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Have you been to a place no one else has been to?

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MrsTerryPratchett · 06/04/2023 03:18

I'll start. The idea is you name the place and a fellow MNer has to say if they've been there. However, you don't have to wait until you've been somewhere to post. Post your places and you'll meet the MNers who've been there. You can post 1-3 places (random numbers).

I've been to:

Rwanda
The Whisundays
Cathedral Grove (Vancouver Island)

OP posts:
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Twopoodlesarebetterthanone · 06/04/2023 20:04

Yinchuan ( near edge of Inner Mongolia)
Jerusalem

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MrsTerryPratchett · 06/04/2023 20:06

Seeing something from a train or boat counts. Plane doesn't.

For some reason.

OP posts:
TaLooLaBell · 06/04/2023 20:19

Arapawa · 06/04/2023 12:36

I've done a lot of travelling.. but off the top of my head some that might be a bit more remote

Bintan
Batam
Bhaktapur
Westray
Culion Island, Phlippines
Penguin, Tasmania

Done Bintan and Butam

Batu Batu anyone?

maranella · 06/04/2023 20:30

Mumtobabyhavoc · 06/04/2023 16:19

@PolkaDotMankini I'm surprised I didn't see Las Vegas on more lists! I've been about 20x - but it's an easy trip from here.

@maranella Have you really also been to these same places as I have??? I am a bit suspect (or, I misread?) with the use of the slashes that were the same as my post...or have you been following me? 🤓🙃

Mt St Helens, Oregon coast, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, LA/Hollywood/Burbank, Maui, Miami, Chicago, Montana, Idaho,

I forgot to add San Francisco to my list of American cities. I'd love to hear about any random small town visits anyone has done.

Haha no! I lived in the US and have been to 25/50 states so I’ve been to many more places than the ones you listed, but I do love the Pacific Northwest.

yorknotes · 06/04/2023 20:32

Burma (Myanmar) . 22 years ago.

Swimminginthelake · 06/04/2023 20:32

Anyone been to Bend or Sisters in Oregon ? Lovely smallish towns.

GettingStuffed · 06/04/2023 20:33

I've been to Cesky Krumlov
Dover Barbados
Bolton - it doesn't count if you live there

GettingStuffed · 06/04/2023 20:35

I forgot Tatooine

Swimminginthelake · 06/04/2023 20:35

Also Forks (of Twilight fame) and Port Angeles in Washington state.

ThisIsNotAmerican · 06/04/2023 20:46

The Shoulders of Orion
Tannhauser Gate
The Red Lion, Gillingham*, Dorset

*Pronounced with a G as in gill (fish). Not like J as in Jill from the Post Office.

LemonLimeWater · 06/04/2023 20:47

I've been to
Guam, Taipei, Alcatraz, Xian, Guilin, Kamloops, Galiano Island, tofino, Pia, Siam Reip, sihanoukville, pangkor laut, Kanyakumari

Need to think of my 3

Pamandherpampams · 06/04/2023 20:58

I’ve been to Jerusalem and Dover beach in Barbados.

LemonLimeWater · 06/04/2023 21:01

Sorry for my typos and lack of capitalization. It's the middle of the night where I am.
Also been to the Suez Canal, Okinawa, Grand Canyon.

Has anyone been to

  1. White desert, Egypt
  2. Macao
  3. Sangkla Buri, Thailand

Great thread!

amicissimma · 06/04/2023 21:06

Maymyo, Burma (Now Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar)
Isfahan, Iran
Arica, Chile

From the sea: Kiritimati, the Christmas Island in Kiribati

Magnoliainbloom · 06/04/2023 21:23

Socotra

ThisIsNotAmerican · 06/04/2023 21:36

Egypt
Bermuda
Gibraltar
Huish Episcopi

All south of Grantham but in the UK.

Sfuandtired · 06/04/2023 21:37

Haiti
Curacao
Roatan Island

Andylion · 06/04/2023 21:40

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/04/2023 20:06

Seeing something from a train or boat counts. Plane doesn't.

For some reason.

How about a long layer in an airport? I suspect not.

Andylion · 06/04/2023 21:42

Sfuandtired · 06/04/2023 21:37

Haiti
Curacao
Roatan Island

I’ve been to Curaçao.

PolkaDotMankini · 06/04/2023 22:11

@Mumtobabyhavoc I'll replace my taken Troy, NY, with Milford, NH. I accidentally stayed in a hotel that seemed to be part homeless hostel. Not the most successful road trip, that.

@ThisIsNotAmerican I've been to Egypt twice. Absolutely hated Cairo but would go back for the history anyway.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 06/04/2023 22:22

@ThisIsNotAmerican I've been to Gibraltar.

I'll replace my Ulan Ude with Vladivostok.

ElinorDashwood68 · 06/04/2023 22:31

Port Arthur, Tasmania

Mb76 · 06/04/2023 22:44

@Yolo12345 I’ve been to Lviv Ukraine - it was love at first sight

I don’t think anyone mentioned yet Kyiv Ukraine although I’m sure some MN’ers will have been there

I’ve also been to Crimea, Donetsk, Mariupol, Bakhmut and Olenivka - Ukraine although currently some are occupied by Russia. I grew up there and never thought these places would be spoken about in the in the world news 😞

JimmyDurham · 06/04/2023 23:01

LarkDescending · 06/04/2023 19:20

@cheapskatemum in Nanyuki - being bang on the Equator - did you do the thing of watching the water go straight down the plughole rather than swirling in one direction or the other? I ended up in the Cottage Hospital there for a while, after a riding accident. The water thing seemed strangely fascinating!

@JimmyDurham did you stay at the wonderful Fleischers Hotel in Voss? We skiied in Voss a few times in my childhood. I’d love to visit it in the summer.

@LarkDescending No, it was summer and we camped just outside the town. I did buy my wife an anniversary present (a ring) in a jewellers there though. The second time we were there we came on the sleeper from Oslo on our way to Bergen.

LarkDescending · 06/04/2023 23:06

@amicissimma Yes to Isfahan/Esfahan.

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