Top 10 Places To Visit In Europe

What's up guys my name is Ryan Shirley and I spent the last three years exploring the beautiful continent of Europe and I want to show you my favorite places. So here is my Europe top 10. All right so we're gonna start this video off in the beautiful island of Zakynthos, Greece. I love this place so much that I've been back twice. Now to get there you can either fly there direct from most European cities or you can fly into Athens, Greece then take a short plane ride over. Zakynthos is notoriously famous for their shipwrecked beach. The story goes about in the 1980s a cargo boat from Turkey was carrying illegal cigarettes and contraband and the Greece navy chased it into this cove and ended up crashing and then the sand over time built up around it and it's made one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. So if you're in Zakynthos you obviously need to go to this beach. What you can do is you can either take a little boat from the main town of Zakynthos or you can go to a little port such as Porto Verone. This is what I did and pay about $20 and they'll take you to the beach. The boat ride there is absolutely phenomenal. You're gonna be mind blown when you see these cliffs. They are like over a thousand feet high and they're just white rock and I've never seen anything like it. So you get there on the beach when I was there it was fairly crowded but it was just so mind-blowing. These cliff walls are just incredible. The water is so freaking blue and then you can also climb up on the ship. Be careful. Don't want to get tetanus with all that rust but it's just a really cool experience. You can also get on top of the cliffs. You can just drive there. There's a little parking lot and you can hike around the area. Just be super careful. A lot of people fall off these ledges because they're being stupid like me taking pictures on the ledge or just not paying attention when they're doing a selfie. So be careful when you do that. Another awesome thing you can do in Greece is you can rent a boat. So when I went there my second time Greece changed their laws and if you're a US citizen you couldn't get a car rental unless you had an international driver's license. So we couldn't rent a car but we were able to rent a boat. So it cost us about a hundred dollars and we had it for three hours. So me and my buddy George we'd never driven a boat before. We got this boat and we went to this island called Marathonisi and it was just absolutely gorgeous. The water is so blue and it's just so vibrant. We found a little beach where we were able to dock the boat, hang out for a bit. After we hung out around the island we went around the coast. We found this really secluded cove with thousand foot walls and we were able to just fly the drones around there. I sadly crashed my drone there, fell in the water but we're able to jump around, swim in the water, and have a good time. Make sure you visit Sakynthos if you're going to Greece or Yorba. I promise you won't regret it. In my opinion it's the greatest island in Greece. Alright so now we're to head over to the mountains of northern Italy to the Dolomites. Now to get there you can fly into either Milan or Venice and make the four hour drive to the beautiful mountain range. One of my favorite places to go is the mountain called Seseta. Just this jagged rock and then it has these just like beautiful green grass and you can just run around the whole area, explore, and have a good time. Another one of my favorite places is Lago di Brì. It's one of the most famous lakes on social media. You can also jump in the lake if you're feeling it. It's just really beautiful. Another place that I definitely recommend is Tre Cimi di Lavorato. When I went there I spent about four days there because there's so much to do. They have the infamous Tre Cimi di Lavorato rocks. It's one of the most famous rock formations in Europe. There's also a million hikes around the area that are just going to blow your mind. Dolomites are one of my favorite places in the world. You have to go there. It is one of the coolest places ever. Alright so after the Dolomites we went over to Spain to visit one of my favorite islands, the island of Mallorca. What's awesome about Mallorca is it's so big of an island. There's so much to do. One of my favorite places is this place called Cala Varques. If you love cliff jumping and swimming this is heaven. The water here is so blue and so clear like when you think of the Mediterranean this is it. It is just absolutely mind-blowing. It is a cliff jumper's and swimmer's paradise. There's so many places to jump and to swim around. I did one of my most crazy cliff jumps ever off this arch. It was about 60 feet and it was absolutely terrifying but I sent it and I got some awesome footage of it. Obviously if you're in cliff jumping be smart. Check the depth of water and make sure you know what you're doing. Another really awesome place to visit on the west side of the island to Sa Calobra. The road to Sa Calobra is one of the windiest and most famous roads in the world. It's been featured a lot of car commercials. You'll come down and you come down to Sa Calobra and it's just this beautiful cove with sailboats. I found a really cool rock and I was able to swim around there. Also got some beautiful drone shots and it's a great place to watch the sunset. So after Mallorca we're going to head over to the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. So to get here you can fly in to airports such as Tromso or Narvik. So I went here in September. I was able to visit one of the coolest soccer fields in the world. It's in a town called Henningsvar and it's a soccer field on an island and when I went there I was surprised there was nobody there. Sadly me and my friend George we didn't have a soccer ball so we just ran around got some really cool drone shots and had a good time. Another really beautiful place to go is Cavallica beach. It is one of the prettiest beaches I've ever been. The water is blue like the Caribbean. It is as green as Hawaii and then the surrounding mountains makes you feel like you're in Switzerland. I couldn't believe the colors. The sunset was absolutely astounding. Another really cool place is Reign. It's one of the coolest little towns surrounded by these beautiful sea mountains. It's a little fishing village and they have these beautiful red houses so make sure you go there. If you go up north you could head to the beautiful island of Senja to see one of the most unique rock formations in the world. If you go past September you may get lucky and be able to see the northern lights. When I was there I spent the night in Senja and I was able to see the Aurora Borealis. It was one of the most magical experiences of my life. I felt like a kid again. Northern Norway is worth the visit. I hope you can go there. Alright so after Norway we're gonna head back down south to Austria to visit the beautiful Austrian Alps. You can fly into Vienna or you can fly into Salzburg. Make the drive over. One of the pretty locations in Austria is the town of Hallsatt. It's famous for this just beautiful village on this beautiful lake surrounded by these massive mountains. You can also head over to the Grossglockner pass. It's one of the highest roads in Europe and you'll be able to see the highest mountain in Austria. It's about 3,900 meters high. Freaking gorgeous. There's also a beautiful glacier. I think it's called Pastries Glacier. It's in the Grossglockner National Park and it's just freaking beautiful. One thing I love about Austria is they had so many beautiful churches and castles. I don't think I've seen more churches anywhere and they're just so scenic and so beautiful. So after Austria we're gonna head back to Greece to visit the magical town of Meteora. Now to get to Meteora what I did is I flew into Athens and then I got a rental car and I did the four-hour drive. What Meteora is famous for is their monasteries that are built upon these rocks. These monasteries are hundreds of years old. When you see them you wonder how the heck people built them. You can go in them. I think it costs like a euro or two to go inside of them. Me and my brother we woke up for sunrise. We got some really cool misty and cloudy conditions and we were able to get some beautiful shots of the area. It's just a really beautiful place. Definitely recommend visiting Meteora. Alright so now we're gonna head over to Scotland to visit the Isle of Skye. You can fly into Edinburgh and then you get a car and drive about five hours and get to the Isle of Skye. It is one of the greenest places I've ever been. Feels like you're on just a massive golf course because it's just this green grass. One of my favorite places in the Isle of Skye is the Old Man of Storr. It's one of the coolest rock formations I've ever seen. It's a short hike. It's honestly just a magical place. When I was there, there was like crows flying around and I felt like I was in a fairy tale. You can also visit the Corang, which is the beautiful little mountains. You can visit Meowt Falls, which is this waterfall that falls off in the ocean. If you're a Harry Potter fan, you can also visit the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which is the train that's in the Harry Potter movies. That is just absolutely super cool. So after Scotland, we're gonna head to one of the most unique places on the planet, to Iceland. So to get to Iceland, you can fly into Reykjavik. Plane tickets are actually not too expensive to fly there, especially if you're flying out of Europe. Me and my brother flew in there in November and we only had two days there. So what we did is we got our rental car and we drove two hours south to visit the infamous Skogafoss waterfall. It's one of the most famous waterfalls in Iceland, which is absolutely breathtaking. And then we headed over to the Reykjavik beach. I like to call it Black Rock Beach because what it is, it's just these beautiful black rocks. They have these rock sea stacks in the ocean and it really just adds to the epicness of a location. We were able to get some beautiful footage with the drone and try not to freeze our butts off. Definitely there's a whole lot more to explore in the country. I need to go back and explore more. Iceland is one of those places that you should definitely see at least once in your life. After Iceland, we're gonna head over to one of my favorite countries in the world. We're gonna head over to Vajvirsaska. It's located in southern Switzerland near the border of Italy and it has one of my favorite cliff jumping spots in the world. It's this bridge that's straight out of a fairytale. It is just like so cool. It's about 30 feet high. I jumped off it a few times, did a few gainers. Super fun. It's some of the clearest river water you'll ever see in your life. Like it is so clear. I was able to jump in and I did some snorkeling. It was just a very rejuvenating experience. After Vajvirsaska, we're gonna head up north to the middle of Switzerland to visit the Jungfrau region. When you think of Switzerland, this is it. Massive mountains, beautiful Swiss houses, cows eating grass in the mountains. It is just absolutely scenic. Grindelwald is one of the towns in the Jungfrau region. It's famous for Mount Eiger. It is one of the biggest mountains I've ever seen. Just absolutely huge. Another beautiful place is Lauterbrunnen. It's a valley of over 75 waterfalls. It's where J.R.R. Tolkien got inspired for Lord of the Rings. It's seriously like the prettiest place I've ever been. There's also Wangen which is a city that you can only walk there or take a train to because there's no cars. It has a beautiful view of the Lauterbrunnen valley and then the Jungfraujoch which is the top of Europe. It is just absolutely beautiful. While Switzerland is very expensive, I think everyone deserves a chance to see the beautiful Swiss country. Anyways, that is it for my top 10 places in Europe. Hope you enjoyed it. It's Ryan and we will see you later.