JetBlue777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 1427 posts, RR: 1 Posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1057 times:
Mine:
1. Russia, I'd like to try the trans-siberian railway experience one day after seeing one of Destination Truth's episode
2. DPRK, after reading all the TRs here on a.net, DPRK is added into my bucket list. (BTW I'm not an American Citizen, just a resident) BTW can Americans visit DPRK? What is the process of obtaining a visa?
3. Antarctica (read an article about it) And the pictures definitely amazed me.
4. Greenland (same reason for #3, though much closer from NY and much more realistic)
5. Any country in Africa, especially Morocco, Tunisia and Madagascar.
tz757300 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 2836 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1022 times:
I've always wanted to visit any of the Islands in the Indian Ocean, such as Reunion, Mayotte, the Maldives, Seychelles, etc. I've always heard its like visiting the Caribbean, but on the other side of the world, and that just catches my interest.
af773atmsp From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 2578 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1018 times:
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2631 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 978 times:
North Korea,
Antartica,
Tierra del Fuego,
the moon,
and other places...
The 747 will always be the TRUE queen of the skies!
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11144 posts, RR: 63 Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 969 times:
Iran
Syria (again)
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Afghanistan (when safe)
Abkhazia (Georgian breakaway)
Ossettia (Georgian breakaway and part of Russia)
Dagastan (Russia)
Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia)
Mongolia
Tibet (China)
Russian Far East - Kamchatka and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
North Korea
Cuba
Yemen
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Mauritania
St Helena (British Overseas Territory)
Kosovo
Antarctica
Falkland Islands (British Overseas Territory)
Greenland
Quite a few, but I'm ticking them off slowly. By the time I'm finished, I probably won't want to try going to the US...
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11144 posts, RR: 63 Reply 10, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 905 times:
Quoting BAViscount (Reply 9): Yeah, but why don't you write trip reports any more??!
Ask my family and girlfriend. If I'm not working then I'm doing some form of DIY for them, or am hundreds of miles from home at hers. Not that I'm objecting, I just really wish I had a working laptop instead of two broken ones so I could get on with personal work during the many long train journeys I take. Course I could stop travelling for a bit and buy a new one with the money... but where's the sense of adventure in that
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 901 times:
Well there are the usual suspects (Antarctica, Australia, Africa, India, North Korea, etc.)... but there are two places in particular to which I'd really like to visit:
Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 3538 posts, RR: 28 Reply 12, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 868 times:
Quoting JetBlue777 (Thread starter): 1. Russia, I'd like to try the trans-siberian railway experience
Definitely near the top of my list of things to do one day.
Quoting JetBlue777 (Thread starter): 2. DPRK, after reading all the TRs here on a.net, DPRK is added into my bucket list.
You know what, I have always thought that, and came very close to do it in 2009, but Kim Jong-Il decided to act up again so we couldn't. I did visit the DMZ while I was in South Korea, though, and that place was so depressing as is that if at that moment they had just opened up the border and invited me over for tea I would have probably said no.
Flew over the Southern portion of Greenland one day on an Air France flight from CDG to JFK and it seemed just beautiful, really got me interested in going.
Definitely my dream trip currently is Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in both Chile and Argentina, including a cruise from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia and rounding Cape Horn. Saw pictures of a friend of mine that went to that area of Chile and they were the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen.
Met a 65-year old man while backpacking through Alaska that was on his own traveling the US public transportation system as far as it went. He went all the way from Miami, Florida, to Dutch Harbor, in the Aleut Islands, by himself, using only trains and ferries. I hope I have his spirit when I reach his age.
Another place that fascinates me. I always grew up close to an Ocean, and don't think I could ever live too far away from one, but somehow the notion of visiting a place so inland, so far removed from any large body of water, intrigues me. Plus, Baikonur must be an awesome place to visit.
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 7): Russian Far East - Kamchatka and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Agreed, would love to visit Kamchatka. I imagine it to be a wilder, more remote, more vulcanically-active version of Alaska, which is a pretty awesome place to begin with.
You know what, I never quite made it up that north when I was in Alaska but I heard the town itself is a dump and not worth all the hassle and expense to get there. True, apart from Juneau most cities in Alaska suck (it is what is outside of them that is beautiful) but Barrow just seems to way out there.
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KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 16, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 827 times:
Quoting Pyrex (Reply 12): You know what, I never quite made it up that north when I was in Alaska but I heard the town itself is a dump and not worth all the hassle and expense to get there. True, apart from Juneau most cities in Alaska suck (it is what is outside of them that is beautiful) but Barrow just seems to way out there.
That's really interesting. I didn't expect much from the town to begin with, but if it really is that bad then maybe I'll just stay for a shorter period of time. If I was to go, I was planning on going to ANC for a week or so, and in that time spend a night or two in BRW. I really just want to go to Point Barrow. And also... not many people can say they've flown into the northernmost airport in the United States... on a 737-400 Combi (or a B1900) to say the least.
I appreciate your thoughts though.
After watching "Flying Wild Alaska" I sort of want to visit UNK (Unalakleet) too. Maybe I could bring the Twetos a little something of some sort from New York City.
dlowwa From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 7247 posts, RR: 32 Reply 17, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 811 times:
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Quoting JetBlue777 (Thread starter): DPRK is added into my bucket list. (BTW I'm not an American Citizen, just a resident) BTW can Americans visit DPRK? What is the process of obtaining a visa?
Only way is by organized tour (from China), but that means you will have government minders as your constant companions, you can't do anything spontaneously, and all of the money you pay goes into Kim Jong-Il's coffers. All reasons I decided against it when I was looking into it a few years back.
Quoting Pyrex (Reply 12):
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 7):
Russian Far East - Kamchatka and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Agreed, would love to visit Kamchatka. I imagine it to be a wilder, more remote, more vulcanically-active version of Alaska, which is a pretty awesome place to begin with.
Count me in... wasn't too fond of European Russia, but Kamchatka would be a blast (literally!)
That having been said, are there really any truly 'exotic' places left? I mean, one of my favorite places in the world is the Hunza Valley in the Karakoram, northern Pakistan, but I would hardly consider it exotic... just an indescribable place to be...
Superfly From Thailand, joined May 2000, 38514 posts, RR: 80 Reply 18, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 805 times:
Quoting dlowwa (Reply 17): Only way is by organized tour (from China), but that means you will have government minders as your constant companions, you can't do anything spontaneously, and all of the money you pay goes into Kim Jong-Il's coffers. All reasons I decided against it when I was looking into it a few years back.
I would only do it to fly on a IL-62 and TU-154 again. Also to see that giant incomplete hotel that doesn't exist.
Yes visiting exotic and remote places sometimes means contributing to political regimes you may not agree with.
bookishaviator From Australia, joined Jun 2009, 233 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 799 times:
Alaska was always at the top of my list and I was lucky enough to be able to travel there a couple of years ago. Every local I met was astonished that I had willingly travelled all that way simply for the hell of it. Extraordinary place - looking forward to going back at some point in the not too distant future.
Iceland is also on my list (clearly I'm a fan of cold climates).
Quoting Pyrex (Reply 12): Quoting wilco737 (Reply 4):
New Zealand
Most beautiful place I have ever been. Everybody, and I mean everybody, should visit New Zealand at least once in their lifetime.
New Zealand doesn't necessarily qualify as 'exotic' for an Aussie, but I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. I'm fortunate to live so close to the place - in fact, sometimes it's cheaper to travel to NZ than it is to PER.
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aerorobnz From Rwanda, joined Feb 2001, 6328 posts, RR: 14 Reply 20, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 779 times:
I plan to visit as much of africa as I can.
Next trip there I will do
Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Angola, Namibia,
I also want to add Paraguay,Guyana,French Guiana in South America and Travel across the Silk route countries. I won't rule anywhere out..
CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2704 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 767 times:
1. Antarctica - But first go through South America and then travel down to Ushuaia (think thats the name, the southern point of Argentina) and take a cruise ship down to Antarctica.
2. Cuba and more of Central America
3. Russia - Trans-Siberian Railway would be very cool, but so would Russian jets!
4. South African Safari (done a safari in Kenya, loved it)
Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 3538 posts, RR: 28 Reply 24, posted (2 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 749 times:
Quoting KingFriday013 (Reply 16): And also... not many people can say they've flown into the northernmost airport in the United States... on a 737-400 Combi (or a B1900) to say the least.
As a fellow airplane nerd I understand, although it is a $500 round-trip... I satisfied my airplane nerdness in Alaska by taking the "milk-run" flight down to Sitka instead of the one-stop one, so I could log landings / take-offs in places such as Cordoba and Yakutat, but they were flying a regular 737-400 instead of the Combi that day, unfortunately (although if it was any consolation they did load a lot of cargo in the hold - mostly frozen salmon - every time we landed).
Quoting KingFriday013 (Reply 16): After watching "Flying Wild Alaska" I sort of want to visit UNK (Unalakleet) too. Maybe I could bring the Twetos a little something of some sort from New York City.
Agree, that show is awesome, just don't get any ideas like that idiot who landed his Piper (?) on Rockaway Beach the other day because he saw it being done on the show... flying into UNK will probably cost you a pretty penny as well, though.
Quoting bookishaviator (Reply 19): Alaska was always at the top of my list and I was lucky enough to be able to travel there a couple of years ago. Every local I met was astonished that I had willingly travelled all that way simply for the hell of it.
Weird, the place was literally crawling with Australians when I was there a couple of years ago as well... although that might just be because I was staying mostly in hostels, and by experience, no matter where in the world you go, any hostel, by law, must have a minimum of 50% of Australians as guests (and a minimum of 25% as employees).
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25 gemuser: Narh, it's just 40% Aussies, the other 10% are Kiwis, its just that most people don't recognize them! And considering how few there actually are of b
26 AM744: Southern Patagonia Would Québec count? I mean, it's exotic in the sense that it's sort of a peculiarity among the sea of English speaking North Ameri
28 Severnaya: 1) Any remote place in Africa 2) Many cities in Uzbekistan 3) Iraq (when it'll be calm, if ever) 4) Afghanistan (when it'll be calm, if ever) 5) Sakha
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So it is rather exotic 
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