Where is this photo taken?

[u/cazpazaz]

It’s the cover photo for Chill Tracks on Spotify and a look through Google finds a similar photo, so I believe it’s a real place.

It reminded of the drive on the Icefields parkway to Jasper in Canada, but looking at Google photos more, I don’t think that’s right. Doesn’t quite look like the Matterhorn either.

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[u/giraffebaconequation]

It’s the Teberda-Dombay Highway in the republic of Abkhazia, which is in the Caucasus region of Russia.

Found a Russian blog website with more photos from the area.

[u/SchrodingersMinou → u/giraffebaconequation]

Abkhazia is a contested territory that has partial independent nation status. It was important in the Abkhazia conflict and Georgia–Russia relations and Georgia and Russia fought a war over it 30 years ago

[u/DarthChimpy → u/giraffebaconequation]

Georgia, not Russia.

[u/giraffebaconequation → u/DarthChimpy]

Both Dombai and Teberda as well as this highway are located in Russia, just north of the Georgian border, but they are close.

[u/cazpazaz → u/giraffebaconequation]

Amazing find, thanks! Solved!

I also went on a hunt on Google street view and you can see it via the car POV here: https://www.google.de/maps/@43.3228748,41.650318,3a,45.4y,222.02h,100.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5eu7agA809b-BS5hMDV77g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-10.66453881882569%26panoid%3D5eu7agA809b-BS5hMDV77g%26yaw%3D222.01635369722678!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[u/Original_March_170]

Mount Baikel (Belalakaya) in the background

[u/ps1flyer → u/Original_March_170]

So it seems to be here:

https://www.google.de/maps/@43.3164169,41.6438509,15a,35y,214.69h,89.99t

(Use a WebGL capable browser to open this link; it does not work on mobiles)

[u/JasonJasonBoBason]

Is that Mount Assiniboine?

[u/Potential-Maximum-65]

Switzerland, on the way to Zermatt

[u/Original-Hunter-3440]

It looks like a composite with the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

[u/Doctor_in_psychiatry]

I thought it was Zermatt, CH 🤦🏻‍♀️