The remote, nature-blessed Fiordland National Park is home to New Zealand’s (and indeed the world’s) most dramatic scenery, think The Lord of the Rings beautiful – a place with glassy-clear lakes, snow-dusted peaks overlooking glaciers twinkling amid their handiwork fjords, and rainforest teeming with native takahe, kakapo, mohua and kea. Mitre Peak rises over Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. See also: Amazing wonders of the Middle East See also: You won't believe these places exist on Earth Undaunted, we have chosen 10 “New, New Natural Wonders”, taking you on one wild visit to these less obvious, but no less wondrous, sites from China to Chile, Jordan to Switzerland. Having spent weeks pondering our own contribution to the canon, we sympathise with our predecessors’ gruelling task. The world’s tallest mountain joins the Grand Canyon, Northern Lights, Great Barrier Reef, and others to comprise the original Seven Natural Wonders list in 2008, and an updated New Seven Wonders of Nature followed in 2011. The wonderment of seeing Everest anew, and sharing that experience with Tibetan monks, Uyghur traders, Kiwi hikers and Egyptian photographers, certainly nourished my soul. Yet we feel the same unbridled joy when Mount Everest peeks from behind the clouds at Tibet’s Base Camp.Īs far as scientists know, homo sapiens are the only animal that experiences awe in a desert sunset, goosebumps with a shooting star and joy at a snow-capped peak’s emergence. We’re a melting pot of nationalities, with as diverse backgrounds and beliefs as imaginable. Instantly, a monastery full of adventurers rushes to press noses against the window, expelling a collective gasp.
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