What famous world 'landmark' actually took your breath away?

[smudge]

Turning the corner in the botanical gardens Sydney & getting the first view of the Opera House.

The view from the Empire State Building.

The view from Auckland Skytower.

 

[bhaexpress]

When's somebody going to say 'the birth of my child' ? I don't know from personal experience but everybody I know who does says it's truly amazing.

 

[dougdeep]

Withdean on a wet Wednesday?

 

[London Irish]

An abandoned tyre and discarded cans and litter on a Village Way field. Mindblowing natural beauty.

Otherwise, I'm thinking along the same lines as Tom - the gigantic hotels in Las Vegas.

 

[Jello]

Grand Canyon by helicopter. As an engineer I was impressed with the Hoover Dam but surprised how small it looks from the air.
I'd have to add Vegas as well as the whole concept of a city in the absolute middle of nowhere is bizarre, flying in at night is weird, pitch black then wham, VEGAS. I want to go again now..........

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

When's somebody going to say 'the birth of my child' ? I don't know from personal experience but everybody I know who does says it's truly amazing.

It IS truly amazing. But not all for the right reasons.

Being present at the birth of your second-born is just hunky dory cos they tend to just kind of DIVE out like they were an Olympic 100 metres freestyle swimming final or something. Second-borns should all be christened Klinsmann IMHO...

Whereas being present at the birth of your first-born is another thing altogether. Takes it to another level. Especially if you bunked off the ante-natal classes. Basically it's like being a by-stander at the scene of a particularly nasty road accident (IMHO, like). And just when the baby's there and turning baby-coloured aqnd you think you got a result, then what the f*** is that? A LIVER? A SPLEEN? A matching set of KIDNEYS?

Just wish they'd prepared us a bit more for The Afterbirth y'know

 

[bhaexpress]

It IS truly amazing. But not all for the right reasons.

Being present at the birth of your second-born is just hunky dory cos they tend to just kind of DIVE out like they were an Olympic 100 metres freestyle swimming final or something. Second-borns should all be christened Klinsmann IMHO...

Whereas being present at the birth of your first-born is another thing altogether. Takes it to another level. Especially if you bunked off the ante-natal classes. Basically it's like being a by-stander at the scene of a particularly nasty road accident (IMHO, like). And just when the baby's there and turning baby-coloured aqnd you think you got a result, then what the f*** is that? A LIVER? A SPLEEN? A matching set of KIDNEYS?

Just wish they'd prepared us a bit more for The Afterbirth y'know

Yes I thought some would consider that experience a 'landmark'.

 

[B.M.F]

Turning the corner in the botanical gardens Sydney & getting the first view of the Opera House.

That view is awesome. Others for me must be the Pyramids, Niagra falls, The Eiger ( think that is how you spell it ), The Kremlin and Stonehenge are all amazing in their own ways but the only place that has really taken my breath away ( and yes it was probably for the wrog reasons ) was Aushwitz. The place just left me numb. The feeling you get when walking around is very uncomfortable and the only other time I felt anything like that was in a pyramid where you could sense that death was all around you.

 

[Bakesy]

Lapdancing club last Saturday while out on a stagnight!!!

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Lapdancing club last Saturday while out on a stagnight!!!

You dirty goat bakesy how much not to tell your missus?

 

[Bakesy]

You dirty goat bakesy how much not to tell your missus?

I told her , no problem( she knows the dancers would have been well out of my league!!)

 

[Gully]

Brilliant thread but a hell of a difficult one to answer, have been to quite a few different places that have been amazing at the time, plus a number of sunrises and sunsets.

I am going to go for the sunrise from Lows Peak on Mt Kinabalu in Sabah (Malaysia), the realisation that I had just reached the summit of the highest mountain in South East Asia, also getting to the peak no more than 2 minutes before the sun started to creep over the horizon. At 4085 metres it wasn't the highest I had ever been but it was the most physically demanding challenge I had ever faced, watching the sunrise was one of those moments you realise what hard slog can deliver, I still have a scar on my leg from the ascent as a permanent momento of the occcasion. (Bizarre moment of the day was meeting a fellow Albion fan in the rest hut just before scaling the peak).

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

I told her , no problem( she knows the dancers would have been well out of my league!!)

Bless!

 

[Bakesy]

Bless!

Didn''t touch........honest

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Didn''t touch........honest

Yeah

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Grand Canyon by helicopter. As an engineer I was impressed with the Hoover Dam but surprised how small it looks from the air.
I'd have to add Vegas as well as the whole concept of a city in the absolute middle of nowhere is bizarre, flying in at night is weird, pitch black then wham, VEGAS. I want to go again now..........

Did you fly helitours usa to the Canyon??

 

[Bobby's Gull]

Going to ground zero in New York, seeing how tall the Hilton was and then trying to imagine how tall the twin towers used to have been.

Me --->

 

[London Irish]

Grand Canyon by helicopter. As an engineer I was impressed with the Hoover Dam but surprised how small it looks from the air.
I'd have to add Vegas as well as the whole concept of a city in the absolute middle of nowhere is bizarre, flying in at night is weird, pitch black then wham, VEGAS. I want to go again now..........

I drove in at night straight after watching an Elvis Costello concert in Los Angeles. Nearly crashed the car three times through lack of sleep but it was worth it to watch this bizarre science fiction vision of a city rise out of the desert before your eyes - wowsa

 

[chez]

The Pyramids and also the Colosseum. The trevi fountain as well but for slightly different reasons than the other two

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned, but my favourite landmark is Table Mountain, Cape Town. Unbelievable when you see it.

Sydney Harbour is obviously amazing. I prefer the city of San Francisco to the bridge, which is overrated IMO. The two towers in Kuala Lumpar are impressive, and the Vegas strip has to be seen to be believed.