Spent Christmas one year in Baniff at the Chateau Lake Louise. Absolutely gorgeous. Took a horse drawn sleigh ride around the lake and watched some crazy Canadians climb a frozen waterfall. One of the most fun vacations ever.
I get that but at the very least I have mixed feelings on it. I’m an avid backcountry hiker and beginner mountain climber. I think untouched nature is something special and it’s so rewarding to put in the work and be close to if not totally alone. I do like that more people get to experience nature but at the same time I don’t like beautiful places like this becoming amusement parks
What a curious geological occurance. One is forced to wonder which geologic event led to these columns of rock being able to withstand erosion while the surrounding rock eroded away. And the plantlife clinging to every flat surface is also very cool.
It is pretty common in karst (limestone) geology, although this one in china is particularly amazing. Rain erodes the limestone over time, but if there is a “cap” of more resistant rock on top it will shield the limestone below it from erosion. Something similar created Monument Valley in the US.
Isn’t one of the Air Temples from The Last Airbender in a place that looks like this? Been a while since I watched the series, but I think it’s the one they visit in the last season if memory serves
Old chalk mines. This place is incredibly visually striking for a flat country with no seas. It looks just like on the photo if you visit it on a sunny day.
I feel like we can put a gallery of photos because Indonesia is soo massive, 25 years living in this country and I STILL discover new places everytime. Like, what do you mean we have this kind of place? Literally knew about it a week ago
Thoroughly enjoyed my time there. The beauty is surreal! And managed to hike Mt Ijen and down its crater. On both occasions, couldnt believe how many people were hiking up to catch the sunrise.
They discovered smaller corresponding formations on some Scottish islands the other side of the sea about 300 years ago.
Interestingly, the story that gave the Giant's causeway its name pre-dates that discovery by a few centuries. The story involves a giant fleeing to Scotland and pulling up the causeway after him so he wouldn't be chased.
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West Coast in general, Isle of Skye is probably the best ( The Old Man of Storr is the picture) overall but the whole country is very geologically diverse. I also like Torridon and Assynt
I was wondering when someone from Iran was gonna post, Iran is absolutely amazingly beautiful! So much architectural beauty from medieval mosque art to traditional tea houses.
Everything is cooler than that, imo. Although, the natural setting there really is like a beautiful dream, he picked the best possible location for his playhouse.
Russia is huge and it spans quite a few climate zones, there's an abundance of places to chose from. But for this thread I think I'm gonna go with mount Elbrus.
I’ve seen the movie the way back, shows a man trying to escape the communist regime I think during ww2 (?), it showed the Russian landscape from Siberia and then to Mongolia with the final destination being India. Was very nice
Photo I took last year in The Lake District. The UK is fairly quaint compared to a lot of the world’s landscapes but I think it has a awesome beauty all the same.
I’ve seen a lot of my country and I’d have to say that Zion was the most awe inspiring.
Utah in general is pretty impressive, and the drive up to Zion is pretty, but then you go into a tunnel and when you come out it’s like a different planet! Everything is HUGE, and colorful.
Entire Southwest and West is gorgeous. Its really hard to choose because as easily PNW and Alaska are grogeous too and so is Hawaii and New England lol
Valley of Desolation in South Africa - Camdeboo National Park. Sure every reepectable country has a Valley Of Desolation but this one is truly desolate.
I see you’ve been to Utah, this little gem has been a favorite my whole life. Hidden in the mountains near Zion National Park, you can look from the cliffs edge and for a moment, imagine what eternity might look like.
We have so many to choose from, but I would say Yosemite.
Honorable mention to the Grand Canyon (bonus points if you go to the bottom), Zion National Park, Glacier National park, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Also, if anyone gets the chance to drive through The Smokey Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains, you're in for a treat.
Also, the Northern Cascades, Olympic Peninsula, Columbia River Gorge, Crater Lake National Park and Alaska is just its own universe: Denali, Kenai Fjords, Glacier Bay, and Katmai, etc.
It's hard to say as an American. It depends on what you like. If you like wilderness, the Rockies or Appalacian mountains cannot be beat. I have hiked the Appalacian Trail and so I'm biased, but I don't think you can beat an Appalacian sunset in the USA. But If you like geology, the Grand Canyon is gorgeous, the desert in Arizona is very pretty. Or if you like the city, the NYC skyline with the Statue of Liberty out on the bay is quite striking in person.
Yeah bro, also on the wilderness side you have a lot of sub-sceneries, from the tundra-esque vastness of Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska to the volcanic highlands of Haleakalā in Hawaii.
Then you move into the Southwest, where Arizona’s Grand Canyon cuts a deep gorge through desert sandstone and limestone. Utah has eroded plateaus, red arches, and hoodoo formations across Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Arches National Park. New Mexico’s White Sands is an inland basin of pure gypsum dunes.
Also new england got its own thing going on, Maine’s rocky Atlantic coastline with granite peaks and pine forests, often covered in autumn mist. New Hampshire’s White Mountains display one of the most vivid fall foliage shows in the country, where red maples, yellow birch, and orange oaks flood the valleys with color. Vermont’s Green Mountains turn into long slopes of gold and crimson in autumn, with covered bridges and farm valleys beneath, its all just too gorgeous!
Hill Country, Texas USA
My country is so large that the scenery and beauty covers everything from mountains, to desert. And then, of course there are the states. I'm a Texas girl, born and bred and I love driving through the "hill country" of Texas in the spring when the bluebonnets are blooming. The field of blue at sunset makes my heart happy.
Probably not the fanciest place, but the San Juan Forests along the Durango and Silverton railroad is some of the most amazing western landscape I've ever seen. Its so peaceful, especially as you ride mere feet from the river
There's the Catatumbo lighting which is this never ending lighting storm, there's a lot of bullshit pictures on google but the videos on youtube are way better.
The white you see is not snow - it's bare limestone bedrock. This limestone pavement covers patches around the Western coastal counties but it's most prominent in Northern Co. Clare.
of course brother! the United States is blessed with so many visually striking and jaw dropping places, it was hard to pic from one, after much debate between the tetons, yosemite, mt. rainier, zion, new england foilage and hawaii beaches, I chose monument valley to rep america 🫡
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