Our seven holiday wonders

The Great Pyramid of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon may well have been top of the wish-list for the ancient-day holidaymaker.

But more than 2,000 years after the Greeks drew up their Seven Wonders of the World, the British have come up with their own.

And adventure is the key for many modern-day holidaymakers.

Travellers in the 21st century aspire to tiger trekking in India, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, diving with man-eating sharks or chasing tornados, new research reveals.

Holidaymakers would far rather travel China's Silk Road than dance the night away in a Faliraki nightclub - itself near the site of one ancient wonder, the Colossus of Rhodes statue which stood in the harbour entrance until its destruction by an earthquake in 226BC.

The ideal break for a quarter of adults involves visiting sites of interest, with just one in ten holidaymakers putting nightlife at the top of their wish-list.

But while many Britons are lured by action, only three per cent have tried both bungee-jumping and skydiving, a survey for this weekend's Adventure Travel and Sports Show at Olympia London revealed.

Martin Anslow, organiser of the show, said: 'Modern travellers are increasingly on the look-out for more exciting adventure holidays.'

For the record, the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.