Kåringen, eller rangeringen, ble offentliggjort onsdag, skriver Stavanger Aftenblad.

I kåringenheter det at:

«Sometimes it’s best to leave it to nature. While glass floors and skyscrapers can be impressive, in Norway it’s a mighty lump of stone that offers the best outlook. Prekestolen – Pulpit Rock – looms 604m above Lysefjord, one of myriad incisions along Norway’s west coast. There are mountains aplenty hereabouts, but this summit seems built for purpose: its almost perfectly flat top juts out over the water (no safety barriers here), commanding uninterrupted if vertiginous views. Scarier still, peer down the cracks in Preikestolen’s surface – caused by 10,000 years of glacial action – and hope no new ones form just then…»

Under Prekestolen på listen finner vi følgende turistattraksjoner og utsiktspunkter:

2. Sky Tower, New Zealand.

3. Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk, Australia

4. Grand Canyon Skywalk, Arizona, USA

5. Knife-Edge Point, Victoria Falls, Zambia

6. Waterfall Trail, Brasil

7. Il Binocolo, Merano, Italia

8. Dachstein Sky Walk, Østerrike

9. Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, Frankrike

10. Petronas Towers Skybridge, Kuala Lumbur, Malaysia.

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