1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List

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Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books, the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed by CBS-TV as one of the best books of the year and praised by Newsweek as the "book that tells you what's beautiful, what's inspiring, what's fun and what's just unforgettable everywhere on earth."

Packed with recommendations of the world's best places to visit, on and off the beaten path, 1,000 Places To See Before You Die is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an ...

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Overview

Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books, the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed by CBS-TV as one of the best books of the year and praised by Newsweek as the "book that tells you what's beautiful, what's inspiring, what's fun and what's just unforgettable everywhere on earth."

Packed with recommendations of the world's best places to visit, on and off the beaten path, 1,000 Places To See Before You Die is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, mountains, and more. There's Botswana's Okavango Delta, the covered souks of Aleppo, the Tuscan hills surrounding San Gimignano, Canyon de Chelly, the Hassler hotel in Rome, Ipanema Beach, the backwaters of Kerala, Oaxaca's Saturday market, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Ballybunion golf club-all the places guaranteed to give you the shivers.

The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone numbers, websites, costs, and best times to visit—all updated for 2010 with the most current information.

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Publishers Weekly
This hefty volume reminds vacationers that hot tourist spots are small percentage of what's worth seeing out there. A quick sampling: Venice's Cipriani Hotel; California's Monterey Peninsula; the Lewis and Clark Trail in Oregon; the Great Wall of China; Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Western Samoa; and the Alhambra in Andalusia, Spain. Veteran travel guide writer Schultz divides the book geographically, presenting a little less than a page on each location. Each entry lists exactly where to find the spot (e.g. Moorea is located "12 miles/19 km northwest of Tahiti; 10 minutes by air, 1 hour by boat") and when to go (e.g., if you want to check out The Complete Fly Fisher hotel in Montana, "May and Sept.-Oct. offer productive angling in a solitary setting"). This is an excellent resource for the intrepid traveler. (Sept. 23) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Newsweek
"At last, a book that tells you what's beautiful, what's fun and what's just unforgettable—everywhere on earth."

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780761161028
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 3/15/2010
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 992
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 1.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Patricia Schultz
Patricia Schultz is the author of the runaway #1 New York Times bestsellers 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and 1,000 Places in the United States and Canada to See Before You Die. She’s also written for Frommer’s, Berlitz, and Access travel guides, as well as Condé Nast Traveler, Islands, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her home base is New York City.
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INTRODUCTION

The Story of This Book

Is it nature or nurture that sends a person out onto the Road—that whispers in one’s ear that it’s time to take off and make for the horizon, just to see what’s out there?

The urge to travel—to open our minds and move beyond the familiar—is as old as man himself. It’s what drove the ancient Romans to visit Athens’s Acropolis and Verona’s amphitheater. It’s what sent Marco Polo off on his momentous journey east, and what moved St. Augustine of Hippo to write, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.” Whether we go to London for the weekend or to a place that’s utterly alien, travel changes us, sometimes superficially, sometimes profoundly. It is a classroom without walls.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I can tell you about my own wanderlust. Family legend (never proven) has it that we’re somehow related to Mark Twain, America’s great storyteller and also one of the preeminent globetrotters of his day. How then to explain my mother’s reaction when I had my own first Great Adventure?

It was the late 1950s, and Atlantic City was as exotic and unknown to me as Shangri-la—all sand and sea, hotels and boardwalk, and the intimation of greater things just beyond what I could see from the family beach blanket. I set off at the first opportunity, but after what seemed only a few precious minutes of intoxicating discovery (in fact several hours), I was snatched up by my apoplectic mother and a cadre of relieved lifeguards and brought back to the roost. This is my earliest memory: I had heard the siren call of the great, global beyond, and I had answered. I was hooked. I was four.

Fast-forward to college graduation. Campus buddies were heading straight for Wall Street apprenticeships, international banking programs, and family business obligations, but I made a beeline for the airport and my own private Grand Tour through the marvels of Italy and its neighbors. Could one make a living off la dolce vita? I was amazed when my first articles got published, but then I realized: one could. Many guidebooks and innumerable articles later, I found myself at a round table facing publisher Peter Workman and his right-hand editor, the late Sally Kovalchick, who told me about their desire to compile the world’s most enticing and intriguing treasures between two covers, and their belief that I was up to the challenge. I was on board.

When it came time to actually do it, though—to choose from the nearly bottomless grab bag of the world’s possibilities, both legendary and unsung—I realized I was in for a lengthy battle with philosophy and methodology and all the questions anyone who flips through this book is bound to ask. How did I arrive at these particular destinations and events? What were my criteria? How to explain the wide range, from undeniably glorious far-flung mysteries to apparently mundane backyard beauties? The inclusion of the Taj Mahal and the Sistine Chapel makes sense, but why give the Pork Pit in Montego Bay the same weight as Paris’s legendary Taillevent? Am I really implying that an agritourist B&B on a Tuscan wine-producing estate is just as worthy as Bangkok’s storied Oriental Hotel, where Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling were regulars? Does the weirdness of Roswell hold up against the magic of Tikal? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince had it easier when he asked the geographer, “What place would you advise me to visit now?” and was told, “The planet Earth. It has a good reputation.”

In the final analysis, the common denominator I chose was a simple one: that each place impress upon the visitor— and, I hope, upon the reader— some sense of the earth’s magic, integrity, wonder, and legacy. That was the standard I applied, across every continent, from the conspicuous and predictable to the small and humble, from spiritual spots like Bagan in Myanmar to temporal ones like Hong Kong’s shopping districts, from natural wonders like the Grand Canyon to manmade ones like Petra, Jordan’s fabled “lost city”—life experiences all. To compile my list, I drew upon the decades of insatiable travel that followed my epiphany on the sands of Atlantic City. I pored over hundreds of travel books and glossy magazines and spoke to scores of tourism boards and PR agencies effusively loyal to their clients—then I sleuthed out the real story on my own. I picked the brains of travel colleagues and peripatetic friends, and queried anyone stepping off a bus, train, or plane who was smiling. At countless dinner parties, I listened while complete strangers scribbled the names of magical places on cocktail napkins, or swore me to secrecy and then whispered their favorite destinations in my ear.

In the seven years it took me to research and write this formidable project, I was reminded time and again that travel is always personal, and that no two people walk away from the same experience with the same memories. What it came down to, in the end, is that each of the places in this book is truly, completely, and undeniably inspiring—through the ages or to the modern world—often both—to the simply curious traveler as well as to poets, adventurers, painters, pilgrims, scholars, and travel writers.

“Travel,” wrote my maybe-ancestor Twain in The Innocents Abroad, “is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Travel dispels many of our bad impressions, confirms the positive, and promises innumerable surprises. It opens our eyes to exotic places like Zanzibar, Katmandu, Machu Picchu, and Lalibela—names familiar to us through films, books, and tales, but whose reality is so much more than they could ever explain. In the flesh, it shows us why even the most clichéd travel experiences— riding a gondola in Venice, taking a Turkish bath in Turkey, braving Times Square on New Year’s Eve—are perennially popular. With travel, our minds become more curious, our hearts more powerful, and our spirits more joyous. And once the mind is stretched like that, it can never return to its original state.

The world today is a smaller place than it was even twenty years ago, and while the romantic concept of Ultima Thule—what Webster’s describes as “any far-off, unknown region”—may still be found in the otherworldly landscapes of Namibia, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and the timeless Nadaam horse games of Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar, the fact remains that these places all lie only a day or two’s journey away, thanks to today’s monumental travel infrastructure. What does this do to our sense of adventure, of exploring the Other? For me, it comes down to a matter of viewpoint: As the Sherpa said to Edmund Hillary on the slopes of Mount Everest, some people travel only to look, while others come to see. Some road warriors can speed from New York to L.A. without registering a thing; I can walk around my mid-Manhattan block and come home with a carton of milk and stories to tell. In the end, the number of miles covered has nothing to do with the real pleasures of travel; the inherent beauty of the world and the discovery it promises are all around us.

In this time of global uncertainty, even the intrepid might feel inclined to stick closer to home base, or to retreat into armchair travel—and even this can be rewarding. I can shut my eyes and hear the sound of loons again on Squam Lake, or the flutter of prayer flags outside a Tibetan monastery in Llasa. I can smell the spices of the market in the ancient medina of Fez, or the floating aroma of fritto misto in the cobbled backstreets of an Italian Riviera village. This is my moveable feast, the memories that sustain me until my next ticket is in hand, my next Great Adventure about to begin.

1,000 Places to See Before You Die is my own personal short list of dream trips. While the number daunted me at first, I came to realize there were a thousand times a thousand possibilities. . . . Perhaps I’ll save them for a sequel, or for another life. Not every entry is for everybody, but show me someone who won’t find enough between these two covers to keep busy for the next few decades. Never a travel snob, I confess I’ve never understood the appeal of certain must-do’s (though I’ve happily included them), like playing the finest golf courses in Scotland or going bungee-jumping in New Zealand, but these activities may well figure into your own game plan. I know I’ll raise eyebrows by including unconventional destinations such as Calcutta and Madagascar, arduous choices that some travelers might avoid, but I consider them deeply moving and insightful windows into the human experience. The same goes for Chicago’s landmark Superdawg hot dog stand, whose inclusion will be questioned only by those who have never been there.

The number of hotels I’ve included might also need a brief explanation. A longtime hotel buff, my opinion about cities both large and small is always greatly influenced by where I hang my hat and unpack my bag. Can one even think of visiting London without enjoying high tea at the Ritz? Or, when in Singapore, having a Singapore Sling where it originated, at the legendary Raffles Hotel? Isn’t Singita safari lodge on the periphery of Kruger National Park as inspirational as the game viewing? And isn’t Sweden’s Ice Hotel the ultimate hoot?

Other unforgettable memories I have not been able to re-create for this book, like the day my driver in Casablanca took me to his mother’s home for Saturday lunch when I asked him who served the best couscous in town, or the time I somehow became the guest of honor at a stranger’s fourday wedding celebration in Cairo. From experiences like these I learned that camel meat’s not bad, and serendipity really is the best tour guide.

Any trip can be fraught with disappointment: Expectations are always high, and anything can go wrong. Here are a few suggestions for both first-time and inveterate travelers: More important than packing a bag full of money, pack a bag full of patience and curiosity; allow yourself—encourage yourself—to be sidetracked and to get lost. There’s no such thing as a bad trip, just good travel stories to tell back home. Always travel with a smile and remember that you’re the one with the strange customs visiting someone else’s country. Relying on the kindness of strangers isn’t naive—there are good people wherever you go. And, finally, the more time you spend coming to understand the ways of others, the more you’ll understand yourself. The journey abroad reflects the one within—the most unknown and foreign and unmapped landscape of them all, the ultimate terra incognita. As Mr. Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

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Table of Contents

Introduction xi
The Story of This Book xi
How the Book Is Organized xv
Europe 1
Great Britain and Ireland 3
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Western Europe 90
Austria
Belgium
France
Monaco
Germany
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
Eastern Europe 290
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Russia
Scandinavia 312
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Africa 343
Northern Africa 345
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Eastern and Southern Africa 361
Botswana
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritius
Namibia
Seychelles
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
The Middle East 397
Israel
Jordan
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Asia 417
East Asia 419
China
Japan
Mongolia
South and Central Asia 440
Bhutan
India
Iran
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Southeast Asia 475
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
Australia, New Zealand, and The Pacific Islands 513
Australia and New Zealand 515
The Pacific Islands 540
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Micronesia
Papua New Guinea
Tonga
Western Samoa
The United States of America and Canada 561
The United States of America 563
Canada 747
Latin America 777
Mexico and Central America 779
Mexico
Belize
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Panama
South America and Antarctica 804
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Antarctica
The Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bermuda 849
Anguilla
Antigua
Bahamas
Barbados
Barbuda
Bermuda
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
The Grenadines
Guadeloupe
Jamaica
Martinique
Nevis
Puerto Rico
Saba
St. Barthelemy
St. Kitts
St. Lucia
St. Martin
Tobago
Trinidad
U.S. Virgin Islands
Indexes 895
Special Indexes 895
Active Travel and Adventure
Ancient Worlds: Pyramids, Ruins, and Lost Cities
Culinary Experiences
Festivals and Special Events
Glories of Nature: Gardens, Parks and Wilderness Preserves, and Natural Wonders
Gorgeous Beaches and Getaway Islands
Great Hotels and Resorts
Living History: Castles and Palaces, Historical Sites
Unrivaled Museums
Roads, Routes, and Byways
Sacred Places
General Index 918
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  • Posted August 8, 2009

    liked the idea , I am not too fond of the outcome

    it is good to find places worth seeing I just thought they would be the local gems in stead of the major tourist traps, a lot of them highly overrated and busy. I sometimes call this book the 1000 places to avoid since there is no secret in it, even for expensive traveling. but it is a good place to start, check it out, just dont rely on it ( as a belgian for example I could add about 10 places more beautifull, exclusive and worth visiting than the ones in the book, but I guess otherwise it would become the 10 000 places to see)....

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  • Posted February 23, 2009

    more from this reviewer

    The must see list is smaller than 1000

    I purchased this book because of it's popularity and because of my interest in travel. My husband & I own a travel agency and I thought it might provide creative suggestions for our guests.

    Although I don't agree with many of the inclusions on the 1000 list (mostly hotels), I do appreciate the amount of research and the difficult task of taking this vast globe and narrowing it down to 1000 places to see.

    What I like about the book is the organization, the amount of detail and type of information for each item, the way she handles large city must see items, and just the fascinating travels of one person. I would like to see more active/adventure type entries.

    Although I'm not sure I would recommend as a cover to cover read, it is a useful resource and I learned about places I was not familiar.

    If you want to discuss further, there is a Travel Book Club at BN in Grand Rapids tomorrow, 2/24 at 6 pm.

    www.cruiseholidays.com/sail

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 16, 2009

    Aspire to see all 1000 places...

    This book is not a novel-read. The author recommends 1000 places to see throughout one's life. The book is well-organized and allows the reader different ways to get to the same subject. Excellent gift for the person who has everything, or needs nothing.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2007

    Great book!

    We really like this book. A variety of places, each with a decent explanation. Everything from great coastlines and beaches, to museums and cathedrals. It is heating up our desire for travel, it provides a great goal for our travel plans! The index is great for reviewing what is in your next, or favorite travel spots. Fun to see that some of the places we have already visited are on the list, now to get out of North America and see those!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 24, 2011

    I GOT NOTHING BUT BLANK PAGES

    I GOT NOTHING BUT BLANK PAGES

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  • Posted April 6, 2009

    What a great book to start dreaming!

    Anyone that is considering travel now or later, like when you retire should read this book! It is filled with great insight and information about the cities, as well as the sites and places to stay/eat. It will give you the chance to make future plans, as well as, dream about the places you will see and experience! Even if you can not travel now, it is a book with so much interesting facts, it will be hard to put down! Try it... you will like it!!!
    Nannie of 3

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 30, 2006

    Truly Unique

    I have traveled a lot and have guidebooks by the dozens. But this one is written with such a quiet passion and true love and interest in the places visited and people met, that it sits apart as travel writing goes. Ms Schultz seems to know the world intimately like few others.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 30, 2006

    Can't Get Better

    I've been around the world 6 times in 13 years and - although everyone will have their own preferences and personal opinions that differ - this book I find to be the best of its kind. I have given at least a dozen as gifts and made a lot of people smile.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2006

    Mystical Places and Marvelous Meals: A Travel Cookbook 's co-author recommends 1,000 Places to See Before You Die

    This amazing compendium covers more than a lifetime of fascinating travel destinations. It is informative and comprehensive-- a must for the serious traveler.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 5, 2005

    A dreamer's handbook

    A wonderful book to pick up again and again, dip into, look at places you might like to go, or have already been.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 10, 2005

    Excellent Guide

    With consise, accurate descriptions of places and events, and also some good photographs, this is the best world-wide travel book that I own. Although there were a few ommisions that rather surprised me, I thought that on the whole it was very well put together. It is a guide that can be used both by experienced and beginning travellers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 18, 2005

    I would have liked to see a checklist ...

    it would be fun to check off each place as you visited but many places are entered multiple times (for example a place with sports, beauty, or history would be listed more than once) so it's hard to check off accurately. But there are some fantastic ideas and descriptions here.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 14, 2005

    Awesome

    Hundreds of disparate suggestions for all kinds of budgets and as many different tastes - this book will keep every buyer busy for many lifetimes to come. From Bangkok's Night Market, to Mississippi's Natchez Trail, the Montreaux Jazz festival and Carnival in Bahia di Salvador in Brazil - the very mention of this book's title had me running to the airport. As a published author, I can only beging to imagine what it took for Ms Schultz to put this book together. A true Labor of Love.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 16, 2005

    You Have To Buy This Book!

    Why did I wait so long? I have discovered that this is the perfect gift - for those who travel a lot or would like to, for those who search for the well known or completely obscure, looking for once-in-lifetime splurges or (this would be me) trying to see it all on a forever limited budget. There's a remarkable amount of information in this 900-page book that will keep every demographic up and going for many joy-filled years to come. Buy it today and go forth!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 9, 2005

    An excellent encyclopedia for world travel!

    Schultz has done a remarkable job with this book! Her research and judgment are excellent on what are 'high spots' to see in each country. Her writing is tight and engaging, whetting readers' appetites and allowing them to decide if each remarkable spot is one they would want to see. This is an idea-setting and planning book, allowing the world traveler to make fundamental decisions, then go on and make more definitive plans. Bravo, Patricia! You've done something unique and remarkable!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 2, 2005

    Disappointed in the lack of usual and unusual sites to see

    As a traveler around the world I have seen some interesting things (India) and some not so interesting things (the Marshall Islands). This book didn't cover a lot of what is out there to see. A more in-depth view of not just what is out there in the United States but also other places in the world is needed. I brought this book into work and even my co-workers where asking 'Why is this in here?' It was a really disappointing book. I thought that some of the great stuff I have seen like the glass blowers of Venezuela (unusual), and the Tokyo tower (touristy but fun) would for sure be listed and they aren't.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2005

    One great book,

    Ms.Schultz has written the only book on travel I'll ever need,my travel agent used her book to describe possible destinations, I decided to get my own copy, now i can't put it down,wont travel without it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 2, 2005

    1000 Thank You's To The Author

    Ms Schultz did all the homework, and I get straight A's in my next one thousand choices of vacation. I could go to just about any one of these destinations and be a very happy man. I have always felt overwhelmed and directionless by the daunting task of seeing the world --- I now have a comprehensive and pretty remarkable list of possibilities. Are these the only wonders of the world? Not hardly, but they're enough to keep me off the couch for a good while.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 17, 2005

    A great gift

    I really liked this book. I started to mark off places I've been to and researching future destinations immediantly. It is really a fun book for anyone and a must for people who like to travel.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2005

    There's only one bad thing about this book...

    You'll feel bad that you probably won't be able to get to all these great places!! Seriously though, the title really says it all. A comprehensive list of interesting places to see around the world. Also includes additional helpful info as well such as cost of tours, etc. I give it 5 stars easy.

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