Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company travel guidebook brand.
Over the past four decades, the company has printed over 145 million guidebooks in 14 languages and grown a global community of travellers.
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List is the 2nd edition of its coffee table travel book.
It highlights the 500 'most thrilling, memorable and interesting travel experiences in the world'.
During the scoring process Lonely Planet cross referenced with sustainabletop100.org.If the site or destination was recognised on that forum it received bonus points.
The top 10 travel experiences :
- Petra, Jordan : explore the enigmatic 'lost city'
- The Galápagos Islands : the islands that changed the course of science
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia : the world's most dramatic rock
- Okavango Delta, Botswana : the sprawling flooded ecosystem
- Yellowstone National Park, USA : geysers and grizzlies in the world's largest geothermal area
- Lake Bled, Slovenia : the planet's most photogenic lake
- Iguazú Falls, Argentina/Brazil : the furious force of this natural wonder
- Temples of Angkor, Cambodia : the sprawling monument to Hindu devotion
- Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia : clouds above and clouds
- Annapurna Circuit, Nepal :a Nepalese teahouse trek