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1) Big Hole Valley in southern Montana.
This place offers a fantastic view of the Sawtooth Range, and is rich in American history.
2) Grand Tetons
A little farther south in the Rockies range, this is simply one impressive sight.
3) Palouse Falls
Located in south-east Washington state. An interesting thing about this part of the country is that it all looks flat if you're driving across it. But there are more valleys and river cuts than you can shake a stick at. You just have to find them.
4) Ocala National Forest
Located in central Florida, it's really a lot of swampland. But it was there that I observed a pair of Golden Eagles on a daily basis, making it very memorable. Canoeing next to gators was something too.
5) Horse Creek Hot Springs
Located directly on the Idaho/Montana border, 300 feet down from the mountain-top. This is where deer, elk, moose, bear and cougars still outnumber humans. The hot spring is very nice, the terrain is awesome.
RE: Palouse Falls. I'm headed to NE Oregon tomorrow for a week, and plan to visit the falls on my way back.
worst place in australia: alice springs. if you want to hide your belongings in a safe place, put then in one of your bodyholes. if you dont want your car stolen, take the wheels off and battery out, empty the tank. leave doors and windows open, otherwise they will smash all windows. if you need to go for a walk after dawn and want to avoid trouble, shoot everyone you see when you come close to the river. good luck!
...if you really want to see a beautiful place come to Loch Lomond. The "bonnie banks" are only about half a mile from my house. I have lived around here all my life,...
Would have to agree. Spent my pre-teen years not far from Loch Lomond and then moved to Kent (South Downs, etc) as mentioned by Limbo.
Favourite/most memorable places?
Chichen Itza - Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Ngorongoro crater & the Serengeti plains, Tanzania.
St Vincent & Bequai (first ever holiday abroad)
Kent - up the Downs, all the villages, woodland, orchards, streams and a pushbike. Ah, memories of an Enid Blyton childhood.
Travelling the Ring of Kerry (Eire) in a horse-drawn gypsy caravan - hard work but worth it.
London - down by the Thames in time for the sunrise.
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It's actually Scotch Whisky
I'm impressed. This is the longest thread I've managed in 2 years. I missed out on Palouse Falls last week - truck wanted to act funny and I wasn't laughing. I wasn't too far from Hell's Canyon in Oregon. The mountains, lakes and valleys are just great. I used my glasses to watch a bear crawl around on a ridge near Joseph Mountain.
There are many, many other places I could add to this great list. However, I'm feeling nice and won't subject you all to the enhanced list.
I'd love to see Stonehenge, for instance - Why? Its a pile of old stones by the edge of a motorway.....
Yes, and the Grand Canyon is just a big hole in the ground. ;)
Seriously, the pictures I've seen of Stonehenge have looked pretty neat. But I guess they've all been taken from the same direction, because I've never seen a racetrack in them. Good grief, wasn't there anywhere else to build the thing than right beside an ancient monument? Just what you want; roaring engines and shouting crowds while you're trying to sightsee.
Aw, okay, I am being sarcastic.
Poros in the Greek Islands is awesome. Nice tavernas and friendly locals. Spent many a night drinking metaxa and ouzo and dreaming of retiring there.
It's also famous for its lace; now unfortunately, if you find lace there you can afford, it's probably made in China. The real Burano lace can cost several hundreds of euros for a small doily-sized piece.
Another lasting impression was my first visit to New York: the crowded streets full with busy people and the tall buildings were more dynamic than anything I'd ever seen before.
Alice springs, sounds like the town I grew up in - Highest murder rate outside London(late 80's), sexual offences against kids sky high(current). Not surprisingly its got a bad reputation, house prices are at least 30% lower than surrounding towns.
Despite living their for 27 years there was this one estate where I only went 3 times in all those years, went in to a house there and thought it was a squat..... Same estate, your life expentancy was one of the lowest in the east of Engalnd.
Not nice.
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It's best (most spectacular) to arrive by small boat from the south!
you are really missing out if you don't come to Europe - we have great cities like London, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, Prague...to name just a few! :)
I wouldn't mind seeing those places. But seeing as I hate citys and crowds and such. I've had panic atacks just visiting Indy and And subway travel is very difficult for me unless it is an off time.
However there are so many great places I haven't seen that are even in my own state. And these places are a lot more afordable then a 2 or 3 thousand dollor plane ticket to Europe. So until I hit the lottery or the price of trans continintal air fair dropes to $200 round trip I'll just have to keep my travels local.
I have a goal to visit every state/national park in Indiana anyway and that will pretty much consume and traveling I have to do. besides It's great to go on a simple relaxing vacation for a weekend. Whenever I have gone father away I always seem to need another vacation just to recuperate from the first.
Great place to visit in Indiana--West Baden Springs Hotel It's the largest free standing dome in the world and at the time of it's operation it was the most luxurous hotel in the United States.
And if you need night clubs ..you have the latest ..or tiny little mom and pop bars ...and you gotta see what the maltese drive ....:))...and they have dragsters at hal far too ...
Any Maltese or Gozitans out there ...Saha..
you are really missing out if you don't come to Europe - we have great cities like London, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, Prague...to name just a few! :)
That is a reason why I took my family for a five-week tour of 10 cities in Europe, from London to Athens last month. What an experience on the TUBE in London on July 21 at lunchtime!
I still prefer the peaceful of Banff-Lake Louise area in the Canadian Rockies.
...if you really want to see a beautiful place come to Loch Lomond. The "bonnie banks" are only about half a mile from my house. I have lived around here all my life,...
Hey, that's near my house [lochlomondmarina.com]!
2 - Volcanoes National Park, The Big Island, Hawaii [nps.gov] - Because watching lava spewing hundreds of feet into the air or flowing into the Ocean... from a few feet away... is an experience you should try to fit into your schedule.
3 - Foz do Iguaçu [gosouthamerica.about.com] - The waterfalls on the border of Brazil and Argentina are ... a really well spent day. If you can only go to one side, be sure its Argentina.
This is a small fishing village with a couple of beaches, a few tavernas, good food and drink and peace and quiet. (It doesn't even have any Internet cafes but there is a 15 minute bus service to Rethymnon if you must.)
And, I am going there next month :)
