Christ Church Oxford among world's 500 destinations says Lonely Planet guide

Christ Church, Oxford is ranked 314th in the list which has been published by travel guide company Lonely Planet. The college, off St Aldate's, which includes the landmark Tom Tower and the city's cathedral, is the only Oxford site to feature in the Ultimate Travel List, which has just been released.

The UK scores 34 spots in top 500 in the armchair traveller's handbook, securing more than any other country

The Lake District National Park is the UK's top experience, in 40th place, followed by the British Museum (56) and Wales Coast Path (82).

The ancient rock-carved city of Petra in Jordan was named as the number 1 place in the world, followed by the wildlife-rich Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia and the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

A spokesman for Lonely Planet said: "We've all got a list of places that we want to see for ourselves: places friends have enthused about, places we've read about, dreamed about. This is our list.

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"This second edition contains over 200 new entries... a mix of knock-out new openings, sights that have upped their game, or places more relevant to the way we travel now."

"We also changed the way we calculated the list," says Lonely Planet's Piers Pickard. "For this edition we rewarded extra points to sights that are managing tourism sustainably."

The Top 10 travel experiences:

1 Petra, Jordan

2 The Galápagos Islands - see the islands that changed the course of science

3 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

4 Okavango Delta, Botswana

5 Yellowstone National Park, USA

6 Lake Bled, Slovenia

7 Iguazú Falls, Argentina-Brazil

8 Temples of Angkor, Cambodia

9 Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

10 Annapurna Circuit, Nepal

Top UK travel experiences:

40 Lake District

56 British Museum

82 Wales Coast Path

102 Giant's Causeway

116 Jurassic Coast

153 Brecon Beacons

161 Snowdowia

170 V&A Museum

172 West Highland Way

212 Glen Coe

219 Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs

224 Loch Lomond

227 Stonehenge

238 Skara Brae

248 Edinburgh's Royal Mile

267 Bath’s Roman Baths

283 Tower of London

291 St Paul’s Cathedral

302 Scotland's Northeast 250

314 Christ Church, Oxford

340 Tate Modern

349 Natural History Museum

352 Hadrian's Wall

369 Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway

374 Dundee's waterfront

390 Stirling Castle

394 Royal Albert Dock

296 St David's Cathedral

398 Titanic Belfast

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437 St Fagans National History Museum

443 York Minster

458 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

462 Castle Howard

476 Portmeirion