Ultimate World Landmark Tournament

Omackeral

Just want to say before I announce the winner here of this first match, the reasons have been amazing. Really enjoyable to read, makes it a pleasure to run these. Great stuff folks.

Omackeral

Perito Moreno Glacier advances and will represent Argentina

Omackeral

We've a big boy coming up next as we dive Down Under.

Omackeral

Bungle Bungle Mountain Range



Shark Bay



Sydney Opera House



Horizontal Falls



Uluru



Sydney Harbour Bridge

Necro

Horizontal Falls.

Just LOOK at them - Horizontal! :P

Bungle Bungles are seriously impressive to visit too actually for anyone that wants to go to North Western Australia.

HeidiHeidi

I'm going to go for Sydney Opera House here, because it's built to look like sails (or nuns' wimples if you're of that bent, but I prefer sails myself) and I MISS SAILING :mad:


If I had 12 hours to spend in Australia, an opera in the SOH is what I'd go for.

ETA, having googled them, the horizontal falls sound fairly damned impressive! But I'll stick with my first instinct.

Purgative

Sydney Opera House - its where I'd go first, bucket list type of thing

Kolido

Im sure they're all smashing but they dont get much more recognisable than the Opera House. A stand out canditate imo. I will vote the opera house.

cdeb

Shark Bay - not just a lovely bay, but home of one of the oldest lifeforms on the planet. I'll take that over a nice bridge.

Irish Aris

Sydney Opera House, great piece of modern architecture.

Bungle Bungle Mountain Range

Have never been to Oz, so am going on looks & a cool name here.

Sawduck

Have to go with Sydney Opera House, it's one of the first things i think of when I think of Australia, alongside kangaroos and Alf Stewart

Cosmo Kramer

Tough one between the opera house and Uluru. I'll go for the Sydney Opera House - rarely does a single building represent a country the way the opera house instantly associates with Australia.

HeidiHeidi

Jeepers, I was full sure I'd be the only one voting for the opera house!

JohnGreenFan

Uluru is a real landmark for me so it has to be that!

(but those Horizontal falls are class!)

Necro

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Jeepers, I was full sure I'd be the only one voting for the opera house!

I expected it to get through even though I didn't nominate it myself. It is fairly iconic.

That said... I HATED Sydney when I was in Oz - aside from the touristy stuff, total rat race. Much preferred Perth and travelling the West Coast with my Ozzie GF (now wife )

HeidiHeidi

Necro wrote: »

I expected it to get through even though I didn't nominate it myself. It is fairly iconic.

That said... I HATED Sydney when I was in Oz - aside from the touristy stuff, total rat race. Much preferred Perth and travelling the West Coast with my Ozzie GF (now wife )

Of those options we got, I really thought Uluru would walk it!

Mehaffey1

Opera House, one of the few pieces of modern architecture I'd recognize and appreciate.

Omackeral

Sydney Opera House advances and will represent Australia

Omackeral

Our world tour takes us to the Alps next. This one has some beauties.

Omackeral

Schafberg Peak



Prater Park



St Stephen's Cathedral



Hallstatt Village



Swarovski Crystal Worlds



Schonnbrun Palace

Necro

Schafberg Peak

I mean it's like you're about to fall off the edge of the world seemingly at the top. Just amazing.

cdeb

Schafberg Peak.

Best pub view in the world. Even better than the Blue Light Pub. Found about it watching Michael Portillo earlier in the year, and it's firmly on the bucket list.

HeidiHeidi

Holy ****, that Schafberg Peak looks AMAZING!


But I've always wanted to go to a concert (preferably a New Year's Day concert) in the Schonbrunn Palace.....


Feckit, that mountain top has to get my vote!

Purgative

They're all lovely excepting the funfair thing and the cathedral is OK, but has to be Schafberg Peak. Fantastic, it gives me vertigo just looking at the picture.

Necro

Boardsie trip to Schafberg Peak after the pandemic is over anyone?

Mehaffey1

Hallstatt Village

To borrow the line from In Bruges, 'it's like a f**king fairy tale, how can it not be somebody's thing!?'

Hallstatt. It's like a fairytale place where you'd find wooden puppets or elves and shoemakers.

cdeb

I put this up on the I Bet You Didn't Know That thread in July actually - the train that takes you up to the peak. It's so steep that the locomotive is tilted to keep it level on the slope.

HeidiHeidi

Necro wrote: »

Boardsie trip to Schafberg Peak after the pandemic is over anyone?

I'm there!