I’ve seen a Dominatrix… does that count?
Haven’t been to any, but would gladly go to all (in the right circumstances).
And knowing the pronunciation helps make clearer its derivation from the colonial name, the Gilberts.
WTF is up with the countries where photography is illegal? That seems so backward or ignorant as to be laughable; either there’s some kind of “the box stole my soul” superstitious business going on, or some quaint notion that they actually have secrets to keep that anyone actually cares about.
I’ve always thought it would be cool to go motorcycling in Afganistan, except for that whole war thing going on.
Only if she lets you.
Salt Lake City has a large Fijian and Tongan population for this reason.
I was surprised that North Korea is nowhere near qualified for this list.
I had never heard of Kiribati (or its pronunciation) until December 31, 1999. They were the first place in the world to switch over to 2000, and the TV coverage opened with a group of women doing a hula-like dance on a gorgeous beach.
I did clinicals on an Indian reservation, and was told that pretty much anything that was “cool” was not to be photographed, because of tribal mores. Some cultures (and not just the Amish) have issues with photography, for various reasons.
Keeping secrets also applies WRT some of these unstable nations.
As for Dominica, I would imagine that much of their “tourism” is derived from the medical school that is mostly attended by people who can’t get into American medical schools :dubious:; however, the hospital where I used to work had some residents who went there, and with one exception, they were indistinguishable from people who went to “regular” medical schools. Dr. Kent Brantly, the missionary who made the world aware of Liberia and Ebola by getting the latter, lived in Dominica with a host family for a summer when he was in college, to become fluent in Spanish by total immersion.
A brother of mine and his family, are fans of Caribbean cruises: they’ve been on two or three of such, focusing heavily on the islands of the Leeward / Windward chain. I’d reckon it’s quite possible that on such ventures, they may have put in at Dominica and / or St. Vincent & the Grenadines. I’ll ask brother when I next see him.
My other brother is keen on diving, and has long wished to visit Djibouti – which he says offers superb diving. He has not, so far, turned this dream into reality.
Sounds like a lot of other people had the same idea. 
My former pastor’s daughter goes to Tanzania every summer (except 2014) to do mission work, and wants to live there after she graduates from college. She’s been to Djibouti, although not voluntarily; her plane was supposed to land in Addis Ababa, and got diverted to the city of Djibouti because of weather issues. Not sure if they had to change planes, etc. but it was eventually sent back to Addis Ababa, and she made her way to her destination.
In the summer of 2014, the plans kept falling through, and even though Tanzania is nowhere near West Africa, you never know where planes might get diverted to or from, and we’re all glad now that she wasn’t able to go.
My experience on the Indian reservation let me know that whatever it takes to do Third World relief work, which I had considered doing should the opportunity arise, I don’t have it. There’s plenty that needs to be done here anyway.
BTW, Dominica is pronounced “dom-in-EE-ka”, not “da-MIN-i-ka”. The weather people kept getting it wrong when it was in the path of a hurricane a while back.
The US has lots of places you can’t take photos of. We just have the resources to keep those places well fenced-off. Poor countries face threats of coups or terrorism, and they don’t have anywhere near the security infrastructure that developed countries have. So they do get sensitive to people taking pictures of infrastructure and government offices that could be used to analyze their security and plan attacks.
Individuals can be sensitive for all kinds of reasons. I knew people who didn’t want photos taken because they didn’t want people in far off lands gawking at their poverty. Others don’t like feeling like zoo animals for tourists. It’s pretty individual. I hated when people would snap my picture in China (which happened all the time) because who wants a picture of themselves in sweatpants and stringy hair on the way to the pharmacy for cold medicine sitting on some strangers mantle somewhere?
A pretty clever trick, considering that Dominica is an English- and Creole-speaking society, to find himself a Spanish-speaking family.
They were getting confused by being more familiar with the English pronunciation of the Dominican Republic.
I’m surprised not to see Easter Island on that list. I’ve always wanted to go there. Would love to see those big heads in real life.
Easter Island isn’t a country. It is part of Chile.
IIRC, it was someone his family knew. He and his wife wrote a book last summer; even if you’re not Christian, if you’re interested in travel or medical history, I highly recommend it. There’s no preaching in it, and it’s suitable for readers of junior high age or older.
I want to visit the Falkland Islands and Antarctica…as soon as cheap flights become available.
I have been to:
Liechtenstein
Turkmenistan
Somalia
I am surprised North Korea is not there and Transnistria too (though it is a self-declared country). I have been to both of those too.
Man… Tuvalu, Tonga, and several of the others seemed like such good candidates for my boyfriend and I’s “travel destinations list”… until I went to Wikitravel and saw the warnings for LGBT tourists who opt to visit there. Guess we gotta stick to Liechtenstein. 
I had never heard of this place. Guess I don’t know as much about the breakup of the Soviet Union as I should.
The linked-to item itself, expresses surprise about North Korea – visited by “everybody and his wife and dog” in comparison with the exotic locales on the list. Quotes a figure of 270,000 international tourists per year to NK, the majority of them from China.