Posted 2008-8-23 by AGF
Skylines are one of the most beautiful things about a city, a mixture of high rise buildings that rise above and embrace it and when the city is dark it is the skyline that illuminates it and whether you’re in a high rise apart, or on the ground admiring it, a skyline adds beauty to a city like nothing else can and here are my ten favorites –
10. Berlin – you never forget your first trip abroad and for me it was Berlin with an absolutely stunning skyline as the present stands with the past and neither overshadowing the other instead a canvas of beautiful buildings creating a skyline like no other. A city once divided is anything but and this skyline says it all.
9. Cartagena – for those of you who visit Colombia one day you must add Cartagena to your itinerary. You get ‘The Walled City’ with a coastline of high-rise buildings towering from above. Amazing restaurants and nightlife that will keep you all night.
8. Panama City – this might surprise many that this on my list but the fact is Panama is a modern city with so much to see and do and at night it comes alive and along its coast is a skyline you might not be expecting.
7. Bangkok – Bangkok has a rare skyline that you must see it to believe it because there are few words to describe it. A mixture of bright neon lights and buildings that make stand in awe.
6. Chicago – another skyline that reaches in high into the clouds with the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) rising higher than any other. With Lake Michigan as its coast from land or sea this will always be among my favorite skylines.
5. Tel Aviv – watching this skyline come to life is as vivid today as the morning I witnessed it. Slowly a perfect orange sun was rising over the city fading out what little darkness remained and from the boardwalk to its downtown and everywhere in between the skylines of Tel Aviv will always be among my favorites.
4. Santiago – set against the backdrop of the Andes Mountains is what I love most about this skyline it sits perfectly beneath the Andes Mountains they blend perfectly and whether you enjoy the skyline from atop of the Andes or enjoy the Andes from the highest point in Santiago this is a skyline like no other.
3. Sydney – right on the heels of Boston is Sydney, Australia an absolute stunning skyline that is made all the more amazing with its legendary Sydney Bridge. And with the multitude of things to see and do sitting and watching the sunset must be one your list.
2. Hong Kong – I have never seen a skyline like Hong Kong’s it is one collage of high rises one building taller than the next as if architects were competing against each other for the right to say ‘mine’s bigger than yours’ well in my opinion they all won because this skyline in a word – WOW!!!
There is nothing like seeing the skyline of your own city after a journey abroad. As the plane starts its descent ever so slowly the skyline becomes clearer as you get closer, and you know you are home. My favorite skyline with eighteen of travel will always be The Boston Skyline.
