ULTIMATE TRAVEL LIST
Lonely Planet came out with a new book, The Ultimate Travel List, which encompasses their 500 top travel destinations. I just received my copy of the book, it took a while as it was out just Europe for a while but I’m very excited as it is a great addition to my coffee table (and the ridiculous amount of travel books I have laying in the house).
What made the top 20:
- Temples of Angkor, Cambodia
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Great Wall of China, China
- Taj Mahal, India
- Grand Canyon National Park, USA
- Colosseum, Italy
- Iguazu Falls, Brazil-Argentina
- Alhambra, Spain
- Aya Sofya, Turkey
- Fez Medina, Morocco
- Twelve Apostles, Australia
- Petra, Jordan
- Tikal, Guatemala
- British Museum, England
- Sagrada Familia, Spain
- Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
- Santorini, Greece
- Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
- Museum of Old & New Art, Australia
I’ve actually been to 9 of the 20, and accompanying here are my own personal pictures of my visits.
Some commentary on the book:
- World’s top 500 sights revealed in Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist 2015
- Lonely Planet reveals its ‘ultimate’ travel
- This is Lonely Planet’s ultimate travel bucket list – how many places have you visited
- Finally, the definitive bucket list: The Temples of Angkor, Great Barrier Reef and Machu Picchu lead the places you MUST see, say Lonely Planet’s adventure experts
- The destinations on Lonely Planet’s ultimate travel list that you WON’T have heard about: World’s best bizarre attractions include a church of bones and NORTH KOREA
TOP TRAVEL 2016
Additionally they just came out a few weeks ago with their 2016 travel top destinations. What were the top 10 countries to make the list:
- Botswana
- Japan
- USA
- Palau
- Latvia
- Australia
- Poland
- Uruguay
- Greenland
- Fiji
- Kotor, Montenegro
- Ecuador, Quito
- Dublin, Ireland
- George Town, Malaysia
- Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Mumbai, India
- Fremantle, Australia
- Manchester, England
- Nashville, USA
- Rome, Italy
- Transylvania, Romania
- West Iceland, Iceland
- Valle de Vinales, Cuba
- Friuli’s Wine Regions, Italy
- Waiheke Islands, New Zealand
- Auvergne Region, France
- Hawaii, USA
- Bavaria, Germany
- Costa Verde, Brazil
- St Helena, British Territories
This is a great list for me as I’ve only been to two countries: USA and Uruguay, four cities: Mumbai, Quito, Dublin and Rome and none of the Regions.Here’s a video on this from them:
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