Regular contributor Mac ruminates on the world of travel & some of his adventures along the way
This time round The Beetle is responding to his suggestion of the following top ten places to visit:-
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Zambia
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Canals of Venice, Italy
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Lee River, China (conical limestone peaks)
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Suez Canal, Egypt
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Lake Como, Italy
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Lake Baikal, Russia
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Nile River, Egypt
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Bora Bora, South Pacific
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Dead Sea, Israel
Hi Mac,
I’m at work, we are having a wall built between the main cheese waxing area and my new dairy – I will be making cheese for the first time next week!
Here’s my version of the best top 10:, with a theme of best Lakes, Canals, & Watery Wonders:-
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The Panama Canal – an incredible piece of engineering
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The Amazon
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The reefs off Papua New Guinea – the Great Barrier reef is largely dead and trashed by careless divers and snorkelers
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The Nile from Luxor to Aswan
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Venice
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Lake Tanganyika by the steps of the Railway Hotel, Kigoma – the most beautiful and serene sight
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Gulin, China, with its rounded steep mountains
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The Danube
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Rotorua and its geysers and stinky lake
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Lake Wanaka
What do you the readers think ? Has Mac got the inside track or does The Beetle show up the breadth of her knowledge ? The Ant
Jonathan Tourtellot, director of the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, recently published its list of the world’s Top Ten Places for Geotourism. His picks were featured in a Jan. 4 USA Today article titled “10 Great Places to Leave Unspoiled.†Alphabetically, they are:
Ashland, Oregon
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Fjords of Norway
Guanajuato, Mexico.
Island of Grenada
Isle of Skye
Mackinac Island, Mich.igan
“Northeast Kingdom†Vermont
Wachau Valley in Austria
Postscript: Ashland was the subject of a Globe article in 2005 in which it was noted that it appeared on several other lists including Schultz’s 1000 Places to See Before You Die, Villani’s 100 Best Art Towns in America, AARP’s15 best retirement towns in the US, USA Today’s list of the most romantic towns in America, Forbes’s “twenty hidden gems of American education,†and Time magazines list of the 5 best repertoire theatres in America have in common?