4.1
Golden Pavilion
NYC Skyline
Niagara Falls
The Met
The San Fransisco Airport (0.1 points awarded)
17 or 18 depending on how you count* (most of them in one trip to London, Paris, and Italy).
Grand Canyon
Colliseum
St. Peter’s
Sistine Chapel
Louvre
Venice
Versailles
Pompeii
Uffizi
St. Mark’s
Florence
Yellowstone
NYC
Eiffel Tower
Niagara Falls
Yosemite
San Francisco
Terra Cotta Warriers*
*Only saw some of them at a traveling museum exhibition in Baltimore-but I did see them!
:smack: D’oh! You’re right. Why did I think it was a country? I suppose it’s because I’ve always learned about it first and Indonesia second…I guess I just didn’t connect the two in my head.
Funny. I was having an internal debate about whether I should count the New York Skyline since I saw it while transferring through Newark International Airport. I wouldn’t consider it if the wonder was simply “New York”, but I definitely saw the skyline!
The spread, as I toodle off to bed, is 0 to 48.
For most of the world’s population, I’m thinking that should be #100 on the list.
I’ve been to Borobudur, but only 8 others. Surprised Japan gets short shrift.
I smell a tourist industry trap here. A blatant commercial.
And I feel that the usual way to see such stuff doesn’t allow for more of an experience then seeing it on a movie. Being bussed in, or driven in, herded across parking lots and ticket booths, herded by the sight for an hour, much of which is passes either posing in front of the sight or peering through a camera at it…I would say that those spending more time at a few places have more experiences to take home then those blitz-visiting a whole list.
And I’ve been to my share of stuff on that list. (14)
- Great Wall of China
- Grand Canyon
- Angkor Wat
- Forbidden City
- Petra
- Nile River Cruise (in Sudan, not Egypt)
- Cappadocia
- Hong Kong
- Burj Khalifa (I used to live 2 miles from it)
- Louvre
- Venice
- Versailles
- Hagia Sofia
- Prague Old Town (I live a 5 minute walk from it)
- Chartres
- Damascus Old City
- St. basils Cathedral
- St. Mark’s Basilica
- Kremlin
- Sahara Desert (in Tunisia and Sudan)
- Baalbek
- Mont St. Michel
- Topkapi Palace
- Yellowstone
- Matterhorn
- NYC
- Eiffel Tower
- Burj Al Arab (I used to live a few miles from it)
- Yosemite
- Chambord
- San Francisco
No tours involved. I do think this list focuses on things I would not consider important and excludes others (Burj Khalifa over Isfahan and Monument Valley??)
Who says anyone is blitz touring?
I’ve spent a year and a half at the start of the Yangtze river. The first time I tried to go to the Kathmandu Valley, I got stuck in a war. I returned years later and ended up staying an extra week because I was so enchanted. I spent three days on a boat manned by slaves on the way to Timbuktu, sleeping at night on the sand dunes at the banks. When I got there, I ended up going deep into the desert where I spent an uncomfortable night being felt up by nomads. I spent a week at the Meenakshi temple, probably one of my favorite places on earth, listening to the bells on people’s feet and smelling jasmine and incense. San Francisco, of course, was my old stomping grounds. Used to know a great French bakery that would throw out delicious cakes and pies every night- which we would salvage and feast on.
Life is adventure!
It’s a good list. I’ve been to 26 of the “wonders”, and they’ve left lasting memories. I figure that I can hit at least 20 more before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
2 Great Wall of China
5 Galapagos Islands
6 Grand Canyon
31 Colosseum of Rome
81 Yellowstone NP
7 Machu Picchu
33 St Peter’s Basilica
84 New York Skyline
86 Eiffel Tower
37 Hong Kong
38 Sistine Chapel
89 British Museum
15 Victoria Falls
65 St. Basils Cathedral
16 Forbidden City
41 Louvre Museum
42 Canals of Venice
67 St Mark’s Basilica
92 Yosemite NP
43 Versailles
68 Florence Cityscape
71 Li River Cruise
98 Banff NP
74 Leaning Tower Pisa
99 San Francisco
25 TerraCotta Warriors
Ayers Rock? Although it has dual names I haven’t heard it called anything but Uluru for years.
Annoying list to copy and paste from as it’s in columns, but here goes:
14 Angkor Wat
15 Victoria Falls
19 Teotihuacan
31 Colosseum of Rome
32 Fjords of Norway
33 St Peter’s Basilica
38 Sistine Chapel
41 Louvre Museum
42 Canals of Venice
43 Versailles
49 Temple of the Emerald Buddha
51 Pompeii
53 Prague Old Town
55 Amalfi Drive
60 Dubrovnik
67 St Mark’s Basilica
74 Leaning Tower of Pisa
76 Mont St Michel
79 Stonehenge
84 New York Skyline
85 Marrakesh
86 Eiffel Tower
89 British Museum
99 San Francisco
I make that 24.
I saw the Acropolis out of the window of a plane as I changed flights in Athens, but I don’t think that counts…
Pyramids of Egypt
Nile River Cruise
Stonehenge
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone NP
Matterhorn
Egyptian Museum
New York Skyline
Valley of the Kings
Eiffel Tower
Niagara Falls
British Museum
Louvre Museum
Yosemite NP
Versailles
Carlsbad Caverns
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sahara Desert
Jerusalem Old City
Leaning Tower Pisa
San Francisco
TerraCotta Warriors
Twenty-odd. I need to get to Asia more.
Just two for me:
Chichen Itza and Niagara Falls
I don’t know, but I will stack up the Badlands of South Dakota and the Needle Eye highway up against some of those. I also think the Cathedral at Cologne should make the top 100, not just the top 1000. I am also ticked that the Stave Church in Rapid City doesn’t count on the top 1000, but the ones in Europe do.
Only nine
I’d go to New Zealand, I’m just not sure I could a-fjord it.
rim shot
I’m a native New Yorker and I’ve been to all the places in Italy and France but Mont St. Michel.
I would put Chenonceau over Chambord as a place to visit. Much, much, much prettier IMO.
24, and the list doesn’t impress me as being very well thought-out.