Stunning Places

An impressive lake in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, an hour south of Dublin. Nearby there are many other sights in the mountain: various waterfalls, large boglands with sheep and streams, forests with wildlife, and historical places such as Glendalough, also other lakes. [Source]

The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. The name "Aiguille du Midi" translates literally as "Needle of the Noon" or "Needle of the Mid-day". In the brochure for its cable car the Compagnie du Mont-Blanc asserts it gets its name from the fact that it is to the south when viewed from in front of the church in Chamonix. [Wiki]

This is Yosemite's signature hike. While many of Yosemite's trails are popular due to having a single spectacular destination, the Mist Trail has fabulous views scattered all along it, beginning at the bridge overlook, progressing to two unforgettable waterfalls that fall a combined total of more than 900 feet (270 meters), and ending with perhaps the most striking of all: the view of Nevada Fall, Liberty Cap, and the back of Half Dome from the Muir Trail return segment. [Source]

High in the Swiss alps, this is a mountain hut called Ebenalp. They say you should set your watch back ten years when you enter this region, known as Appenzell. Quaint and rustic, the old hut is built into a cliff at about 5,000 feet just below a mountain peak. Today, Ebenalp welcomes touring hikers. It offers cheap dorm beds and hot, hearty plates of Rösti — Switzerland’s addictive cheesy hashbrowns. I’t s run by an elderly couple and their five children and the guest book goes back to 1940. [Source]

The Mourne Mountains MOHRN, also called the Mournes or Mountains of Mourne, are a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland. It includes the highest mountains in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster. [Source]

The West Maui Mountains or West Maui Volcano, known to the Hawaiians as Maui Komohana and to geologists as Mauna Kahalawai, forms a much eroded shield volcano that constitutes the western one-quarter of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. [Source]

Amazing mountain side nature view among the mist. Attractive beautiful picture. [Source]

The Chartreuse Mountains is a mountain range in southeastern France, stretching to the north from the city of Grenoble to the Lac du Bourget. It is the southernmost range in the Jura Mountains and belongs to the French Prealps. One of the larger cities in the Chartreuse Mountains is Voiron. [Source]

The Cliffs of Moher are located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. The cliffs take their name from an old fort called Moher that once stood on Hag's Head, the southernmost point of the cliffs. The writer Thomas Johnson Westropp referred to it in 1905 as Moher Uí Ruis or Moher Uí Ruidhin. The cliffs consist mainly of beds of Namurian shale and sandstone, with the oldest rocks being found at the bottom of the cliffs. It is possible to see 300 million year-old river channels cutting through, forming unconformities at the base of the cliffs. [Wiki]

Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain located near El Chaltén village, in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. Francisco Moreno first saw the mountain on 2 March 1877. He named it Fitz Roy, in honour of Robert FitzRoy, who, as captain of the HMS Beagle had travelled up the Santa Cruz River in 1834 and charted large parts of the Patagonian coast. [Wiki]

People have been hollowing out caves to make their homes for many thousands of years. We all need shelter from the elements, and it didn't take long for our ancestors to run out of available real estate in natural caves. In certain parts of the world, it was easier for prehistoric people to carve out warm, dry spaces than to use other building methods. [Source]

The 1st stage of its history started many many years ago in 1877 and it is connected with a general, wounded in the Russian-Turkish war. There is a very beautiful legend, considering this event. The old general came to the cape Aj-Todor and saw a tree. It was growing right from the rock and was an embodiment of the power, courage and firmness. [Source]

Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The highest summit of Montserrat is called Sant Jeroni (Saint Jerome) and stands at 1,236 meters (4,055 feet) above sea-level. It is accessible by hiking trails which connect from the top entrance to the Sant Joan funicular, the monastery, or the base of the mountain. [Wiki]

Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. The Ararat massif is about 40 km (25 mi) in diameter. The Iran-Turkey boundary skirts east of Lesser Ararat, the lower peak of the Ararat massif. It was in this area that, by the Tehran Convention of 1932, a border change was made in Turkey's favour, allowing it to occupy the eastern flank of Lesser Ararat. [Wiki]

The monks live in the Meteor from the 11th century. These monasteries were built on top of the huge pillars of sandstone, most of which were inaccessible by road, for the protection of its residents during the unstable political situations. [Source]

House built into a sandstone mine in the side of a mountain in Festus, Missouri, near the banks of the Mississippi River. Amazing thinking of the creator. [Source]

The Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota has been under construction in South Dakota for more than 60 years, and its completion date is still unclear. Despite that, the monument-in-progress is definitely worth a visit, especially if you’re in the area visiting Mount Rushmore, less than 20 miles away. Begun in 1948 as a tribute to the Native American warrior Crazy Horse, the statue’s construction has hit several roadblocks through the years, but eventual plans call for the monument to be 641 feet wide and 563 feet high, with Crazy Horse’s head projected at 87 feet high. [Source]