Friday, October 21, 2011

La Paz

A huge city way up high. It's got neat twists and turns and bridges and really cool stuff like that. It's like a city built out of a canyon or something. And the fact that it's huge with skyscrapers, stadiums, and everything, makes it even cooler.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Point Udall

The Caribbean island of Saint Croix belongs to the United States Virgin Islands. Point Udall, a tiny peninsula on a peninsula on the island, is the easternmost point of United States land. Better than this is the panorama of green island and blue ocean surrounding the point, along with the crazy cliffs on the shore.

Southern Dagestan

The area of Dagestan that borders Azerbaijan is a very amazing spot on the planet. The Caucasus mountains give the villages here a gorgeous setting. The spot near the southernmost point in Russia is especially a spot I'd like to see. One person states that the highest settlement in Europe is located in or near a place called Qurush, and it sure is beautiful there.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Lake Huites

Located near the place where Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora meet, Lake Huites is a pretty big lake, with nice backdrops of the surrounding mountains all over.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Vinales Valley

A large valley near Vinales, Cuba, has some great views of tall rounded mountains/hills. There are also caves nearby, and an enormous colorful mural on one of the mountains. The greenery here is also astounding.

Plitvice Lakes

Possibly the most beautiful natural scenery in all of Europe. Croatia's most popular national park is located in the Dinaric Alps, featuring lakes aplenty with very colorful contributions. Lots of great ways to explore this land, I'm sure. A hike among all this beauty would quite surely make my day.

Man

Not necessarily the city of Man is the place I'd like to see here, but the mountainous area around it, part of the Guinea Highlands. There lots of interesting peaks and prominent features in Man's area. There is also a promising-looking national park to the northeast.

Chirripó National Park

Chirripó is the highest mountain in Costa Rica, and much of Central America. Surrounding this rocky peak is a national park with some amazing rock formations. A group of these are called the Crestones (Los Crestones), and are quite tall and grand to look at. Many high-elevation lakes and small bodies of water are located up here in the Continental Divide highlands.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Taranaki

Taranaki is a beautiful and huge mountain (also count Mount Egmont) on New Zealand's North Island. It's the centerpiece (centrepiece) of Egmont National Park, which is a circular area surrounding the peak, filled with great natural preservation in contrast to the surrounding farmland.

Musandam Peninsula

For some odd reason, much or all of the Musandam Peninsula belongs to Oman right now, as a sort of exclave. Still, it's quite a nice piece of land. Not only is it by the "border" of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, it's also home to a quite impressive area of fjords and mountains at its very tip. Among these winding and twisting turns in the rocks, there is a very interesting town called Kumzar, which looks quite fantastical in the valley setting among this unique geology.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Bristol

Bristol is technically two cities, but they border each other right on the boundaries of Tennessee and Virginia, so it would seem to be one big city being there. State Street in its downtown area goes right along the boundary, with a few plaques and stuff to note the boundary here and there. There are also interesting cultural events that take place from time to time.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Mount Nyiragongo

Do not want to climb this one. Judging by its very fiery caldera, it's a pretty scary volcano. What I do wish to see is the glow that its lava lake gives off at night. Also interesting to tour could be Virunga National Park, which Nyiragongo is either part of or very near to.

Tatacoa Desert

In northern Huila Department of Colombia, there is a beautiful desert landscape called the Desierto de Tatacoa. It's quite pretty from the pictures I've seen of it: the rocks are quite colorful and are shaped quite creatively. There are also many kinds of cacti to add to the scenery.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Ilha da Trindade

Ilha da Trindade is an island of Brazil way out in the Atlantic. Not way, way out, like Saint Helena, but still quite a ways from the mainland. Anyway, it's really colorful, pretty, and has lots of neat mountainous terrain, so it'd be quite a neat place to explore by helicopter or foot or something like that.