Where was the most beautiful place you vacationed or visited?

[backtoblue]

I haven't traveled much so I'm pretending that I'm in the Amazon today - doing data entry for a handsome exploring professor....

[HopeHoops]

1. 8 miles deep in the Allegheney National Forest.

That's where we spent our honeymoon 22 years ago - REALLY alone ;}

[livetohike]

64. We are retired about 10 miles from the ANF border

One of the most beautiful places in the US (but I'm biased).

[HopeHoops]

80. We entered via the gas line maintenance trails just south of Kane.

I copied the topographical maps from the University library (Clarion) and found a nice flat area near the top of the ridge between Martin and Crane run. We scoped it out a few weeks earlier and found a path to the creek that took 15 minutes down and 20 back with water. It was perfect. Even splashing around naked in sub-freezing water (at least it felt like it) was nice.

[livetohike]

113. Sounds idyllic

:-) We spent our short weekend honeymoon in Clarion with hiking in Cook Forest and the ANF. We were married in March, so it was still pretty cold here. Never thought we would be able to retire here.....it's like a dream.

[HopeHoops]

126. I love Cook's Forest.

That's one of the prettiest places anywhere. The canoe rental thing is awesome. If you're lucky, you can catch a great blue heron gliding just above the water.

[livetohike]

143. We live a mile away from the river and have canoed it many times

in the two years we have been here. I may have to change my DU name to livetocanoe :-).

[TZ]

2. Puerto Rico

A lush tropical island with a RAINFOREST and mountains set in the gorgeous aqua waters of the Carribean...

[backtoblue]

6. Sounds like paradise!

All I would have needed would be a cabana boy and a martini!

[TZ]

11. It is. I should post a picture

We rather unexpectedly got a cabana hotel room right on the beach with a hammock between two palm trees in our backyard. Fabulous.

[backtoblue]

53. Re: I should post a picture

:popcorn:


yeah, that would be nice to see :hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

106. That's my answer, too

better than Hawaii IMO.

:D

[Mr. Ected]

3. Switzerland - Lake Lucerne

Where the Gods kick back and enjoy the view.

I was married there. Truly, a marriage made in heaven.

[backtoblue]

13. Awwww!

That sounds very romantic and awesome!

[taterguy]

4. Point Lobo Nature Preserve on Monterey Bay

[kwassa]

14. I agree. Also the nearby Pfieffer beach, and redwood parks.

[backtoblue]

22. My family is from northern California

and I've seen beautiful pictures of redwood forests. I would love to see them!

[kwassa]

26. Redwood National Forest is in Northern California

There is also the Mariposa grove of giant Sequoias at Yosemite, and, of course, Sequoia National Park.

picture from Redwood:

[begin_within]

95. The incredibly beautiful Point Lobos State Reserve is in danger of being closed by Schwarzenegger

Photos I took there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619619145848/

Petition to save California state parks from being closed

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/save-california-state-parks-from-closure

[grace0418]

128. That would be high on my list.

[RebelOne]

5. Loc Ness in Inverness, Scotland has breathtaking scenery.

And Steamboat Springs in Colorado. I love mountains.

[backtoblue]

8. Did you see Nessie???

I live in the Ozark mountains, but I guess you kinda get used to your "normal" scenery. It is a pretty place to live, but hot as hell.

[Lorax7844]

65. we went to ireland, it was gorgeous.

[fizzgig]

107. loch ness was amazing

all of scotland was beautiful

[hobbit709]

7. Cappadocia

[backtoblue]

10. Wow! I had to look that one up, but the pictures are breathtaking!

Congratulations on getting to go there! :thumbsup:

[seemunkee]

18. Amazing looking

Must have been a fantastic trip

[dana_b]

57. wow- that is an amazing place

beautiful!

[Kali]

86. ...

:thumbsup:
one of my choices as well

[NJmaverick]

9. The Grand Canyon was truly an awe inspiring sight

because of the sheer size, pictures can never do it justice

[backtoblue]

19. I saw it when I was twelve and I remember feeling like I was just going to fall in.

It was so massive and beautiful and frightening to me then! I'd love to go back.

[NJmaverick]

23. I actually hiked to the bottom with some friends

camped out for a couple of days and hiked back. I am not a natural out doors type person. I was out witted by some clever brown squirrels, who got into my food made a mess and got me in trouble with the park rangers.

[backtoblue]

27. Cool experience!

Even with the evil trouble-making squirrels I'm sure it was an amazing adventure! Was it hard to hike back up? I remember seeing tiny little lines on donkeys on trails below, but I would get queezy when I got too close to the edge.

[NJmaverick]

33. Well hiking down is rougher on the knees and feet

hiking up is of course physically more demanding (especially as the top is roughly a mile above sea level). Plus having lived on freezed dried rations (that the squirrels didn't get) wouldn't exactly count as carb packing.

I am not a big fan if heights and much to my dismay they never installed railings on the trail. You often hike trails that have steep drop offs that go down hundreds of feet. There is a rule, when encountering a hiker coming in the other direction, about who goes to the outside. I made up my own rule that basically said I cling to the rock wall while you go around me.

[backtoblue]

36. I would be a rock-hugger too!!!

:rofl: Life sometimes isn't a two-way street, huh??? lol

[NJmaverick]

38. Not when faced with a 100'+ drop off it isn't

:scared:

[femmocrat]

20. Grand Canyon is my pick as well.

That is an amazing photo. It's so surreal even when you are standing there, looking at it.

[MajorChode]

24. Even if you go there it's hard to get an idea of it's size

The Grand Canyon essentially goes from Lake Powell to Lake Mead and is roughly 200 miles long. So unless you're looking at it from space, there's simply no way to see all of it at once.

[NJmaverick]

34. That's a great picture!

thanks for posting:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

12. Yellowstone, by far. nt.

[backtoblue]

16. I was planning on taking my son there in a few years.

I have seen pictures and I LOVE the outdoors.

[Strong Atheist]

30. The blues are bluer! The greens are greener! The snozberries

taste like snozberries!








Edited: Stay at the lake cabins, if you can afford to. Fantastic!

[Arugula Latte]

50. Snozberry?!

Whoever heard of a snozberry?

[Strong Atheist]

58. !

:rofl:

[carpetbagger]

94. I second Yellowstone/Teton.

I've been there five times in the last 18 years. It's the closest thing I've seen on Earth to a fairyland.

[yellowdogintexas]

146. I love Yellowstone! It is on the top of my beautiful places list , for certain

[seemunkee]

15. Desert or ocean?

Desert, Zabriskie Point


Ocean, St Johns VI

[kwassa]

17. Yosemite

spectacular beauty, too many tourists, but if you can avoid them ..

and very varied beauty as well

[EFerrari]

91. Yosemite is so many places. Definitely the most beautiful.

[begin_within]

92. Yosemite is without a doubt the world's best park.

Here are some photos I have taken there

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619609363770/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619619145848/

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

21. Venezia/Venice, Italy, and Lanikai Beach on Oahu, Hawaii

both at sunset, both amazing and unique, romantic and at once lyrical in their beauty.

[Bunny]

25. Maui

It was very nice

[av8rdave]

28. A tie

St Lucia:



The Grand Canyon:

[backtoblue]

29. beautiful pics!

ty

[LNM]

77. Is that the Little Colorado in the backround?

I've seen pictures of it that color. When we were there it had rained a lot and the Little Colorado was a sea of mud.

[av8rdave]

78. That's actually the main river...

It was late May, and was running unusually clear. The guides said that muddy water was the norm there. "Too thick to drink, to thin to plow" is the way they put it.

[LNM]

118. Yep, it's muddy.

We'd try washing our hair (no soap) in it and all we did was rinse out the old mud and replace it with new mud. You were lucky to see it so clear.

Oh, and nice picture of the Petons.

[av8rdave]

120. I love the Pitons/St Lucia

One of my all time favorite places.

[LNM]

123. We sailed in St. Lucia and the Grenadines in about 1986.

It's one of the few places I've traveled to that I've decided I don't want to go back. It was beautiful, but I'm afraid it's changed a lot since then and not necessarily for the better. I think it's gotten a lot more crowded. We actually anchored one night between the Petons. It was a lovely spot.

[av8rdave]

144. I have been going there quite a bit until recently

I really like Rodney Bay (the town at the north end of the island), although it's now been "discovered" and will soon lose its local flavor.

[MineralMan]

31. A tiny lake above the treeline in the Sierra Nevada

mountains. I hiked in to it to fish for golden trout, and spent three days camped there. I did not see another person the entire time. The lake was in a little basin and surrounded by snow-topped peaks. Fantastic night sky views. I caught and released about 20 of the little trout and ate beans.

[backtoblue]

32. Did you go on this adventure all by yourself?

That sounds so serene and cleansing. I've camped by myself before, but only for one night and I admiit that the night noises had me skeered of woman-eating black bears.

[MineralMan]

35. I did go by myself. It was the summer after I graduated from

High School in 1963. At that time, you could actually hike into places in the Sierras and not see anyone else. That's no longer the case, I'm afraid. Even the remotest spots will have a small population in the summer now.

Backpacking wasn't even really a popular thing to do back then, and the equipment wasn't as light or well-designed. My parents weren't exactly thrilled about my solo trip, but didn't object too strenuously.

Sadly, I didn't take a camera with me.

[kwassa]

109. I did that, too, but with a couple of friends.

very beautiful, up in the peaks behind Mammoth Lakes. Three days of backpacking and fishing, though we ate the little trout we caught. We were below the treeline is some of the most stunning meadows, lakes and streams of crystal-clear water I've ever seen.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

37. Varenna, Italy...Lago di Como n/t

[LNM]

137. Did you hike up the hill to the castle?

I loved Varenna. We stayed at the Hotel Olivedo and the food was fabulous.

[SteppingRazor]

39. Urban beautiful? Istanbul or maybe Prague. Wilderness beautiful...

much tougher call. Maybe Pike National Forest in Colorado.

[greendog]

40. Canyonlands National Park

[seemunkee]

48. One place I really want to go to

and get deep into it. Have you been to the maze?

[greendog]

68. No, but I'd love to see it sometime.

The Maze would take a bit of planning.

You can do most of the Needles area with day hikes. I spent a week there and hiked over 70 miles. It's spectacular.

Island in the Sky can be done with a vehicle and short hikes.

[mysuzuki2]

41. Hallstatt, in Austria

[backtoblue]

51. Austria would be neat to visit.

I'll have to look up some pictures for reference.

[Mr. Ected]

84. A simply amazing little town

My wife and I stayed there a couple days on our honeymoon. It's hard to imagine such a place co-exists with the rest of the planet.

[mysuzuki2]

116. and if they could just learn to speak comprehensible German

[Orsino]

42. British Columbia, probably. n/t

[TCJ70]

43. A small town called...

...Atherton in Queensland, Australia. Rolling hills, foggy mornings, lakes...now I want to go back there...

[backtoblue]

45. sounds like a wonderful place to have a hot cup of tea and go for a bike ride.

:hi:

[bikebloke]

44. New Zealand

Nepal and Northwest Argentina

Here are the photo/videos, since I'm at work (and working damn hard!, as you can see), and don't have access to the stills.

http://veloroo.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-zealand.html

http://veloroo.blogspot.com/2007/02/trek-in-nepal.html

http://veloroo.blogspot.com/2009/01/argentina-tilcara-to-iruya.html

[Richardo]

46. San Juan Mountains, southwest Colorado

Just north of Telluride. Beautiful.

[abq e streeter]

47. +1 on the San Juans; any part of em too, from Durango on up...

My first time was camping around Ouray and Silverton in '73 And played Telluride for the first time ( in a club in town) during their very first jazz festival in 1977. There isn't an inch of the San Juans that aren't breathtaking...and the Grand Canyon too---no matter how many times you see pictures, the first time you actually see it is spellbinding.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. A toss-up between Kauai and the Grand Tetons

:shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

52. It's hard to pick one, because scenery varies so much. But,

I think Kauai's Napali coast is perhaps the most beautiful.

[backtoblue]

55. Gorgeous!

I spy a nice little beach to just roll in the sand, then climb around on the awesome rocks!!
nice picture!!!

[dana_b]

59. my folks stayed there

and had the best time of their lives. Incredible beauty. I want to go there someday.

[Arugula Latte]

61. Hope you go!

It's that classic South Pacific plunging green cliffs/bluer-than-blue water combo.

I'd like to see more of that type of beauty and go to Tahiti, Bora Bora and exotic places like that.

[MajorChode]

54. It's really hard to pick the best place

I've been all over the world and there's lots of places that are beautiful in their own way. It would be like asking if I like apples or oranges better. I like them both and I wouldn't want to choose.

There's lots of great places overseas. The Alps are breathtaking. The islands in the south Pacific are incredible. Both France and Germany have some great sights to see.

As far as the US goes, I've been to most of the major national parks. I really don't have a favorite. Yosemite is nice and you can see all the high points in a couple of days or spend weeks hiking and camping and not see everything. Yellowstone is vast, and there's really no way to do it justice in just one visit because you get overwhelmed pretty quickly. Glacier and the Grand Tetons are great in their own ways. I think Glacier is probably the most incredible place on earth to put in a canoe or kayak. The Grand Canyon is awesome and you really have to either float down it or fly over it to really appreciate the vastness of it. I really like the 4 corners area around Mesa Verde, Durango, and Telluride, particularly in early October when the trees are turning.

[dana_b]

56. hallstatt, austria, the Great Pyramids or Lake Tahoe

I couldn't choose one. Yes, one is a quaint yet quiet and serene town on a beautiful lake and Tahoe is part of nature's glorious beauty. But even though I was in a desolate desert, the pyramids made me cry - it had a an overpowering, majestic beauty to me.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

60. Brunei

A beautiful country with lovely people and a nice balance between traditional and modern lifestyles and scenery. Didn't see enough of it last time so I'll have to go back again at some point

Oh, and the stay in a 4-star hotel (which had the qualities of a luxury hotel) at a cheap price helps as well:)

Other than that, Niagara Falls in the US/Canada, Ottawa in Canada, Singapore and some of the holiday resorts in Malaysia and Indonesia are up there as well

[LisaM]

62. Upper Peninsula

Lake Superior.

[livetohike]

63. Queensland, Australia

It is like taking LSD for the first time....I still can't adequately describe how beautiful it is there.

[MrScorpio]

66. Destin, Florida

[Heidi]

67. Upper Engadine Valley, Switzerland, end of August/early September.

I was there for a conference during that period last year, and though I've traveled extensively and there's a special place in my heart for all of Italy, the gorgeous old civilizations of the rest of Europe, the warm and welcoming beauty of Central and South America, all of the Caribbean, and a jillion places in the US, the Upper Engadine Valley of Switzerland absolutely took my breath away. I could not have imagined that after living in Switzerland for a decade that I had missed these heart-stopping glacial lakes, the myriad colors, the heights and depths and the natural goodness of the people I encountered during my journeys through the Upper Engadine.



http://www.greatrail.com/media/102614/Glacier%20Express,%20Albula%20Pass%20400x300.jpg

[TrogL]

69. Spain

[yellowdogintexas]

147. agree. I was just trying to think of the one place in Spain I would list

I give up.

Everything we saw was beautiful

[KamaAina]

70. A friend had a place on Maui that was right next to the forest reserve

it was like being at the edge of the world. All you could see for miles was the 'aina, pretty much as it must have been when the first voyaging canoes came by.

[Blue_In_AK]

71. Right here in Alaska, where I'm lucky enough to live.

I think my very favorite part of the state (that I've been to anyway) is the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It's simply breathtaking over there.

[Lilith Velkor]

72. Italy

[Vidar]

73. Venice. It seems to float on its canals.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

74. Molas Lake, CO -

Between Montrose and Durango, July, 1969, before it all become open to the world and sadly commercialized, we went on a three-month honeymoon, camping from St. Louis to San Diego, up the coast to the Canadian Rockies, across Canada, and then down through International Falls, back into the States.

One of the loveliest spots we found was this deserted little lake, just outside Silverton. No one around for miles, certainly no other campers. Just us and the dog and our tent for a week.

Perfection.....................

[abq e streeter]

76. mentioned camping outside Silverton on my post on this thread--truly spectacular country

you beat me there by 4 years though...was still pretty unspoiled then too. Even when I first played in Telluride in '77, it was still a laid back little mountain town. Haven't been there ( north of Durango anyway) since about 1990 but I guess Telluride, especially, is now a playground of the rich and trendy. I'm guessing Ouray, Silverton etc, are having that happen to some extent too (?), (although I still love Durango, as touristy as it is now).

[Tangerine LaBamba]

79. We chatted about this, remember?

I told you about the fabulous cherry ice cream sodas in a little fountain within a drugstore in Silverton.

Lovely memories................................

[abq e streeter]

81. Uh oh, short ( and medium) term memory loss ( I DID pay good money for it, but still...)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

87. I understand -

there's not a whole lot of room in that dear old head for other things.............

[applegrove]

75. The rockies and ranch country in Alberta.

[Stuart G]

130. Banf and Jasper, National Parks in Canadian Rockies...

[applegrove]

140. I once went to a bar b q at a ranch half way between Calgary and the rockies. You could stand out on

the back lawn of these people's ranch house and look one way and see downtown Calgary, if you looked the other way you would just see a wall of rockies. It was the first time i ever saw mountains (except for the Smokey Mountains). I was gob-smacked.

[XemaSab]

82. I don't have a favorite

but the whole east side of the Sierra is pretty cool.

[hippywife]

83. Three off the top of my head are

The Rockies in Colorado, Puerto Rico and the Buffalo National Park in Arkansas. Still want to make it to The Grand Canyon and Yosemite one day. I have no hopes at all to making to the place I most want to go: Alaska.

[begin_within]

112. You have got to get to Yosemite.

And I would recommend going in late May, just before Memorial Day weekend. Spend at least 2 or 3 days there. It's almost a spiritual, life-changing experience. Pictures I took recently are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619609363770/

[hippywife]

115. Your pics are beautiful!

We are trying to plan on saving enough money to fly my husband's daughter down from Denver and take her with us next year. I would like to do it in May so we can attend Spring Strawberry, or maybe even Fall Strawberry. Friends out there I'd like to meet and spend time with, too. But, either way, the plan is to see the Grand Canyon on the way there or back so not sure how much time I would get to actually be there to attend the festival. Still up in the air and no guarantee that any of it will even happen. We really have to scrape and save to make it a reality.

Thanx for sharing! :hi:

[begin_within]

117. Well I hope you do.

The spring festival takes place on Memorial Day weekend which is a very crowded time at Yosemite. But if you timed it so that you were there in the couple of days before the weekend, that is one of the best times to visit Yosemite. The waterfalls will be in full flow, and if Glacier Point road and Tioga Road are open, virtually the entire park will be accessible. Fall is also an excellent time to visit Yosemite as it is much less crowded than in the summer. However by fall, most of the waterfalls are bone dry or just a trickle. The park is still beautiful even without the water.
Grand Canyon is certainly worth a visit too, as it is truly an awesome sight to behold. But for my money Yosemite is better. You might even want to extend the trip over to the coast, too, and see the incomparable Point Lobos State Reserve and drive Highway 1 through the Big Sur country if you have time. Point Lobos and Yosemite Valley are the 2 most beautiful places in the world, in my opinion.

[Maccagirl]

85. Hawaii

and Martha's Vineyard and Denali National Park stirred my soul as well.

[Kali]

88. there is beauty everywhere

VERY hard to pick
Oahu
Okinawa
Alaska
coastal California
Northern Mexico, incl. "Copper Canyon" area
Turkey - Med coast and Capadocia
where I live: the southwestern US

[PassingFair]

89. The Isle of Capri.

I've never been there, but it's NUMBER ONE on
a VERY long list of places I want to see.

[Courtesy Flush]

134. That's mine too

I haven't traveled as much as I'd like, but I've been to Italy, and I found Capri to be the most beautiful place ever. I went there for a day trip only, but I can't wait to go back!

[pink-o]

90. I am so in love with Italy, so my answer would lie within that country

But I can't decide between Sorrento and the Amalfi coast, the Cinque Terre, Venice, parts of Rome, Sicily, Tuscany, Lombardi......

[seemunkee]

119. Wife and I are heading there next month

4 nights in Sorrento, 4 in Rome. Never been before so it should be a real treat.

[pink-o]

121. Oh, Buon Viaggio! Hope you guys LOVE it as much as I do!

A

[pink-o]

122. Here's a preview of what to expect! I took this in Amalfi last year...

[seemunkee]

125. Gorgeous

Friend of ours were there for the Giro d'Italia and then went to Rome to see the final Time Trial.

[begin_within]

93. It's a tie between Yosemite and Point Lobos State Reserve

Point Lobos http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619619145848/

Yosemite http://www.flickr.com/photos/8601704@N06/sets/72157619609363770/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

96. The Scottish Highlands.

[Iggo]

97. Owens River Valley in the early, mid, and even late fall.

From southern Bishop all the way up to Mammoth, really.

I'm an L.A. suburbs guy who usually prefers going to the beach or the desert to get away from it all. So creeks and creek fishing and woods and mountains and all natural (and au natural) hot springs are like being on another planet for me. First time I went there it was for the weekend and I ended up staying for four months. Got out of there as soon as the snow started to fall. God-DAMN that shit is cold! Did you know that?

Soon as I start to travel (if I ever do), that's gonna change, though. Of course, a lot of the places I wanted to go are out of the question now (thanks a lot Bushco), but I think I could probably navigate Western Europe and keep my head on my shoulders.

But yeah...the Owens River Valley in the fall. Nice...

[carlyhippy]

98. Grand Cayman n/t

Carly

[nytemare]

99. Berchtesgaden & Obersalzberg Germany

It is ever so difficult for me to understand how someone confronted with such beauty could entertain thoughts of genocide. It is truly something straight out of a storybook. I was lucky enough to visit there when I was stationed in Frankfurt. I got to go to a local salt mine, and take a day trip to Salzburg where we went in a salt mine, saw the hills that were alive in "The Sound of Music", and visited Mozart's birth house. I also went in the Nazi war bunkers, which was intriguing to me as I was previously at the Cabinet War Room, which was Churchill's bunker in London.

I'd say Lake Tahoe runs second.

[Haole Girl]

100. It's very difficult to pick just one place...

after thinking it over, I'd have to say New Zealand. Followed closely by French Polynesia, Australia, then Hawaii. There are other places that were once very beautiful, like Bali. But then have since been over-developed.

[kwassa]

101. June Lake, CA (I have many favorites!)

[Haole Girl]

103. I miss the mountains

Beautiful pics. :-)

[begin_within]

111. I was there on June 5th

And I took this picture of this lot for sale, which is right in front of Carson Peak. It's on "Dream Mountain Drive" and you could build a small house right in the middle of the lot, in the grassy area, surrounded by trees, with a year-round stream going through the lot, a view of a seasonal waterfall, and Carson Peak and the Ansel Adams Wilderness as your backyard. Literally you could walk out your door and go on a hike in the eastern Sierras. This picture I took shows the lot (I think it said Lot #6 on Dream Mountain Drive). The only downsides: I think the road to it may be closed in the winter, and the price is about $300,000 - just for the lot. The whole area was beautiful, I felt like we were in Switzerland or something, and it's just a stone's throw from the desert-like Highway 395.

[snailly]

102. Ireland

That would probably change if I ever get to Italy or Greece.

[datasuspect]

104. i've been to paradise

but i've never been to me

[JohnnyLib2]

105. Dingle peninsula, Ireland

Followed by the Teton area.

[crim son]

108. Costa Rica.

It was overwhelmingly beautiful.

[Rowdyboy]

110. Chitzen Itza is a magical place.....Coming through dense jungle growth then...

[stray cat]

114. Switzerland! If you like mountains. Yosemite in the US is a beautiful park

actually almost any national park is pretty cool.

[joey5150]

124. Belize

Quiet. Great diving.

[pokerfan]

127. Banff

[Stuart G]

131. Lake of the 7 Peaks...Banf...gotta see it to believe it..nt

[pokerfan]

141. The Canadian Rockies are like the Alps

only prettier...

[inna]

129. San Francisco Bay Area.

and ironically, i happen to live here!

[Xipe Totec]

132. A place so remote, few have visited.

Two hours by road from my home town in Mexico. Then an hour by dirt road, and another hour by motor boat, upstream the San Lorenzo river.

To a small waterfall in the middle of nowhere, with a crystal clear pool under the waterfall.

The water was so filled with fish, you could scoop them out with your hands.

The trees surrounding the waterfall where ahuehuetes - the ancient ones. Probably there since before the Conquest.

40 years hence, and the memory is still vivid in my mind.

[LNM]

136. That sounds fabulous!

I love waterfalls.

[txwhitedove]

133. Maroma Resort south of Cancun - massage in tent on the beach, breeze...

and sound of surf was heaven, snorkeling, hiking.

Paris - amazing, took my breath away

Cameroon - fascinating, beautiful

[triguy46]

135. The north of England on the C2C Cycleway:

Riding from the Irish Sea to the North sea, secluded, quiet, every turn is a Kodak moment. Good riding, good beer, friendly locals. A great time.

[spindrifter]

138. Help! I can't choose!

Lake Titicaca has to be one of the most amazing places I've ever seen, though.

[tigereye]

139. San Francisco

but then, I haven't been to Greece or New Zealand yet.

[Rhiannon12866]

142. Hard to choose. Probably St. Petersburg, Russia...

[OnionPatch]

145. The Red Sea, underwater

And I was only snorkeling, I wasn't certified to dive. It was like a fantasy world of some kind.

[yellowdogintexas]

148. sort of a top /favorites list

1. Cozumel
2. Yellowstone/Grand Teton
3. Carlsbad Caverns
4. Paris
5. Spain

[Turbineguy]

149. Calloway Gardens, western Georgia.

There is one part where you enter through a gate and archway in a hedge. If I were designing Heaven, it would look like that.