Tell us the most exotic city/place in the world you have visited, and include a picture (or more) of it with your post.
For me, it’s Mexico City. I did a course there in 1997, and loved it. On the same trip, I also saw the Aztec Pyramids, which had been a dream of mine since childhood.
Exotic.. hmm.. Well I dunno how to quantify exotic, but here are a couple that filled me with the joy of travel. Neither particularly unusal places to go really.
Stayed at a school in rural Kenya several years back, exotic in that the kids laughed at the colour of our skin. Also dropped into Adnan Kashoggi’s (no I can’t spell his name, but a legendary old gun runner) old house for a stay.
I’ve been to Afghanistan, and got a geocache there.
Which could have been a bit alarming given the general advice about picking up random inviting-looking boxes in that part of the world. I had some corroborating information as it goes.
I’m not sure what exotic means really but I’ve spent a few weeks sailing round the Caribbean on my parents’ yacht (you said it was ok to show off 😆 ) including a stop off in St Barth’s. Very nice. But favourite spot was probably Grande Anse on St Martin or Green Island on Antigua.
My sister was an aid worker a few years ago and was based in Sudan / Darfur. She suffered a stomach problem (burst cyst or something) which rapidly turned very serious – ended up deciding to let a doctor operate rather than airlift to Kenya as the doctor thought she was about to die. Long story short she couldn’t travel alone so I got shipped out to Sudan to escort her home.
Was a very weird place to visit – was given various briefing notes that told me what to do depending on how loud the artillery was and had to have a walkie talkie with me. The unsubtle secret police at the airport were fun too.
This is a picture of a bridge that had a sign next to it saying if you take pictures of this we’ll shoot you as a spy. I took this from a bizzarely nice hotel whilst eating icecream surrounded by pictures of Ghadaffi who owned the place (he was about a week away from being strung up).
Here is a taxi with a sticker reminding you that assault rifles are not allowed to be carried.
This is the confluence of the blue and white niles.
On balance, i’d not recommend it for a short break!
How does one post a photo? http://www.daveandshannontravel.wordpress.com
Probably Lake Song Kul in Kyrgyzstan for just being awesome or Turkmenistan for sheer weirdness. Dervaza gas crater was a huge bucket list tick!
Apologies for not being able to post individual pic!
We met a few people cycling across Asia. I was pretty jealous but the fiancee was mostly baffled ha. I think Kyrgyzstan would be an amazing place to bring a bike.
Not exotic by any measure, but probably the most ‘out there’ place I’ve stayed was Regina Margherita Hut, highest hotel in Europe I believe @4554m and a massive walk in from any direction.
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