Wanderlust Top 75 World Wonders
TIME : 2016/2/23 9:59:34
Wanderlust Top 75 World Wonders
We asked, you voted: these are the Wanderlust Top 75 World Wonders. How many have you been to?
- 75 Blue Hole, Belize – Arguably the world’s top dive spot
- 74 Shibam, Yemen – Mud-and-clay skyscrapers
- 73 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA – Pacific-spanning spectacle in suspenders
- 72 Djemaa el-Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco – Market-square madness
- 71 Aitutaki, Cook Islands – The best blue lagoon
- =69 Niagara Falls, USA – Gushing honeymoon hotspot
- =69 Eiffel Tower, Paris, France – Possibly the planet’s most romantic scaffolding
- 68 Volcanoes, New Zealand – Simmering peaks that have literally shaped a nation
- 67 Northern lights, various countries – Technicolour particle paintings in the sky
- 66 Glacier coast, Alaska, USA – Water, whales, wildlife, wilderness
- 65 London Eye, England – A Ferris wheel for the new millennium
- 64 Teotihuacán, Mexico – The City of the Gods
- 63 Okavango Delta, Botswana – Water and wildlife in perfect unison
- 62 Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 452m of metal: one of the world's highest buildings
- 60 Alhambra, Granada, Spain – Very Moorish
- 60 St Petersburg, Russia – The magnificent legacy of Peter the Great
- 59 Nazca Lines, Peru – Lines to get high over
- 58 Fjords, Norway – A network of impressive inlets
- 57 Halong Bay, Vietnam – Karst-rock and water wonderland
- 56 Wadi Rum, Jordan – Lawrence of Arabia country
- 55 Rockies, Canada & USA – A mountain high
- 54 Palenque, Mexico – Mayan ruins reclaimed by the jungle
- 53 Angel Falls, Venezuela – A 979m splash
- =51 Cape Town, South Africa – Cosmopolitan hub of the Rainbow Nation
- =51 Golden Temple, Amritsar, India – Glittering Sikh stronghold
- 50 Stonehenge, England – How did they do that?
- 49 Isfahan, Iran – The great city of Shah Abbas
- =47 Varanasi, India – Holy Hindu hangout
- =47 Bryce Canyon, USA – Bizarre labyrinth of eroded rock
- 46 Great Ocean Road, Australia – Where the Pacific bashes the 12 Apostles
- 45 Mount Bromo, Indonesia – Java’s cup brimmeth over
- 44 Yosemite, USA – Grand granite valley
- 43 Kali Gandaki, Nepal – Deeply gorge-ous waterway of the Himalaya
- 42 Jaisalmer, India – Giant-sandcastle-like desert city
- 41 Highlands, Scotland – Heavenly heather-clad wilderness
- 40 Borobudur, Indonesia – Stupa-pendous Buddhist building
- 39 Banaue rice terraces, Philippines – 3,000-year-old wonder farms
- =37 Tikal, Guatemala – Majestic Mayan metropolis
- =37 Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia – A whole lot of salt
- 36 The Himalaya, India, Nepal, Bhutan & China – Mightiest mountains
- 35 Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy – World’s best paint job
- 34 Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet – The symbol of Tibetan Buddhism
- 33 Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand – Pure oriental opulence
- 32 Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel – The golden crown of the holy city
- 31 Bagan, Burma (Myanmar) – 22,000 temples on the Irrawaddy’s banks
- 30 New York skyline, USA – The dizzy heights of urban architecture
- =28 Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina – 60m by 5km of cracking ice
- =28 Sigiriya, Sri Lanka – Lion Rock, towering above the jungle
- 27 Sunken churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia – God rocks!
- 26 Fiordland, New Zealand – Glacier-gouged park of lakes and mountains
- 25 Sydney Harbour, Australia – Iconic waterfront where opera meets the ocean
- =23 Torres del Paine, Chile – Jagged peaks in Patagonia
- =23 Easter Island, Chile – Enigmatic bigheads
- 22 Abu Simbel, Egypt – 3,000-year-old temple of Ramses II
- 21 Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia – Heart of the Outback
- 20 Sossusvlei, Namibia – The world’s highest sand dunes
- 19 Luxor & the Valley of the Kings, Egypt – Resting place of the pharaohs
- 18 Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania – East Africa in a teacup
- 17 Terracotta Warriors, Xi’an, China – Barmy clay army
- 16 Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica – White magic
- 15 Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe & Zambia – The smoke that thunders
- 14 Mount Everest, Nepal & Tibet – Top of the world
- =12 Venice, Italy – City of domes, canals and Carnivale
- =12 Iguaçu Falls, Argentina & Brazil – South America’s ‘Great Water’
- 11 Great Migration, Kenya & Tanzania – The planet’s largest movement of mammals
- 10 Great Barrier Reef, Australia – 2,000km of coral
- 9 The Amazon, South America – Home to a third of the planet’s species
- 8 Pyramids, Giza, Egypt – The only one of the original seven still standing
- 7 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador – Evolution in action
- 6 Great Wall of China, China – 2,000 years old – but not visible from the moon
- 5 Grand Canyon, USA – Vast, mile-deep chasm
- 4 Petra, Jordan – Tombs carved into desert cliffs – Indiana Jones land
- 3 Taj Mahal, Agra, India – Shah Jahan’s mausoleum of love
- 2 Angkor Wat, Cambodia – World’s biggest religious complex
- 1 Machu Picchu, Peru – The lost city of the Incas