The beach. 🌅
Whenever it is empty enough, so that i can clearly hear the sea waves 🌊, it just feels like all the noise in my head is gone.
When you think of the Alps, it tends to be Switzerland or Austria, but the Haute Savoie région in France is equally stunning. It’s less expensive than Switzerland and less um… Austrian… than Austria
Annecy, Samoëns, Sixt fer à Cheval, Abondance, Evian, Grand Bornand, La Vallée Verte, Col de Grand Saint Bernard… the list is endless
Oh man, I’ve been in Mexico so long and there are so many beautiful places. How about los lagos de montebello?
Kauai. Everywhere you drive is worth a picture. Rainbows and waterfalls everywhere.
The top places would be Ne Pali Coast and Waimea Canyon.
Mike’s Sky Ranch in Baja Mexico I think might be number 1.
It’s in the middle of nowhere along the Baja 500 course, at about 3,700 ft above sea level.
The whole place is lit by generators, and when they are turned off for the night, it is pitch black.
The transition from bright lights and noise, to dead silence as the Milky Way becomes visible from the mountain top, is a sight I will never forget.
Other contenders would be looking down into Seventh Heaven from the top of Whistler mountain in Vancouver, or the view from the top of the north face of Alyeska outside Anchorage.
Gotta be a tie between the Caribbean, Bermuda, and Alaska
Tenerife, the pic doesn’t do it justice but it was just the greenest, most quintessential “island life” type place. And they had the best octopus I’ve ever had. Definitely going to revisit it at some point.
Iceland, by far. So different than everywhere else. Stunningly clear, crystal-blue water, rough, alien terrain, and some if the most amazing waterfalls you’ll ever come across.
Runner up is Sintra Portugal, just North of Lisbon. Beautiful mountains, incredibly green, filled with so many different types of castles from all the different cultures that have occupied the country over the years.
Kotor, Montenegro is the most beautiful place I’d ever been to that I’d never heard of. The whole Aegean Sea is incredible.
Edit: Meant “Adriatic” Sea.
My in law’s summer cabin. In the middle of nowhere, only swamps and forests and a small lake. Sun rising / setting over the lake, with possibly morning mist. No worries. No noises, just birds chirping. Sitting on the porch just taking it all in. Amazing.
