Author Topic: The new 7 Wonders of the World (Read 5297 times)

reyfer · « **on:** July 08, 2007, 01:45:09 AM »

After nearly 100 million votes were casted online, today at the Benfica Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal the new 7 Wonders of the world were announced.

Here are the results:
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Statue of the Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Macchu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India

You can see the winners and finalists here http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=633

Pinkosa · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2007, 02:14:54 AM »

YAY for Chichen Itzá! I just live like 4 hours by car from there!!
The other 6 were great

Cookie · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2007, 02:17:36 AM »

Quote from: reyfer on July 08, 2007, 01:45:09 AM

Macchu Picchu, Peru

Awesome!!!

reyfer · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2007, 02:22:05 AM »

Of the seven winners, I have been personally to five. Only ones still to visit are Petra and the Taj Mahal

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2007, 02:34:35 AM »

No love for the pyramids? A granary in every city not good enough for you?

Nouciel · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2007, 02:57:06 AM »

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Macchu Picchu, Peru

o hells yeah! I've been there once

Pinkosa · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2007, 03:23:40 AM »

Quote from: Nouciel on July 08, 2007, 02:57:06 AM

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Macchu Picchu, Peru

o hells yeah! I've been there once

Can you believe I haven't been on Chichen Itzá and I live so damn close?

Anyways, Macchu Picchu is really cool, I'm glad is there too :3
I personally want to go to the Great Wall too

Ren · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2007, 09:50:29 AM »

Ahh Candi Borobudur is not listed.

I have only been to Great Wall. Never been outside of Asia.

Shumatsu Samurai · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2007, 12:26:39 PM »

Since UNESCO doesn't care it's just the "unofficial new 7 wonders"....

Asmodai · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2007, 05:35:45 PM »

Quote from: Foxy Brown on July 08, 2007, 02:34:35 AM

No love for the pyramids? A granary in every city not good enough for you?

Hell, the original Pyramids. Democracy in 2000BC FTW.

JTRIX · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2007, 05:58:20 PM »

Quote from: Foxy Brown on July 08, 2007, 02:34:35 AM

No love for the pyramids? A granary in every city not good enough for you?

hahaha... The Pyramid of Giza is already selected as one of the wonders because of the following reasons:
1) It was already part of the old 7 wonders, and
2) Because the Egypt government councils were arguing the above point, The Pyramid was automatically selected

Anyway I was expecting that The Acropolis would be one of the 7 wonders, but well... it lost.
So I better should go visit the "8 Wonders" as I have never seen any of them before (I'm poor, no money to travel)

JFC · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2007, 06:02:23 PM »

Quote from: reyfer on July 08, 2007, 02:22:05 AM

Of the seven winners, I have been personally to five. Only ones still to visit are Petra and the Taj Mahal

Lucky.

Sexykago · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2007, 07:17:47 AM »

The perfect wall at Machu Picchu is definitely a wonder. How the heck did they do that?

ctz · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2007, 08:04:05 AM »

Quote from: Sexykago on July 09, 2007, 07:17:47 AM

The perfect wall at Machu Picchu is definitely a wonder. How the heck did they do that?

Nazis in ufos from the Moon base of the future helped them!

Seriously I think this was kinda stupid vote, no one of the voters has seen all the candidates. Now the sites that already had some name got picked. Well it's not it matters or anything.

arun.yothin · « **Reply #14 on:** July 09, 2007, 03:45:15 PM »

wtf, Rika's ass didn't make the list!

SomethingWild · « **Reply #15 on:** July 09, 2007, 09:52:33 PM »

Strange list..

Imo the two most worthy ones are:
The Great Wall, China
Macchu Picchu, Peru

Overrated:
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy
Statue of the Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pinkosa · « **Reply #16 on:** July 09, 2007, 10:57:06 PM »

Chichen Itzá was made a wonder because of his structure. Is a very straight pyramid and they made it without a rule!!! LOL.

My dad was there years ago, and he said it was so wonderful. Probably it was made on 1000 or 900, but holy shit is really huge. If I go there in this break, I'll take lots of pics

drobin · « **Reply #17 on:** July 09, 2007, 11:24:14 PM »

Yeah!!!!! Chichen itza and Great Wall i don live in china but i like the wall

sid_coz · « **Reply #18 on:** July 10, 2007, 09:27:54 AM »

have managed 2 myself: Taj Mahal & Colosseum. Have also seen the Effiel Tower but i guess am down to 2 wonders from 3 as i used to think!

tivx · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2007, 04:57:38 PM »

statue of liberty as a "wonder"? no....

now the Statues of Easter Island and Kremlin/St. Basil, Russia i could see..

wonder what type of people chose the statue of liberty