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Places You'd Love To Visit
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What places would you love to visit?
America
New York (everything)
Chicago (I have family that live there)
LA (mainly for Hollywood)
Miami (it looks nice from what I've seen)
San Francisco (same as above)
Orlando (mainly for Disney World)
Memphis (for the music heritage)
Detriot (same as above)
Ireland
Dublin (everything)
Galway (it looks so gorgeous from what saw on PS. I Love You)
Belfast (everything)
Australia
Sydney (seems like a great city)
Melbourne (I'm a Neighbours fan and would love to do a tour of Ramsey Street)
To travel between those cities I'd love to go on a coast and see the outback.
UK
Brighton
London
Minehead Butlins
Manchester
Lake District
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Somewhere in the Highlands
ETA: Newquay (I totally forgot about it)
I'd love to go to a lovely beach resort in Thailand.
America
New York (everything)
Chicago (I have family that live there)
LA (mainly for Hollywood)
Miami (it looks nice from what I've seen)
San Francisco (same as above)
Orlando (mainly for Disney World)
Memphis (for the music heritage)
Detriot (same as above)
Ireland
Dublin (everything)
Galway (it looks so gorgeous from what saw on PS. I Love You)
Belfast (everything)
Australia
Sydney (seems like a great city)
Melbourne (I'm a Neighbours fan and would love to do a tour of Ramsey Street)
To travel between those cities I'd love to go on a coast and see the outback.
UK
Brighton
London
Minehead Butlins
Manchester
Lake District
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Somewhere in the Highlands
ETA: Newquay (I totally forgot about it)
I'd love to go to a lovely beach resort in Thailand.
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Also Italy, which appeals to me more than any other European country, Africa - on safari, Australia - the outback, and things like the pyramids, Niagra Falls etc.
other than that, almost every country in the world...
That's my number one place in the world to visit.
I like the idea of doing road/rail trips more than just visiting places. So here's some I'd like to do.
China
- Beijing - Xi'an - Chongqing -Chengdu (from which you can visit the Jiuzhaigou Valley) - Lhasa
- Shanghai - Hong Kong - Guangzhou - Haikou
Japan
- Fukuoka - Hiroshima - Kobe - Osaka - Kyoto - Nagoya - Mt. Fuji - Tokyo - the all the way up to Sapporo for skiing and that cool snow festival they have.
Vietnam
- Saigon - Da Lat - Nha Trang - Hoi An (and My Son) - Da Nang - Hue - Hanoi - Hai Phong - Ha Long
Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand
- Mekong - Phnom Penh (up the river) - Bangkok
Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Holland
- Oslo - Nordcapp - Stockholm - Malmo - Copenhagen - Hamburg - Bremen - Amsterdam
Norway/Finland/Finland/Russia/Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/Poland/Germany/Holland
- Oslo - Nordcapp - Oulu - Helsinki - St. Petersberg - Tallinn - Riga - Lithuania - Kaliningrad - Gdansk - Berlin - Amsterdam.
Spain/France/Italy/Switzerland
- Santander - Barcelona - Marseille - Monaco - Genoa - Milan - Bern - Champagne - Calais
Other things I'd like to see/do:
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Climb Mt. Kinabalu, Malaysia
- Climb Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina (the highest mountain that non-mountaineers can get to the top of)
- Tour of Indonesia
- Yellowstone, USA
- Toronto, Canada (sister lives there)
- Nuuk, Greenland
- Quaanaaq, Greenland (the world's most northerly palindrome )
- Pyramids, Egypt
- Okavango Delta, Botswana
- Go on Safari, Kenya
- Tour of Masagascar
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tour of Chile
- Tour of Iceland
- Tour of Poland
- Tour of Mongolia
That's a bit long for one lifetime, I think. I blame Google Earth.
i really want to go to
Catagena in Colombia
Brasil
Argentina
Poland
Prague and Bohemia
Sicilly
Vietnam
Zanzibar
The Maldives
Places I'd like to visit:
Thailand (for the Tiger Temple)
Vietnam
Australia (particularly the Great Barrier Reef)
New Zealand
Bali
Poland (I really want to visit Auschwitz)
Anywhere in the Amazon Rainforest
Anywhere in North Africa
Egypt
Italy
Chicago
California
NYC, although I've already been but I'd like to visit when it's not so hot (went in mid-July for 3 days)
Canada
Loads of other places I can't think of just now.
I went last spring for ATP - excellent reason to go if ever there was one.
I wanted to go when i was in kenya a few weeks back (different country i know but a shorter flight ) but i couldn't becaue of the need for malaria tablets and my yellow fever vaccination is out of date but maybe next year...
but there only a few places I do not want to visit. So I hope I can make a lot of ticks on my "been there"-list in my life.
I was snorkling on the Barrier Reef a few months ago. It was fucking awesome. Saw a big green sea turtle, so I dived under, grabbed onto it's shell and got pulled along with it as it swam for as long as I could hold my breath (not long). Such an amazing feeling...also saw a reef shark, but that was through the windows of a semi-sub, luckily just after I'd gotten out of the water! :nervous:
Meh to Tiger Temple. lol. I went there TWICE, and didn't get in either time. So I have bitter memories of waiting outside smoking fags with Thai tuk tuk drivers, while my companions petted Tigers.
My girlfriend went in and she enjoyed it, but there's alot of concern as to how well the Tigers are looked after. The monks who set the place up had good intentions. Unfortunately it's not the monks looking after the Tigers... and anyone who's been to Thailand knows how 'considerate' alot of Thai people are when it comes to wildlife and the enviroment. Lots of people say that the Tigers are drugged.
There's no proof either way, it's just an ethical choice you have to make and hope you chose the right one.
Venice.
Ireland.
Florida for the kids disneyworld
+ butlins at Devon Cliffs my best childhood hol ever.
- Brazil for the festival (ok, and the women!)....in fact, all over S America.
- Australia for the beaches and the surf, and some cool people I know out there.
- Maldives, while it's still there...
- Egypt for the pyramids.
- Macchu Pichu
- Mt Everest
- Sedona, Arizona for the cool vibes and people.
- These places for spiritual reasons.
Brisbane
Melbourne
San Francisco
Vancouver
Singapore
Thailand
Peru
Las Vegas
Sri Lanka
Fiji
Seattle
Calgary
Montreal
Dubai
Cambodia
Auckland
I want to go back to:
Quebec - to explore properly
Sydney - to appreciate from an elder perspective (i was a teenager when i went)
Christchurch - as above
Cairns - as above
Toronto & Buffalo (inc Niagara again) - as above
But as I currently don't have the super-adventurous travel bug, I'm just gonna put down where I'll *hopefully* be going this year and next:
South Korea
Spain
Maybe Turkey / Greece
Then travelling through Southern Asia next year, probably Vietnam/Thailand/Cambodia then down into Bali and maybe on into Australia (funds allowing!)
Would love to see Canada and a few places in North America (mainly New York) also
A far from definitive list:
- NZ
- Argentina, Buenos, down Patagonia to the Cono Sur
- Mexico, when the plague that's meant to kill us all dies down
- Chile
- Brazil
- Kamchatka (said to be the real cradle of the planet)
- Siberia
- Caspian Sea
- A Tour of the Soviet 'stans: Turkmenistan, Tazhikistan, Kyrghistan, Azerbijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
- Japan, especially rural Japan (I imagine it to be a lot like Spirited Away)
- Cambodia, partly so I can sing Holiday in Cambodia to myself
- Laos
- India
- Sri Lanka
- Scandinavia
- Also do a tour of all the graves of the rock and rollers who died too young.
Peru - to work with street children
Argentina - patagonia and other things
Chile - i just do
Mexico - because its meant to be beautiful!
North America:
Vermont - ben and jerry's!
NYC
Philidelphia
new orleans
portland, oragon
Seatle
San fransisco
Toronto
Vancover
(i'd like to do a road trip across america)
Europe:
Barcelona (because i can't remeber much of the last time i was there)
Tarifa, costa de la luz, southern spain - amazing surf and such a chilled out place
Amalfi coast - my mum's on off boyfriend lives there half the year
Rome
Venice
Florence
Vienna - want to be able to say i've been to a ball in vienna
Copenhagen - mermaid statue!
Amsterdam - red light district and the museums
Berlin - industrial scene there is meant to be something else!
Asia-
Thailand - because its meant to be beautiful and very chilled out
India - goa, dehli - to work with street kids, i'd like to go see the dalai lama as well
Bornio- to see orangatans in the wild
Japan - just because the culture is so different
Australia - great barrier reef, to meet fiona horne, and some other stuff
NZ - looks beautiful, and i have a good friend who is moving back there next year
Africa-
morroco - because it looks like a fancinating place and i'd like to visit 1 muslim country
Uk and Ireland
Dublin - for st paddys
Giants causeway
west coast of ireland for the beauty
iceni village in norfolk
snowdonia
brighton - mainly to go find my friend's grave
Britain - France - Spain - Morocco - Eygpt - Kenya - South Africa - India - Thailand - China - Japan - Russia - Canada - United States
That would be pretty cool, like take a year out and save something like £10,000 or whatever it costs to travel for a year and just travel spending a couple of weeks in each place. I think it would be a really eye opening experience!
As it stands I have no where near that much money so I think in the short term I would like to travel to some European countries like Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Austria etc. as you could probably do one over 4 days and get some cheap flights heh.
I used to feel the same way... didn't have any desire to visit Australia, NZ, Canada or the US. I had just been travelling in South East Asia, and Australia was the last place I wanted to go next.
But then I met my girlfriend and I ended up here, and mate, it's by far one of the most extraordinary countries I've ever been to (and I'm fairly well travelled). Queensland itself has 3 world heritage sights and you can see such a vast contrast in landscapes by travelling Australia.
You can go from Snowy mountains to lush green valleys and forest, to shrub and dry bushland, to complete barren desert, to tropical paradise and everglades. And don't even get me started on the awesome wildlife that I have seen here, which is rivalled by no where else.
But granted, culture is lacking severely.
That's what I normally look for. I'm sure I'd have a great time there and, despite the majority of Aussies I've met being complete dickheads, I've met and worked with some absolutely cracking ones. However, I feel that any country whose primary exports to world popular culture include such luminaries as Rolf Harris has some catching up to do.
I'm sure it's exceptionally beautiful, but then again, I don't think I've ever been somewhere where the nature isn't beautiful. I concur with Stephen Fry when he says that all nature is unequivocally beautiful.
lol Yeah there are some proper aussie cunts...they're very full of themselves. But as you said, also some legends. But I guess that's the same everywhere in the world.
Maybe I was being slightly harsh when I said 'severely'. There is definately culture here (if by culture you mean cricket, rugby league, AFL and surfing lol), and you'll find more of it in cities such as Sydney or Melbourne, than say Tasmania or the Gold Coast.
But in general it's a different kind of culture than what we, as europeans, are used to. It's alot more subtle.
As I said, I felt very much like you did... I was sure the country was beautiful but definately wouldn't have forked out the 1,100 quid for a flight over here if it wasn't for a certain girl. But since living here, I have seen some of the most spectacular things and Australia is definately one of the most amazing countries that I have ever been to.
Each to their own though!