25 Of The Most Breaktakingly Beautiful Places To Explore (Photos)
Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:02
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(N.Morgan) Today in my cyber travels, I’ve put together a collection of magnificent places to see and wonder over. In this crazy world of computers and jobs and political crisis, I think we forget there’s beauty all around us to be enjoyed and explored. Let’s see where our travels take us today. 
The Rainbow River: Caño Cristales, Columbia, also known as the “river of five colors” is covered by colorful algae. (Image)
The beautiful Georgetown Castle Reservoir- (Image)
Maravillas del Mundo. YingXi Corridor, China. (Image)
Mostar,Bosnia This couldn’t be more gorgeous! (Image)
Unreal looking bamboo forest in Kyoto (Image)
The Lakes of Mount Kelimutu, Indonesia are considered to be the resting place for departed souls, the lakes are locally referred to as “the lake of evil spirits”. All 3 lakes change color from blue to green to black or red unpredictably.. (Image)
I love horses and couldn’t pass up this stunning photo! Horses in a surreal place some where between the towns of Hveragerði and Selfoss in South-Western Iceland. (Image)
Machu Picchu (Image)
The amazing Namib Desert, Africa (Image)
The Baatara Gorge Waterfall in Lebanon – falling through three levels (Image)
The Petrified Forest! (Image)
Incredible!! Berry Head Arch Newfoundland Canada (Image)
Socotra Island, Yemen (Image)
The green is so vivid, it almost hurts the eyes! Tian Tan Buddha-Lantau Island, Hong Kong (Image)
Coastal dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Brazil) (Image)
How can this be real?? Croatia, Plitvice Lakes National Park (Image)
The Igloo Village in Kakslauttanen Finland (Image)
Pulpit Rock, Norway (Image)
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia (Image)
Door To Hell, Turkhmenistan- Creepy, yet oddly beautiful. (Image)
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Buachaille Etive Mor, Glen Coe, Scotland (Image)
Jacaranda trees in bloom, South Africa (Image)
Valley of Flowers in the Himalayas (Image)
Furano Travel: Blue Pond (Aoiike),Japan (Image)
A stunningly beautiful place in South Korea. (Image)
Was curious about the trees on Socotra and found this at Wiki:
One of the most striking of Socotra’s plants is the dragon’s blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari), which is a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree. Its red sap was thought to be the dragon’s blood of the ancients, sought after as a dye, and today used as paint and varnish.
Also:
The long geological isolation of the Socotra archipelago and its fierce heat and drought have combined to create a unique and spectacular endemic flora. Botanical field surveys led by the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) indicate that 307 out of the 825 (37%) plant species on Socotra are endemic, i.e., they are found nowhere else on Earth.[24] The entire flora of the Socotra Archipelago has been assessed for the IUCN Red List, with 3 Critically Endangered and 27 Endangered plant species recognised in 2004.
Awesome, thanks,LAC!
Those trees are amazing! nature is wonderful!
No, thank you! Nature certainly is awesome!
Yes, the bamboo jungle of Kyoto. I have been there and it is truly one of the most beautiful places I have seen in my life.
Nice pics. Our world is full of beauty, wonder and mystery. You might be interested to know that in the castle reservoir pic, the disc shape geometry on the tops of the buildings are called ‘vimana’.