The most beautiful place you have ever been?
The most beautiful place you have ever been in the world?
If it was at a resort which one?
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The Lake District, known as The Lakes or Lakeland, a mountainous region in North West England. Also Grand Canyon.
@Austinlad Snap. Specifically, Buttermere in the Lake District
I loved Switzerland! I don’t even know what town we were in because we were driving from Germany to Italy and stopped at a rest stop. We were surrounded by these gorgeous mountain peaks. I could see a red train climbing around one of the mountains. When you climbed down a short embankment right next to the parking lot there was a rock strewn riverbank and through it a crystal clear river winding lazily and sparkling in the sun. I was blown away. I thought to myself, this is just a rest stop! Imagine what the resorts must look like. And those mountains go on and on. I was really surprised that it hit me so strongly. I was unprepared for the extent of its beauty. Sure, I knew other people had written about it and rhapsodized about it for centuries, but experiencing it was so much more powerful than a picture. I so want to go back and not just drive through!
@Earthgirl I looked that up Switzerland red train mountains and think I found it! It looks beautiful!
JessicaRabbit That’s it! Stunning!! That is a closeup and it is even more awe inspiring to see the entire mountain range.
Many, many places in New Zealand and Norway have been breathtaking, so I’ll just say that.
Check out my avatar. Lake Placid NY. Or Blue Mtn Lake, NY.
I have traveled quite a few places and I would have to say one of the most beautiful places I have seen is in British Columbia. I climbed the Chief mountain in Squamish. It took us a few hours to reach the second peak. It was amazing! Another would be the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The water was ice blue. It was beautiful.
I love the mountains as they are awesome…but the most beautiful place was Roatan Honduras. Mile long Palm tree lined white sandy beaches all to yourself. Nice!
Yosemite, California and Milford Sound, New Zealand
Another beautiful sight was flying over Monument Valley and seeing the Continental divide on the plane flying into Salt Lake City. Damn, another beautiful place, where unfortunately, I was just passing through! But Park City, Utah was beautiful and that was our destination. The quaking aspens lining the mountainsides are quite striking. Delicate, and fragile looking. There are just masses of them on the mountainsides. Check this picture of mine on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58603786@N07/sets/72157625960771168/
The Grand Canyon for its majestic, powerful beauty; the beaches of the Mayan Riviera for their soothing, sensual beauty; the Canadian Rockies for their engulfing, enduring beauty; and the Texas Hill Country (at sunset) for its motherly beauty.
Floating down the Li River in Guilin, China
Steamboat CO. in the winter is magical.
I just realized that our trip to One Tepe in Nicaragua and Lago Atitlan in Guatemala were also unforgettably impressive to us.
But more important… if you want to see it and have an eye for it, our own Dutch forests just around the corner are also stunning.
This photo was taken by a friend of ours; it was a couple of weeks ago while out with our families.
@whitenoise That looks like a winter fairyland. It is very beautiful.
My choice is probably not quantifiably more beautiful than any of the selections that people have posted, but it has special significance to me. We call it “Eden,” and it’s basically the remains of an unfinished subdivision on a mountain top about 10 miles from my college. The roads were all built, but none of the houses were started and the subdivision was locked up when the housing bubble popped. Since then, my friends and I go up there as a sort of spiritual/natural pilgrimage, because there is a real surreal beauty to the place that I just can’t quite capture in photographs.
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Two years ago, the website for the subdivision builders was still active, but hadn’t been updated in a while. I checked it out today and the server was down. I guess this means our private playground in the mountains is safe and nature will really start reclaiming the area (which it already has been doing for as long as we’ve been going up there).
I like the OuterBanks,NC
There is a beach I go to where I am often the only one there.
I enjoy it’s desolate beauty.:)
Probably the beach near Crescent Head, a small town in the north of New South Wales, Australia. So far. Haven’t been to Scotland yet.
Pretty much everything around the Austro-Italian Alps is gorgeous, as is the Tuscan countryside.
Oh, now I’m mountain-sick. Darn you, Midwest! Why do you have to be so @#$^% flat!?!?!?!
The closest Stateside geographical analogue that I’ve found to Tuscany is the region known as the Ozarks.
@Aster I live in BC but haven’t been to Victoria yet! I am going to have to check that out.
Crater Lake Oregon! EPIC!
A hill above Loch Ard in the Trossachs last November just before noon.
It’s a tie between two. The first is Grand Staircase Escalante….it’s in Utah and it’s very desolate, at least the part I drove through. It was hours long….me and my boyfriend just looked out the window pointing at how magnificent it was but at the same time not even being able to describe what we were seeing. It was just different….I can’t explain it. It was so gorgeous though.
But, I think I actually have to go with Telluride. I just love it there. The waterfall, the green-ness, the box canyon….I took this picture last summer and didn’t look at it til I got home….and then I couldn’t believe how green it was! It looked fake!
I’m always amazed at how beautiful the Grand Canyon is when I visit it several times a year.
@Season_of_Fall, east Tennessee. Just inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
@Season_of_Fall, I was born here. I have Creole and Cajun blood and relatives that live in the bayou, but I’ve never actually lived there myself.
The South Island of New Zealand is stunning! Parts of Western Samoa, and the tiny island of Atiu, in the Cook Islands are equally as beautiful, but very different. The Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, too. So many! Can’t pick just one.
JessicaRabbit Your welcome! It’s way more impressive on video and I love the way they did time lapse photography with the clouds moving in the sky! Glad you liked it.
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