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Places you've been and thought 'yeah! wow!'

First up for me - Newgrange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

Woop Woop, this is more like it! Places what take your breath away.

For me it has to be Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Just wow!

Grand Canyon!

Robben island. Place is amazing and to be taken around by people who were incarcerated there was even more amazing and something that you won't be able to do for ever!

Not a landmark and not a tourist attraction but I was very surprised and intrigued by the fog of the Californian coast in the summer, gobsmacked by it. Does it all the time by all accounts but I've never heard of it or seen it before.  It's like it's just waiting off the coast and will come in and swallow everything at some point.  Bit like the UFO's hovering above the city in the film Independence Day.

Macchu Picchu

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Newlands, Cape Town

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Cowboys Stadium, Dallas

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Did you walk the Inca trail to get there?  I really, really need to do that one day - I can imagine it's just totally breathtaking

Glen Affric, near Loch Ness.

21 years ago! the most stunning place i have been to

Then it was Filbert Street when Dennis the Iceman slotted home the best goal ever witnessed in the Premier League!

Helicopter trip from Vegas over the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon probably the best value $400 I've ever spent, well worth it

New York City.  You expect a lot from it and yet it somehow manages to deliver and exceed expectations.  I have never known anyone not be blown away by the place.

I went when it was a dangerous shithole back in the early 90's, so there one for you lol

My boss lived there then, his wife hated it so much that she said she's never, ever going back there - even though she knows that it's been completely transformed.

+1 for redarmi's sentiment, I talked to some other people I know who've been there recently and we all agreed it's one of the few places you can go around and every now again you just can't help thinking, "this is awesome".

New Zealand.

Awe inspiring, beautiful, fascinating. People couldn't be friendlier. And so much to do

Met a family at the airport when we left, who had been there two weeks and had done completely different stuff to us but had an equally fabulous time.

If I had gone there when I was 20, I'd never have come home.

Also +1 for La Sagrada Familia, loved that when I went.

And narrowing down New York to 2 things which exceeded expectations (because things like the Empire State Building - fantastic, but you expect it to be etc.)

The Staten Island Ferry - which is just the loveliest boat trip; and almost completely makes paying for a cruise around the island redundant
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And the Metropolitan Museum of Art - a bit more specific, I think you'd have to vaguely like art to start with to appreciate a day trip. Although the weapons department wouldn't be bad for anyone for a short trip :D
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New York, New York, New York. Just love everything about that city!

Pisa is really nice once you get passed all the Africans trying to sell you stuff.

New York

Byron Bay in Australia, it's the surfer paradise from home and away.

Prague just before we ruined it.

Portoroz in Slovenia is a lovely hidden gem.

Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival.

Big +1 to New York, was only there for 4 days but was much better than expected

A little disappointed that I didn't go and visit the Sagrada Familia properly despite living 2 blocks away from it for a few months. Will definitely give it a proper look at some point

That was the best place I went to in Oz also.

Loved Byron, but Palm Beach is where Home and Away is filmed.  Loved Fraser Island and Kakadu more, Kakadu really was awesome.

Loved so many things about Belize

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Massive +1.

Easily my favourite country in the world, in particular the South Island. Milford haven is just a ludicrously beautiful place if I had to pick one place there.

Ireland is only a short head behind NZ

Love the alcohol, the people, the horse racing and the countryside.

NZ>Ireland>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>England>>>>Australia>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anywhere else in the world you care to mention

Hard to single any one place out but here is a couple that stick in my mind.

Bagan in Myanmar/Burma, the place had a real mystical feeling about it that was hard to explain. The panoramic view over the 100's of temples with a fog in the air really took you back in time.

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Varanasi in India, proper old India and once again had a really mystical feeling about the place. Even if you didn't have a religious bone in your body you couldn't fail to feel the 'holiness' of the place

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Batad rice terraces in the Cordillera mountains in North Luzon, Philippines. Probably the biggest wow I've have in recent years, the pics really don't give you a sense of the size of the it. You basically have rice terraces lining huge mountain sides from top to bottom. I've seen plenty of this in other places but nothing came close to the scale of these.

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I was going to mention Croatia - spent a couple of weeks in Rovinj in 1998 and it was lovely. Particularly enjoyed the near-deserted islands off the coast.

Those waterfalls look amazing - another place on my bucket list is the Plitvice Lakes - looks stunning from pics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plitvice_Lakes

Prague under 20 inches of snow in February also late 90s was very magical too. I'd imagine it's different now, but would still like to go back there.

Dunns River Falls (Jamaica)

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Buccaneers Backpackers / Cinsta Beach (South Africa)

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Inkwenkwezi Game Reserve

You two should come and see it this time of year.  The colours of the trees are amazing.

And the beer by a roaring fire tastes even better. 

Yes, we need to organise another trip, although we're both uber-busy until after the new year.  I see you mentioned coming up again after the poker festival, you wouldn't want me winning again ;)