Sunday, November 10, 2002

The BBC Holiday Show asked viewers to name the fifty places one should see before one dies. Disappointingly, I have only been to four of them: Cape Town, New York, Barcelona and Paris. There are some glaring omissions from the list - where are the cultural gems: Prague, Florence, St Petersburg? Indeed, anywhere in Middle Europe? Instead, we have Florida and the rigid morals of Singapore and Dubai.

Top of my list of places to add to my travels would be San Francisco, Rio and the Galapagos Islands. Here's the viewers' list - how many have you been to?
1 The Grand Canyon
2 Great Barrier Reef
3 Florida
4 South Island - New Zealand
5 Cape Town
6 Golden Temple
7 Las Vegas
8 Sydney
9 New York
10 Taj Mahal
11 Canadian Rockies
12 Uluru
13 Chichen Itza - Mexico
14 Machu Picchu - Peru
15 Niagara Falls
16 Petra - Jordan
17 The Pyramids - Egypt
18 Venice
19 Maldives
20 Great Wall of China
21 Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe
22 Hong Kong
23 Yosemite National Park
24 Hawaii
25 Auckland - New Zealand
26 Iguassu Falls
27 Paris
28 Alaska
29 Angkor Wat - Cambodia
30 Himalayas - Nepal
31 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
32 Masai Mara - Kenya
33 Galapagos Islands - Ecuador
34 Luxor - Egypt
35 Rome
36 San Francisco
37 Barcelona
38 Dubai
39 Singapore
40 La Digue - Seychelles
41 Sri Lanka
42 Bangkok
43 Barbados
44 Iceland
45 Terracotta Army - China
46 Zermatt - Switzerland
47 Angel Falls - Venezuela
48 Abu Simbel - Egypt
49 Bali
50 French Polynesia

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