Places to see before you die

14 Feb 2007

There are a number of places that are worth seeing at least once before you die. Personally the top 15 places i want to see before i die are (in no particular order)
1. Angkor Wat (cambodia)
2. Taj Mahal (India)
3. Pyramid of Kukulucan (mexico)
4. Petra (Jordan)
5. Wat Phra Kaeo (Thailand)
6. Karnak Temple (Egypt)
7. Jaisalmer Fort (India)
8. Machu Picchu (Peru)
9. Ephesus (Turkey)
10. Monet's Garden (France)
11. Yangshuo (China)
12. Dubrovnik (Croatia)
13. Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
14. Killary Harbour (Ireland)
15. Valley of the Kings (Egypt)
I recommend taht people google some of these places as they are truley spectacular. What does everyone else want to see?

14 Feb 2007

Pikes Peak hillclimb in Denver Colarado
Bathurst 1000 In Australia.

14 Feb 2007

I'm not asking for much - The Grand Canyon, on horseback, Route66 on a Harley , and the Northern Lights at their most spectacular are on my 'you cant pop ya clogs til you've seen this' list lol

I'd love to see the Barrier Reef, walk the Great Wall of China & hike in rainforests to see Gorillas a la Ms Fossey and see wild elephants in their natural habitat - and be able to touch one. On principal though I dont agree with it, for every one of us that wants to, there's another 1000 tourists doing it dunno

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Darkfire
I'm not asking for much - The Grand Canyon, on horseback, Route66 on a Harley , and the Northern Lights at their most spectacular are on my 'you cant pop ya clogs til you've seen this' list
I'd love to see the Barrier Reef, walk the Great Wall of China & hike in rainforests to see Gorillas a la Ms Fossey and see wild elephants in their natural habitat - and be able to touch one. On principal though I dont agree with it, for every one of us that wants to, there's another 1000 tourists doing it

I'd love to see wild animals like Lions and Tigers etc in their natural habitat but as you say there are too many tourists doing it ....

14 Feb 2007

Just want to add The Galapogos Islands. I went there a few years back. Absolutely amazing. The wildlife has no fear of man and will come right up to you. Had a sealion swim between my legs as we walked knee deep along a stream. You've gotta go lol

14 Feb 2007

Quote by keeno
Just want to add The Galapogos Islands. I went there a few years back. Absolutely amazing. The wildlife has no fear of man and will come right up to you. Had a sealion swim between my legs as we walked knee deep along a stream. You've gotta go

I SOOOOOOO want to visit there!
Also various parts of India, Bhutan and Russia!

14 Feb 2007

How wide are your legs lol!?

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Kiss
Just want to add The Galapogos Islands. I went there a few years back. Absolutely amazing. The wildlife has no fear of man and will come right up to you. Had a sealion swim between my legs as we walked knee deep along a stream. You've gotta go

I SOOOOOOO want to visit there!
Also various parts of India, Bhutan and Russia!
It was ahell of a trip. Cuba, Equador (stood on the equator one foot in the north and one foot in the south) and 3 days cruising round the islands.
Save your pennies (or rather £s or £100s) and go

14 Feb 2007

I dearly want to do the first on the list and hoped to make it this year but had to drop it due to other committments... smile

:)
Next year maybe
xanaisx

14 Feb 2007

The Inca Trail wink

14 Feb 2007

I have to agree with the sentiments expressed by some others here... several places i would dearly love to see... though the prospect of all the other similar minded tourists turns me right off....
im selfish
lp

14 Feb 2007

Quote by jaymar
The Inca Trail

If you ever go to Macchu Picchu make sure you stay over night at the hotel. That way you get to roam the site for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening without hundreds of tourists :wink:

14 Feb 2007

No one said they'd like to visit my bedroom :cry:

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Sassy-Seren
No one said they'd like to visit my bedroom :cry:

are there many tourists?
lp

14 Feb 2007

Going to Petra in Jordan later in the year..... the rose red city... looks amazing.
The Wadi Rum also looks like a brilliant place to go....
The sandstone pillars rising up out of the desert as if they were placed there.
One place I would love to visit is the Great Wall of China..... so much history and a fascinating culture.
equi-princess x

14 Feb 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything
No one said they'd like to visit my bedroom :cry:

are there many tourists?
lp
There were when I visited!! :giggle:
For me:-
Terracotta army

14 Feb 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything
I have to agree with the sentiments expressed by some others here... several places i would dearly love to see... though the prospect of all the other similar minded tourists turns me right off....
im selfish
lp

not just the tourists, as in 'other people'...but the damage caused to the environment by everyone who goes there.
I watched a documentary a few years ago about the Great Barrier reef, and how simply by being there & disturbing the delicate eco-system we will eventually destroy it...'souvenier' bits of live coral, for example :sad:
There are many places I'd like to see, but it wont be my boots trampling on ancient trails contributing to their destruction, allowing wild animals to become so familiar with 'man' that they dont run from danger, or wanting a hotel built in the middle of a rainforest.

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Darkfire
There are many places I'd like to see, but it wont be my boots trampling on ancient trails contributing to their destruction, allowing wild animals to become so familiar with 'man' that they dont run from danger, or wanting a hotel built in the middle of a rainforest.

wholehearted agreement :thumbup:
but allll those other berloody people...!...pah!
lp

14 Feb 2007

I'd like to see the carpet in my son's room before i die!

14 Feb 2007

We were stripping the carpet in my nan's bathroom after she died and it turned out to be lino...

14 Feb 2007

Kennedy Space Center

14 Feb 2007

Russ and i was having this very conversation last nite,as it looks very posible that a coming windfall would enable us to have a holiday somewhere diffrent lol

...and was thinking jamica! mainly because most other places i/we want to go are too dangerous at present or i dont feel fit enough at present to be able to realy enjoy them as i would want to redface

But the northern lights has been on my must see list for years...now i am thinking how to do both and combine norway and jamica :giggle: ,russ will be worried hehe! :twisted:
Nicky

14 Feb 2007

Quote by keeno
The Inca Trail

If you ever go to Macchu Picchu make sure you stay over night at the hotel. That way you get to roam the site for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening without hundreds of tourists :wink:
Have you done the Trail then Keeno? I've wanted to do this for years but family ties prevented me, now I just need to get sponsours and get fitter! Apparently not the place for unfit people :cry:

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Drewxcore
We were stripping the carpet in my nan's bathroom after she died and it turned out to be lino...

:shock: :eeek: Do you do this on purpose?? dunno

14 Feb 2007

I've only recently been able to afford travel out of this country so my list is huge, but one ambition of 30+ years which would seem quite small compared to some of the previous posters ambitions is to go to Amsterdam. Hubby and I are finally going this April :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
DD biggrin

14 Feb 2007

The Northern Lights for me.

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Sarah
No one said they'd like to visit my bedroom :cry:

are there many tourists?
lp
There were when I visited!! :giggle:

smackbottom

That was the Pussy Posse on a shoe raid of my wardrobe! :shock:
I's like to visit:
Moscow
Machu Pichu
Terracotta Army
Great Wall Of China
The Northern Lights
Grand Canyon
Victoria Falls
Venice
and Sweden

14 Feb 2007

I have always wanted to visit the Sydney Opera House,Prague and the coliseum.
Oh and Iceland(not the supermarket)

14 Feb 2007

Quote by Warmer
Oh and Iceland(not the supermarket)

Beware: Bjork!
lp

14 Feb 2007

Machu Picchu has always been a place i have fancied to got to, dont know why but fasinates the hell out of me, hmm got some study time now :idea:
The other place would be space, if you got £100,000 you can go up in virgins new plane in a few years time. i have been up to over 62,000 ft in fighter aircraft absoultly awesome, so thats the only thing that could top it for me. have to plunb in a lot of pipes for that kind of money though.