Top 25 places to visit.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Do you agree,

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/best-travel-experiences-discovery-channel-reveals-worls-s-most-un...

[ilove2patch]

I can think of many more. I ticked off two from that list.

[captainbovine]

nope.....maybe about 5 of them would be in my list, the rest I wouldn't care for.

[ed_blackadder_1]

No 1, Norway and the northern lights, and the Rockies for me, maybe the terracotta army and the forbidden city whilst I was there.

Not bothered by anything that would be hot and sweaty, like the amazon or the pyramids or the grand canyon.

Machi Picchu looks wonderful but it is a hellava climb so if it was by helicopter I might.

Did the island hopping years ago.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I'm surprised the northern lights came first.  I would have thought the grand canyon and Niagra falls would be more spectacular.

I wouldn't want to go to any of them thank you!

[ilove2patch]

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

I'm surprised the northern lights came first.  I would have thought the grand canyon and Niagra falls would be more spectacular.

I wouldn't want to go to any of them thank you!

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Both very comercialised so perhaps that's why they didn't come higher. I know I am biased but the Chesil Beach & Jurassic Coast. takes some beating!

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

Same here, most are far too commercial, there are better places.

I saw the Northern Lights some years ago in Scotland and they were amazing and noisy!  The Trans-Siberian is something else too, a really memorable trip, but for me the Blue Train in South Africa took some beating.

One of the most amazing places is Zimbabwe - or sadly, used to be. Nothing so wonderful and scarey as sitting in the pool at the edge of Victoria Falls.

[calibra101]

Northern Lights, Normandy War Graves and Route 66 for me out of that list.

[rose2008-2008]

Well i have been to Niagara Falls and it was BREATHTAKING,,and been down in the caves underneath,,changed into macs and stood underneath the Fall. SCARY but GREAT.

I would love to do Route 66, and The Grand Canyon

[2017clearout]

I've been to the pyramids a couple of times, and the Forbidden City: I think the pyramids are likely to be better now that there are so few tourists going to Egypt, but their real glory days have gone- Giza and Cairo get ever closer.  

The Forbidden City was awesome - one of my great uncles was a photographer and he was one of the first white men ever to see inside, and I felt like I was walking in his footsteps - there were heaps of noisy Chinese tour parties, but I managed to give them the slip and ended up in part of the palace where there were very few other people: for those that have read Empress Orchid, it was the area where her palace and gardens were.  It was wonderful, and I was just sorry I didn't have longer to explore.  

I've also seen the great wildebeest migration - my parents were guardian to a girl whose parents had moved to Kenya, and I went to stay one summer: it was an amazing experience - you just can't imagine how it looks when the whole horizon is thick with hundreds of thousands of wildebeest.

I'd add to that list Dartmoor, the Giant's Causeway, Snowdonia and the White Nile on the natural front, and the Old City of Jerusalem, the temple at Philae, Krak des Chevaliers and Nemret Dagu on the man-made.  Once I'd have added Aleppo and Damascus, but I think, certainly in the case of Aleppo, there is very little left because of the war.

[rainydaywoman11]

On reading this, some of you have been to some fabulous places - I all my days wanted to see the Niagara Falls (Marilyn Monroe's fault) - but our big trip starting in Chicago/New Orleans, then Canada, was cancelled, we were due to travel 2 days after 9/11 and we've just never made is since.

For my money, Venice every time, and you don't have to live in the packed nightmare that is St. Mark's Square.  We live in Canareggio, which is still a living and working district of Venice, a bit scruffy, but none the worse for that.  Also Montecatini Terme, a small spa town 30 miles East of Florence - fly to Pisa then take the train (30 mins) - it is so pretty, the spa and baths are amazing.  I always come home loaded loaded with their products.  I need to go somewhere  and only a couple of more months and I should be able to 

[wskneil]

Agree with you about the Forbidden City, Could have spent days there! Was quite funny though because we were followed by groups of giggling chinese girls, and finally worked out it was because they had never seen a 6' 3" long haired, beaded "big nose" before!  Walking across Tianenman Sqaure with all the kite flyers and being approached by people who just wanted to practice their English was something we will never forget.

 I can remember as a child my next door neighbour has a box full of 3D glass slides of the Forbidden Palace that he had taken in the 20s or 30s. I still have the camera but the slides unfortunately disappeared when he died.

We just want to go everwhere and anywhere though. In 2006 we drove to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia in a 2CV and now the journey is probably as important than the destination, of not more so. Sleeping on the car in a sunflower field in Kazakhstan, blagging a guided tour of the Registan in Samarkand as the guide was trying to lock up for the night, and standing on the top looking at the city stretched out before us, standing at the side of a road having been pulled over by two wedding cars, drinking champagne and me making a speech in Kazak ( pronmpted by a man whispering behind me!) and English, and presenting the bride and groom with their first picture as a couple......... well you get the idea we have got the travelling bug. Unfortunately ( or fortunately cos we love her to bits)  we have now got a 2 year old for the forseeable future so it will be a while before we can escape again

[rose2008-2008]

You have to go to Niagara Rainydaywoman!!!!!. Im so glad i went.

I would also add Dunns River Falls in Jamaica,,i would love to go there.

And i would love to go to Treetops in Africa to see my beloved Giraffes who stick their heads through to give you a kiss at Breakfast time or whenever,. I would so love that!!!.