Brothers Jeff and Chris Eagar, hosts of the Great Canadian Adventure Tour, are on a coast-to-coast trip that's designed to capture the essence of the country on video and bring it to a wider world. When they recently arrived on the Nova Scotia side of the Bay of Fundy, Canada's…
Lebanon thrilled by new discovery at Jeita Grotto
The discovery of a new underwater cave at Jeita Grotto is being hailed in Lebanon as a major speleological breakthrough. The entrance was first detected in early 2004, and a team of volunteer divers has since been working to clear access to the room. Joe Khoury, Joseph Sharbine and Habib…
Guys Make Wonder for Jeju Island
Filming of the Korean survival TV show "Guys Make Wonder" took place at the famous Sungsan Ilchul-bong volcanic peak on 29 August. The show is being produced for the XTM cable channel and is sponsored by Hyundai Motors, sponsor of New7Wonders of Nature Finalist Jeju Island.
Host of…
Live Voting Map on the New7Wonders homepage
Visitors to www.new7wonders.com can now see a Live Voting Map on the homepage showing a randomised selection of recent voters and their choice of New7Wonders of Nature.
Announcing this new feature, Eamonn Fitzgerald, Head of Communications for New7Wonders says, "It is exciting to see on a nearly instant basis where…
Tutu and De Klerk support Mandela’s Mountain Of Hope
Nobel Peace Prize winners Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and former State President FW de Klerk have pledged their support for Table Mountain in the race to be named one of the New7Wonders of Nature.
With just over two months remaining in the campaign, the Vote for Table Mountain supporting…
Phoning and voting around the world
New national SMS and telephone voting options for the Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature have been rolled out across three continents in the past two weeks. In Indonesia, you can vote for Komodo Island by SMS; in Jordan, you can text vote for the Dead Sea in English…
Festival time for many New7Wonders of Nature fans
Many New7Wonders of Nature fans around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr this week, so to our friends in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Jordan, the Maldives, Palestine and many more countries, we send our best wishes.
For the shared good of mankind, New7Wonders works to highlight the common ground…
Play the New 7 Wonders of the World Mahjong Game
Mahjong is a game of skill, strategy and luck. It originated in China, but it is now played around the world, which makes it a perfect way of exploring the man-made Official New 7 Wonders of the World: The Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, Petra, the Colosseum, Chichen…
Bishop Tutu’s sermon on Table Mountain
"Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless," said the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. The man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and who became the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986 is now raising his voice for…
New7Wonders and Friends of the Earth Middle East
At a meeting at the Dead Sea itself, the New7Wonders President and Founder Bernard Weber and New7Wonders Director Jean-Paul de la Fuente met with Friends of the Earth Middle East, including representatives of the three countries of Israel, Jordan and Palestine, to discuss the aligned interests of promoting the Dead…