where is the most beautiful place you have been?

[juice]

i have not travelled that much. but i know the north of scotland pretty well and parts of the west coast are just beautiful. undisturbed beaches that are just heaven. and it is so peaceful. you could run around naked it bits and no one would see you.

Bali. Paradise on earth.

I lived in Thurso, too, for 4yrs and ds2 was born there! We used to go to Dunnet Head and all the other gorgeous beaches along that coast, Farr, Tongue etc - beautiful.

The Maldives - no news, no shoes - bliss

Little fjords in Orkney, late afternoon in late spring - greeny-grey land melting into sea, pink-silver light, and silence except for skylarks. Particularly nice from a canoe.

The Llynn Peninsula in North Wales

Delanog North Wales, but you have to find the exact spot!

suedonim, can i be nosey and ask when you lived in thurso. i left in 2001. after being up there for 12 years. i used to run a removal business up there with a partner

I was before your time, then, Juice, as we lived there from '79-83. It was an amazing place to live, so much freedom for the children and so safe. When we moved away we discovered our car door locks has rusted up because we'd never locked them in Thurso!

Thailand - Koh Tao

and

the Grand Canyon.

Pete McCarthy did an excellent Travelog report on it once and said how it was even better than everyone raved about it being.

It is the only time I've wanted to cry at the beauty of nature. We went twice in February some years ago. The firt time it was so snowy we got turned away at the 'gates'. The second weekend there was just the dusting of snow and the beautiful colours.

Bali for me, too. Possibly followed by Bermuda.

what a great thread for inspiring holidays

There is a car park on the road out of Inverness towards Gairloch. From it, you can look through the valleys to Loch Marie. It is truly the most beautiful and peaceful sight I have ever seen. I long to go back there.

The giants causeway and The Blue Mountains in Australia

I loved the changing colours at the Grand Canyon and I also loved the sunsets in Masai Mara when we did a safari there.

colditz,you are right.
Frizbe...where? Don't know this place and hell,I know North Wales very well indeed.

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Cape Point - and the area around it - absolutely stunning - and Table Mountain is pretty impressive too - and the hillls around Nyanga (Zimbabwe) are truly breathtaking.

the southern alps in NZ are amazing and also Lake Taupo and the whole geyser region around, stunnign, I miss it a lot

Parts of Wales are stunning in a similar untouched way I found as is Ireland esp the wild West Coast
The Lake District is where my dads ashes are scattered and I adore much of the non touristy areas too...

Would have to go with QoQ on that one and say Cape Point is pretty spectacular, although the Maldives rate pretty highly to imo.

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I just love Turnberry. Beautiful place.

Its a small world when now 2 MNers know about the delights of Thurso and the north coast!

Havent been up since last october as i said but hope to get up there again next year.

You are right though, nothing really changes from one year to the next which i think is jsut fantastic!

OOOOHH just had another thought, the Isle of Mull is gorgeous to0.

Taormina in Sicily
Venice

Apparently you can see the Northern Lights in Thurso?
Have you two?
Know a girl who lived there. Shame she isn't as nice as Thurso sounds...

A place called God's Window in South Africa and the Matopos in Zimbabwe-weird but beautiful.

West of Scotland for me to, particularly Glencoe and surrounds. Perfect peace and four seasons in one day sometimes!