To ask where you’d love to visit but are too scared to visit.

I’m Asian and have been to Croatia numerous times. It’s absolutely fine. People were very friendly

India. Looks fascinating but the chaos and crowds in cities, endless curries and poverty put me off.

You can definitely go to Colombia. I've been to Bogotá, just like any other capital city and Villa de Leyva, fascinating and two brilliant dinosaur museums. No problem at all. Cartagena on the Caribbean coast is next on my list.
Cuba is great too, I loved Havana

I would desperately love to go to Ukraine.

I would go despite everything if I didn’t have children - I’m a single parent at that.

I can’t think why I didn’t go before the invasion now, as it sounds wonderful.

This would be wonderful.

Iraq , Syria, Egypt

would love to go to Colombia when the kids are grown up

I had a Syrian friend when I was at school in the mid 1980s.

I cant believe i turned down the chance to go and stay with them in Damascus one year.

I've got a couple of friends headed off there in a couple of days. Supposed to be lovely.

Would love to visit Jordan and Egypt. Maybe in the future.

Iran. Such a fabulous culture but not safe to visit now

I've never felt unsafe in Mexico. We've driven our camper down through California to Tijuana every summer for nearly 10 yrs. Lovely people great food and some of the most beautiful camping spots I've ever stayed in.

Iran

@tooloololoo eh ? I would pass on Venezuela, it's a terrible outcome for that benighted country - but Colombia ...?
@Apollonia1 what safer times ..?! The civil war lasted 50 years, do you mean when there were bombs on street corners and tanks on the street ? Because that WAS a long time ago. And I remember living in London when that was a real and present danger as well.

It's one of the most popular destinations on the planet ! And I have lived here for some time. There are no-go areas and if you want to go poking about on the borders where narco-traffickers have control then you do you - very ill advisedly. It is a huuuuge country, there are so many diverse areas, and the people (in my experience of 7 years) are amazing,
i don't think I would rush to visit Honduras but a friend has just got back from 4 months in Nicaragua and he loved it. Ditto Guatemala. Take your blinkers off !

I am sorry for not having experienced Beirut when it was still accessible, and Damascus....

I really want to go to Georgia with my teen son.

Is it safe to go there? It just seems so precariously positioned . . .

Mine are places already mentioned on this thread - Afghanistan, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morocco and also Colombia.

No there is a civil war in Cabo Delgado, the north of Mozambique should be avoided.

I’ve done this drive from SA through Eswatini to Mozambique (with my kids!). Not for the faint hearted, did get a shakedown from the Mozambiquan police but the sea is beautiful. Also been to DRC (definitely don’t recommend on safety grounds), Ethiopia, Lebanon, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan. Would also love to visit Syria one day.

@MotherOfCrocodiles I used to know my passport number by heart because you needed it to cash travellers cheques!

I was wondering not long ago about a Baltic cruise which seemed a safer way to do StP.

I wish I had gone to Damascus years ago. 😞

St Petersburg and Israel have also long been on my bucket list, but not likely to happen any time soon.

I’ve been to a lot of the places mentioned here, many as a solo backpacker with just a Lonely Planet and some travellers cheques for company!

Heh. It doesn't seem long ago at all that I was getting round China with only the Lonely Planet guide to help, and trying to find my hostels or the bus stations with only the map pages to guide me. Now I'm as dependent on a smart phone and Google maps as the next person! 😅

I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Syria, but not now in many years. It was wonderful.

The place I’ve always wanted to go is Yemen. Friends have spent time there when it was safer, but the time I was living in that neck of the woods, it was dicey.

There were little villages along the way - wooden houses and very Brothers Grimm - and then 5 minutes further along the line there would be a factory belching into the night.

But the rest was trees.

I’ve been to a lot of the places mentioned here, many as a solo backpacker with just a Lonely Planet and some travellers cheques for company!

My “too scared” is Egypt, partly for sensible reasons but mainly because Mummies are terrifying. Too many Agatha Christie videos in my youth I think.

Agreed. I took the Sapsan high speed train from St Petersburg to Moscow hoping it would be a fascinating journey. Wrong. It just went through mile after mile after mile of unchanging, seemingly endless forest. I’ve had more interesting, scenic train journeys to Birmingham.

@IsItTimeToRetireYetI was fortunate enough to travel very close to the border a few years ago, in KPK close to the Khyber Pass. It was lovely. I had an armed escort but I wish I’d spent longer there and gone to the Khyber Pass itself. Now I have children I’m less keen on the risk!