The Places that You Find Beautiful

[Cachoo]

The question is simple: What place(s) took your breath away? Where is a location that is beautiful to you?

I'm going to say late Spring in the Austrian Alps when flowers were everywhere. I didn't want to leave.

My second place goes to Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I've been to these splendid cathedrals all over the world but this simple glass and wood chapel, set in nature, moved me unlike any other place on earth.

So tell us about the places that you find beautiful.

 

[made_in_canada]

Two places immediately come to mind. Newfoundland, though I can’t pick just one place there.

And the Nass Valley which is in northwestern BC. There’s huge lava fields, mountains, big cedar trees, rivers that are a beautiful shade of aqua. It’s a really unique landscape and just breathtaking.

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[flyingsit]

Moraine Lake in Alberta. People talk about Lake Louise but to me Moraine Lake is just so spectacular.
And Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. So many different blues and turquoises and greens in the lagoon.

 

[kedrin]

Lake Baikal, Russia. I finally got to go this past summer after wanting to for decades. I was worried it wouldn't live up to the picture in my head. Happily, that was a wasted worry.

 

[cygnus]

Cornwall in general- I have hiked on the South West Coast path several times. There is a spot on the north coast between St Ives and Zennor that you can only get to by foot that took my breath away, with the cliffs and the ocean below and the headlands in the distance.

 

[MR-FAN]

Places that truly, truly took my breath away:

• Mount Pilatus in Lauzern
• Plitvice Lakes Park in Croatia
• Chefchaouen and Erg Chebbi in Morocco
• Venice (stepping out of the Train station and seeing it the first time is un!forgettable!!)
• Fairy Pools trail in Isle of Sky
• Machu Picchu

 

[Spikefan]

Partnach Gorge (and really everywhere we went in the Bavarian Alps).

Extremadura, Spain (went in November and it was still beautiful with zero crowds).

Olympic National Park

Havasupai Falls in Arizona- once in a lifetime experience as I do not think I could do the hike getting out again (and I have heard reservations to camp have become hard to come by).

As for cities: Paris, I know such a cliche. I didn’t expect it to be so beautiful but I could not wipe the look of awe off my face as I took my first cab ride from the train station to my hotel. Also Venice and Bruges.

 

[quartz]

So many beautiful places in Scotland, Newfoundland, Vancouver Island, Cape Breton, but I giggled and jumped up and down like a bonkers person when I got to walk on the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.

 

[annie720]

The Grand Tetons in Wyoming and so many parts of Nova Scotia.

 

[attyfan]

Yosemite National Park

 

[Mozart]

So many beautiful places in Scotland, Newfoundland, Vancouver Island, Cape Breton, but I giggled and jumped up and down like a bonkers person when I got to walk on the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.

I loved the giant's causeway. It's quite unique

 

[MacMadame]

The Grand Canyon.

 

[cygnus]

The Grand Canyon.

I have never been there, but have flown over quite low (old flight paths to Vegas used to go right over, and you were often
already descending), and it was absolutely spectacular from the air.

 

[Simone411]

Places I've been in the Southwest US.

Lake Tahoe - California and Nevada side.
Hoover Dam
Donner Lake in Truckee, CA.
Geronimo, New Mexico
Caverns of Senora, Texas
Death Valley National Park in Mojave Desert, California
Yosemite National Park.
Grand Canyon
Flagstaff, Arizona
San Joaquin Valley, Fresno California

 

[snoopy]

Ditto on Paris.

Mount rainier in Washington state.

Scottish coast along the North Sea.

Oregon wine country.

 

[once_upon]

We've been fortunate to have traveled to many beautiful places. The Mediterranean, Paris, Rome, the Rhine- Danube- Main Rivers, ocean cruise from Barcelona to Stockholm, the Canada eastern coast, Alaska. The Badlands, the Grand Canyon, Sedona Belise, Caribbean and more places that I can remember

All are beautiful in their own ways, to choose one is impossible but I think the river cruise was outstanding

 

[Garden Kitty]

Lots of beautiful places that are good for the soul. I might vote Yellowstone/Grand Teton area just because of the variety of beautiful places all together - lakes, mountains, canyons, geysers and wildlife on plains.

And although I wouldn't say they're the most "beautiful", there are two cities that always impress me. Every time I'm driving in Queens and I just happen to see the NY skyline, it takes me aback a little - especially if you can see the Statue of Liberty as well. Also, I don't go to DC that much, and I'm as cynical as the next person when it comes to politics, but when I'm driving or walking in DC and unexpectedly come upon one of the big memorials or classic historic buildings, it also takes my breath a bit. I still get like a little kid when I turn a corner and see the Lincoln Memorial.

 

[puglover]

If you ever get a chance to visit the islands of SAMOA - do not miss it. My husband and I operated a free dental clinic there for a year and a half in 2016/17. They are a long way away from most everything and it is an arduous trip from NA - but so worth it. The colors are absolutely spectacular - the bluest blue of the sky and ocean and the greenest green of the lush growth with beautiful flowers growing wild everywhere. The temperature of the ocean is bath water warm. The Samoans themselves are a beautiful people with lovely skin tones, huge dark eyes, gorgeous thick black hair and the warmest smiles (unfortunately they eat and drink sugary stuff now and do not know how to take care of their teeth so that is very sad). Fa a Samoa - or "the Samoan way" is still very much the way things are done there and the crafts, sewing and woodwork is all unique to the islands and not mass produced for tourists. I could go on and on...........

 

[Vash01]

The Grand Canyon
Sedona
The Grand Teton national park
Alaska’s many glaciers
Glacier national park
Blue bonnets in spring in Texas
Cactus flowers in my yard in Arizona
Yellowstone falls

 

[Spun Silver]

Above all: Northern New Mexico. Venice.

 

[Kasey]

I feel like every place I have been has it's own natural beauty; but where my soul feels "aaahhhh" the most is Kauai.

 

[MacMadame]

Oh, that's my favorite Hawaiian island!

 

[PrincessLeppard]

I'm a total weirdo and find derelict places beautiful, and so one of my favorite places was the amusement park at Chernobyl.

 

[Vagabond]

Here are five of mine. In addition to some that have been mentioned by others, I am keeping some places sekret so that tourists don't descend on them like locusts on a field of wheat.

Base of the Torres del Paine, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Spend 24 hours flying from almost anywhere to the tip of the South American continent, travel another 12 hours by road, then hike uphill another four and a half hours the last 30 minutes up a slippery moraine to a small lake and voilà! There you are at the base of three two-thousand-meter-tall natural granite towers. The sight is worth every penny and every moment of the journey to get there. It' i best to go in January or February when the days are long and the weather might be co-operative.

Snow-covered Santa Monica, San Gabriel, and San Bernardino Mountains, seen from the Los Angeles Basin after a thunderstorm in the early spring. Snow seldom falls on the Santa Monicas, but on those very rare occasions, Los Angeles becomes one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Edinburgh Castle lit up at night, seen from Princes' Street or Frederick Street. Almost any night of the year will do, provided it isn't too rainy or even snowy. Even lifelong residents stop and gaze in wonder.

White Cliffs of Bonifacio. No matter how many times you have seen their counterparts in Dover, these are the white cliffs to see. The views in town are spectacular, but those from a boat or ferry in the Strait are even better. September is a good month to go.

Convict Lake, Mono County, California. The setting sun on an August evening bathes the mountains on the west side of the lake in a vermilion light.

 

[Vash01]

Mount Rainier (Washington state)
Hawaii (many places but particularly the ocean)
Lake Powell (Arizona)
The Matterhorn (Switzerland)
The parliament building in Budapest

 

[maatTheViking]

One of the most beautiful places I've been is the fjords of Illulissat (Greenland) in the midnight sun. Just amazing.

The flower meadows in the brief summer (end July) at Mount Rainier also remains in my mind.

Most recently the beaches of Cape Peninsula, South Africa.

and the prettiest city is Copenhagen in Christmas lights

 

[SkateSand]

Big Sur
Yosemite National Park
Southern Oregon coast
Jedediah Smith National Redwood Park
Yellowstone National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lake Tahoe
Crater Lake, Oregon
Trinidad, California, and up along the coast to Oregon
Mount Shasta
Whiskeytown Lake (before last year's forest fire )

I see what I'm attracted to, lol - mountains, trees, lakes, and the ocean.

 

[Japanfan]

There are so many beautiful places in the world. I grew up in Northern Canada and there is nothing quite so beautiful as the northern sky, especially in the summer when it never fully sets. And the northern sky comes with the northern lights. In addition, when the mists rise over the lakes during season changes, it is magical.

The Philippine Islands, the Greek Islands and the northern (ish) Arizona desert are among the most beautiful places I've visited - though I haven't traveled as much as some people (never been to Machu Pichu, which I hear is breathtaking).

And the Pacific Northwest, where I live, is equally beautiful - at times spectacular.

In recent years, the place that stands out for me in terms of beauty is Death Valley California. Watching the sun set at Zabriskie Point is a spiritual experience (and I'm not a very spiritual person). The confluence of the light and the landscape is such that the people watching the sunset become very small, and the magnificence of the moment completely astonishes and washes over me.

 

[kedrin]

So many beautiful places. Some of which I've been to, some which just rose higher on my 'to-go list'. Should we be posting pictures?

 

[Vagabond]

So many beautiful places. Some of which I've been to, some which just rose higher on my 'to-go list'. Should we be posting pictures?

Done.

But they really are best seen in person.