'New' Wonders of the World
• The Great Wall of China
• Petra in Jordan
• Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer
• Peru's Machu Picchu
• Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid
• The Colosseum in Rome
• India's Taj Mahal
The 21 finalists were as follows:
Acropolis - Athens, Greece
Alhambra - Granada, Spain
Ankor - Cambodia
Chichen Itza - Yucatan, Mexico
Christ (the) Redeemer - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Colosseum - Rome, Italy
Easter Island Statues - Chile
Eiffel Tower - Paris, France
The Great Wall - China
Hagia Sophia - Istanbul, Turkey
Kiyomizu Temple - Kyoto, Japan
Kremlin/St. Basil's - Moscow, Russia
Machu Picchu - Peru
Neuschwanstein Castle - Schwangau, Germany
Petra - Jordan
Pyramids of Giza - Egypt (Exempt because they are the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World)
Statue of Liberty, New York, USA
Stonehenge - Amesbury, UK
Sydney Opera House - Sydney, Australia
Taj Mahal - India
Timbuktu - Mali
America was very low in voting -- Thank God or we might see the Statue of Liberty as a wonder. Of the winners, I did vote for the Great Wall, Petra, Machu Picchu, the Colosseum, and the Taj Mahal. Christ the Redeemer though? It's a statue, not a monumental engineering accomplishment (by modern day standards, it's not that old). Where's the Acropolis? Where's Ankor?
Petra, while it definitely should be there, only won because the Jordan government's call for Jordanian votes. At the least, it will draw attention to a site which deserves world-wide praise.
Did anyone else here vote? What did you vote for and why? What's missing from the list of finalists?
