일생에 꼭 가봐야 될 곳 50 - World Wonders

50 Places of a Lifetime - World Wonders

아테네 아크로폴리스(Acropolis)

 

 

The Acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern Athens, is so integral to the texts of our history books—and the subtexts of our imaginations—that it is one of those near-mythic monuments you feel you’ve seen even if you never have.—Owen Edwards

 

캄보디아 앙코르 와트(Angkor)

 

 

Angkor is utterly transforming. The jungle and the ruins intertwine in beautiful and mysterious harmony. Sunset from the top of Angkor Wat has to be one of the most extraordinary experiences any traveler could possibly have.—Earl A. Powell III, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

 

사이버스페이스(Cyberspace)

 

 

The Internet pushes life beyond the old physical barriers of time and space. Here you can roam around the world without leaving home. Make new friends. Communicate with astronauts as they circle the Earth. Exchange the results of laboratory experiments with a colleague overseas. Read stock quotes. Virtual travel. Virtual love. A new reality.—Joel L. Swerdlow, assistant editor, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine

 

피라미드(Giza Pyramids)

 

 

Man fears time, but time itself fears the Pyramids.—Arabic proverb

 

만리장성(Great Wall)

 

 

The wall comes from where the sun rises and goes to where it sets.—William Lindesay

 

페루의 파추피추(Machu Picchu)

 

 

Something from an idyllic dream—an ancient city suspended above the clouds.—Johan Reinhard

 

미국 콜로라도의 메사 버드(Mesa Verde)

 

 

The buttressed parapets of Colorado sandstone maintain a silent vigil over the Anasazi pueblos, whose mysteries are now but ghostly images and whispers upon the sage-scented breezes of Mesa Verde.—R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flutist

 

요르단의 페트라(Petra)

 

 

Petra awes me with its splendid synthesis of the hand of God and the genius of humankind.— Queen Noor

 

타지마할(Taj Mahal)

 

 

India’s Taj Mahal must be seen to remind us that the world is real, that the sound is truer than the echo, the original more forceful than its image in a mirror.—Salman Rushdie

 

바티칸 시(Vatican City)

 

The Vatican is much more than the sum of its parts: It’s an organism that inspires and produces the very art and faith that then enrich it further—like a circular galaxy in a process of continuous expansion.—Gianluigi Colalucci

[from National Geographic Travelers]