Natural Wonders of The World

I watched a great show on BBC Prime the other night - David Attenborough narrating over footage of some of the natural wonders of the world. I was surprised by how many of these actually appeared in photos on travelblog. So here goes:

North America
Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon. Missing: Death Valley, Yellowstone NP.

South America
Moreno Glacier. Missing: Amazon River, Andes, Angel Falls.

Australasia
Uluru, Twelve Apostles. Missing: Mount Cook.

Europe
The Alps.

Asia and Africa
Well for Asia and Africa there were many shown and listed - should try and get a full list - but no photos as yet. Any one been to Victoria falls?

BTW: To post photos that already appear on TravelBlog - find the id - hover your mouse on the photo and look in the status bar (at the bottom of the browser - /Photos/xxxx.html - the xxxx is the id) then type [photo=xxxx] and magically it will appear with all the links 😊


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A few more wonders have been added by the guys and girls on the road here we go. Please add any natural wonder photos that you might spot in the blogs by replying here 😊

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Yeah - it's about time I updated this thread! I think this was just before the Tibetan leg of your journey. So here goes:

So missing from the original list are; Yellowstone NP USA, Mount Cook NZ, Paricutin Volcano and The Northern Lights - plus a complete list from Asia and Africa - will surf and see what I find later. Full versions of the photos now include the forum code for copy and paste so easier to play this game 😊

ps. will keep working on TravelBlog - and thanks 😊

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- Mount Cook - from the original post 😊 No longer missing. I'll have to see if I can get the full list of places from the show.

PeteSarah - great shots thanks for posting! Anyone else?

Any images that you think qualify for this discussion - view the full image and there is a small piece of code listed at the bottom - with which you can copy and paste to this thread. Reply to this

Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA




How about the Southern Light?


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The Giant's Causeway along the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland is a World Heritage Site and is often billed as the eighth wonder of the world. It IS pretty amazing, though my photo doesn't begin to do it justice.
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In my opinion the Monarch Butterflies are a true natural wonder. For a more lengthy explanation why they are a true natural wonder I can recommend you to read this blog entry Mexico Part II - Monarch Butterfly Reserve.

Here is a shorter explanantion
In October each year between 50 and 100 million Monarch Butterflies arrive in the highlands of Mexico. In March, when the weather is starting to get better, they fly north. In the middle of the summer the butterflies have come as far as the great lakes at the border between Canada and USA.

Soon after the butterflies arrive in southern Canada they start to fly down towards Mexico again. The butterflies that were in Mexico at New Year are at this point all dead. They have all died simply because their life span is too short to allow them to fly all the way from Mexico to Canada. So the butterflies that now start flying back south are the children or grandchildren of the butterflies who started the journey up north in March. Most of the butterflies who leave Canada in summer to migrate south will not make it to Mexico either for the reason given above.

It actually takes from three to five generations of butterflies to make the journey from Mexico up north in the USA and into Canada and then back to Mexico.



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Here are some of the Grand Canyon: Reply to this

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Suprised nobody has included a Death Valley picture on this thread. Here's some I took:




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