Monday, August 29, 2011
Pitcairn Island
These beautiful islands are home to less than a hundred people. The remarkable cliffs here and the lack of artificially being destroyed compared to other Pacific Islands would be something to attract me.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt is a pretty big city, significant in its location. It is on the Pacific coast of Chile, to the west of the Andes Moutains. The bay there is quite large and interesting, with many chips coming in frequently, I assume from all the boat-related photographs from Puerto Montt. Calbuco and Osorno, two high mountains, are most likely visible at a distance to the northwest as well (which would also be super cool to see up closer!).
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Alaska
So here's another month-long trip idea: visiting every borough in Alaska. There are almost thirty of them, so it would fit quite well for a month trip.
- Anchorage (Anchorage)
- Kenai Fjords National Park (Kenai Peninsula)
- Kodiak (Kodiak Island)
- Katmai National Park (Lake and Peninsula)
- Unalaska (Aleutians East) - (note: Unlaska looks REALLY pretty!)
- Attu Island (Aleutians West)
- King Salmon (Bristol Bay)
- Dillingham (Dillingham)
- Bethel (Bethel)
- Saint Mary's (Wade Hampton)
- Nome (Nome)
- Kobuk Valley National Park (Northwest Arctic)
- Barrow (North Slope)
- Gates of the Arctic National Park (Yukon-Koyukuk)
- Fairbanks (Fairbanks North Star)
- Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve (Southeast Fairbanks)
- Denali National Park (Denali)
- Matanuska Glacier (Matanuska-Susitna)
- Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park (Valdez-Cordova)
- Yakutat (Yakutat)
- Admiralty Island (Hoonah-Angoon)
- Chilkat State Park (Haines)
- Skagway (Skagway)
- Juneau (Juneau)
- Sitka (Sitka)
- Petersburg (Petersburg)
- Wrangell (Wrangell)
- Misty Fjords (Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan) [update: Apparently, Misty Fjords is in the Ketchikan borough actually. :( ]
- Ketchikan (Ketchikan)
Any better suggestions than the ones I put? I just looked on the map for features for most of these, not being an experienced Alaskan.
Quime
Quime is a nice rural populated place east of La Paz, in a magnificent Andean valley, in the northern Cordillera Real to be more exact. To be honest, I really have no memory of why I decided a while ago to post Quime, but surely it's a neat place in some sense.
Salar de Uyuni
A huge area in southwestern Bolivia is sometimes desert and sometimes lake. When it's a lake, it's not very deep, but very flat at times, resulting in an amazing natural mirror or sorts, reflecting the nearby clouds and sky outstandingly well. Other times, when it is dry, the plain sight of miles and miles of plain salt flats is quite surrealistic in ways.
Islands of the Four Mountains
Specifically the Four Mountains islands, which I discovered browsing through the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, would be quite beautiful to see all together I imagine.
Marlborough Sounds
There are tons of interesting twists and turns that are too intricate to be seen on a map; even more unimaginable it must be actually present there, seeing all the amazing land and water features. Exploring them both terrestrially and aquatically seems like a must as well.
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