The Natural Beauty of Mount Kirkjufell Will Induce You to Fly To Iceland

Well, you don’t think that you’re in dream? These’re splendid beauty of a mountain which is called Kirkjufell, is a 463m high mountain on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula and near the town of Grundarfjoraur. The summit of dazzling Kirkjufell is over 1,500 feet above sea level, actually a biggest landmark in the village of nearly 1000 residents. Kirkjufell stands on a little peninsula of its own, a spectacular backdrop for the multicolored Icelandic sky. If you want to visit Mount Kirkjufell, then you'll have to take a day trip by bus from a bigger city in Iceland, like Reykjavic. Once you get there, you’ll be repaying by an otherworldly journey to grasp the Northern Lights, starry nights, and some exquisite waterfalls. The best time to catch the Northern Lights in Iceland is between September and January. 

Iceland is the most exotic place in the world, with its wonderful lava fields, stunning coastlines, magical glaciers and fantastic waterfalls. Therefore it is possible to climb Kirkjufell Mountain normally takes about one hour and 30 minutes or so to reach the top. And you’ll be amazed by view from the top, which is quite remarkable. The hike towards the peak is not for those who suffer from vertigo because it is quite perfidious. But it is very rewarding once you get to the top.Source: Charismatic Planet

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Alamere Falls California

What more could you ask for! A beautiful Alamere Falls is a waterfall in Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. Alamere Falls is a waterfall that flows directly into the ocean. It is one of only two in the area the other being McWay Falls. It is extremely pretty with astonishing ocean views and lush vegetation especially in spring. The falls can be reached by following the Coast Trail from the Palomarin Trailhead. After about a mile and a half, the trail will pass along two small lakes (Bass Lake and Pelican Lake). Bass Lake can be accessed by a side trail that leads to a rope swing, and hikers will often stop for a swim during summer months. 

You need to be very carefully scrambled down to Alamere Creek, which is a bit steep. Then you must cross Alamere Creek, which may be difficult in high water. At this place a pretty upper cascade is viewed, three separate cascades approximately 30 feet. in total height. Well, from the top of the cliff, you can have a nice side view of Alamere Falls itself, dropping 40 feet down onto the beach. To get down to the beach, you must carefully scramble down the cliff. This is daring route and not for everyone. The cliffs are very brittle, and a fall here could cause a severe injury. It may be wild imagination, but it seems to have gotten worse in the last many years. 

Visitors managed carefully get down to the beach carrying, and did not think it was all too bad. But this time around, it is believed too dangerous to consider taking a baby down. Once down at the beach, you will be treated to a wonderful experience, standing beside a 40 feet waterfall on the ocean. It is a lot more inspiring in the winter months after there has been a lot of rain. Be sure to check the tide charts before coming here because at high tide, it is likely that the ocean waves will be coming right up to the cliff, and it’ll be difficult to get down to the base of the falls. If there has been a lot of topical rain, you may aspiration to consider hiking up the beach for a couple more miles. There’re lot of waterfalls (Phantom Falls and Horsetail Falls) which are reachable from this waterfall.

Other waterfalls nearby

Phantom Falls                      1.94 miles

Stairstep Falls                        6.44 miles

Morses Gulch Falls               6.71 miles

Carson Falls                          7.43 miles

Cataract Falls                      7.98 miles

Cascade Falls                      8.77 miles

Steep Ravine Falls               9.84 miles

Loma Alta Falls                    9.98 miles

Dawn Falls                           11.81 miles

Cascade Falls                     11.91 miles

Arroyo San Jose Falls          12.59 miles

Warner Falls                         12.86 miles

Pacheco Creek Falls          13.76 miles

Mountain View Falls           14.83 miles

Source: Charismatic Planet 

The Little Tourlitis Lighthouse perched on the islet of Tourlitis Greece.

The charismatic little Tourlitis Lighthouse is beautifully perched on the islet of Tourlitis, a chunk of rock opposite the harbor at Chora, on Andros Island. The lighthouse is situated about 200 meters out to the sea. This is Greece’s first modern lighthouse and the most striking lighthouse in the world. A flight of stairs carved into the rocks lead to the lighthouse.

The Tourlitis Lighthouse is the only Greek lighthouse to be built completely by Greek hands, and also the nation’s only wave-swept rock sentinel, visible to the brunt of heavy seas. This is the first automatic lighthouse of the Greek lighthousing system, as the lighthouse keeper doesn't really reside there. The history tells us, the first lighthouse here was built in 1897.

However it was destroyed after the Second Word War, a simple scaffold tower was erected on Tourlitis. The present lighthouse is a striking replica of the original, and was built in 1990s at the expenses of Alexandros Goulandris, an oil tycoon of Andros Island. Goulandris and his wife devoted the lighthouse in memory of their deceased daughter Violanda.

The Unique Shaped Tent Rocks

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks is a distinctive group of rock formations situated in the foothills of the Jemez Mountains, north-central New Mexico, U.S., between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, about 40 miles southwest of the latter. The Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks features big tent-shaped rocks hugging the steep cliffs of Peralta Canyon, the product of potent forces of vulcanism and erosion, which have built up and then torn down this landscape. The unique cone-shaped tent rock shaped out of pumice, ash, and tuff deposits more than 1,000 feet thick that escapes from volcanic eruptions from Jemez volcanic field that occurred six to seven million years ago.

Over this, “pyroclastic flow” composed of rock fragments and searing hot gases blasted down slopes in an incandescent avalanche. Over time, wind and water cut into these deposits, creating canyons and arroyos, scooping holes in the rock, and contouring the ends of small, inward ravines into smooth semi-circles. As a result, the tent rocks cones have cores composed of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder cap-rocks. Some tents have lost their hard, resistant cap-rocks and are decaying. While fairly uniform in shape, the tent rock formations vary in height from a few feet up to 90 feet. The Kasha-Katuwe area was populated by humans for over 7,000 years. 

In the history, during the 15th century the ancestors of present-day Pueblo Indian peoples built pueblos here and left numerous petroglyphs and ruins to make available evidence of their habitation. Even though a Spanish expedition was passed through in 1598, the first modern settlers even did not arrive until the late 1700s. The unique monument’s name is derived from the Keresan language of the area’s Pueblo people which means ‘white cliffs’. The area was designated a National Monument in 2001.

 

Source: Charismatic Planet