wonder's of the world

Natural travel wonders

2009-10-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

1. Serengeti Migration
2. Galápagos Islands
3. Grand Canyon
4. Iguazu Falls
5. Amazon Rainforest
6. Ngorongoro Crater
7. Great Barrier Reef
8. Victoria Falls
9. Bora Bora
10. Cappadocia

Travel wonders of the world

2009-10-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

Taj Mahal

Travel writer Howard Hillman is one of many who have compiled lists of the top man-made[21] and natural tourist travel wonders of the world:
Man-made travel wonders
1. Giza pyramid complex
2. Great Wall of China
3. Taj Mahal
4. Machu Picchu
5. Bali
6. Angkor Wat
7. Forbidden City
8. Bagan Temples and Pagodas
9. Karnak Temple
10. Teotihuacán

2009-10-15T15:39:00.000-07:00

The London sewerage system's
original Abbey Mills pumping station

British author Deborah Cadbury wrote Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, a book telling the stories of seven great feats of engineering of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2003 the BBC made a seven-part documentary series on the book, with each episode dramatising the construction one of the wonders. The seven industrial wonders are:

* SS Great Eastern
* Bell Rock Lighthouse
* Brooklyn Bridge
* London sewerage system
* First Transcontinental Railroad
* Panama Canal
* Hoover Dam

Seven Wonders of the Underwater World

2009-10-15T15:34:00.000-07:00

The Great Barrier Reef

The Seven Underwater Wonders of the World was a list drawn up by CEDAM International, an American-based non-profit group for divers, dedicated to ocean preservation and research.

In 1989 CEDAM brought together a panel of marine scientists, including Dr. Eugenie Clark, to pick underwater areas which they considered to be worthy of protection. The results were announced at The National Aquarium in Washington DC by actor Lloyd Bridges, star of TV's Sea Hunt:

* Palau
* Belize Barrier Reef
* Great Barrier Reef
* Deep-Sea Vents
* Galápagos Islands
* Lake Baikal
* Northern Red Sea

Seven Natural Wonders of the World

2009-10-15T15:27:00.000-07:00

Grand Canyon

Similar to the other lists of wonders, there is no consensus on a list of seven natural wonders of the world, as there has been debate over how large the list should be. One of the many lists was compiled by CNN:

Mount Everest

* Grand Canyon
* Great Barrier Reef
* Harbour of Rio de Janeiro
* Mount Everest
* Aurora
* Parícutin volcano
* Victoria Falls

The Great Barrier Reef

New7Wonders of Nature is a contemporary effort to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll, organized by New Open World Corporation (NOWC), which ran the New Seven Wonders of the World campaign.

Aurora

New7Wonders Foundation's seven wonders of the world

2009-10-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

The London sewerage system's
original Abbey Mills pumping station

Chichen Itza

In 2001 an initiative was started by the Swiss corporation New7Wonders Foundation to choose the New Seven Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments for profit.Twenty-one finalists were announced January 1, 2006. Egypt was not happy with the fact that the only original wonder would have to compete with the likes of the Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House, and other landmarks; and called the project absurd. To solve this, Giza was named an honorary Candidate. The results were announced on July 7, 2007:

Machu Picchu

Great Wall of China, China
Petra, Jordan
Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
Machu Picchu , Peru
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Roman Colosseum , Italy
Taj Mahal, India
Great Pyramid (Honorary Cand), Egypt

The Great Pyramid of Giza,
the only wonder of the ancient world still in existence

Wonders of the modern world

2009-10-15T14:58:00.000-07:00

Golden Gate Bridge

Many lists have been made of the greatest structures built during modern times or of the greatest wonders existing today. Some of the most notable lists are presented below.

The American Society of Civil Engineers compiled a list of wonders of the modern world:

*Wonder

*Channel Tunnel

*CN Tower

*Empire State Building

*Golden Gate Bridge

*Itaipu Dam

*Delta Works/ Zuiderzee Works

*Panama Canal

Wonders of the Medieval World

2009-10-15T14:42:00.000-07:00

Many lists of wonders of the world are said to have existed during the Middle Ages, although it is unlikely that these lists originated at that time because the word medieval was not even invented until the Enlightenment-era, and the concept of a Middle Age did not become popular until the 16th century. Brewer's refers to them as "later list" suggesting the lists were created after the Middle Ages.

The Colosseum in Rome

Typically representative of the seven greatest wonders of the Medieval world are:

* Stonehenge
* Colosseum
* Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
* Great Wall of China
* Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
* Hagia Sophia
* Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Great Wall of China

Other sites included on such lists:

* Taj Mahal
* Cairo Citadel
* Ely Cathedral
* Cluny Abbey

Hagia Sophia

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

2009-10-15T14:17:00.000-07:00

Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled over the ages to catalogue the most spectacular man-made constructions and natural things in the world.

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of Seven wonders but their writings have not survived, except as references. The seven wonders included:

* Great Pyramid of Giza
* Hanging Gardens of Babylon
* Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
* Colossus of Rhodes
* Lighthouse of Alexandria

The earliest lists had the Ishtar Gate as the seventh wonder of the world instead of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.