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travel to unusual places

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fizzysci · 21/04/2019 18:23

What is the most unusual place you have been to? The kind of place that people are surprised you've been too.

Mine was Svalbard - most people haven't got a clue where it is.

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BathshebaKnickerStickers · 21/04/2019 22:42

We spent 2 weeks in Venezuela as our “last blow out before we have children”

About 2 weeks after we got back Chavez came to power and it became “dangerous to visit” on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.

Amazing 2 weeks though

ShanghaiDiva · 21/04/2019 22:53

Tibet, Xinjiang province in China, Bishkek

Fantasisa · 21/04/2019 22:57

Syria

saraclara · 21/04/2019 22:59

Xinjiang was amazing @ShanghaiDiva. I was there about nine years ago. What's happening there now, breaks my heart.

Easterbunnynearlyhere · 21/04/2019 23:02

Tiny place in Brasilia. Some sort of religious retreat. Apparently the 'healer' is currently being investigated for sexual offences....
Travelled in a tiny plane - felt like made from a weekly magazine...

Oceangirl82 · 21/04/2019 23:03

Maybe Pitcairn, pretty remote and population around 50!

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 21/04/2019 23:03

Greenland for me too probably. I agree, some people have been surprised I've been to Denmark!

Would love to go to the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica.

Bloodybridget · 21/04/2019 23:05

Kyrgyzstan - and I have been to Israel and Denmark several times! (polishes Intrepid Traveller badge).

caoraich · 21/04/2019 23:10

Libya 15 years ago. Friendly people, felt pretty safe. Benghazi was really nice, it's so odd seeing it on the news now.
Sierra Leone pre-Ebola and not long post-war
The one people are most often surprised by is Liechtenstein. I guess because it's so tiny!

Torytop · 21/04/2019 23:12

God, Ocean, did you stop off from a liner at Pitcairn? It sounds like a hotbed of sexual abuse and weird social claustrophobia.

drspouse · 21/04/2019 23:17

Kilwa - stunning, historic, nobody has heard of it!

mysteryfairy · 21/04/2019 23:18

Thought I’d been nowhere unusual but can lay claim to Israel, Denmark and Cyprus so maybe I’m more intrepid than I realised.

In the early 1990s I went to Kashmir which, in retrospect, was quite foolhardy. It’s entirely possible to travel there now, but would hugely discourage my own DC, although it was beautiful and I met only lovely people.

CherryPavlova · 21/04/2019 23:26

Quentena, a village in Bolivia
Itang in Ethiopia during the refugee flight from Sudan in 1984/5

Namibia
Foula, Shetland
Transylvania

FreeButtonBee · 21/04/2019 23:31

I’ve been to Vietnam and Cambodia - about 16 years ago. Travelled around Vietnam on my own which was interesting. They’re not that off th beaten track so not particularly crazy really.

Also been to Vermont which is not exactly exotic by not a common destination for British travellers.

Bouledeneige · 21/04/2019 23:39

Finland, Mexico (off the beaten track), Cambodia, Tasmania.

SnowsInWater · 21/04/2019 23:42

The island of Goree off Senegal was probably my most unusual destination.

PissOffPeppa · 21/04/2019 23:42

Ooh I’ve been to Denmark! I had no idea I was so adventurous Grin

UnicornPolice · 21/04/2019 23:51

Not thst unusual really but people who don't my past are sometimes surprised if it ever crops up. Brunei, Ascension, Falklands and Mongolia.

abbey44 · 21/04/2019 23:54

I spent last Christmas in Sierra Leone, where my son lives - I had no idea what to expect, only knowing about the civil war and ebola, but it's beautiful, very safe and welcoming. A bit rough and ready in parts, though!

On a working trip to Australia, years ago, we visited Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north of the country. Again, very beautiful, but memorable mostly for the fact that a local man was eaten by a crocodile near where we were staying.

A couple of my favourite off-the-beaten-track Caribbean islands are Palm Island, a tiny place near Petit St Vincent, and Mayreau - I think that's been developed a fair bit since I went there twenty years ago, when it was a bit Robinson Crusoe, but I'd love to go back there.

Torytop · 21/04/2019 23:56

Seriously, Denmark and Israel??? Grin

BeardedMum · 21/04/2019 23:57

I have also been to Denmark
Many times😂 And Finland😂

I have been to Syria and Moscow is also seen as a bit of an unusual holiday destination.

SheriffCallie · 22/04/2019 00:04

Puerto Maldonado in Peru is prob the most unusual place I’ve been. Isla Grande in Brazil? It’s touristy but I’ve never met anyone else irl whose been. Longsheng/dragons backbone near Guilin was pretty unusual too
Lljkk, where did you go in Serbia and how did you find it. We go later this year and I’m v excited.

Youngandfree · 22/04/2019 00:09

@FreeButtonBee i have been to Vermont as I have family there! Isn’t it so pretty!?!loved it there!!

notacooldad · 22/04/2019 00:12

Mine was Svalbard - most people haven't got a clue where it is
Svalbard is on my wish list. It has moved up to 3rd place as I've been to the other places before it!!
Would you tel me about it? Did you do a package .
For me it's looking like I fly to Osli and have a day or two before I get the flight to Longyearbyen. Did you fo similar or cruise?

notacooldad · 22/04/2019 00:14

I've been to Transnistria.
I don't need to go back

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