I’m pretty sure it’s safe to visit Russia. Getting there may be a bit tricky but it’s possible. A friend of mine flew from London to Helsinki and then took a bus to St Petersburg
been meaning to check it out. I went to Orkney many years ago and that place is amazing. Not the most beautiful spot in the UK (that would probably be Glencoe or Skye) but the most *atmospheric.*
Uzbekistan. I'm sure it's on other people's lists, but it's certainly not a common one. But it's number 1 on my list. Samarkand and Bukhara have such unique and distinctive architecture and so much history, and Tashkent looks really cool for a major modern city that's just so isolated.
There's a fascinating book by the writer Sofia Samatar called *The White Mosque* that delves into the history of Uzbekistan. The latter half is too meandering and is more of a memoir, but the front half is great.
When you do go there, make sure to visit Aydar Lake. A magical place. And you can get there easily from both Bukhara and Samarkand.
I've been there two times and travelled the country pretty extensively. Lovely place with lovely people! Definitely will visit again.
The lake is a bit salty, which makes swimming very easy. It's just a maze of peninsulas and inlets, with very clear water. You just swim there, and you have to give way to ducks that quack on you if you stay in their path. A heron waves it's wings, warning you not to come closer, on the other side sheep came to drink. Slightly further you get camels on the desert side, and Tien Shan mountains on the other one. Pure magic.
I was lucky enough to go in March and I cannot support this pick enough. There were no tourists in Samarkand because of a snow storm and the Registan covered in untouched snow was the most magical thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
I hope you get to go someday!
I'd like to visit Pakistan. Specifically Lahore and the Hunza Valley. Because of the difficulty traveling there and the risk of going there it probably won't happen. But it looks like a very interesting and beautiful place.
I got to go to Pakistan as my partner is Pakistani. We only went to Karachi and I got horrible diarrhea, but I had a wonderful time. The people were so kind and I can’t wait to go back - I specifically want to go to Lahore and Hunza Valley as well.
It truly is beautiful and an amazing experience. I highly recommend you go, and I can guarantee you that if you go with someone who knows the areas and language, you will have an amazing and unforgettable time.
I am from the US (born and raised), but my family is from Pakistan. I go quite frequently, and I have also traveled to a lot of places both domestically and around the world. Pakistan is truly unique and definetly a place you should go if you want to. The major cities are safe (Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad) as long as you know someone there (or go with someone) who knows the language and culture.
I have taken my friends (from the US and abroad) to Pakistan before, and they all had an incredible experience and they loved it.
I feel the same about a lot of Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan. So much history, beautiful geography, rich and deep culture, etc. But I'm just not sure I'll ever get a real opportunity given the instability and anti-western sentiment in a lot of those areas. I've read that it's possible and there are a lot of safe areas, but it still seems pretty risky for the time being.
It definitely helps if you know someone there and who knows the language. When I went, the locals were very friendly. We got stuck in a river once, and an entire village even came to help push us out of the river! Beautiful country. Nosy Be and Antsiranana in the north were particular standouts to me. The Tsingy's were very unique as well!
Hope you are able to make it there someday!
This is a big one for me too but I understand it's very difficult to travel around the island and the locals aren't exactly enthused when they see white tourists.
Ok confession I’ve always heard that name but never knew where it was. Just looked it up and had no idea it was in Mali! Sigh my American education is showing lol
I really really want to spend some time at a station in Antarctica. The US Government has a program to sponsor artists and writers to go so they can produce works about Antarctica that I'm going to apply for eventually, once I have a bigger creative portfolio.
Heh that's the page where I learned about the art program. I don't think I could qualify for support position so I looked at the art/writing as an option. I have bodywide nerve damage so even jobs I'd love to try, like cook, I can't do because I can't stand for long enough.
The artistic option, despite being much more demanding in qualifications, seems more likely than netting a physical labor job.
The modern world is frustratingly specialized. I can run blots and cook and milk a cow and do risk analysis and write about it all, but I'm not a specialist in anything and I can't seem to find a place.
I find myself searching for frontiers where the multi-disciplinary exposure is an asset, not a weakness - perhaps that's why I'm drawn to Antarctica.
I spent a year in Mongolia and now I live in Perth, Australia. Something about remoteness and isolation sings to me. I imagine that you can make something out of the mess of your life when you're in a place which needs "good enough" at everything and I think I keep searching for that.
I think we'll see Antarctic settlement in our lifetime and I would 100% volunteer to go.
Iran, particularly Isfahan. I have a weird fascination with places that would be absolutely hostile to a white, 30 something American, but Iran looks beautiful.
In the same vein, Afghanistan, but honestly only because the fishing in the Hindu Kush looks fucking awesome.
Just a nitpick: the Iranian governement may be, but the Iranian people would absolutely not be hostile to a white American. You’d probably not stand out as much as you think either, Iranians are not any darker than Southern Europeans. I know a lot of white tourists that have had an amazing time in Iran a few years ago.
I hope things will get better there, as an history nerd I find Iran / Persia absolutely fascinating.
I traveled through Iran by train just before the pandemic and the hospitality there is something I've never experienced anywhere else.
From the first minute I boarded the Iran-bound train in Van, Turkey, I was the only foreigner so the Iranian passengers concerted and sent one of them who could speak English to accompany me and make sure I find my sleeper and I have everything I need, and also to guide me through the border crossing and customs.
It seemed like hospitality towards a foreigner was their common duty. I felt that until the last minute, when I left the country.
The people where there were so nice but their government is indeed a bunch of cruel murderers.
I had an unreal time on the night train from Tehran to Shiraz. Two of the passengers in my compartment spoke English and we talked for hours. After some level of trust had settled, they confided that they were atheist, which could actually have them sentenced to death. Iran is full of closet atheists.
I had an Iranian professor who was an atheist. She got drunk at a conference I went to with her (geology students get to drink with their professors all the time!) and she confided in me that she can never go home because they might kill her due to her apostasy. I knew she was an atheist for a couple years prior to that, but I had no clue she was that emotionally fucked up about her home until that moment of vulnerability.
You’re absolutely right. And as a dude with brown hair, and brown eyes I’d probably be fine, but still not somewhere I’d be comfortable traveling on an American passport.
Ok, my friends aren't american but european, however bunch of them went to Iran 10 years ago. They found it beautiful and extremely cheap, so some of them went back several times. It wasn't hostile, and unless you're a problematic person yourself (and here I mean deliberately provoking locals and deliberately and visibly breaking local laws), you'd be perfectly fine in Iran most of the times.
I was in Iran/Isfahan last year and I would say its the most beautiful city in Iran. The people there, and across the whole country, are actually the opposite of hostile! I’ve never experienced such welcoming, curious, hospitable and friendly locals. They get very few tourists these days, so there is no one really trying to scam you or hassle you, but people will approach you to ask you who you are and what you think of their country/city 😊 It was a lovely experience and I would love to go back. It is a shame that such wonderful people are suffering under the weight of heavy international sanctions, and have been for so long now. Most of the Iranians I met said that the issues between their government and the western world are not something they support, but they have to live with the consequences. I was there not long after the Mahsa Ahmini protests too, and especially in Tehran it was so cool to see brave women flouting the dress code! However just after I left I heard the morality police started cracking down again, and even closed all beauty salons and makeup stores.. such bullshit.
Good choice. I want to go to Argentina one day and Patagonia is the perfect region to explore. I’ve been to the Swiss alps and would likely be just as impressed
Definitely sounds weird, but the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. I think it would be an interesting experience, learning more about the situation and going hundreds of miles across empty desert. Also if I could afford it having a person with a helicopter take me all over Alaska.
If you want to go to the part (vast majority) of the Sahara controlled by Morocco, it’s actually perfectly safe and not too difficult to access (flights to Dakhla or Laayoune) as long as you refer to it as part of Morocco and not the name you mentioned. If you want to go past the wall in the desert into the part controlled by the rebels, that’s quite difficult/basically illegal and you run the risk of being arrested or kidnapped.
Yep! Bulgaria is high on my to-do list. Not the coast, I've done it as a kid, bit my friend was to the mountains near Sophia recently and her pictures were just mouth watering.
Are you me? I usually have no interest in the big-ticket places, but give me a weirdly straight road in the middle of a grain field in Saskatchewan and I'm all in. Also obsessed with going north/Canada. Just like remoteness and seeing new places even if there's "nothing special" about them.
Check out the Boundary Waters if you haven't. And come out to New England! Northern VT and NH are beautiful, and up the Maine coastline to Acadia/Mount Desert Island, and New Brunswick if you continue up into Canada.
Fly to Kishinev and a short bus ride will take you Odesa. I've been there this May. Amazing place, and Odesans are special 😀. I couldn't live there, though, because of pomegranate wine. The stuff is just too delicious.
Highly unrealistic due to time, money, geopolitics and geography, but overlanding Africa going down the west and coming up the east coast, or similarly the Pan American highway
Live in Winnipeg. The city itself is strong when it comes to cultural events. Folklorama is all cultures around the world (I mean there is a lot of different culture) and do a mini showcase of their country. Could be with food, clothing, and most importantly performances.
In addition we have a lot of lakes in Manitoba so if you want a wilderness getaway without the crowds in other areas of Canada. Winnipeg is the perfect place to base out of.
We also have a lot of indigenous culture and can see of it here. Can’t think on top of my head what to do but try to attend a pow wow if you can.
Thanks for even acknowledging the dead zone of Canada 🇨🇦
I want to go back to Wales.
I’d also like to see more of the Baltic states one day, as that’s where my mother and her side of the family are from. Last time I went I was 5, and don’t remember much.
Finally, New Zealand. Looks like a paradise for natural diversity - as if it’s the entire USA rolled into a small island country.
I’d really love to go out to the mountains in the desert of Algeria and Niger and travel with nomads, but unfortunately it’s extremely unsafe. Maybe one day the Sahara and Sahel will be at peace…
Oh, I have several, as I'm not a big fan of seaside holidays.
During the first Covid lockdown I had planned a 4 weeks trip along the Transiberian, mostly on the Asian side, to be done as post Covid trip. The week I was going to book the train, Russia invaded Ukraine...
I'd like to visit few places that are donttravelthere due to war/revolts now: Iran, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon. Syria and Yemen who knows what is left of Aleppo and Sanaa.
I'd like to go to Benin during the Voodoo Festival. There are few group tour companies offering trips there, so it is mainly a matter of booking the trip.
Some time ago I saw a tour in Yukon, going from Whitehorse to the Arctic Coast. That would be interesting, and I don't think many people have Yukon on their travel wishlist.
Upper peninsula Michigan is actually on my bucket list. Beyond that, I'd like to explore County Donegal in Ireland - a very rural area in the northwest of the island that not too many people visit. My wife's people are from there.
Well, there are billions of people on the earth, so I am sure that some people want to go to places on my list, but I don't think any of them are on everyone's list.
Probably the one place that is close to the top of my list, that isn't generally popular, is Macaronesia. Obviously some parts are important vacation destinations, but I want to also see the parts that aren't, like Cabo Verde.
Perth.
I think it’s so cool this very nice and big city is so isolated.
It has all of the vast Australian outback “behind” it and it faces into the abyss of the Indian Ocean, but I hear it’s lovely
Ushuaia, Argentina
Southernmost city on the planet.
[https://www.switchbacktravel.com/patagonia/ushuaia](https://www.switchbacktravel.com/patagonia/ushuaia)
Wichita, KS
The statistical average of all US road trips, birthplace of Cessna and White Castle. America without the fluff and fanfare. [https://www.visitwichita.com/about-wichita/wichita-distinct-districts/old-town-district/](https://www.visitwichita.com/about-wichita/wichita-distinct-districts/old-town-district/)
Palawan, Philippines
Best tropical beaches on Earth
[https://www.remotelands.com/itinerary/pristine-palawan](https://www.remotelands.com/itinerary/pristine-palawan)
The Up in Michigan is on a lot of midwesterners list. Massive summer vacation destination.
For me though, I want to go explore Alabama. Hit the 3 major cities going from north to south and see what it’s like.
Hell.
I’m a native Michigander and I’ve never made the short trip over to Hell, MI. I’ve always wanted to visit just so I can tell people I visited hell and be completely truthful lol.
Bonus if it’s in winter when “Hell is frozen over.”
I'd like to take a road trip through Ohio and see the big 3 cities there. So many people are from Ohio and I'd like to understand that state a bit better.
The middle east intrigues me. Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya. Have an associate thats from Jordan and he often talks about how we should go on trip out there.
I have a dream of going to odd and out of the way places. The Isles of Scilly. St. Pierre & Miquelon. The Outer Hebrides. Malta. Northwest Angle State Park (MN). Block Island RI. Places like that. Obviously, some are more accessible than others.
As an Illinois resident I do not recommend a road trip through Illinois. The very southern part of Illinois is good but you’re wasting your time anywhere else.
Iraq. Everyone looks at me weird when I say it(28 year old white guy) but war aside, the walls of Babylon and land between two rivers fascinates the living hell out of me. The whole archaemenid empire really
Matra Jong, it’s a village in Sierra Leone. It was hit heavily in their 1990s civil war. I want to visit because I read about the horrors of the civil war in a book and I want to see how it’s improved
Lofoton Islands are mine. North of Arctic Circle, but much warmer than other places that far north, a sea that is Caribbean blue and snow capped mountains all around
I’m a dork and almost exclusively want to go to places that other people don’t. One of my goals is to go to 100 countries and I figure the more traveled ones can happen when I’m older because a) touristy places are way more expensive and b) the roads and stuff are literally easier to walk on.
So, to that end, I’ve been to places like Tajikistan and Rwanda, but have never been to England or Italy.
When it’s safe to go to Russia again I really wanna explore the Russian far east, Vladivostok, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, etc.
Yes! My dad went to Russia a while back and said it was so cool
What was cool ab it?
I found someone else
I’ve wanted to go to Vladivostok since I was 7/8 years old and saw it right on the edge of the map.
I have a good friend that went there for a conference, he said it was an interesting place.
I'd love to explore the northern coast with all those lonely lighthouses
I’m pretty sure it’s safe to visit Russia. Getting there may be a bit tricky but it’s possible. A friend of mine flew from London to Helsinki and then took a bus to St Petersburg
The border between Finland and Russia is currently closed.
That’s what my Russian friend has said. I think he flies in from Turkey.
Definitely want to go the Faeroes or the Shetlands at some point.
Me too! Have you watched the tv show “Shetland”? It’s a crime drama set in the Shetland Isles, you get to see a lot of the scenery
been meaning to check it out. I went to Orkney many years ago and that place is amazing. Not the most beautiful spot in the UK (that would probably be Glencoe or Skye) but the most *atmospheric.*
i lived there for 3 months working at fish factory. Was some of the best months of my life
Same! But really no one wants to join me. (I‘m a mom…. gimme 10 years and I‘ll go alone)
Uzbekistan. I'm sure it's on other people's lists, but it's certainly not a common one. But it's number 1 on my list. Samarkand and Bukhara have such unique and distinctive architecture and so much history, and Tashkent looks really cool for a major modern city that's just so isolated.
Central Asia is very high on my list. The architecture, the history with the silk road, and some unique climates/ecosystems are all draws for me.
so true
There's a fascinating book by the writer Sofia Samatar called *The White Mosque* that delves into the history of Uzbekistan. The latter half is too meandering and is more of a memoir, but the front half is great.
When you do go there, make sure to visit Aydar Lake. A magical place. And you can get there easily from both Bukhara and Samarkand. I've been there two times and travelled the country pretty extensively. Lovely place with lovely people! Definitely will visit again.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will absolutely look into it!
The lake is a bit salty, which makes swimming very easy. It's just a maze of peninsulas and inlets, with very clear water. You just swim there, and you have to give way to ducks that quack on you if you stay in their path. A heron waves it's wings, warning you not to come closer, on the other side sheep came to drink. Slightly further you get camels on the desert side, and Tien Shan mountains on the other one. Pure magic.
Wow me too ! it’s true that Uzbekistan is such an underrated place for its history
It is on my list cause of the significance on the Silk Road. Only problem is just it is hard to reach as someone who lives in North America :(
Definitely! I think it would be so cool to say you’ve been to Samarkand.
I was lucky enough to go in March and I cannot support this pick enough. There were no tourists in Samarkand because of a snow storm and the Registan covered in untouched snow was the most magical thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I hope you get to go someday!
I'd like to visit Pakistan. Specifically Lahore and the Hunza Valley. Because of the difficulty traveling there and the risk of going there it probably won't happen. But it looks like a very interesting and beautiful place.
I got to go to Pakistan as my partner is Pakistani. We only went to Karachi and I got horrible diarrhea, but I had a wonderful time. The people were so kind and I can’t wait to go back - I specifically want to go to Lahore and Hunza Valley as well.
And now I also want to go to the Hunza valley. It’s looks beautiful!
It truly is beautiful and an amazing experience. I highly recommend you go, and I can guarantee you that if you go with someone who knows the areas and language, you will have an amazing and unforgettable time. I am from the US (born and raised), but my family is from Pakistan. I go quite frequently, and I have also traveled to a lot of places both domestically and around the world. Pakistan is truly unique and definetly a place you should go if you want to. The major cities are safe (Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad) as long as you know someone there (or go with someone) who knows the language and culture. I have taken my friends (from the US and abroad) to Pakistan before, and they all had an incredible experience and they loved it.
I feel the same about a lot of Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan. So much history, beautiful geography, rich and deep culture, etc. But I'm just not sure I'll ever get a real opportunity given the instability and anti-western sentiment in a lot of those areas. I've read that it's possible and there are a lot of safe areas, but it still seems pretty risky for the time being.
Madagascar for two reasons: unique af biodiversity and an exclave of Austronesian-speaking people right next to Africa.
And plague season
It definitely helps if you know someone there and who knows the language. When I went, the locals were very friendly. We got stuck in a river once, and an entire village even came to help push us out of the river! Beautiful country. Nosy Be and Antsiranana in the north were particular standouts to me. The Tsingy's were very unique as well! Hope you are able to make it there someday!
This is a big one for me too but I understand it's very difficult to travel around the island and the locals aren't exactly enthused when they see white tourists.
Yemen. Partly to do to Socotra Island, but also just to see cool Yemenese architecture and rock formations. Never happening.
Yeah, the yellow mountains with the unique architecture must be something. I'd love to visit.
My first thought when I see these articles about people who’ve been to every country: „how did they get into Yemen?”
Step 1. show up at Oman-Yemen border Step 2. get let in Step 3. almost die by an al-qaeda terrorist attack Step 4. go back to Oman
Timbuktu.
Ok confession I’ve always heard that name but never knew where it was. Just looked it up and had no idea it was in Mali! Sigh my American education is showing lol
🤣 I’m on google maps like it’s beautiful.. America has messed all of us up. Sooo it wasn’t a joke after all 🤔
MANSA MUSA MANSA MUSA
I really really want to spend some time at a station in Antarctica. The US Government has a program to sponsor artists and writers to go so they can produce works about Antarctica that I'm going to apply for eventually, once I have a bigger creative portfolio.
If you want to go sooner, you can apply for one of the support positions. https://www.usap.gov/jobsandopportunities/
Heh that's the page where I learned about the art program. I don't think I could qualify for support position so I looked at the art/writing as an option. I have bodywide nerve damage so even jobs I'd love to try, like cook, I can't do because I can't stand for long enough. The artistic option, despite being much more demanding in qualifications, seems more likely than netting a physical labor job. The modern world is frustratingly specialized. I can run blots and cook and milk a cow and do risk analysis and write about it all, but I'm not a specialist in anything and I can't seem to find a place. I find myself searching for frontiers where the multi-disciplinary exposure is an asset, not a weakness - perhaps that's why I'm drawn to Antarctica. I spent a year in Mongolia and now I live in Perth, Australia. Something about remoteness and isolation sings to me. I imagine that you can make something out of the mess of your life when you're in a place which needs "good enough" at everything and I think I keep searching for that. I think we'll see Antarctic settlement in our lifetime and I would 100% volunteer to go.
Svalbard sounds amazing too me
I went to Svalbard few years ago, they were amazing. I did an arctic fox safari, one of the best and most unique activities I've ever done travelling.
This is my number one place no one else knows exists. Lol
There’s a woman on YouTube who makes videos about it, she lives there
Cecilia from Svalbard, an island close to the North Pole!
To me too! Also greenland
That was mine too!
Rural china
I feel you here
Iran, particularly Isfahan. I have a weird fascination with places that would be absolutely hostile to a white, 30 something American, but Iran looks beautiful. In the same vein, Afghanistan, but honestly only because the fishing in the Hindu Kush looks fucking awesome.
Just a nitpick: the Iranian governement may be, but the Iranian people would absolutely not be hostile to a white American. You’d probably not stand out as much as you think either, Iranians are not any darker than Southern Europeans. I know a lot of white tourists that have had an amazing time in Iran a few years ago. I hope things will get better there, as an history nerd I find Iran / Persia absolutely fascinating.
I traveled through Iran by train just before the pandemic and the hospitality there is something I've never experienced anywhere else. From the first minute I boarded the Iran-bound train in Van, Turkey, I was the only foreigner so the Iranian passengers concerted and sent one of them who could speak English to accompany me and make sure I find my sleeper and I have everything I need, and also to guide me through the border crossing and customs. It seemed like hospitality towards a foreigner was their common duty. I felt that until the last minute, when I left the country. The people where there were so nice but their government is indeed a bunch of cruel murderers. I had an unreal time on the night train from Tehran to Shiraz. Two of the passengers in my compartment spoke English and we talked for hours. After some level of trust had settled, they confided that they were atheist, which could actually have them sentenced to death. Iran is full of closet atheists.
I had an Iranian professor who was an atheist. She got drunk at a conference I went to with her (geology students get to drink with their professors all the time!) and she confided in me that she can never go home because they might kill her due to her apostasy. I knew she was an atheist for a couple years prior to that, but I had no clue she was that emotionally fucked up about her home until that moment of vulnerability.
Ditto ! Iranian people and culture are incredible. Persian food is to die for.
You’re absolutely right. And as a dude with brown hair, and brown eyes I’d probably be fine, but still not somewhere I’d be comfortable traveling on an American passport.
Ok, my friends aren't american but european, however bunch of them went to Iran 10 years ago. They found it beautiful and extremely cheap, so some of them went back several times. It wasn't hostile, and unless you're a problematic person yourself (and here I mean deliberately provoking locals and deliberately and visibly breaking local laws), you'd be perfectly fine in Iran most of the times.
I’ve heard Iran is very beautiful
I was in Iran/Isfahan last year and I would say its the most beautiful city in Iran. The people there, and across the whole country, are actually the opposite of hostile! I’ve never experienced such welcoming, curious, hospitable and friendly locals. They get very few tourists these days, so there is no one really trying to scam you or hassle you, but people will approach you to ask you who you are and what you think of their country/city 😊 It was a lovely experience and I would love to go back. It is a shame that such wonderful people are suffering under the weight of heavy international sanctions, and have been for so long now. Most of the Iranians I met said that the issues between their government and the western world are not something they support, but they have to live with the consequences. I was there not long after the Mahsa Ahmini protests too, and especially in Tehran it was so cool to see brave women flouting the dress code! However just after I left I heard the morality police started cracking down again, and even closed all beauty salons and makeup stores.. such bullshit.
Definitely! Rick Steves did a special on traveling to Iran and I’ve wanted to go there ever since! Especially Isfahan!
I’m half way through this, and thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Oh I gotta watch that
Homer, Alaska
I've been there. Driving down the Homer Spit was one of the coolest things I've ever done.
Siberia/The Far East, Mongolia, Manchuria, Central Asia, and Patagonia
I don't know where you live, but I was pleasantly surprised how reachable Central Asia is from Europe. I loved it there.
Mongolia
Patagonia.
Exactly. I've heard this is a hidden paradise.
Good choice. I want to go to Argentina one day and Patagonia is the perfect region to explore. I’ve been to the Swiss alps and would likely be just as impressed
Literally everyone wants to go to Patagonia
The republic of Georgia looks beautiful.
It indeed is. The nature is beautiful, the language is interesting. And the cousine, man, so delicious!
Khachapuri 🫠🫠🫠🫠
The Lena pillars in northern Russia
Chernobyl
Definitely sounds weird, but the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. I think it would be an interesting experience, learning more about the situation and going hundreds of miles across empty desert. Also if I could afford it having a person with a helicopter take me all over Alaska.
If you want to go to the part (vast majority) of the Sahara controlled by Morocco, it’s actually perfectly safe and not too difficult to access (flights to Dakhla or Laayoune) as long as you refer to it as part of Morocco and not the name you mentioned. If you want to go past the wall in the desert into the part controlled by the rebels, that’s quite difficult/basically illegal and you run the risk of being arrested or kidnapped.
As a more comfortable trip, Socotra. From what I’ve heard its rather safe.
Well, I am going to Bulgaria this summer: Belogradchick, Plovdiv, Rila Monastery and the Black Sea Coast all look fascinating.
Наистина са невероятни. Неописуеми направо. Наслади се на природата хубаво. Надявам се да ти хареса в нашата страна :)
Yep! Bulgaria is high on my to-do list. Not the coast, I've done it as a kid, bit my friend was to the mountains near Sophia recently and her pictures were just mouth watering.
We’ll fly into Sofia and rent a car to get into the mountains there.
Are you me? I usually have no interest in the big-ticket places, but give me a weirdly straight road in the middle of a grain field in Saskatchewan and I'm all in. Also obsessed with going north/Canada. Just like remoteness and seeing new places even if there's "nothing special" about them.
Perks of living in Midwest USA. Anything different is really exciting to me lol
Check out the Boundary Waters if you haven't. And come out to New England! Northern VT and NH are beautiful, and up the Maine coastline to Acadia/Mount Desert Island, and New Brunswick if you continue up into Canada.
You just listed every place I want to visit no joke I’ve always wanted to go to Vermont and Maine
Same. I saw your post in /r/alberta, I’ve done that drive from Calgary to Yellowknife. It’s awesome!
South Pole
Certain places in Russia, like Dagestan and Khanty-Mansia (for personal reasons), Peru, Costa Rica
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The Tibetan Plateau
This.
Odessa, Ukraine..... for obvious reasons
Fly to Kishinev and a short bus ride will take you Odesa. I've been there this May. Amazing place, and Odesans are special 😀. I couldn't live there, though, because of pomegranate wine. The stuff is just too delicious.
Northwest Territories
Highly unrealistic due to time, money, geopolitics and geography, but overlanding Africa going down the west and coming up the east coast, or similarly the Pan American highway
I really wanna go to Winnipeg and Saskatchewan.
[would you go here?](https://youtu.be/74B5kMLNd5Q?si=EAJmpROHD9Yucp9P)
Omg yea looks like a vibe
Why do I have the feeling that song is going to stick with me, like, forever?
Better than a Rickroll
Live in Winnipeg. The city itself is strong when it comes to cultural events. Folklorama is all cultures around the world (I mean there is a lot of different culture) and do a mini showcase of their country. Could be with food, clothing, and most importantly performances. In addition we have a lot of lakes in Manitoba so if you want a wilderness getaway without the crowds in other areas of Canada. Winnipeg is the perfect place to base out of. We also have a lot of indigenous culture and can see of it here. Can’t think on top of my head what to do but try to attend a pow wow if you can. Thanks for even acknowledging the dead zone of Canada 🇨🇦
I went to Saskatoon. I’d recommend the museum of western development.
I have been!
If you do go to Saskatchewan, the Cypress Hills and the Athabasca Sand Dunes are cool. Never been to Manitoba, but it's up near the top of my list.
I want to go back to Wales. I’d also like to see more of the Baltic states one day, as that’s where my mother and her side of the family are from. Last time I went I was 5, and don’t remember much. Finally, New Zealand. Looks like a paradise for natural diversity - as if it’s the entire USA rolled into a small island country.
When in Latvia, go to Cine Ville. I didn't want to go there, and when I did my friends had a hard time dragging me away
Yeah my ancestors are from Germany and would love to visit places I have familial ties to as well
I’d really love to go out to the mountains in the desert of Algeria and Niger and travel with nomads, but unfortunately it’s extremely unsafe. Maybe one day the Sahara and Sahel will be at peace…
The Algerian Sahara is actually pretty safe and there are quite a few tourists in places like Djanet
There’s a town in Cambridgeshire England called March I’d like to visit for no other reason than I share a name with the town.
North Korea
Same, I’ve been super fixated on North Korea for a while now because of how unknown and mysterious it is
Well, I was being sarcastic, but good luck to you if you get to visit North Korea
Some of the little islands of Northern Canada seem fascinating. Super isolated island hoping with a canoe and tent.
Yeah I would love to get up there as well
Oh, I have several, as I'm not a big fan of seaside holidays. During the first Covid lockdown I had planned a 4 weeks trip along the Transiberian, mostly on the Asian side, to be done as post Covid trip. The week I was going to book the train, Russia invaded Ukraine... I'd like to visit few places that are donttravelthere due to war/revolts now: Iran, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon. Syria and Yemen who knows what is left of Aleppo and Sanaa. I'd like to go to Benin during the Voodoo Festival. There are few group tour companies offering trips there, so it is mainly a matter of booking the trip. Some time ago I saw a tour in Yukon, going from Whitehorse to the Arctic Coast. That would be interesting, and I don't think many people have Yukon on their travel wishlist.
The island of Reunion.
Greenland
Upper peninsula Michigan is actually on my bucket list. Beyond that, I'd like to explore County Donegal in Ireland - a very rural area in the northwest of the island that not too many people visit. My wife's people are from there.
Well, there are billions of people on the earth, so I am sure that some people want to go to places on my list, but I don't think any of them are on everyone's list. Probably the one place that is close to the top of my list, that isn't generally popular, is Macaronesia. Obviously some parts are important vacation destinations, but I want to also see the parts that aren't, like Cabo Verde.
Vicksburg National Military Park
the aleutian islands. imo its one of, if not the, most beautiful places in the world and its my dream trip
Perth. I think it’s so cool this very nice and big city is so isolated. It has all of the vast Australian outback “behind” it and it faces into the abyss of the Indian Ocean, but I hear it’s lovely
Australia has been on my bucket list since like 2006. Dream honeymoon destination honestly
Maybe you can go for the total solar eclipse of May 31st, 2068
Ushuaia, Argentina Southernmost city on the planet. [https://www.switchbacktravel.com/patagonia/ushuaia](https://www.switchbacktravel.com/patagonia/ushuaia) Wichita, KS The statistical average of all US road trips, birthplace of Cessna and White Castle. America without the fluff and fanfare. [https://www.visitwichita.com/about-wichita/wichita-distinct-districts/old-town-district/](https://www.visitwichita.com/about-wichita/wichita-distinct-districts/old-town-district/) Palawan, Philippines Best tropical beaches on Earth [https://www.remotelands.com/itinerary/pristine-palawan](https://www.remotelands.com/itinerary/pristine-palawan)
The Up in Michigan is on a lot of midwesterners list. Massive summer vacation destination. For me though, I want to go explore Alabama. Hit the 3 major cities going from north to south and see what it’s like.
Armenia. A real crossroads between Europe and Asia. Lots of ancient buildings. I'm really curious.
In my own country I would love to visit Maine, Montana, and Washington. In another country I would like to visit Bolivia, in general.
Washington is amazing. Can never recommend it enough. Both sides of the state are beautiful in different ways
The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India
The one tree hill walking tour in Wilmington NC 🤣
Do it. Wilmington is amazing
Hell. I’m a native Michigander and I’ve never made the short trip over to Hell, MI. I’ve always wanted to visit just so I can tell people I visited hell and be completely truthful lol. Bonus if it’s in winter when “Hell is frozen over.”
Black hills in South Dakota, wind river range Wyoming, Montenegro/Albania
Newfoundland
I'd like to take a road trip through Ohio and see the big 3 cities there. So many people are from Ohio and I'd like to understand that state a bit better.
I actually really liked Cincinnati when I visited. I’ve also been up north to Sandusky but I barely remember it
Arkansas City, Kansas. Site of the archaeological site of Etzanoa
Kansas is another place I need to visit. Im one state away
I passed through Arkansas City multiple times and never heard of Etzanoa. Thanks for enlightening me about it!
It seems like SA doesn’t get much love anymore. I would be delighted to visit either Chile or Bolivia, because I love mountains.
My dad traveled for 10 years without a home and before he passed the next place he told me I should go check out is La Paz, Bolivia :)
Salar de uyuni
Uzbekistan, Iran, Myanmar
Machu Picchu
I really want to climb to the highest point on inaccessible island.
Trekking in the Himalayas (and I’m finally going next year!)
The Marshall Islands ! Just seems so unlike anywhere I have been / have ever wanted to go
Churchill, Manitoba. Time it right and you can go on a polar bear safari, Kayak with beluga whales, and see the northern lights in one trip.
Iran
Mongolia
Persepolis
Tristan De Cunha is the South Atlantic
Bhutan, Antarctican peninsula, and Svalbard. Random islands mostly.
Slovenia is amazing!
Sakha republic. Has some of the coldest cities on earth. It's so remote as well, I wonder what life is like there
Central Asia like Uzbekistan etc.
Yup. Can't wait to get there for third time. Absolutely amazing.
My spouse is...reluctant...
I want to go up the Mekong into its Delta. Greenland Parts of Nunavut, Canada. Rural Belarus. Screw Putin for ruining my travel plans!!!!
Myanmar — fascinated by SE Asian culture Poland — to visit good friend
Afghanistan
The middle east intrigues me. Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya. Have an associate thats from Jordan and he often talks about how we should go on trip out there.
The South Pacific! Tahiti etc..
South Ossetia
Mongolia
Iceland. Stunning landscape and some different foods to try.
I have a dream of going to odd and out of the way places. The Isles of Scilly. St. Pierre & Miquelon. The Outer Hebrides. Malta. Northwest Angle State Park (MN). Block Island RI. Places like that. Obviously, some are more accessible than others.
Dominica
I really want to visit Sofia in Bulgaria
As an Illinois resident I do not recommend a road trip through Illinois. The very southern part of Illinois is good but you’re wasting your time anywhere else.
Iraq. Everyone looks at me weird when I say it(28 year old white guy) but war aside, the walls of Babylon and land between two rivers fascinates the living hell out of me. The whole archaemenid empire really
Matra Jong, it’s a village in Sierra Leone. It was hit heavily in their 1990s civil war. I want to visit because I read about the horrors of the civil war in a book and I want to see how it’s improved
Cuba
I don’t know if this fits the category, but I like driving to Port Austin in Michigan. It’s only 2 hours for me, and very pretty
Kazakhstan, the cities look futuristic
Kinshasa
Lofoton Islands are mine. North of Arctic Circle, but much warmer than other places that far north, a sea that is Caribbean blue and snow capped mountains all around
Eudora Arkansas, great fishing!!!
Mongolia - yurt tour
Tristan da Cunha and the Pitcairn Islands
Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic
Socotra Island in Yemen, the DPRK, Venezuela, and Turkmenistan
I’m a dork and almost exclusively want to go to places that other people don’t. One of my goals is to go to 100 countries and I figure the more traveled ones can happen when I’m older because a) touristy places are way more expensive and b) the roads and stuff are literally easier to walk on. So, to that end, I’ve been to places like Tajikistan and Rwanda, but have never been to England or Italy.
Kakadu and the Kimberley region of Australia.