There are a number of Highland Games held through the highlands Scotland.
Its temperate climate sees little snow except in the highlands and mountainous areas.
The volcanic soil is scoured by hot winds that blow consistently year round through the channel between the Kenyan and Ethiopian highlands.
The conspicuously quietest bit of the country has been the Kikuyu highlands stretching up north of Nairobi to the slopes of Mount Kenya.
Yearly rains from the highlands of Angola take an 800-kilometer journey downstream, finally reaching Botswana's Okavango Delta three months later.
In the ensuing turmoil, local chiefs across the Peruvian highlands battled over scarce water and led raiders into neighboring villages in search of food.
Though many parts of the Andean highlands remain poor, the arrival of paved roads is cutting journey times, and some farmers there have joined the export boom with artichokes and herbs.
The country, though rugged and underdeveloped, is as large as France and is formed around the lush cradle of the Irrawaddy River valley, surrounded by highlands on three sides.
