The most sacred place on Sri Lanka is a temple in the old mountain capital of Kandy, where Buddha's tooth is enshrined.

The Ethiopian ruler was holding a number of Protestant missionaries hostage, in his mountain capital of Magdala, as well as two British diplomats who had unsuccessfully attempted to free them.

The Incas had pacay pods carried to their mountain capital of Cuzco.

The majority of the country lies east of that drizzly mountain capital and is divided between the Amazon jungle and a vast plain, much of which floods most of the year.

This pioneering new trip starts in the high mountain capital of Bogotá and ends at the Caribbean coast.

Bogota, the high mountain capital, is a cultural behemoth with salsa-filled nightclubs, charming cafes and intriguing nearby sights - including the surreal underground salt cathedral, 50km north.

Among the permanent buildings in the mountain capital is the palace, home of the Sacrifice of the Mountain Kingdom.

Land titles are the fruit of a two-week, 160-mile march that brought 2,500 Indians out of the tropical Amazon and into this chilly mountain capital, 9,400 feet high in the Andes.

It was at Quito, the mountain capital of Ecuador, that the following passage at correspondence took place.

Long a rural phenomenon, kidnappings have started to plague this mountain capital.