New 7 Wonders - Last Chance to Vote

This is your last chance to vote for the New 7 Wonders of the World - which will be announced on Saturday 07/07/07. Although the contest is clearly marketing at its best (or worst), 50% of the net revenue raised by the project is to be used to fund restoration efforts worldwide. Unfortunately it is the publicity from events like this that drive hoards of tourist traffic to 'manmade heritage' sites such as Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat - both examples of sites that have suffered from a high traffic to maintenance ratio.

Saturday will mark the culminating point of a project that began back in 2001 - pioneered by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber. By 2005 the N7W panel had narrowed the list of nominees from 77 to 21, and will now be narrowed to 7, not including the Pyramids of Giza, the only remaining Wonder from the original list, which has been awarded an honourary nomination.

Although you can only vote once online, you can pay $2 to vote as many times as you like (paying each time) and receiving a certificate, or by sending a $1 text message. I suppose it is a good way to raise more money (in addition to the t-shirts and various paraphernalia that you can buy) for the cause, but i'll be interested to see how much 'net revenue' is left after the adventurers travel costs have been covered!

Either way, I felt obliged to cast my vote in support of my favorite sites: Peru's Machu Picchu,  Rio  de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue, and Cambodia's Angkor Wat.

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