What's the best sight in the world you have seen?

[bramblina]

I'm not very well travelled but found the view of Mount Vesuvious (sp?) from the plane a week after it errupted quite something. And the climb on the motorway to the Mont Blanc tunnel (pre accident, 12 yrs ago) wonderful.

I know a retired pilot who, of all the views in the world he has seen, thinks the most amazing is the drive down Glen Docherty, 20 miles from where I live! I don't think it's very good on Google Earth. NW Scotland if you're intersted.

I was wondering what your favourite view is?

I'm gonna be mushy and not name places in the world, sorry. But truly the best thing I've ever seen was Lotties face as she saw her baby sister be born. She did her estatic, excited happy hands and he whole face was totally alive with the 'oh my goodness' of it all. It moves me to tears to think of it now. It was out of this world and I don't think anything will ever beat it.

Rannoch Moor - early September morning, no traffic, low lying ground mist. We had a classic "wish I had a camera to hand" moment when we had to stop the car as there was a magnificent stag middle of the road staring at us. Pure magic. Sat in silence watching this animal in total awe.

Tiny aircraft flying very low over Myanmar jungle, circling round to go into North Thailand - wow!!

Flying high over India in monsoon season and watching outrageous lightning shows and cloud formations.

Oh dear Thomcat- You have got me blarting away....

LOL tiredmama - I'm crying too! We're hot, tired and emotional!

grand canyon probably

or view from top of twin towers

Glen Coe
Loch Ness
From the top of Snowdon
Loads of lake district
Mont Blanc
Lake Annecy
Obergurgl in the snow
Val Gardena valley and surrounding areas

One of them has to be flying home over the Greek islands on a very clear day....incredibly beautiful.

Humpback whales off eastern US coast, my jaw was on the floor.

reminds me of a story told by a friend. was in a twin seater flying across a sparsely populated area of oz. the aussie pilot gazed down and remarked "welcome to the GAFA" (the Great Australian Fuck All)

The ceiling of Grand Central station in New York.

Flying over (I think) Lybia on a night flight and seeing sparkling lights below and millions of stars in the sky. Magical.

I think seeing an unobscured sunrise or sunset anywhere is pretty amazing. I have seen many spectacular views in different countries but nothing stops me in my tracks and makes me stare in awe more than a beautiful sky.

sunset/sunrise over flat desert in western queensland - one minute there, gone the next

fireworks over edinburgh castle on Hogmanay

vietnam veterans wall in Washington DS - backlight at night

bald eagle hunting/fishing over Lake Couer d'Alene

riding skyrail over the mountain range overlooking cairns and being able to see all the way to the reef

every morning joy of seeing dh and I for the first time in the day on the faces of my dds.

Standing in Anne Franks attic ( mind blowing)

victoria falls in zambia saw it first when i was 11 and have never seen anything as spectacular since. I would love to take ds1

Loch Torridon, esp from Liatach
Rannoch Moor (how can that note reduce you to stunned silence)
Flying over the iceflows en route to San Francisco. Amazing
The desert in Qatar
View of houses of parliament from (I think) Lambeth Bridge at dawn

karnak temple in luxor eygpt at night walking through the hypostyle hall

fabulous

grand canyon...and golden gate bridge

Uluru at sunrise is pretty amazing.

flying in to the Maldives - simply stunning!

Mount Fuji Japan.
Would love to see the Northern Lights but haven't yet.
Las Vegas strip from our hotel window a few years ago - just awesome the first time. (Not a 'natural' view but crazy none the less)

Bryce Canyon in Utah is spectacular as is the Grand Canyon. The rustic red of Bryce Canyon really sets it apart but the vastness, depth and mesmeriing beauty of the Grand Canyon is something to behold.

The Hoover Dam is a magnificent sight. One appreciates and admires what intelligence, creativity and imagination can achieve.

Table Mountain in South Africa is wondrous. It really does look like there is a table cloth covering the mountain. To me, it provides a beautiful and platonic contrasts to the awful history of that country wrt to apartheid and how the country is now trying to embrace the natural beauty of all its people in order to move forward.

Jamaica, where my family originate, is simply beautiful.

karnak temple in luxor by day and night...magnificent

Empore state building was good just for the fact had seen it so much on tv so to be there was amazing.

The sight, sounds and sheer physical sensation of Carnival in Rio

Nara in Japan, early in the morning
The evening sky in Malawi & Tanzania
a cold beer with condensation on the glass
and Is econd Malory on portmeirion - just back from a week gazing at the estuary