What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen in person?

[Reischfleger]

Pictures are optional

Machu Picchu

 

[rareboy]

Wow. That is tough.

Instinctively I want to say our farm...but I am sure after years of travelling, there are just too many places that would rank as most beautiful but for different reasons.

 

[TickTockMan]

Monument Valley National Park, Arizona–Utah border.


I hope to make it back some day once I get a decent camera.

 

[ChristianGianni]

So far, the sights of the Greek Islands

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think the plateau along the Collegiate Peaks of the Rockies above Southpark. Our former member, Grant, took me when I was visiting him back in 2006.

Here are a few of pics of the wildflowers. It was more colorful than any natural collection of wildflowers I had ever encountered, and I had been on dozens of native plant field trips back in Arkansas.

My camera had lower resolution back then and fewer pixels, so these are but pale images compared to being there, and distance shots really don't pick up the color well.

 

[cabinfever]

Alot of different places in Hawaii.

 

[Vannie]

There were some gorgeous areas in the Sierra Nevada region as I remember.

There are many.

 

[ShadowCat]

Being that Ive never been any place spectacular I would have to say a few years back we went to Six Flags on the 4th of July there is an observation tower ride and I rode it at dusk! From 300 feet up you could see fireworks everywhere it was spectacular, a beautiful freedom!

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Natural beauty: I'm not sure if beautiful is exactly the right word, but Wyoming and north central Colorado are amazing. So are the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Individual building: the Taj Mahal. Photos really don't capture its effect. (Come to think of it, my first views of it in person didn't capture the effect, either. It sneaks up on you.)

City (architecture): Prague is a close second to Ghent.

City (combination of architecture and natural setting): Prague is a close second to Nice.

 

[The Loner]

Angkor Wat and other temple ruins in Cambodia

 

[lockeroomguy]

I've been to so many beautiful places that it is hard to choose, but the Adirondack mountains is probably the top of my list.

 

[opinterph]

Mount Olympus & Olympic National Park, Washington

 

[Peloso]

The showers.

Oh, wait. I read "person" as "prison".

 

[Kulindahr]

Lots of places along the Pacific Crest Trail. But this might top them:







Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon.

Sadly I couldn't get away with skinny-dipping there.