That’s the title of a fun, new book. Here is my personal selection of 10, in no particular order, and not counting the U.S.:
1. Glottertal to St. Maergen, through the Black Forest. Maybe only two hours by car, but sheer magic.
2. The East Coast of Taiwan, Suao down to Hualien and then into Taroko, the marble gorge. The best coastal route I know.
3. Mostar and Sarajevo, to remind us of the thinness of civilization. They’re also beautiful cities with great food and moving graveyards.
4. Susten Pass, in Switzerland, the best route through the Alps.
5. The bus from Punta Arenas to Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile. You see flamingos, rheas, and end up in a stunning national park.
6. The Panama Canal
– perhaps the most underrated sight; you feel like you are in the jungle,
you are in a jungle, then a large steamer comes by. The tour of
Rotterdam Harbor is a close runner-up.
7. To and through the Tiong Bahru food stalls in Singapore.
8. Thingvellir, Iceland, home of the first Icelandic Parliament. Such a long trip to see just four homes.
9. A walk through Ginza District in Tokyo, or perhaps Shinjuku subway station, with its dozens of maze-like paths to varioius streets. Don’t even try the map, just be happy with wherever you end up.
10. Walking Paris end to end, pick just about any route.
I’ve never been to East Africa, and I’m not counting the Iron Market in Port-Au-Prince.
More conspicuous consumption.
When you are in the area next time, try the Nufenen instead of the Susten Pass. It connects the Gotthard route from south of the tunnel with the Wallis, and it’s even more spectacular than the Susten. A great ride!
It’s not Thingvellir, it is Þingvellir. The place is actually quite impressive, right atop the fault zone dividing Europe from North America. Any number rift zones (large fissures in the ground) run across the site. In places you can jump from Europe to North America and back again (so to speak). Plus several quite impressive waterfalls. Highly recommended and an easy drive from ReykjavÃk.
Apparently, replacing “Þ† with “Th† is a standard mechanism for converting Old Norse names to English.
Old Havana, Cuba
Khyber Pass
The medina in Fez, Morocco. No better way to understand the evolution of a human environment.
@Virginia: Better to travel than to stay — travel is a good motivator for production; it’s also a way of inspiring more production through cultural and intellectual cross-fertilization –for better or worse, e.g., Silk Road, Istanbul to Kathmandu in the 70s, Jerusalem, etc.
rafting the Grand Canyon
Virginia Postrel has an interesting comment up on this post, http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002488.html. Oddly I see my day job as leisure and travel as hard work, at least the way I travel. Fun hard work, but nonetheless. I have to come back to my job for some relaxation and relief from exhaustion.
I second the earlier comment about Iguazu, although Ciudad del Este nearby is kind of a hole. I’d add the Croatian coast, Dubrovnik to Rijeka, sans naked Germans. There’s the St. Petersburg area. The Rhine and Danube also cut some spectacular valleys if you ever get to take a train or boat or even bike trip and drink some Riesling. Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland also deserves mention, as does the southern coast of Japan near Wakayama and Izumi.
Oceanfront drives seem to be popular so far. I’d throw in a vote for the drive from Cape Town down to Cape Point: Clifton, Camps Bay, down to Chapman’s Point, all of that. More great views than one can count.
Hey, check out Thingvellir: It’s clearly 5 homes, not 4
. (Can you see it?)
Tiong Bahru Market, Singapore is no longer as depicted in the pic. That was a temporary one. Now it has been upgraded to a large spanking triangle-shaped building.
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