Thread: YOUR top wonders of the world.

then you should divert to Southeast Asia and enjoy your massage under the sunshine in one of the beaches here!

borneonikieta wrote: airlineguy wrote: borneonikieta wrote: Okay, mental note: dubai in winter and skip china. Check! I hope you know I meant "jaw".  Old age hit my typing skills at age 30.  :-( yeah i sorta gathered that, I dont normally bring my saw with me while travelling (I dont even have one!) Lately, I also seem also prone to leaving out words when typing.  I'm sure a massage on a...

searchin4sabatini wrote: I was almost sure you were going to throw Billy Gibbons in there! Technically, he is in all of them.

nathan85 wrote: searchin4sabatini wrote: I was almost sure you were going to throw Billy Gibbons in there! Technically, he is in all of them. In spirit or spirits, yes...

fransglobal wrote: I am not really into lists. The world is a wonder and that is what makes travelling great. Sure some places are nicer than others but narrowing it down to a list of ten or even a thousand is impossible. That's why it's just a 'fun opinion' thread. Just to throw ideas out. I always like to see lists like this because it gives me ideas about places which I may not have already thought of.

Fair point Jason about it just being a fun thread to give ideas. On that basis, I would say Ireland - hard to identify one particular spot, but West Coast spectacular The Pyrennees - much wilder than the Alps Yunnnan Province in China Hiking around Huaraz in Peru The Dolomites in Italy The Great Barrier Reef in Oz Palenque in Mexico Milford Sound in New Zealand Hong Kong, Vancouver and Rio all spectacularly located cities. Sydney too. I...

In no particular order: - Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Frace - Old City of Venice, Italy - Kiyomuzi Temple, Kyoto, Japan - Acropolis, Athens, Greece - Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria - Windsor Castle, Windsor, United Kingdom - Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea - Golden Falls, Iceland The reason I've gone for this somewhat unorthadox list is that I can't see the point of listing wonders that I've never seen. Just...

great thread jason i had read the other thread and sadly i hadn't been to any one of those like george, i haven't listed any which i havent seen myself(even though they might be on my to-do list ... in no particular order : - denali national park & mt.mckinley , alaska , USA - great barrier reef , queensland , oz -  dead horse point , utah , USA - grand canyon national park , arizona/utah , USA - the 12 apostles...

These are places that I have been to that I regard as my 8 wonders of the world: 1) Temples of Bagan, Myanmar 2) Temples of Angkor, Cambodia 3) The Great Wall, China 4) Taj Mahal, India 5) Mount Bromo, Indonesia 6) Potala Palace, Tibet 7) Hagia Sofia, Turkey 8) Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, India

Hmmm... well of the places I've been, I'll go with: 1 - The Registan, Samarkand 2 - The pyramids of Egypt 3 - The Taj Mahal, India 4 - The Arctic Highway, Norway 5 - Petra, Jordan 6 - Table Mountain, South Africa 7 - La foret au Fontainebleau, France 8 - Venice... And I'm looking forward to adding to the list... :-) Ben.