Most beautiful place that you've visited in person?

[JangoMike]

1. Yosemite Valley
2. Switzerland

Ive got a cool spot half way up El Capitan that Ill haul my gear up. Set up a hammock and just relax. Heaven on Earth.

 

[SoSo]

I spent two days in Kakslauttanen. Saariselkä, Finland. Not my pics but you get the idea.

I've seen the northern lights too. Not chilling in a swanky spot like that though. Think more apocalyptic: an old orphanage that was going to be torn down and replaced with apartments in Fairbanks. We (traveling construction crew) were living there putting steel up on another project the owner had. The rest of the crew jumped in the E350 and took off to Wasilla to chase and try and smash some hoes (I already got mine out of that group, and didn't want to do the drive for the weekend). So that left me hanging out by myself with no phone, no transportation, TV dinners, 60 beers and two bottles of vodka for the weekend. I think it was in November.

Dark all the time and those lights were dancing across the sky constantly. Just me some blankets, a sleeping bag, balaclava, camp chair and my booze. Those lights were mesmerizing. They put me into some kind of trance. I didn't want to light a fire to ruin the viewing. I don't know how I didn't die of hypothermia being lost in the travels of the lights. They were like a siren calling to me with their slow fidgeting flickering. It spoke to my consciousness, and over that weekend I spent hours and hours watching them on their path. And, a couple days (they were really all nights, no true sunlight to speak of) later being scared by thinking I was hearing children laughing and crying in the dark around me in the abandoned orphanage.

I was 20 and it was my first serious alcoholic bender by myself. What a way to do it. Had been in Alaska for a couple months at that point, and stayed after for a couple more. Never saw the NL as clear and colorful again. It truly is the luck of the draw if when you see them, they are lackluster or spectacular. Or if it's fucking cloudy most of the time like it was in Fairbanks while I was there. But if you see em good, you'll never forget em.

 

[HHJ]

I've seen the northern lights too. Not chilling in a swanky spot like that though. Think more apocalyptic: an old orphanage that was going to be torn down and replaced with apartments in Fairbanks. We (traveling construction crew) were living there putting steel up on another project the owner had. The rest of the crew jumped in the E350 and took off to Wasilla to chase and try and smash some hoes (I already got mine out of that group, and didn't want to do the drive for the weekend). So that left me hanging out by myself with no phone, no transportation, TV dinners, 60 beers and two bottles of vodka for the weekend. I think it was in November.

Dark all the time and those lights were dancing across the sky constantly. Just me some blankets, a sleeping bag, balaclava, camp chair and my booze. Those lights were mesmerizing. They put me into some kind of trance. I didn't want to light a fire to ruin the viewing. I don't know how I didn't die of hypothermia being lost in the travels of the lights. They were like a siren calling to me with their slow fidgeting flickering. It spoke to my consciousness, and over that weekend I spent hours and hours watching them on their path. And, a couple days (they were really all nights, no true sunlight to speak of) later being scared by thinking I was hearing children laughing and crying in the dark around me in the abandoned orphanage.

I was 20 and it was my first serious alcoholic bender by myself. What a way to do it. Had been in Alaska for a couple months at that point, and stayed after for a couple more. Never saw the NL as clear and colorful again. It truly is the luck of the draw if when you see them, they are lackluster or spectacular. Or if it's fucking cloudy most of the time like it was in Fairbanks while I was there. But if you see em good, you'll never forget em.

Gonna attempt to see the NL in December in Iceland

 

[Contempt]

And please be specific. So instead of saying "Hawaii" say the actual beach you went to.

I am going to go with Switzerland and Norway.

If we're being specific: Mount Titlis and Bergen... or really, the train ride up to Bergen.

Raratonga in the Cook Islands is pretty great too.

 

[HHJ]

Funny except from the book EATERS OF THE DEAD,where a arab chronicler somehow encounters Vikings and writes about his journey with them.

"Then passed eight more days upon the vessel, still traveling the Volga River, and the land was more mountainous about the valley of the river. Now we came to another branching of the river, where it is called by the Northmen the Oker River, and here we took the leftmost branch and continued on for ten days farther. The air was chill and the wind strong, and much snow lay still upon the ground. They have many great forests also in this region, which the Northmen call Vada.

Then we came to a camp of North people which was Massborg. This was hardly a town but a camp of a few wooden houses, built large in the North fashion; and this town lives by sale of foodstuff to traders who come back and forth along this route. At Massborg we left our vessel, and traveled overland by horse for eighteen days. This was a difficult mountain region, and exceedingly cold, and I was much exhausted by the rigors of the journey. These North people never travel at night. Nor do they often sail at night, but prefer every evening to beach their ship and await the light of dawn before continuing farther.

Yet this was the occurrence: during our travels, the period of the night became so short you could not cook a pot of meat in the time of it. Verily it seemed that as soon as I lay down to sleep I was awakened by the Northmen who said, "Come, it is day, we must continue the journey." Nor was the sleep refreshing in these cold places.

Also, Herger explained to me that in this North country the day is long in the summer, and the night is long in the winter, and rarely are they equal. Then he said to me I should watch in the night for the sky curtain; and upon one evening I did, and I saw in the sky shimmering pale lights, of green and yellow and sometimes blue, which hung as a curtain in the high air. I was much amazed by the sight of this sky curtain but the Northmen count it nothing strange."

 

[HHJ]

The view whilst driving towards Mt Cook in New Zealand, just spectacular

 

[SoSo]

Gonna attempt to see the NL in December in Iceland

Wish you luck man. I didn't know at the time, but I was so lucky to get a kick ass show. Just like a drug, I think set and setting probably adds quite a lot to the experience too. Just like most things. And from the looks of the photos of Iceland you've shared over a few posts/threads, I think you have setting fucking nailed. Cheers to a unique unforgettable experience you're gonna have bro!

 

[Bacco]

Even just staying in italy i've hard time pick one

Sardegna

Toscana

Trentino Alto Adige

Venezia

Liguria

Going out of Italia, i have a soft spot for

Santorini

Prague

Mont St. Michel

Seville

 

[HHJ]

Wish you luck man. I didn't know at the time, but I was so lucky to get a kick ass show. Just like a drug, I think set and setting probably adds quite a lot to the experience too. Just like most things. And from the looks of the photos of Iceland you've shared over a few posts/threads, I think you have setting fucking nailed. Cheers to a unique unforgettable experience you're gonna have bro!

Last Winter I went and didnt catch it. It was there,but...just not enough clear skies

 

[HHJ]

Even just staying in italy i've hard time pick one

Sardegna

Toscana

Trentino Alto Adige

Venezia

Liguria

Going out of Italia, i have a soft spot for

Santorini

Prague

Mont St. Michel

Seville

Fuckin hell.

Europe really knows how to light shit at night. We doin it all WRONG baby!

 

[HHJ]

Lets all get high and look at drone footage of shit. Apparently from this mountain here you can see one sixth of the country from the top

 

[HHJ]

 

[Rawex]

Growing up in Germany we used to drive down to Bavaria for our holidays and I've always thought of it as the most beautiful place I've ever been. As for the highlight it has to be Neuschwanstein Castle

Spoiler

@Deffid

 

[HHJ]

 

[Diktaattori]

Gonna attempt to see the NL in December in Iceland

Here's hoping you get lucky. I live in southern Finland and before I went to Lapland I'd only seen em once. This country is absolutely breathtaking but people in here kinda forget it. Summers are great just for the fact that when you see tourists drunk and they realise it's 1:30am and it's still "sunny" outside.

 

[HHJ]

Here's hoping you get lucky. I live in southern Finland and before I went to Lapland I'd only seen em once. This country is absolutely breathtaking but people in here kinda forget it. Summers are great just for the fact that when you see tourists drunk and they realise it's 1:30am and it's still "sunny" outside.

I had a weird experience in Iceland. I had hooked up w some girl,and left her place to go meet my friends at the bars before they closed. It was midnight,but outside it looked like 3pm in the afternoon. I never experienced that "midnight sun" before. Sure id been there for a few days but this particular moment,it blew me away how bright it was. I found it alot more weird than it being night all the time in the winter when I visited Iceland and Sweden.

 

[kjg1672]

Probably Anse Lansio beach in Seychelles. Also thought parts of Ireland were quite beautiful ie Kilkenny and Cliffs of Moher.

 

[Diktaattori]

I had a weird experience in Iceland. I had hooked up w some girl,and left her place to go meet my friends at the bars before they closed. It was midnight,but outside it looked like 3pm in the afternoon. I never experienced that "midnight sun" before. Sure id been there for a few days but this particular moment,it blew me away how bright it was. I found it alot more weird than it being night all the time in the winter when I visited Iceland and Sweden.

Yeah people usually know about it before they visit but so many people have told me that it just hits different when you experience it, they get like emotional. I'm sure booze has nothing to do with it.

It's gonna be a long winter again

 

[HHJ]

Yeah people usually know about it before they visit but so many people have told me that it just hits different when you experience it, they get like emotional. I'm sure booze has nothing to do with it.

It's gonna be a long winter again

Yeah thats rough. In NY its depressing when the days grow so short,but its nothing compared to over there. I remember arriving at 9 am to Iceland and it was still dark hahah

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Mongolia. the road out of Ulanbataar just stops and you'd take the 4x4 over these endless green hills that stretch out to the horizon. there are no electricity lines, there's nothing man-made between the earth and the sky. when you run into a small settlement of gers (yurts), there's the usual hospitality, mutual curiosity, you exchange pleasantries and you go on your way. the silence is something like i've never experienced anywhere. you leave your car and walk a mile in any direction and sit down and listen and there's nothing but the wind, almost crushing silence. i hope i will get to go there again.