What is the most beautiful place you ever visited?

[Stuart G]

Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada. and
Yosemite National Park....in California

[we can do it]

1. Glacier National Park

[Stuart G]

2. That would be very close to the other two. The two lakes are incredible..

[riverwalker]

3. Norway

Followed by Bhutan.

[rzemanfl]

4. Is this strictly geographic?

[Stuart G]

6. I hadn't looked at it that way...so you decide what you want to say..(anything goes in the lounge)

[rzemanfl]

12. I know from experience anything goes isn't true. I edited my response.

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She knows, that's good enough for me.

[dhol82]

5. Too many to pick only one or two.

[Stuart G]

10. Pick as many as you wish...Maybe someone will get an idea to go there..

On this one there is no police telling you what to say..

[dhol82]

18. Antarctica, Botswana (Okavango Delta), Mongolia

Nepal, Lhasa, Agra, Victoria Falls, Hakone, St. Petersburg, the Dolomites, Swiss Alps,
Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, Buenos Aires, South Georgia Island, Hanoi, Halong Bay,
Lago Maggiore, Acadia NationL Park, Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, Red River Valley,
Snake River (Idaho), Bay Area, Iceland, Stockholm, Jutland, Aalborg, Paris and many more.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Ireland.

[kimbutgar]

8. Tahiti and Venice Italy

[GeorgeGist]

9. Lake Louise

Tyrol

[MontanaMama]

26. Went to Lake Louise for my honeymoon.

It was perfect.

[JDC]

11. Banff-I agree, The Caymans, Muir Woods, Acadia National

Forgot the Grand Canyon and Oahu

[Stuart G]

14. Muir Woods..If you have never seen it, you have to go there. 6 or 7 milies North of San Fancisco..

over the Golden Gate Bridge. Many of the trees are 1000 years old..

[mainstreetonce]

13. So many

Banff ,Glacier,lake Louise, Bryce Canyon

On the sunnier side

St Croix, Seven Mile Beach Grand Cayman and the ocean off Bonaire NA.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Antarctica.

[Major Nikon]

17. The troposphere

I was there yesterday and go there every chance I get.

[FM123]

19. The first place that comes to mind is Sanibel Island.....

[peacefreak2.0]

20. Tough question.

Islay & Jura, Inner Hebrides
Iceland
Cascapedia, Quebec

[torius]

21. Yosemite, Sedona nt

[Aristus]

22. Loch Ness, Scotland.

Stunning...

Me at Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Summer, 1991.

[Shrek]

23. Lake District in England n/t

[Dead_Parrot]

49. As a lakelander, I approve. n/t

[Liberty Belle]

24. Hawaii especially Kaui and the Big Island, Costa Rica's rain forests,

Alaska, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, British Columbia in Canada, Olympic National Park in Washington, also Acadia National Park in Maine.

[OriginalGeek]

61. I'd love to go back to Costa Rica

and get locals to show us around for a few days. We stopped there last year for a day (really only a few hours) while on a cruise and I'm sure we never got to go more than 10 feet off a carefully prescribed tourist route near Limon. I mean, the route through the "rain forest" we were on I could still see electrical poles and cell phone towers. I do have to say though that I got better cell reception there than I do at my house lol. But even with the weak-sauce tour I could see where it would be pretty awesome if I got to really explore. It probably didn't help that it was pretty gloomy and rainy the day we were there. (Rain in the rain forest!? The nerve of them!)

[Liberty Belle]

62. We went on the "Monkey Tours" for about a week or 10 days.

It was a lot of traveling but you stayed at wonderful places, some of which were up in the rain forest. Optional activities included river rafting through the rain forest, zip lining over a waterfall in a 500-foot-deep chasm, horse back riding, and more. We also took volcanic mud baths and had stops at a couple of wonderful beaches; on one you could even rent horses. Our trip included one night in Nicaragua also, which was the place for affordable souvenirs such as beautiful pottery, but do NOT go to Nicaragua on your own. The tour bus driver had to pay a bribe to get one passenger inside for no particularly good reason; her passport was 3 months from expiring and the authorities claimed this was a problem.

The food everywhere was wonderful and in Costa Rica there were no issues with water, but in Nicaragua like Mexico you have to be careful what you eat or drink. We only went to the western part of Nicaragua; the east coast (Mosquito Coast) has yellow fever.

We were in the northern portion of Costa Rica. The tour was fun in that the bus only had about 18 people and we all became friends and wound up going out for dinners and even to a nightclub dancing together, and once had a bonfire on the beach.

[OriginalGeek]

63. that all sounds spectacular

that's the way to do it. I'm putting that on our list lol.

Yeah I've read there are a lot of countries that won't let you come in if your passport is within 6 months of expiring - I guess they think if something happens and you get stuck there they don't want your pp to expire while you are there. It's not something we have to worry about on most closed-loop tours as we don't even need a passport (although most people have them anyway) except for a very few places (Cuba for one) but I'm sure if you are traveling there for more than a few hours it's a real concern.

[LibDemAlways]

25. Yosemite and the Na Pali Coast on Kauai

[MontanaMama]

27. New Zealand.

North and south islands. It was incredible.

[lapfog_1]

28. Grand Canyon... on a raft trip on the Colorado

[bif]

29. Venice, Italy

[Ohiogal]

30. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Sequoia National Park

Top of Pikes Peak in Colorado

Florida Keys

[Glamrock]

31. Jamaica

But Ii's got a soft spot for it. It's where I got married...

[Harker]

32. The West coast of Ireland.

Three weeks and not nearly enough.

[ZZenith]

44. It is stunning, isn't it?

If you ever wanted to know what it would look like with trees, come out and enjoy our Oregon coast.

My wife wouldn’t move to Ireland with me so I had to settle for this, which is no hardship.

[Harker]

50. You're on. Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm not sure how I spent fifty years in Colorado without getting to Oregon, but I do hope to fix that in a few years if possible.

Much farther away, now, but we're getting close to retirement. We'll tug our camper out that way.

[ZZenith]

56. I grew up in the Black Forest and lived all over Colorado.

Oregon reminds me a lot of Colorado in the 70’s.

Except it has more ocean.

Please do tug the camper out here someday - you will not be disappointed!

[Generic Brad]

33. Kauai

Loved it so much I went there three times within a 12 month span a few years ago.

I would live there if I could but sadly I can no longer afford it.

[Chipper Chat]

37. Yes. Kauai. Hanuama bay.

An adjacent farm had a sign that read "no stealing taro". I'll never forget that. Oops wrong island. I cant remember the name of the bay but was on Kauai. This was in 1979 so my memory is a little rough.

[cannabis_flower]

34. Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, called it the most beautiful lake in the world. I visited and took this picture in November of 2008 (voted early and watched the election returns in Antigua, Guatemala.

[Totally Tunsie]

35. The Swiss and Italian Alps...

and the skiing wasn't too shabby either!

[happybird]

36. Blackwater Falls, WV, in the winter

We were returning from a skiing trip at Timberline and decided to swing by BWF when we saw the sign. It was snowing heavily, had snowed all the previous night, and the parking lot was totally empty. My boyfriend at the time, my yellow lab, and I were the only ones there. It was like walking in a dream. The snow was so deep on the board walkways my big, 80 lb. dog had to slide down the steps on her belly, breaking a path for us. She loved it. We didn't get our first glimpse of the Falls until reaching the bottom of all the stairs. They were completely frozen over and the woods were that magical kind of silent they get during a snowstorm. The whole experience was so beautiful. It felt like we were the only ones left on Earth. I'll never forget it.

So, maybe not the most impressive place in the world to visit, but that experience made us feel as if it was.

[lunasun]

38. Ngorongoro, Monteverde, Rio Largartos, hangzhou west lake ,temple of soul retreat, deepEvergladesNP

Yosemite yes that and also north woods MN , those are some tops for me

There are multiple locations just in visits to Africa and parts of Europe . Alps for example a bounty of beauty imo
and some places underwater too were beautiful to visit (scuba)

Beaches ,mountains, red desert, blades of grass , waterfalls, or fields of corn , cities teeming with crowds of life , all beautiful to visit imo

What a beautiful world everywhere you look you might find it

I’ll have to check out Muir Woods some day so close to SF -thank you


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[applegrove]

39. Close. I once stood on the top of a glen on a ranch that was between Calgary and the rockies.

The rockies made a wall on the west. It was simply stunning. I'd only seen the Smokie Mountains as real mountains go up until then. Banff is gorgeous. But I'll never forget the first shock of mountains that leads to Banff.

[Dem2theMax]

40. Yosemite National Park and all of Italy.

And someone else mentioned them as well, the Swiss Alps are pretty darned gorgeous too.

[SharonAnn]

41. Chile. Los Saltos de Petrohue. Incredible rapids and falls.

Many beautiful sites have moved but this was the most astounding.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. The Scottish Highlands and Alaska, probably.

[MrScorpio]

43. Baguio, The Philippines

[ZZenith]

45. The Inside Passage from Victoria to Glacier Bay.

Mile after endless mile of unspoiled wilderness. Ocean and mountain splendor for days on end.

Sigh...

[DFW]

46. My wife and I did that in 2015.

Spectacular, for sure!

[ZZenith]

47. Spectacle after spectacle.

I spent almost the entire time on the bow of the ship, morning,noon, and night just soaking it all into my eyeballs and spirit.

Such a beautiful planet we have. We must save it.

[DFW]

48. The more you see, the less easy it is to pick one place

In no particular order:

The Na Pali coast, Kaua'i
Waimea Canyon, Kaua'i
Mahé, Seychelles
Praslin, Seychelles
Mürren, Berner Oberland (Switzerland)
Bryce Canyon, Utah
Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Fjords near Bergen, Norway
The Andes between Quito and Otavalo, Ecuador
Stockholm's Skärgård

And I haven't even begun to explore!

[torius]

51. Grand Canyon, Pained Deserr

Northern coast of Maine
Western Mass. in autumn
N. Carolina in summer
Czech Republic countryside

[underpants]

52. Grand Canyon. Douthat State Park (Va). or Berchtesgaden

The Grand Canyon literally took my breath away as I first saw it.
Douthat has some serious magical therapeutic calming powers.
Berchtesgaden- DoD Hotel with breathtaking views of the Bavarian Alps right outside our hotel room. Meals prepared by Army cooks training with French and German chefs, one of the best meals I've ever eaten.

[Thyla]

53. Kangaroo Island

Or any quiet out of the way place on the banks of the river Murray.

[iamateacher]

54. Lake Como, Italy

New Zealand
Iceland
Mittenwald, Germany
Yorkshire, England
Kyoto Japan.

[LAS14]

55. Kauai and views of Jungfrau, Eiger and Monch from Grindelwald. nt

[mentalsolstice]

57. Banff, Acadia National Park, Cape Breton, NS. nt

[lark]

58. Kuykoff (?) Gardens in the Netherlands, Big Sur in the spring with columbines & poppies growing,

Andrew Molera State Park when the monarchs stop there in Oct. All 3 are awe inspiring and breathtaking to me.

[enid602]

59. Chile/Argentina

Patagonia and the lake districts of Chile and Argentina. Puerto Montt and Bariloche.

[bikebloke]

60. New Zealand, Nepal, Norway