轉貼---全球最令人失望觀光點 英調查：艾斐爾鐵塔第一名

全球最令人失望觀光點英調查：艾斐爾鐵塔第一名

2007 / 08 / 18 星期六 14:36（ETtoday.com提供）

 

巴黎浪漫風情深受外國遊客嚮往，地標艾斐爾鐵塔更是必訪之地。不過根據英國一項最新旅遊調查，艾斐爾鐵塔被評為全世界最令人失望的觀光景點，排名第二的是羅浮宮的鎮館之寶「蒙娜麗莎的微笑」，紐約的時代廣場與美國權力最高象徵的白宮，同樣都令遊客感到失望。

 

調查建議，台灣的太魯閣國家公園十分適合體力佳的旅客一遊，位在中國雲南的虎跳峽也值得前往觀光。維京旅遊保險公司對一千多名英國旅客進行調查，艾斐爾鐵塔因「人潮擁擠、票價過高」，被評為全世界最令人失望的觀光景點；埃及的金字塔也因為溫度過高，小販過多，令旅客感到掃興。

 

其它前十名被列入旅遊「黑名單」的景點依序包括：羅浮宮、紐約時代廣場、西班牙巴塞隆納市的LasRamblas 大道，紐約自由女神像、羅馬市西班牙階梯、美國華府白宮、埃及金字塔、德國柏林的布蘭登堡門及義大利比薩斜塔。

 

在英國境內旅遊方面，調查顯示，史前時代的巨石群柱是評價最差的觀光景點，其它不受歡迎的景點還包括：位在英格蘭北方的紐卡爾斯市的北方天使、英格蘭西北部黑池市的黑池塔、英國的最南端的地尾、英格蘭南部的布來頓港、多佛的白崖地區。

 

位在倫敦的幾個重要地標意外上榜，包括黛安娜王妃紀念噴泉、倫敦眼摩天輪、白金漢宮及大笨鐘，都讓旅遊感到失望。

 

維京旅遊保險公司經理哈迪指出，如果民眾依旅遊指南安排前往主流的觀光景點，經常因為人潮洶湧敗興而歸，如果要獲得旅遊的意外驚喜，最好到較冷僻的地點。

 

除了台灣的太魯閣，建議可以到秘魯北方的Keulap森林、柬埔寨的佛教寺廟等地。

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Stonehenge, Eiffel Tower 'disappointing': British tourists

AFP - Friday, August 17 02:09 pm

 

LONDON (AFP) - British visitors have put the boot into some of Britain and the world's best-known tourist attractions, branding the likes of Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower dismal let-downs in a survey out Friday.

 

 A top 10 list of the "most disappointing sights" in Britain was topped by Stonehenge, the mystical, 5,000-year-old standing stones in Wiltshire, south-west England.

 

The Houses of Parliament's clock tower, commonly called Big Ben after the bell inside, was included, as was the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London's Hyde Park.

 

On the international list of let-downs, the Eiffel Tower in Paris is ranked the worst, followed by the nearby Louvre museum and Times Square in New York.

 

Britain's top 10 must-see sights was topped by Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, north-east England, with the Royal Crescent row of Georgian houses in Bath, south-west England and the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London in the top five.

 

Leading the world "must-see" table was The Treasury at Petra in Jordan, the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, the Masai Mara game park in Kenya and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

 

Virgin Travel Insurance questioned 1,267 adults for the survey.

 

"It's easy to be swayed by brochures that opt for the mainstream and focus on cliched tourist sights around the world, but many of them are overcrowded and disappointing," said travel expert Felice Hardy.

 

"Pick carefully and don't always go for the obvious. Natural phenomena are usually more exciting than the man-made, and can be wonderfully free of tourists."

 

She branded the Eiffel Tower "frustratingly overcrowded and overpriced" and said Stonehenge was "an isolated pile of rocks in a usually muddy field."

 

She dubbed the Diana fountain "a colourless wet skateboard park" and added of "Big Ben": "Once you've seen it, you'll know what time it is -- time to go somewhere else."

 

10 most disappointing sights:

WORLD

1. The Eiffel Tower, Paris

2. The Louvre, Paris

3. Times Square, New York

4. Las Ramblas, Barcelona

5. Statue of Liberty, New York

6. Spanish Steps, Rome

7. The White House, Washington

8. The Pyramids, Egypt

9. The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

10. The Leaning Tower of Pisa

 

UK

1. Stonehenge, Wiltshire

2. Angel of the North, Gateshead

3. Blackpool Tower

4. Land's End, Cornwall

5. Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, London

6. The London Eye

7. Brighton Pier

8. Buckingham Palace, London

9. White Cliffs of Dover

10. Big Ben, London

 

 

Top 10 must-see sights:

WORLD

1. The Treasury at Petra, Jordan

2. The Grand Canal, Venice

3. The Masai Mara, Kenya

4. Sydney Harbour Bridge

5. Taroko Gorge, Taiwan

6. Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia

7. Cappadoccia caves, Turkey

8. Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia

9. Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia

10. Jungfraujoch railway, Switzerland

 

UK

1. Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

2. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Northern Ireland

3. The Royal Crescent, Bath

4. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London

5. The Backs, Cambridge

6. Holkham Bay, Norfolk

7. Lyme Regis and the Jurassic Coast, Devon and Dorset

8. Tate St Ives gallery, Cornwall

9. Isle of Skye, Scotland

10. The Eden Project, Cornwall