Gorgeous piece of architecture! It's fabulous just to look at, but the view from the top is incredible. It's a narrow and steep climb, but well worth it!

My name is on a brick in the Victoria Gardens - still haven't actually been able to find it, but it's in there! The statue of Robbie Burns is a great one. Typically most people walk right by this park and don't even know it's there, but it's in a great location and offers an alternative to the Public Gardens across the street.

The Okavango Delta was one of the highlights of my trip to Africa. We traveled 2 hours from Maun to start the trip, and piled into mokoros (hollowed out canoes made of a single piece of wood) to take us into the Delta. We had a poler/guide that steered the mokoro...I tried it a failed miserably! :) Once we were all set up in the Delta (tent up) we went for some bushwalks to see animals - we walked for hours! We saw dozens of elephants and plenty of sheepish giraffes. Even saw the recent remnants of a leopards lunch up a tree, but no sign of the big cat. That night we sang and danced and ate around the campfire with our guides and had an amazing time....but we probably also scared off any animals in the area, so we didn't have any visitors in camp that night. In the morning we went for another long bushwalk to check out some of the hippos, before packing up and heading back to Maun. It was absolutely incredible!

The only thing better than being in the Delta was flying over it once we were back in Maun. It was amazing to get a different perspective on the Delta, and tfrom the air you can really see just how big it really is! If you have good eyes you can spot all kinds of animals...the highlight for me was seeing a herd of hundreds of elephants! Just amazing. Go to Botswana and visit the delta and take this flight....you won't regret it!

Chobe was incredible! We saw so many elephants and buffalo, and more springbok and babboons than you'd care to count. The open sided 4x4's made it perfect for seeing everything close up and for getting some great pictures too. We came a little close for comfort with one lone elephant though, and had to reverse pretty fast when it started shaking it's ears and running at us....but that was the only remotely scary thing that happened. The park is massive and really amazing, and you're guaranteed to see a lot of animals.

I was skeptical when my Aunt suggested we go to the Biodome. I was 19 and assumed it would be like a zoo, geared towards little kids. I'm happy to say that I was wrong! The Biodome is an incredible place and a great way to understand the different ecosystems of the Americas. Most people will never get to experience these ecosystems firsthand, so this is a perfect way to see animals and plants in their native environments. Temperatures range from hot and humid tropical rainforests to the chill of the penguins' natural habitat...and by far the penguins were my favorite part of the visit! Definitely a must-see! :)

Just like Eric M, I went to Louisbourg on a family trip when I was a little kid but I still remember how amazing it was! It really is history-come-to-life! There are actors portraying everyone that would have been present in the fort  when it was in operation, and it's just incredible to witness what life must have been like. I remember I was wearing Reebok sneakers when we visited, and they had the little British flags on them (with the symbol)...Louisbourg was a French fortress, so when the "guard" saw my shoes with British flags he "arrested" me...I was terrified until my parents explained it was all an act!

I tried to visit Louisbourg last fall when I drove the Cabot Trail, but got to Cape Breton a week too late! It's high on my list of places to revisit as an adult!

I absolutley loved the walk along the wall from Jinshanling to Simitai! It was just what I always pictured the Great Wall of CHina to be like! It was further from Beijing than the more popular sections of the wall, and since we went in early March there were very few people there. We passed two groups (5-10 people max), so there was nothing distracting us from the great views. There was snow on the wall though in March, and that made it a little slippery on the steeper sections, but it just added to the fun. The temperature at that time of year was actually pretty perfect - really cold in the shade, but great for walking in the sun! If I ever get back to China I'll definitely visit this section of the wall again and hopefully I'll be able to keep on going! :)

Everything about this building is incredible: the architecture, history, and especially the mosaics. It's pretty amazing that a building of this magnitude was built in only 5 years. You can still see the X's on the floor where they marked out the shape of the dome - if you look up you can see that they were off quite a bit on one side, but that obviously hasn't affected the longevity of the building or the dome. Just amazing!

Even if you don't quite know where you're going in Istanbul, you'll know when you're near the Spice Bazaar! It smells so incredible! I had a great time wandering around and bartering for spices, scarves and trinkets. Just be warned - visiting here willl make you hungry! :)

I was really interested in the Apollo missions when i was a kid, and when I was 14 I finally got to visit Kennedy Space Center. If you're in any way interested in the NASA space program and space travel/research then this is the place for you! We were a few days early for the launch that was scheduled to take place, and it's still one of the things I'd like to see. Visiting the KSC made me want to be an engineer, and now here I am 13 years later and that's what I do!