NZ Scores Nine Tourism Spots In Top 500
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2/10 Fiordland National Park, is ranked number 17. Photo / Getty Images -
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3/10 Abel Tasman National Park is ranked number 35. Photo / Getty Images
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4/10 Franz Josef glacier is ranked number 81. Photo / Getty Images
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5/10 Lake Wanaka is ranked number 94. Photo / Getty Images
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6/10 Stewart Island is ranked number 125. Photo / Getty Images
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7/10 Bay of Islands is ranked number 130. Photo / Getty Images
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8/10 Whakarewarewa is ranked number 276. Photo / Getty Images
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9/10 Waitomo Caves is ranked number 280. Photo / Getty Images
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10/10 Te Papa is ranked number 285. Photo / Getty Images
Nine New Zealand destinations have made travel guide Lonely Planet's list of the "500 best places in the world".
Lonely Planet's "ultimate travel list" comes out today and is billed as "the 500 most thrilling, memorable and interesting places in the world - ranked in order of brilliance."
The list was compiled from listings in Lonely Planet's guidebooks, which have been around since 1973.
The Cambodian temples at Angkor top the bill, with Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Peru's Machu Picchu rounding out the top three.
The Great Wall of China is number four and India's Taj Mahal number five.
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