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QUESTION: What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever visited?
Talk about it….
I’ve visited a lot of beautiful cities and countries, but probably Venice, Italy.
Guilin, China
was that in december 2019 by chance?
I have travelled from Tahoe to Russia from Canada to South America and each place I have visited has had its own unique beauty. I still have many more places to travel to once the pandemic is over.
east lodi in February
Oh Lord
Natural beauty: Yosemite.
Man-made beauty: Venice.
Garden beauty: the Japanese Tea Garden.
There is a lot going on today that we are avoiding.
I have been to many beautiful places but could never pick a favorite. Maybe Zermatt and the Matterhorn but it is tied with many others. I have been getting pictures of castles in Europe on FB and I had no idea there were so many left in great condition built in places that would help protect them. It makes you wonder about the craftsmen that built them. About who were the architects of such amazing structures.
Zermatt, Switzerland in December. Skiing on the shoulder of the Matterhorn gave spectacular views. Heavenly Valley at Lake Tahoe is a very close second.
Firstly, THANK YOU for such a positive question to put out there. Truth is the few times I have read the comments on this website it puts me in tailspin with all of the negativity, thus grateful for this beautiful question. Secondly, to answer you…the beaches in Jamaica (Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, and more).
Kyoto, Japan
There are so many. The Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon coast is beautiful. Yosemite, the Sierra Mountains, the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, the California redwoods, and Big Sur all have a natural beauty. San Francisco was beautiful 35 years ago, and one of my favorites is the beautiful state of Wyoming, especially around the Grand Tetons and Snake River.
The Philippines has some of the most beautiful islands in the world.
Cooks Bay, Moorea, Tahiti
Repulse Bay, Hong Kong at sunset.
Sant Agnese church in the piazza navona in Rome Italy.
La Grave, France
Tasmania was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. I dream of returning to its wilderness and beaches. Iceland is also stunning and holds a dear place in my heart.
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Located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Been there about 4-5 times. The first place that popped into my mind. Beautiful spot.
For me it will always be Yosemite.
St Croix
In high school late 1960s in a cab over camper on pick up, Montana, Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise, Yellowstone, Coerdalene, Victoria Island, Busch Gardens.
When I was younger remember nights in Yosemite waiting for the night fall and the Fire Fall. Then you’d hear off in the distance, “Let the Fire Fall!”
https://yosemitefirefall.com/yosemite-firefall-glacier-point/
Margarita Ville…because it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere.
Preach!!!!
Have not traveled much but for me it is any place I am hanging out with my grankids. They make all my worries melt away and to see things through their young eyes is amazing.
Geirangerfjord, Norway (on a Viking cruise). Unbelievable beauty. Number 2: the Canadian Rockies between Banff and Jasper (the Icefields Parkway).
Other places: Kauai, Yosemite (both the valley and Tuoulmne Meadows), the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone. We’re planning a drive around New Zealand, and that will probably go to number 1 or 2.
I’ve got 2:
Grand Canyon with the sun setting took my breath away.
Trunk Bay, USVI
US Virgin Islands…St John Island
The Black Forest in Germany. Beautiful drive through the forest!
Kodiak.
Rock Islands, Palau
Whistler, BC. Gorgeous mountain vistas and a snowy winter paradise!
I have been to many beautiful places, Hawaii stands out, although standing at Hetch-Hetchy is pretty awing.
Torn between Crater Lake in Oregon both in the summer and in winter snow. Grand Canyon would come in after that. Actually, drove cross country several times and it is all beautiful in different ways. High desert on a clear nigh with the milky way spun out across the sky.
Fijordland National Park, New Zealand
Especially, Milford Sound.
Yellowstone in winter time. I am a city boy and this was my first taste of real wilderness. During Winter only snow mobiles and snow cats (large vehicle with tank tracks and 2 skis out front) can traverse the roads. Witnessed a white out on the way in. We had to walk down steps of snow to enter the lodge near Ol’ Faithful.
Yosemite
Boracay in the Philippines, beautiful white sands and at dawn the sky is iridescent. Chapel of Mary @ the Grotto in Portland OR. I spend 4 hours (walking, meditating, and soul searching). The gardens and the meditation chapel is absolutely a place to run away to. Niagara Falls (Canadian side) is always a sight to see. It is breathtaking and magnificent. These are the 3 of my favorite places that I have been to. My brother told me Madagascar is beautiful, I have yet got to go once my children are all grown up and out of high school and college and my mortgage is all paid off.
USA nature: The Ohiopyle area of western Pennsylvania in July.
Drive over Independence Pass and on into Aspen, CO, in early
August.
Asia: Kyoto, Japan
Singapore
Edinburgh, Scotland
Juncture of Rhine and Moselle Rivers at Köln (Cologne) Germany…. the
cathedral there.
Florence, Italy (and the natural beauty around Lago d’Eseo in Italian Alps)
…… and the lovely, friendly people we met everywhere! I keep thinking of more places, but I’ve taken more than my turn.
The most beautiful place I”ve ever visited was 30.000 feet in the air in 1980 coming home from England to Calif and seeing the light/dark horizontal divider between 2 hemispheres.I thought it would be vertical.
Something you rarely ever see in your life.
Amazing and unforgettable,esp, being 15 years old.
Jackson, Wyoming
Nice!
Of all time? Grindelwald in Switzerland in July or August. The meadowlands were waist high with wildflowers and the Eiger was towering above us. Most recently? Restaurants where we have been able to dine indoors. Not looking forward to returning to the state of Ashland and Newsom the Hypocrite.
* Anywhere in my New Orleans ⚜️📿🎉🦐🎷
* Big Island, Hawaii, Kohala Coast (the stars are incredible) 🍍🌞🌈
* South of France 🍷🍇
* The drive from Mendocino to Anderson Valley 🌲🌞🌲
The deep canyons of Copper Canyon, Mexico, and Grand Canyon, USA, seeing the colors of the different strata of the mountains, as you drive down into Copper Canyon toward La Junta and Batopilas, and the varied colors of the Grand Canyon.
I’d like to visit Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon etc in a Winnebago. It seems like the kind of trip where having all you need is right there. What’s your advice? Thanks!
Cinque Terre . Italy
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The Seychelles
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… OMG. Look it up and see!!!
Moorea and Bora Bora, French Polynesian
Ireland, especially the Guinness factory in Dublin
That is a tough one. I always say you can’t compare nature. My native Denmark is mostly flat or have rolling small hills, yet we have beautiful places, the forest in spring, when everything is covered with snow, beautiful castles.
I’m sure each country has beautiful places. Here are some I have visited that stands out, Switzerland. Northern Italy (Lake Como and Lugano), Iceland and Israel. Particular places in Israel Ein Gedi overlooking the Dead Sea, the ancient town of Acre on the Mediterranean, close to Lebanon, Safad overlooking lake Tiberius, and also the town of Haifa. Beautiful cities: Munich, Salzburg, Luxemburg, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Athens, Seattle and of course San Francisco. Places in California too numerous to mention, the Coast line, the Wine Country, the Gold Country, Tahoe and my all time favorite Yosemite, where I have hiked many times.
Did you see Krak des Chevaliers? I’ve always wanted to go there.
I love the beautiful gardens of Denmark, and the castle in Copenhagen (Rosenborg). They have incredible fine China, goblets, glass trophies, and all the other precious, delicate chess sets, etc that survived many centuries, since Denmark hasn’t been invaded by any enemies.
If you go when it isn’t horribly crowded, and if the Gendarmie were do their jobs and deport all the violent, loud, smelly illegal African immigrants aggressively drinking in public and selling counterfeit goods, then it would be Venice.
It was amazing in the 80s. It is now a borderline third world country. Italy and western Europe are mainly lost. Except maybe Lichtenstein.
Antioch, CA
Certain un-named secret places in the Sierra’s, Yosemite before it became a California cash cow, the Isle of Capri off of Naples, Italy. The country of Andorra. And not to be forgotten, the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Lake Louise in Canada, 1981.
Visited with the family. They were inside the hotel, I was bored. Went out to the lake to skip rocks and kill time.
The lake was like glass, mirroring the surrounding mountains. The sun was beginning to set and dusk was approaching. There was no sound and no wind, and I was the only one there and it was breath taking.
Then to top it all off, a bagpiper showed up and serenaded me and the lake with “Amazing Grace”.
I still get goosebumps whenever I recall that day.
Nice!
OMG. I got goosebumps just reading this.
So its ok to say Antioch and not Trump Tower ? Love your censorship. I’ve been to Trump Tower and it quite a site, are you part of the cancel culture ?
Greece…..in particular Mykonos. Once my passport is worth something it’s back to Mykonos for a few weeks
Oh that’s going to be so nice.. enjoy.
My grandparents house back in the late 60s 70s. So many wonderful memories.
Bali, Indonesia. Beautiful island, beautiful people.
Yosemite National Park. Particularly, the views from Tunnel View and Washburn/Glacier Point.
Bora Bora
The chapel at Mt. Herman is lovely.
It was “one of the most beautiful,” which was an area of the Tonto National Forest near Globe AZ.
Santorini Greece or Tobacco Beach in Bermuda would probably be in my top 3, but Kauai will always be my favorite place, it is so beautful!
Jawbone Canyon in the late ’60’s ……
Maui
Sailfish fishing just off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico.