Most beautiful place on earth you've seen, if you're a regular person?

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Anonymous wrote:I've been very lucky to travel to about 60 countries (Pan Am flight attendant after college and have owned a travel company for the past 8 years). I've been to most mentioned here and although some are certainly in my top 10, the most beautiful place I've ever been is Antarctica. I was on a luxury expedition this past March and truly, standing on the shores of Antarctica and seeing nothing man-made but only God's created beauty left me truly speechless.

I'm curious what are the 9 others in your top list?

Same! I would also like to hear about being a Pan Am flight attendant, and your travel company.

I'm not the Pan Am flight attendant you queried, but if you want to know more about that era and the destinations they flew, read Come Fly the World. It's quite a story. (And what about Moorea?!)

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Snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef - breathtaking!

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Various areas of Olympic National Park. Japanese Alps. Mountains around Chiang Mai and various islands of Thailand in the south. Areas of Bavaria.

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Taj Mahal

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Anonymous wrote:South Island, New Zealand near Wellington and Milford Sound

Huh? Wellington is on the North Island.

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The sunrise over Bagan in Mynamar

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Anonymous wrote:Hawaii

Not a friendly place to visit if you’re a “haole” (white).

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Anonymous wrote:Taj Mahal

The area is super polluted and there are beggars everywhere there.

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Normal person - The Blue Ridge mountains. I think Virginia is the prettiest state.

Traveler - Mongolia's Flaming Cliffs at sunrise or the Aran Islands (Inishmore) at sunset (like 11pm) overlooking the cliffs. (I guess it's some kind of cliff vista for me.)

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Sunset in Santorini. Cliche but the most stunning I've ever seen.

Sedona for its otherworldly beauty.

Driving the PCH around Big Sur.

Million Dollar Highway around Ouray, CO...terrifying but worth it.

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Yosemite valley

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Kauai, Sedona, Costa Rica - all accessible to normal people!

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Pan Am flight attendant/travel company owner here. The rest of my top ten would be:
Cliffs of Moher
Reynisfjara Iceland
Emerald Lake, British Colombia
Faroe Islands
Luberon
Grand Tetons
Hong Kong (maybe not for the same reasons as some of the others)
Patagonia
Ischia

With this said, I haven't been many places in Africa and the only places I've been in Asia are Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Perhaps why my list is Europe heavy.

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Anonymous wrote:Pan Am flight attendant/travel company owner here. The rest of my top ten would be:
Cliffs of Moher
Reynisfjara Iceland
Emerald Lake, British Colombia
Faroe Islands
Luberon
Grand Tetons
Hong Kong (maybe not for the same reasons as some of the others)
Patagonia
Ischia

With this said, I haven't been many places in Africa and the only places I've been in Asia are Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Perhaps why my list is Europe heavy.

+100 on the bolded. Aside from the natural beauty of Hong Kong Park, the view of the skyscrapers overlooking the harbor from Victoria Peak is just so beautiful and recognizable in its own right.

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The plateaus outside Santa Fe - 360-degree mountain views.