This is another thing that Don sent me. I have been to 10 of these places (I list them at the end; 3 in the top 10) and have seen two more in person but not been inside (Versailles, the Kremlin). Sadly I never went to The Temple of the Emerald Buddah while I was in Thailand and when I was in Beijing I decided to sleep in instead of going with my friends to The Forbidden City that day.
Here are the Top 100 “wonders”, but Don called this his Ultimate To Do list. He has been to 15 of these.
1 Pyramids of Egypt
2 Great Wall of China
3 Taj Mahal – India
4 Serengeti Migration – Kenya/Tanzania
5 Galapagos Islands – Ecuador
6 Grand Canyon – USA
7 Machu Picchu – Peru
8 Iguazu Falls – Argentina & Brazil
9 Bali – Indonesia
10 Amazon Rain Forest – Brazil & Peru
11 Ngorongoro Crater – Tanzania
12 Great Barrier Reef – Australia
13 Angkor Wat – Cambodia
14 Victoria Falls – Zambia & Zimbabwe
15 Forbidden City – China
16 Bagan – Myanmar
17 Karnak Temple – Egypt
18 Teotihuacan – Mexico
19 Banaue Rice Terraces – Philippines
20 Bora Bora – French Polynesia
21 Acropolis & its Parthenon – Greece
22 Potala Palace at Lhasa – China
23 Jerusalem Old City – Israel
24 Qin Terra Cotta Warriors – China
25 Chichen Itza – Mexico
26 Petra – Jordan
27 Nile River Cruise – Egypt
28 Easter Island – Chile
29 Cappadocia – Turkey
30 Colosseum of Rome – Italy
31 Fjords of Norway
32 St Peter’s Basilica – Vatican City
33 Egyptian Museum – Egypt
34 Borobudur – Indonesia
35 Valley of the Kings – Egypt
36 Hong Kong Harborscape – China
37 Sistine Chapel – Vatican City
38 Alhambra – Spain
39 Louvre Museum – France
40 Canals of Venice – Italy
41 Versailles – France
42 Carlsbad Caverns – USA
43 Mecca – Saudi Arabia
44 Kathmandu Valley – Nepal
45 Metropolitan Museum of Art – USA
46 Mt. Everest – China & Nepal
47 Temple of Emerald Buddha – Thailand
48 Hagia Sofia – Turkey
49 Pompeii – Italy
50 Kashmir Valley – India
51 Prague Old Town – Czech Republic
52 Golden Temple – India
53 Amalfi Coast & Drive – Italy
54 Meenakshi – India
55 Chartres Cathedral – France
56 Mezquita of Cordoba – Spain
57 Damascus Old City / Umayyad – Syria
58 Dubrovnik – Croatia
59 Uffizi Gallery – Italy
60 Rio Panoramic Views – Brazil
61 Golden Pavilion – Japan
62 Delphi – Greece
63 St. Basil’s Cathedral – Russia
64 Abu Simbel – Egypt
65 St. Mark’s Basilica/Campanile – Italy
66 Florence Cityscape – Italy
67 Kremlin – Russia
68 Varanasi & the Ganges – India
69 Li River Cruise – China
70 Shwedagon Stupa – Myanmar
71 Sahara Desert – Multinational
72 Leaning Tower of Pisa – Italy
73 Baalbek – Lebanon
74 Mont-St-Michel – France
75 Topkapi Palace – Turkey
76 Carnival in Rio – Brazil
77 Stonehenge – England
78 Angel Falls – Venezuela
79 Yellowstone – USA
80 Santorini – Greece
81 Petronas Twin Towers – Malaysia
82 Matterhorn – Switzerland
83 New York Skyline – USA
84 Marrakesh – Morocco
85 Eiffel Tower – France
86 Ladakh – India
87 Niagara Falls – Canada & USA
88 British Museum – England
89 Burj Al Arab – Dubai, UAE
90 Antarctica Penguins – Multinational
91 Yangtze River Cruise – China
92 Yosemite – USA
93 Ayers Rock – Australia
94 Chambord Chateau – France
95 Temple of Heaven – China
96 Neuschwanstein Castle – Germany
97 Suez Canal – Egypt
98 San Francisco Bay/Cityscape – USA
99 Dead Sea – Israel & Jordan
100 Portofino – Italy
http://www.hillmanwonders.com/
Ones I’ve been to:
Great Wall
Galapagos
Grand Canyon
Sistine Chapel
St. Peter’s
Eiffel Tower
Temple of Heaven
Colosseum
New York
San Francisco
Dear Ted,
I have been to 17 of these places. These are the ones I have been to,not in order.
San Francisco x times (x indicates numersous)
Eiffel Tower X times
New York x times
Met in NYC x times
Matterhorn 1 time
Yellowstone 2 times
Mont St. Michel 1 time
Florence Italy 1 time
Uffizi Gallery 1 time
Chartres, France 1 time
Temple of the Emerald Budda 1 time
Versailles 2 times
Louvers 4 times
Sistine Chapel 1 time
Hong Kong Harbor 1 time
Chichen Itza Mexico 1 time
Grand Canyon 7 days raft trip
I’ve been to 1.
#45
You’ve seen New York’s skyline too, so that would be at least 2. And if Betty Claire saw the Sistine Chapel she probably saw the Colosseum and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome too, though she’s seen entirely too many of those places already.
I have been to:
Grant Canyon
Jerusalem Old City
St. Peter’s-Rome
Colosseum of Rome
Sistine Chapel
Metropolitan Museum, NYC
Uffizi Gallery-Florence
Rio Panoramic Views
Florence
Pre-Carnival at Rio
Stonehenge
NY Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Niagra Falls
British Museum
San Franciso
Dead Sea
Louvre Museum
Versailles, France
Temple of Emerald Buddha (not sure about that one)
Aren’t I lucky and blessed?
Mom
Wow. You didn’t go to see the Emerald Buddah though. We saw the Royal Palace and the Temple of Dawn, but not the Emerald Buddah. I don’t know why we didn’t do that one, but we weren’t really in Bangkok for very long. We saw the catfish of Roi Et, but somehow those didn’t make the list.
I don’t even remember all of this blog!!! Who is Don? I’ve been to more of these now. I’m still blessed and lucky !!!!
The previous blog entry was also based on something Don sent to me. He is a friend of mine from Peace Corps. 13 years since I wrote this and I have only added one (Yellowstone), but hope to catch two this year: Castle Neuschwanstein and Prague Old Town. So I went back to look at this list and saw that Mom had been to several of these just in the last couple of years.
I am waaaaaaaay behind! I have a LOT of catching up to do!!