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| 7 'New' Wonders | Best Wonders | Travel Pictures | World Maps | World Wonders Tour Operators Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. The Sphinx and three pyramids at Giza, on the desert's edge near Cairo, are a sensation - if you can survive the hawkers. Best: Oct-May. More Giza Pyramid tourist information | Pyramid Pictures | Egypt Travel Guide Luxor, Egypt, picture top left. The variety of spectacular temples, tombs and bizarre monuments astride the river Nile make this a tourist must-see. Best: Jan - April, Oct, Nov. Avoid: July, Aug [heat]. More Luxor tourist information | Luxor Pictures | Egypt Travel Guide Taj Mahal, Agra, India. The extraordinary marble tomb of Shah Jahan's wife, in a calm, rural setting around a river bend from Shah Jahan's Red Fort makes a sensational day's sightseeing. Best: Oct-March. Avoid: the summer [extreme heat]. More Taj Mahal tourist information | India Travel Guide - Taj Mahal Pictures Machu Picchu, Peru. Amazingly scenic and well and mysterious old city built by the Incas on a hilltop surrounded by virgin mountains. Best: April-June, Sept-Nov. OK July, Aug. [winter]. Avoid: Dec-March [rain]. More Macchu Picchu tourist information | Peru Pictures | Peru Travel Guide Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, picture top right. This decayed but atmospheric, jungle enveloped Maya city, featuring the planet's most perfect pyramid and other fascinating structures deserves more than a hectic tour from Cancun. Best: Nov-Apr. Avoid: May-Oct [rains]. More Chichen Itza tourist information | Chichen Itza Photos | Mexico Travel Guide. Palmyra,
Syria. An ancient and
ruined city in the middle of dusty, Syrian nowhere. Bhaktapur,
Khatmandu, Nepal. A gorgeously restored medieval town, saturated with
monuments and carvings, some very rude Nepal
Pictures II [Bhaktapur].
Bagan [Pagan], Burma [Myanmar]. A totally awesome panorama of 2,500 ancient buildings in 16 sq. miles of arid, flat rural landscape. More Bagan information. Tikal, Guatemala. Tikal is the largest Mayan pyramid group, a wonderfully atmospheric place fighting off a screeching, buzzing jungle. Best: Nov-May. Avoid: June-Oct [rains]. More Tikal tourist information | Guatemala Pictures | Guatemala Travel Guide Petra, Jordan. Picture top left. An arid fairyland of temples and other monuments in multicoloured rock, unlike anything else on the planet. Best: March-June, Sept-Nov. Avoid: winter [cold] & summer [hot]. More Petra tourist information | Jordan Travel Guide | Petra Pictures. Kyoto & Nara, Japan, picture top right. A large number of superb temples, Zen gardens and ancient tea houses surrounded by modern Japan. Best: March - May, Oct - Nov. Avoid: June-August. More Kyoto tourist information | Japan Travel | Japan Pictures Rapa Nui [Easter Island], Chile. Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a distant and undeveloped South Pacific island hosting few people but hundreds of huge, enigmatic stone statues known as moai. Best: Sept - April but OK most of the year. Avoid: May [wet] and June-August. More Easter Island tourist information | Easter Island Pictures | Chile Travel Guide *Borobudur,
Java, Indonesia. An intact and intricately carved 9thC
Buddhist temple housing a thousand Buddhas. *Angkor, Cambodia. A mass of stunningly conceived and carved, world beating Khmer wonders surrounded by jungle and tourists. Best: Dec- Feb. Avoid: April [extreme heat], Sept, Oct. More Angkor tourist information | Angkor Pictures | Angkor Travel Guide | Cambodia Travel Guide.
World Wonders Tour Operators offering travel to the countries with
the best ancient sites are here: * Not the best month for these world wonders, but ok Pictures: top left Agra, India; top right Khatmandu, Nepal. |
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