Wanderlust Travel Awards 2011 - Top Country: Namibia

The readers of UK's travel magazine Wanderlust voted Namibia their favourite country for the magazine's 2011 Travel Awards! The southwest African country got a score of 96.94%, placing it ahead of Costa Rica (96.92%), New Zealand (96.13%), Nepal (95.08%) and Japan (94.77%), which completed the top five. Namibia won the award for the second successive year! Congrats!

1. Namibia 96.94%
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2. Costa Rica 96.92%
3. New Zealand 96.13%
4. Nepal 95.08%
5. Japan 94.77%
6. Iceland 93.91%
7. Laos 93.85%
8. Canada 93.53%
9. Syria 92.75%
10. Chile 92.73% 

btw - Malawi became 8th in the category Top Emerging Destination, in which countries got recognised that were visited by relatively small numbers of Wanderlust readers last year, but which gained very high marks from those who did go.

The annual Wanderlust Travel Awards include 13 award categories and are based on travellers' experiences from December 2009 to November 2010.