Eight Rare Natural Outdoor beauty.

Enjoy the natural world as it exists, the elements as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers that gives us unbelievable scene. The following are example of nature at it's best in pictures.

Majestic rock pillars in Scotland
The Ancient Greeks and Romans weren’t the only ones who excelled at imposing architecture. Nature herself puts on quite a show for travellers visiting Scotland’s scenic Cliffs of Staffa (pictured), where columnar basalt rises majestically over the North Sea. This hard, dense, dark volcanic rock can be found around the world, including the famous Giant’s Causeway in Ireland and Devils Tower in the US state of Wyoming. It forms when thick, hot lava flows cool rapidly, creating contractions that fracture the lava into columns that appear to be manmade.
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Double rainbows at Niagara Falls
We’ve all seen rainbows, those dazzling arches of colour that form when sunlight is reflected inside water droplets suspended in the air. What’s rarer – and dare we say, doubly dazzling – are double rainbows, like this one spanning the Niagara River against the backdrop of Niagara Falls. Double rainbows form when sunlight is reflected twice inside water droplets rather than once, due to the angle at which light enters the raindrop and is refracted. The colours of the second rainbow are inverted, with red inside and violet outside. Interestingly, double rainbows aren’t so rare – many times the second rainbow is simply too dim for most eyes to perceive. The best time to catch this phenomenon is when the air is filled with mist – either shortly after a rainfall or near a waterfall – in the early morning or late afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty)

Illuminated Icelandic skies
Some of the best light shows on Earth are hundreds of miles from the world’s light-flooded cities. The brightly coloured Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, occurs near the magnetic north pole. A complex reaction causes charged particles in the atmosphere to collide, releasing brilliant streaks of light to dance across a starlit sky.
Travellers can most often see the show between late September and late March (when skies are darker longer) in countries such as Greenland and Iceland (pictured), as well as northern Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Alaska. According to scientists, excellent solar activity has made 2013 the best year in a decade to see the Northern Lights, with solar activity peaking in December. (Jonina G Oskarsdottir/Barcroft Media/Getty)

Volcanic lightning in Chile
What happens when you take two striking natural phenomena – volcanoes and lightning – and put them together? One of nature’s most dangerously spectacular shows. Volcanic lightning – which strikes in the middle of or shortly after a volcanic eruption – occurs when debris from an eruption reacts with charges in the atmosphere. Though rare, volcanic lightning has been reported during the 2011 eruption of southern Chile’s Puyehue volcano (pictured), Alaska’s Mount Augustine in 2006, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and Japan’s Sakurajima in 2013. The event is notoriously difficult to anticipate, so seeing one is a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. (Claudio Santana/AFP/Getty)

Superstorms in the US Great Plains
While most travellers would run the other way at the sight of a supercell, some intrepid storm chasers sometimes travel the United States in pursuit of dangerous superstorms. Supercells like the one pictured, which raged across Montana in December 2010, are rotating updrafts of wind within thunderstorms that can produce large hail, high-speed winds, heavy rain, dangerous lightning and even tornadoes. They are typically found in the US Great Plains, including such states as Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. (Sean Heavey/Barcroft Media/Getty)

Udder-like clouds in Arizona
Forget skyscrapers – for nature-loving travellers, the sky really is the limit and an evening sky thick with cotton candy-like clouds trumps cold steel any day. Mammatus clouds are sagging pouch-like formations that typically hang on the underside of cumulonimbus clouds, looking like their Latin namesake (mamma meaning "udder" or "breast"). Meteorologists still don’t know exactly what causes these smoke-like puffs to form, but they are typically harbingers of severe thunderstorms, such as these pictured in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park in 2008. (Universal Images Group/Getty)

Sydney’s scarlet-stained waters
Think this looks like a scene from the movie Jaws, where blood-thirsty sharks ravage the waters off populated beaches? Think again. That scarlet stain is a red tide, or algal bloom, pictured here in Sydney in 2012. This visually arresting phenomena occurs when algae – which contains red pigments – accumulates rapidly in coastal waters due to warm ocean temperatures, low salinity, calm seas and periods of rain followed by sunny days. Some red tides, including this one at Clovelly Beach, can be harmful because they deplete oxygen in the water and produce toxins. During such events, travellers should check for beach advisories and heed resulting closures. (William West/AFP/Getty)

A froth of fog in the Grand Canyon
Few attractions lure travellers like Mother Nature. With stunning rock formations and spectacular light shows galore, the world’s exceptional natural phenomena can rival even the most impressive manmade attractions
The Grand Canyon – a striking vision on any day – drew even more interest on 29 November when a rare weather event suddenly filled the canyon with billows of thick fog: an occurrence that usually happens only once a decade, according to the National Park Service. Called an inversion, the event is caused by cold air getting trapped in the canyon by a “lid” of warm air; the warm air rises while the humidity in the cold air causes a dense sea of fog. (National Park Service)

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