Beautiful Sights

[BigDogsWang]

What's the most awe inspiring thing you've ever seen? Landscape or building? Mine was a trip to Canada some years back, and the most beautiful thing I ever saw was Lake Morraine, near Banff. So serene. In fact I even took a picture and had it made into a mouse mat. If you want to see what I mean, have a look at http://www.david-reid.com/me/show_pic.php?id=518&aid=78

[tartanwiz]

I once saw a breathtaking sunset that looked like rivers of lava and islands of gold, and I thought that was beautiful. I once saw a valley in Dorset where the fields and hedgerows stretched into infinity under a deep summer sky, and I thought that was beautiful. But I didn't know what beautiful was until I looked into the face of my darling.

[andy hughes]

Until last year, it was always York Minster. The notion that generations worked on this monument to God for their whole lives, and never saw it completed. It's not the religious aspect - I'm an aetheist - purely the strength of devotion that makes people build something like that. Then I saw The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, and it made York Minster look like a lean-to shack. Now that really is devotion, the most magnificent building I have ever seen.

[Bangkok]

The top of Mount Fuji through the clouds from a plane.  Snow covered peak, then a band of rock then white cloud.

 

Ta Prom temple in Siam Reap, Cambodia.  Hugh trees growing out of the walls of the 7th Century temple

http://asiaforvisitors.com/include/disp_photo.html?path=/cambodia/angkor/bigpics/taprom.JPG

[Quizmonster]

Assuming we don't have to refer to a landscape or building, the most awe-inspiring thing I ever saw was a giant turtle laying her eggs on a beach on an island in the Indian Ocean. The effort...the unstoppability...the sheer "nature unbound" of it all was heart-stopping in its majesty.

[smudge]

1. The Grand Canyon from a helicopter, then landing in the peaceful Indian Reservation area.

2. Angel Falls from a light aircraft.

3. Sydney Harbour Bridge

4. The Opera House

5. Woronora Dam in Sydney.

6. Alcatraz - approaching it from the boat & all the fantastic sites we saw on a fly drive holiday in America.

7. Scenery on my first Helicopter lesson.

8. Not forgetting the beautiful faces of our two  daughters & Grandchildren when they were just born.

 

 

[smudge]

Apologies for overdoing it on the highlights - it didn't look that bad when I was typing it!

[BigDogsWang]

Actually, that's just reminded me of another one from my top ten. In a Submarine in the Carribean, just of the cost of Barbados, 150 ft down, a turtle coming right up to our window. Almost as if it was part of a display.

[CiderMonkey]

snorkeling in the absolutely clear sea around Corfu and having hundreds of beautiful and exotic fish swimming around me.

[luckystrike]

 

Two things in particular stick in my mind:

 

Looking up towards Table Mountain in Cape Town from the balcony of our hotel, sitting outside having breakfast on a cool August morning, without a cloud in the sky.

 

My first glimpse of the fairytale castle of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, the one which Walt Disney based Sleeping Beauty on.

 

[Bangkok]

Forgot (not sure how), snorkling on the Great Barrier Reef

[BUNNY]

I went to Carrick-a-rede rope bridge off the Antrim Coast in NIreland this summer.It was the most fabulously hot sunny day.My boyfriend and I crossed the rope bridge to a little island and lay on the grass.The sky was so blue,and the sea was the most beautiful greenish blue colour.It was totally peaceful except for the birds.I can remember lying there thinking I could be nowhere more perfect.It may not be exotic but it was a magical moment that will stay with me.

[amarillis]

Snorkelling the coral reefs in Vanuatu,

Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona,

Fields of wildflowers in the Swiss alps,

The most spectacular sunsets in Australia after Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Phillipines in 1990, because of all the dust in the atmosphere

[jakesi]

Standing on top of Aryes rock,  it was'nt just the view but the acheivement off getting there.

[gazgibbs]

My first son being born. WOW!

[Jamie Lewis]

The view from the hotel I stayed in when I went to Belaggio on Lake Como, Italy.

[Clanad]

Piloting a 727 at Flight Level 370 over northern Arizona, approaching a line of thunderstorms at 2:00AM and seeing the lightning coming out of the tops of the clouds...

[LeedsRhinos]

 The birth of my daughter, flying over the Angel Falls, walking behind a waterfall in Canaima in Venezuela, the view of Sydney & the Opera House from on top of the Sydney Harbour bridge, my wife in her wedding dress, Cologne cathedral, the view from our garden in New Zealand, (the old) Wembley stadium, the surroundings while scuba diving in Jamaica  (like being on another planet) .