To ask which country you would not visit again and why?

[travelcat]

I love hearing about travel experiences and am interested in knowing about places you have visited that you wouldn't go back to.

AIBU to ask which country you'd avoid in the future and what specifically made your experience less enjoyable? Was it due to culture, safety, or something else?

No I agree, it's not. Not at all different from our food, I don't think really?! Lol.
BUT.
Welsh cakes my absolute favourite!! 😍
I have been to Wales once, found a few people quite rude - maybe it was the English accent 😂 but nothing too bad that I would say I wouldn't ever visit again.

The Middle East and North Africa is a fascinating area with amazing history and stunning scenery?

Plus there is great variety. Oman, Dubai and Israel for example are radically different. Also, I personally experienced almost no harassment in Oman, Dubai, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine or Cyprus. Maybe I'm really ugly or something but not every woman will experience harassment.

The Middle East is my favourite area to travel, it's so so sad it's so unstable as I know people who said Iran, Syria and Yemen were the best places they'd ever been.

South Africa because of the extreme violence .
Dubai because of the culture.

Tunisia because of the terrorism threats

I agree with you, I’ve been and it’s everything you imagine, but not even slightly glitzy or glamorous whatsoever. It’s like an American Blackpool, and full of overpriced bars & restaurants in shopping centres.

I found it very superficial and couldn’t see the appeal, it had no soul.

I will never go back to Bali. Didn't dislike Ubud or Gili Air but not keen on the resorts.

I have a friend in Germany who's learning Welsh - I asked her if her retirement plan was to go to Patagonia :)

No it's not so different at all, welsh cakes are slamming😋. Then there's cawl, cockles, laverbread, barabrith, welsh rarebit, glamorgan sausage and aberffraw biscuits off the top of my head.
Where did you come to in Wales? Please give us another chance😁, i'm sorry people were rude to you.

But I have really enjoyed Dubai, but I was there as my sister's guest. I love the city's can do energy and the relentless pace of change.

Have holidayed in Wales, north, mid and south, many many times and love it. Amazing scenery, love the outdoors and the beaches, and have had some amazing food, and have never been yelled at by a Welsh person. I’ve been polite, people are polite back.

I wonder if your experience of harassment in North Africa and the middle east is religion dependent

If a Muslim woman were to visit Egypt to see relatives for instance and wore traditional Islamic dress it may be she is unlikely to be harassed. The harassment may be aimed towards obviously westernised white women.

I know of Muslim women who thought Mecca fantastic

I'm glad you have had good experiences around Wales, it really is a great country!

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I asked if you had been to all African countries. How is that materially different to “anywhere on the African continent”?

It’s just weird to respond with a continent when the question was about countries.

Why so aggressive at questions?

We have done several road trips in the US, we love it there but I felt really uneasy in Memphis. The police sirens seem to be constant and we didn't see anything dodgy, but couldn't wait to get away from there.

Fortunately we were only there one night on a stopover.
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There is a certain amount of irony in this post.

Weird response. This thread asked which country you have visited but wouldn't visited again. There are many other countries that I've visited and would like to visit again that don't stone women for not wearing a head covering and that have laws that advocate fairness, gender equality and respect. And have better weather.

I think that is still a problem no? An even bigger problem tbh.

People are taking opinions and experiences way too seriously 🤣😂

phillippines.

It takes soooo long to travel between the islands. I do think this is more of a me problem though, and my bad planning.

Maybe I should go back but just be more organised!

Yes agree.

And on the subject of Germany and Northern Europe more generally - I am a pure Gen X 'cool' chaser and if you'd have told me thirty years ago that those kind of national traits - rationality, reasonableness, a general expectation (usually met) that people will do the right thing for the community, because they identify as an individual within a community - I would have laughed a 90s Camden laugh and trotted off to my Jim Jarmusch screening before the Pavement afterparty.

Wow I loved it 🙈

Would not go back to South Africa - getting metal detectors run over you before entering a restaurant 😳 , the metal doors on shops with buzzers to get in.
India - horrible. Beggars pointing to their incapacities, piles of plastic water bottles, it's horrible. It's always a scam of some kind too.
Mauritius - boring. A bit like the Caribbean scenery wise but without the fun.
Although Jamaica - can't walk about , men calling you lesbians if you are a group of women 🙄 and always drugs and guys wanting to give you babies 🙄 . Horrible.

@JHound .

I agree. It seems somehow giving into patriarchal authoritarianism by dressing in traditional Muslim clothing to avoid harassment.

Also - I wonder if, as well as unpleasant experiences in individual countries, tourism as a general idea is something that we are all going off a bit?

Given everything else that's going on politically and environmentally, it's all harder to enjoy in a carefree way, like we could even 15 years ago.

It's much harder to not be aware I think.

@thestudio ha, ha- we work in music and yep at 62 I now find a special kind of appreciation for a beautiful smelling well laid out Scandinavian department store etc !! These days I am definitely less about cool, more about comfort and quality.

People saying that the US is 'overhyped' are confusing me. It's an absolutely massive country with a huge amount of diversity in landscapes. From Alaska to Death Valley - how can you write off all of it? Yellowstone, Zion, Grand Canyon, Yosemite - I could spend 12 months travelling round the States and not get bored. New Orleans, Portland, New York, Washington DC are all fascinating cities with so much to see and do. Personally I wouldn't choose to go back to LA or Vegas but you can't judge an entire massive country after just experiencing a small corner of it.

The people saying Wales are also confusing. There's so much beauty in Wales - the Brecon beacons, Snowdonia, Pembrokeshire...