带你去旅行：5大最美落日（双语组图）

To watch a beautiful sunset is to have a borderline spiritual experience. We’re all sun worshipers at heart, whether viewed from our kitchen window, a neighborhood bench, or the beach. Where can you find prime seating for this grand theatre in the sky? Here are some favorite sunsets from around the world. Feel free to share your most memorable sunset scenery moments.

Volcanoes don’t seem to erupt with geographical design in mind, but without their handiwork in Greece, we’d lose the gorgeous views provided by Santorini, the small group of islands that provide a sunset roundly understood to stand as one of the most picturesque you’ll ever see. The charming white architecture of the archipelago and the breathtaking cliffs give way to spectacular promontory viewings during a sunset.

Just because the sea’s lifeless doesn’t mean the sunset is. In fact, the tranquility of the water’s surface lends a portrait quality to most shots taken of the Dead Sea. The sunlight here deserves some respect, too; its power is shielded due to the site’s position so far below sea level. In other words, you can sit in front of the sun for hours without a wicked sunburn. Travelers enjoyed their view from Jordan looking out over the West Bank.

It’s nearly the opposite of the Dead Sea experience above. On the premises of Sequoia National Park and the adjacent Kings Canyon National Park lies Mount Whitney, the highest point in the forty-eight contiguous states at 14,505 feet. The towering trees that give the park its name naturally obstruct some sunset views from directly below the foliage, too, so the few vistas that allow unspoiled views become even more sacred. If you’re moving by car to Cedar Grove, the sun over Kings Canyon there is fantastic, and in between Grant Grove and Lodgepole you’ll see the sun’s orange draped over the majestic Sierras.

John Steinbeck, who penned an essay on Positano, Italy for Harper’s Bazaar in 1953, caused traffic in the Amalfi Coast area to spike significantly when he wrote: “Positano bites deep ... It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone,” he remarked. It’s hard to contain our love for the Amalfi, too; to watch the sunset unfold from a moped or actually sitting cliffside is to experience something almost supernatural. The sky morphs into comical orange and pink colors and on a clear night, the sun looks like a tasty ripe nectarine. The closer to the cliffs, the better, you imagine yourself awakening to this every day and can’t help but be overcome with wonder as the light reflects.

The Egyptian desert sunrise/sunset above sandy foothills is so iconic it’s almost hard to believe its real having not been there. Not to mention this was the place where thousands of years ago they really did worship the sun god, so you know something special is going on. But a sunset in the desert, no matter where you are, makes for an eye-opening experience, especially for city-dwellers.