1. Yosemite Valley
2. Monument Valley
3. The State of Colorado anywhere west of Denver
1. Yosemite Valley
2. Monument Valley
3. The State of Colorado anywhere west of Denver
The Throat of the World in Skyrim.
Lago de Los Tres in Argentina:
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/149/b/a/El_Chalten_Lago_de_los_Tres_1_by_LLukeBE.jpg
See it before all of the glaciers are gone!
Your moms ass
Acadia National Park - Mount Desert Island in general. The view from atop Cadillac Mountain is truly wonderful.
Used to be Rono wrote:
New Zealand, South Island
^ this.
The Maasai Mara. BOOM! Kenya wins again.
http://www.maasaimara.com/media/cache/a0/e4/a0e402b0ebca07988177c8d08dcc7907.jpg
http://www.maasaimara.com/media/cache/79/65/79658e4ae6336956454bcec826031eaa.jpg
http://www.serenahotels.com/d/serenamara/media/__thumbs_600_500_scale/02__Room_Vistaa96dedf.jpg
http://jirehtoursandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/masai-mara-1.jpg
http://www.pamsafaris.com/files/2013/01/bannerpic1_large.jpg
http://www.michezoafrika.com/NewsImages/Maasai-Mara-marathon-2.jpg
God beaches are f****ng lame. Annecy looks breathtaking
Rojo's Mojo wrote:
Davenport
As in Davenport, CA? I agree that hole in the wall beach and in particular the rocks at the south end are pretty awesome, especially when huge waves are coming in and breaking on the big stack. Top notch rugged CA coast.
Yellowstone USA
Serengeti Tanzania
Angkor Wat Cambodia
Dali China
Boston Marathon USA
Jamin's Dad wrote:
Between beautiful young girls legs.
been there.
Muir woods? http://muirwoodstradingco.com/images/home.jpg
Rangiroa, French Polynesia, 100ft underwater in Tiputa Pass
Rangiroa, French Polynesia, the Blue Lagoon
Bora Bora
Budapest, at cafe near Fisherman's Bastion, overlooking the city in late April
Trail somewhere behind Pullman HS overlooking the Palouse in summer
View from Drumheller fountain towards Mt Rainier (Rainier Vista) on UW campus when the weather is perfect
North Cascades Highway
Valleta, Malta (more intriguing than beautiful)
Unknown mountain range that I saw when half asleep on a flight from Munich to Skopje (it was probably in Serbia).
Sunset over plains in southern Uzbekistan.
Tie. Cabo San Lucas in 1983, coast of Michoacan in 1984 the year after the road was built. That's right I'm one of those old worn out "you can't see what I saw" loudmouths.
The former was gone within months of the direct flights starting up a few years later.
There's actually a diorama of it on the Internet but I'm too lazy to look it up again. Kilometer two was the eastern edge of town. Evenrthing was open coastline from there to San Jose. Kilometer twelve was a free pirate campground known to vagabonds and free spirits worldwide. (Even though it was more than cool to sleep right on the beach in the harbor downtown. And you were closer to the natural firehose that was their historic freshwater spring too. It still gushed right out into the streets back then.)
You had a real hard time spending more than Three Dollars on a meal with drinks. And they had a beautuful clean boat that took you to Puerta Vallarta three times a week for $5 including cabin. This is the Cabo that John Wayne saw in the 1950s with some pretty cool improvements.
The latter is the only place on earth that I ever went back to deliberately and it had already changed a lot in just two years. Pretty scary place right now too, I suspect.
But in '84 you had big freshwater steams coming down into the ocean and not even a game trail going up them. I'll never forget that and I have no expectation of seeing anything like that again. Two years later those were already jeep trails. Mexico's Big Sur.
Curiously surfing shrine La Ticla was an epic party the first time (January,) and deserted the second time, (mid November and sweltering.) We were the only gringos in town period. I did get to meet a direct descendant of the "we don need no steeking badges" guy farther south and that area is also one of two remote places I know of where bad things have happened to passersby for decades at a time, the other being McBride, BC. This even though you will usually go through four military checkpoints between there and Acapulco.
Been all over the West pretty much from Prince Georfe to Panama, Spain, France, Blue Ridge Parkway in the Fall, went to college in New England, been all over the Canadian Maritimes and Pacific Coast as well. Vancouver was pretty choice back in the day if you like the big cities.
Places I expect to try and try to pull > 1 month stints in before I check out: Salto Argentina, Equador (just to visit at least, palm trees at 9000 feet,) Galacia.
Was just in Cinque Terre a few weeks ago and my vote definitely goes for there.
Though when I eventually make it to New Zealand I think that may give it some good competition.
I've not been to very many places, but southern Quebec after you get out of the heavy agriculture is pretty stunning.
The number one for me though is the Irish countryside, especially if you're lucky enough to get some sunlight. It's just a whole different level of green. "Emerald Isle" is certainly a fitting name.
1. Tulum, Mexico
2. La Fortuna waterfall area in Costa Rica
3. Paris, France
4. Guanajuato, Mexico
5. La Labor, Aguascalientes-Mexico
This little town in Mexico stole my heart. It's so peacefull, has amazing hiking trails, roads all around it that lead to cool places like reservoirs, amazing cliffs, waterfalls, top of mountains etc. It's so isolated in terms of tourism. There is one American guy who lives there. He is like the "mascot" of the village. Everyone loves him because he is super friendly and loves to talk to everyone. He lives in a one room house made of pure stone. Any way if you're at all interested in what i'm talking about. Here is a small video I put together of the village. All photography is 100% mine, real and no photoshop.
El Keniano wrote:
The Maasai Mara. BOOM! Kenya wins again.
http://www.maasaimara.com/media/cache/a0/e4/a0e402b0ebca07988177c8d08dcc7907.jpghttp://www.maasaimara.com/media/cache/79/65/79658e4ae6336956454bcec826031eaa.jpghttp://www.serenahotels.com/d/serenamara/media/__thumbs_600_500_scale/02__Room_Vistaa96dedf.jpghttp://jirehtoursandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/masai-mara-1.jpghttp://www.pamsafaris.com/files/2013/01/bannerpic1_large.jpghttp://www.michezoafrika.com/NewsImages/Maasai-Mara-marathon-2.jpg
Depends if you like a whole load of nothing or not.
Looks good with the animals in the picture, but that's not really a realistic appraisal of the area.
Since resident hater of all things Kenyan, trollism, couldn't resist a whinge about the animals in my pictures from the Maasai Mara, here are a few of my other favourite places in Kenya. I've deliberately tried to minimise the wildlife aspect this time around.
1. Mt Kenya.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/files/MT_KENYA_599001121.jpg
2. Lamu Island on the Kenyan coast.
http://www.peponi-lamu.com/static/uploads/background_2_jpg_960x502_crop_q60.jpg
3. Another view of Lamu town.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Lamu,_Lamu_Island,_Kenya.jpg
4. Diani Beach
http://jirehtoursandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Momb-17.jpg
5. The Great Rift Valley
http://www.360tours.co.ke/portfolio/item/60-rift-valley
6. And finally, in an unbiased plug for my hometown: Lake Nakuru.
In the US...
Sequoya National Park
Yosemite National Park
Alaska
Zion National Park in Utah
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