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

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Hi

Someone mentioned enjoying this thread so I thought I'd do another one. IIRC you had to post three places and other MNers said if they'd been there. If they hadn't, you won my undying respect.

No impossible places like the inside of a nuclear reactor this time. As small as a pub, as big as a country.

I'll start:

Tikal, Guatemala
Alice Springs, Australia (easy one!)
Jinja, Uganda

GO!

Phillips.
my son went pre Covid and visited their museum.

Some closer to home:
The stone at the centre of Scotland
Sleeping at Peninnis Head lighthouse on St Mary's
The Old Forge pub at Inverie, Knoydart.

Not me, but my daughter recently went to Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia.
Absolutely gorgeous.

Cross posting, I have been to Nornour, and stayed at a few other random little isles around the isles of Scilly.

Iraq

I like caves!

Recently went to the Cueva de la Pileta near Ronda - highly recommended.

@Bananalanacake I've been to Havneby in Rømø!

@LesFlamandes I was also about 22 when I went to Lesotho. Flew in a Mission Aviation Fellowship flight. It crashed later killing all on board.

It did not occur to me age 22 there was any risk at all!

Back in the 80s/early 90s I lived as a kibbutz volunteer in Israel.
Obviously very much a moment in time, and of the golden age of backpacking.
I stayed on 4, but my favourite was Kibbutz Sdot Yam, which had a private beach near Caesarea.

I've been to the Falklands too.

Antarctica
Montevideo

Got it! @annieloulou

I've been to Kachenjunga base camp! And slept on beaches along the Kali Gandaki

Been to Tangier a few times, used to sail into the marina. There's a lovely museum at the top of the hill.

@SabrinaThwaite
Thank you. If I ever happen to travel to somewhere nearby, I would enjoy visiting .

It's funny because now I think of it, I do like caves, but I enjoy the visual and somewhat magical otherworldly feel of them, and not the scientific/ geological part which is possibly what I thought of first. I suppose that's why I said I don't particularly like them.

I realise that that's how I approach many things when travelling. I like the atmosphere of something, but not necessarily the information surrounding the place. It spoiled it for me when I was bombarded with info as a child I think. I know others are the opposite though.

I've got Alice too!

I've been to Salt Spring Island

I've been to Peniscola too! I liked it there.

@woodenicelollystick

You’ll love that cave then - small group tours and not many tours each day. There’s no electric lighting, everyone has a lantern, and you see incredible cave paintings.

The Suguta Valley in Northern Kenya -on foot
Bukit Lawang orangutan sanctuary in Sumatra
Shek Kwu Chau island in Hong Kong harbor

I have. Its exciting but horribly outing. So ill keep it to myself however loving this thread

Peniscola is beautiful. That walked town 👌

I've been to Raratonga

Mine are Beira, Mozambique
Mutare, Zimbabwe

Broome and Tahiti are obviously passé! 😭 Is it more impressive that my three were all part of the same trip?!

Forgot the Houses of Parliament as an invited guest.

@Floofydawg
I spent 6 weeks in Broome!!

Hampi in India

Kimberleys, Australia

Meknes, Morocco.

@Phoenix06 beautiful place. I also love Byron Bay but every man and his dog has been there.

Ndiago, Mauritania
Guarapuava, Brazil
Eregli, Turkey