Quora: What are the most beautiful places in the world?

From Quora Question:  What are the most beautiful places in the world?

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María Virginia Bertetti, Backpacker, travelling around Argenti...

1 vote by Liz Pullen

Loma del Pliegue Tumbado - El Chalten. Argentina.

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John Le,

Driving around town hoping to find that next place to hang out and build a winning company

5 votes by Janine Murray, Victor Loh, Carlos Ribeiro, (more)

Plitvice Waterfalls -- Croatia

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Maurice Bretzfield, I have traveled throughout Asia, Euro...

3 votes by Soumya Mohan, Subhrajyoti Ghatak, and Tom Wills

Ladakh - extreme northeast India on the Tibetan plateau.

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Anon User

29 votes by Samuel Gilleran, Murtaza Ali Akbar, Arvin Borja, (more)

Valley of flowers - India

Leh/Ladakh - A bikers ultimate priglimage

Sikkim

Andaman & Nicobar

Ooty

Khajjar

Kovalam

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Here is my personal selection of the Most Beautiful Places in the World.

Julien Vaché, Cartographer of Pleasures

72 votes by Sameer Gupta, Vivek Ponnaiyan, Nakul Chaudhari, (more)

The emphasis is on maybe lesser known countries and places and for photogenic events or natural occurrences mixed with some more cultural or historical sites. I purposely tried to avoid places which were already named here or that were already in some of my existing answers like Islands: Which are the must-visit islands of the world?

• Briksdal Glacier, Norway

• Bromo volcano, Indonesia

• Rapa river delta, Lapland, Sweden

• Shinto Gates, Kyoto, Japan

• Tsingy de Bemaraha Park, Madagascar

• Chott-el-Djerid, Tunisia

• Caldeira of Uzon, Kamtchaka, Russia

• Disko Bay,  Greenland

• Medina of Ghadames, Libya

• Natron Lake, Tanzania

• Moon Valley, Atacama desert, Chile

• Chenini, Tunisia

• Petrified Forest, Arizona

• Rocas Bainbridge, Galapagos, Ecuador

• Oualata, Mauritania

• Socotra island, Yemen

• Wrangell St Elias National park, Alaska

• Cappadocia, Turkey

• St George Basin,  Australia

• Fontainhas, Santo Antao, Cape Verde

• Merv, Turkmenistan

• Piccaninny Gorges, Bungles Bungle, Australia

• Celestial Laguna, Potosi, Bolivia

• Lake Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile

• Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

• Mono Lake, California

• Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria

• Shibam, Yemen

• Zanskar river, Jammu, Kashmir, India

• Tomsk, Siberia, Russia

• Guelta d’ Archeï, Chad

• Elephantine island, Egypt

• Paria Canyon, Utah

• Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, Nepal

• Celestial Mountains, Kirghizistan

• Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Honda Bay, Palawan island, Philippines

• Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Pakistan

• Simberi Island, New Ireland, Papa New Guinea

• Himeji castle, Honshu island, Japan

• Shilin, Yunnan, China

• Vitthala Temple, Hampi, Karnataka, India

• Guanajuato, Mexico

• Djema'a el-Fna square, Marrakech, Morocco

• Badlands, South Dakota

• Lauca Park, Parinacota, Chile

• Lingshed Valley, Ladakh, Kashmir, India

• Tsaranoro, Andringitra, Madagascar

• Ounianga, Chad

• Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey

• Zumbahua Canyon, Ecuador

• Tiniteqilaaq, Greenland

• Valley of the Roses, Haut-Atlas, Morocco

• Antofagasta Cliffs, Chile

• Namib Rand reserve, Namibia

• Eileen Donan, Scotland

• Djenné Mosque, Mali

• Lencois island, Maranhao, Brazil

• Leptis Magna, Libya

• More Og Romsdal, Norway

• Mount Assiniboine, Canada

• Ksar Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco

• Roussanou Monastery, Thessalia, Greece

• Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia

• Bandiagara, Mali

• Bagan, Mandalay, Birma

• Tseshu Festival, Thimphu, Bhutan

• Alep, Syria

• Sur, Oman

• Pantanal plains, Brazil

• Ishak Pasha palace, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

• Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

• Sarakiniko, Milos, Greece

• Skogafoss, Iceland

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