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[whereshegoes]

Name your vote for the NEW Wonders of the World. Choose from old, modern or be creative and make up your own.

[Joseph]

Cathy's (a client of mine) purse. I have no idea how the heck she manages to fit everything into it. It may be the geek in me, but I honestly believe she must have some kind of pocket dimension.....

Seriously though - I've always been impressed at the width of the street beside Tiananmen square in Beijing.

[lucky]

I can never remember what they are... here are the ancient 7 wonders of the world...

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

I know there are tons of other lists out there ( like the 7 natural wonders of the world ) but if it's not already a wonder in some list, I'd vote for Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

[uncle_davros]

Now I think from what I have seen in my travels

Petra - Jordan
Temples of Bagan - Myanmar
Naqsh-E Jahan Square - Iran
Avebury Circles - England
El Djem - Tunisia
The Opera House - Sydney (I am biased)
Bangkok - Thailand (It is the centre of the universe!!!)

[eddakath]

G'day to you all,
maybe we could squeeze in the tunnels in Vietnam (not all of us at once!) and the Tiger Leaping Gorge in China into the list. Ok, and also the Trans Siberian Railroad (hey, it's long and a lot of people and insects died during it's construction). And please leave the Opera House in there too! tee hee!

[meercatvinny]

Guinness should definitley be on the list!! Because it amazingly tastes like crap everywhere except for Ireland!!

[uncle_davros]

And I agree with Vinny !!!

[beardsley]

Kelimutu, there is just something strange about looking down at those three lakes, each a different color.
Lake Toba, when you look out at the caldera from Samosir Island, it is just breath taking to imagine the fiery power that could punch a whole in the earth 1265 sq. k. in size, with the inner walls at least 500 m. high!
Thai cooking, I mean, that is a work of art!
Machachupre, even more than Everest, Machachupre is simply a spectacular mountain! I was lucky enough to see it in the early evening, when it was glowing coral, orange and red... Unreal!
Hadrians Wall, The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Great Wall, the fact that they are manmade just boggles the imagination.
Modern Civilization itself, have you ever thought about how complex it is? Have you ever looked at the color copier at work and tried to figure out how it worked, or how hard it would be to make one? How often do you meet anyone that actually makes something? My mom is a rancher, and she is the only person I know that actually makes something, everyone else I know works in the service industry.

[Barrett]

How about the Cuidad des Arts et Sciences in Valencia? I would also add the Guggenheim in Bilboa and all of Gaudi's architecture and art in Barcelona.

I know I caught flak in another thread for dissing the culture of Spain as being secondary to Italian, but let me tell you, the innovative architecture there is the best in the world. That's what NYC recently featured an exhibit on it.

[whereshegoes]

Where was the NYC Exhibit and when is it over?

[whereshegoes]

And here is a link:

Wonders

[ScottWoz]

I'd have to include the Southern Lights!

[senorbrian]

Hey thanks for the list and the link, So much to see out there the worlds So big.

[Jambo]

No one has really mentioned the big "official" project going on for the "New 7 Wonders of the World". It is decided by people's votes and the winners will be announced this July 7 (7/7/07).

We visited two of the nominees recently (Sydney Opera House and Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto) and both have big signs up asking people to vote for them in this contest.

Go and register your votes. As the website says, be part of making history.

[whereshegoes]

This contest is a good idea. I think they should do it every decade.

[gilgit786]

I can never remember what they are... here are the ancient 7 wonders of the world...

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

I know there are tons of other lists out there ( like the 7 natural wonders of the world ) but if it's not already a wonder in some list, I'd vote for Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

KKH Karakrum high way is the eight wounder of the. its trake route between Chian and Pakistan.

[ScottWoz]

I'd have to include New Zealand's Fiordland, utterly breathtaking..

[Jambo]

I can't agree about re-choosing the wonders every decade. Most of the nominees have been around for many years, some for centuries, so once they are chosen, they should be the 'official' wonders. Having votes every ten years would kind of cheapen the exercise. Perhaps every century or so . . .

[stevejames]

I don't really understand why the Sydney Opera House is there... sure, it's a lovely building... but a wonder of the world? The same could be said of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty - can you really put them in the same league as a 1500-mile wall, or a city carved into the rock, or a massive Pagan calendar built from huge rocks dragged from 200 miles away, or a sprawling city of a past Empire consumed by the jungle?

[Jambo]

I don't really understand why the Sydney Opera House is there... sure, it's a lovely building... but a wonder of the world? The same could be said of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty

The Eiffel Tower and S of L are both in the list of nominees, I think. I guess it depends on your definition of a wonder. The Colloseum is a nominee, as is Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, and a bunch of other buildings. The SOH is a unique building and almost symbolic for Australia, as is the Eiffel Tower.