53 Places to Go in 2008

While setting up Google Adsense on the blog I saw an advertisement titled “53 Places to Go in 2008″! Interested in the ad in hopes of getting some new ideas for future places I could travel too, I decided to click on the Adsense ad to see what places were listed. Out of the 53 places listed there were quite a few that really interested me including Laos, Vietnam, and Italy; but to be honest, many of the places I never really heard about or had the slightest inkling of ever visiting in my lifetime.

Since this travel blog is just starting out and I haven’t traveled anywhere to post pictures and write about, I decided it would be a good idea to do some research on some of the places listed in the article and make some review posts about some of the various travel destinations! Hopefully, these future posts will help jump start the project into full-speed, provide some interesting articles for readers, and give me some ideas of where I would like to travel! Here’s the full list of 53 Places to go in 2008:

1. Laos
2. Lisbon
3. Tunisia
4. Mauritius
5. Mid-Beach, Miami
6. South Beach, Miami
7. Maldives
8. Death Valley
9. Courchevel (French skiing village)
10. Libya
11. Hvar (tiny village in Croatia)
12. Puerto Vallarta
13. Sylt (Germany)
14. Prague
15. Quito (Ecuador)
16. Liverpool
17. Munich
18. Iran
19. Tuscany
20. Anguilla
21. Bogota (Fourth-largest city in South America)
22. Playa Blanca, Panama
23. Alexandria
24. Mazatlan (Located on Mexico’s Pacific coast)
25. St. Lucia
26. Oslo
27. Buenos Aires
28. Rimini, Italy
29. Malawi (tiny African country)
30. Roatan (Honduran island)
31. Mozambique
32. Kuwait City
33. Verbier (Swiss ski village)
34. Lombok (Indonesian island east of Bali)
35. Northwest Passage
36. Easter Island
37. Virgin Gorda
38. Namibia
39. San Francisco
40. Detroit
41. Itacare, Brazil
42. Kilimanjaro (Africa’s highest mountain)
43. Algeria
44. San Diego
45. Malaga (port city on the southern coast of Spain)
46. Puerto Plata (beach resort on the Dominican Republic’s north coast)
47. London
48. Vietnam
49. Essaouira (Moroccan port city)
50. Las Vegas
51. Barossa Valley, Australia
52. Tokaj, Hungary
53. New York

The actual article by the NY Times can be seen here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/travel/09where.html