That is an amazing pic...I would ahve loved to see it like that, but happy I got to go to all the walkways.
I would consider Machu Picchu better than Angkor wat. I have been to both in the past year....
It was really crazy that is for sure. I dont even think we'd have been able to see the devils throat from the lookout there anyway, there was way too much mist (we did see it from further back).
It was nice that we got to use all the walkways still on the Argentine side.
Just snapped this pic yesterday, just hanging off the ledge of a huge slab of granite (i.e. the 2nd pic, the large dome on the left, the 1st pic taken about 1/5 the way up)
So relaxing just being in the middle of no where, nobody walking around or talking, no sounds of cars or phones or anything. Just the wind and the sound of water crashing against rocks in the canyon below.
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Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro - The view of the glacier on the way down is unreal
On Kilimanjaro, the glaciers look almost like surreal toys . . . . .
But I think I was in too much pain from the altitude to really call it a "favourite place!!!" Even these guys were moving at a glacial pace with the clouds well below them.
Yes, Upper Kananaskis Lake - particularly in the spring like below, is wonderful walking . . . . I like walking around in the winter particularly.
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So far... Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island in Australia - pristine freshwater beach.
Well, either there or Amsterdam.
I was pretty hung over when I visited Lake McKenzie. Our tour guide insisted that everyone must go swimming and that it was one of the most beautiful places on earth. I could have cared less, I was dying and spent the whole time I was there sleeping on the beach. Fraser Island is a spectacular place to visit though.
Yes I'm bumping my own thread because I was inspired on Canada Day.
My wife and I, along with a friend of hers went out to Banff on July 1st. We first stopped and spent some time walking around Lake Louise - I've popped in there now and then over the years - it's an iconic Canadian location and it never loses the sense of beauty and timelessness.
But then we drove over to Moraine Lake - I hadn't been there since I was probably around 5 or so. You see pictures and you look at the $20 bill and you know what it looks like, but, wow. Lake Louise is beautiful - Moraine Lake is jaw-dropping spectacular. Even for those of us that spend a lot of time in the mountains and try not to take for granted what we have in our backyard, sometimes it's still nice to be reminded how lucky we are to live where we do.
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Guaíra Falls (Spanish: Saltos del Guairá, Portuguese: Salto das Sete Quedas do Guaíra) were a series of immense waterfalls on the Paraná River along the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The falls no longer exist, inundated in 1982 by the impoundment of the Itaipu Damreservoir. While published figures vary, ranging from 470,000 cubic feet (13,000 m3) per second[1] to 1,750,000 cubic feet (50,000 m3) per second,[2] Guaíra's flow rate was among the greatest of any falls on earth.
The falls comprised 18 cataracts clustered in seven groups—hence their Portuguese name, Sete Quedas (Seven Falls)—near the Brazilian municipality of Guaíra, Paraná and Salto de Guairá, the easternmost city in Paraguay. The falls were located at a point where the Paraná River was forced through a narrow gorge. At the head of the falls, the river narrowed sharply from a width of about 1,250 feet (380 m) to 200 feet (61 m). The total height of the falls was approximately 375 feet (114 m), while the largest individual cataract was 130 feet (40 m) high. The roar of the plunging water could be heard from 20 miles (32 km) away.[3]
