, also has a spa and wellness centre to ease any aches post-match.

14 One afternoon on the Playa Vista lot, Stanton was prepping a scene on the narrow ledge of a Thark temple.

15 After three hours of dirt road and a dusty playa, we reach the beach.

16 Retired Willcox schoolteacher Joe Duhon has had several close encounters with the Playa, but he keeps going back.

17 One of the world's earliest celestial calendars is found at a place called Nabta Playa on the edge of the Sahara desert.

18 Lorenz and his colleagues would like to install inexpensive time-lapse monitoring of the Playa area, using digital cameras.

19 The Green River Formation of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah contains alluvial fan deposits and playa evaporites created in a huge lake whose level fluctuated for millions of years.

20 Climb to the top of Chichen Itza's world-famous "El Castillo", or just kick back on the warm sands of Playa del Carmen.

21 The ocean views are sumptuous, the local food abundant, and Playa Beach with its Sunday steel band is welcoming.

22 Recharge to the aquifer happens through cracks in the clay lining of the playa floor and at the edges of playa basin.

23 Most of the stones are found on an old lake bed, known as the Racetrack Playa, where the ground is particularly flat.