Wow, some of these really shocked me

[daydream**believer]

These 22 Far Away Perspectives Of Famous Places Will Change The Way You See Them Forever

http://www.viraldoza.com/22-far-away-perspectives-famous-places-will-change-way-see-forever/#

The Pyramids, Niagra Falls and the Taj Mahal were the biggest shocks.

[azureline**]

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@xixhuhan wrote:

I wasn't impressed by Italy, particularly Rome. Filthy, polluted, full of pick-pocketing gypsies. The food was awful as well but that was no suprise as I've never liked Italian cusine. 🙂

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I loved it!  I love trying different foods!  I didn't experience any negatives but I was saddened by a small child busking on the train.:(

My OH lined up at the coloseum but I went to the Forum instead and he had to drag me out of there, he didn't get my fascination.

[the_great_she_elephant]

stonehenge surprised me too - but in a nice way. It's just off a major highway - in fact you have to use a tunnel under the road from the carpark to visit it. Also you can't just wander among the stones, you have to walk round outside them on a roped off path. I  expected all sense of atmoshphere would have been destroyed, but despite all the touristy trappings and restrictions there was something so primevelly 'real' about it, I was quite blown away. Blarney Catle is another place that has, somewhat astonishingly, managed to keep it's sense of 'realness.

[mainecoon1]

Not sure when you went to Egypt but if you tried to climb the pyramids now you would probably be shot.  I went 4 years ago and we were warned about climbing the pyramids and riding the camels.

If you went in the days you could climb the pyramids that would also explain you lack of knowledge on how close Cairo has got to the pyramids and Sphinx. 

[bright.ton42]

Really interesting OP, thanks for posting.   .

Someone who sounds familiar but with yet another ID seems to have a huge know-it-all  chip on their shoulder as usual.

Mainecoon I visisted the pyramids years and years ago when I was very young and at that time we were able to climb inside one of them right up to the top (it might have been Cheops). . It was totally claustrophobic as we went up this dark winding tunnel with only space for one person at a time and you couldn't go back down until you got to the very top.  And of course the room at the top was empty.    But quite an experience. 

I haven't been to Central Park and knew it was large but not that large.  Terrific pictures. 

[mainecoon1]

Hi bright.ton

You can still go inside the pyramids (you have to pay) we did and like you said it was so hot and humid a lot of people turned back, we went the distance but I looked like I had been chucked in a pool when I got out I was sweating so much.  What I meant was that you are not allowed to climb the outside of the pyramid, at one time this was allowed but it is not allowed any more due to the damage people where doing and the danger of people falling. 

[*mrgrizz*]

i know how the pyramids were built

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

i know how the pyramids were built

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It was those CO2 breathing Martians, (and their snakes) wasn't it?

[daydream**believer]

He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking

[azureline**]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking

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maybe....... although for some it is a family trait............ a learned behaviour.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Some of those were fascinating! The layout of the city around the Sagrada familia was so futuristic to my eyes.