I just finished watching the last episode of the Amazing race (yes we are a bit behind). The whole series has left really wanting to travel again. From this week I will start buying lottery tickets.
It got me thinking where I would most like to go, places I have not been before. After a bit of thinking I think I have my top 5 down to;
Cambodia. My brother spent 3 mths there last year and loved it. I have done Thailand and thought it was awesome. Cambodia sounds similar but “the road less travelled”.
Brazil (actually this one is a bit of a cheat. I just want to go somewhere in South America). The culture in South America is different to anywhere I have been and as a continent it seems so beautiful.
India. I have had so many friends go there and everyone is blown away by every aspect of the country… plus yummmmmy food.
Kenya. I would really like to spot an elephant in the wild (ok that could be done in India but like lions too).
Portugal. I have no good reason, it is just somewhere I always wanted to go.
So what would your top five choices be if you won the lottery?
Kazkhstan and Xinjian China. For some reason central asia fascinates me. I also want to go back to Bolivia and the altiplano. Didn;t spend enough time there.
Indonesia – esp Sulawesi.
NZ is on my list as well, prop get there on the way back from Indonesia.
Tibet - I’ve been into ethnic Tibet on the Tibetan plateau in Yunnan, China, but never to Tibet proper. It’s an ambition I hope to fulfil next year!
I too would like to see Xinjiang.
Cambodia - I got to the Cambodian border in 95, but I chickened out of going, as foreigners were still being kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge, and a couple I had known were murdered by them a few months before. Again, I intend to go there next year.
Ohhhh look I just started a thread to pimp my country it seems. Hey if you saw the Amazing race, well the bridge bit…well you only get to do the down bit.
They only charge you $90 to lob yourself off. I’m giving it a miss myself, though I did talk a Japanese boy into doing it last weekend He was a bit shakey afterwards but he did enjoy it.
Country 6) Samoa. But that’s only cause I madly fancy 20-ish yr old Samoan boys
Country 7) The Maldives. I have yet to see a beach pic I wanted to be on more!
Mongolia. I’m not sure why. It’s always fascinated me, though. I’d like to spend a few months living with a tribe and riding horses. I think there was a picture on a National Geographic map I had as a kid that appealed to me.
My husband and I decided before we were married that we’d spend our 10th anniversary in New Zealand. When I was a kid, there was a custody case going on in which the mother sent the kid to Christchurch in order to get her away from the father, who was accused of molesting the child. They were showing pictures of Christchurch on the news every night and I decided then that that was somewhere I wanted to go. Weird.
Australia and New Zealand. I’ve always wanted to visit both. Unfortunately, airfare from the US is so high that it is impractical for an American to plan a short trip there. I’ll get there one day. Soon, I hope.
[hijack] As an American, I was really frustrated one day when, at age 45, I discovered that you can only immigrate into Australia if you’re not over, erm, 45. :smack: My grandmother, her mother, and her grandmother were all born there, and I have lots of third cousins there, but apparently the door is closed. Nuts.[/hijack]
My original list was Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Switzerland, and French Polynesia. I’ve now been to the first three, so after crossing them off the list I’d have to add Ireland, Peru, and Norway.
(1) Netherlands. Fortunately, I’m off to Amsterdam in a few weeks.
(2) New Zealand. Despite coming from Australia, I’ve never been to been to our outlying eastern states. I won’t get a chance to go until late 2006, unfortunately.
(3) East coast USA. I’ve done the west coast, but I’d also like to do a long road trip driving from the north east to the south east. Pencilled in for next (northern hemisphere) summer.
New Zealand has been on my list since I saw a show on it when I was a teen and how the entire population was outnumbered by sheep. that, and the same aforementioned kidnap case that c3 mentioned always stuck with me.
The Mediterranean. Okay, so it’s not a country but it was once an Empire so I’m counting it. There’re just too many countries in that region that I want to visit that they alone would take up my list.
United Kingdom. It being the US’ cultural ancestor and with me having a bit of Irish blood, I’ve always been fascinated by it
Southeast Asia. Another cheat but, again, too many countries.
Australia and New Zealand. For the sake of this post, I plead the ignorant American stereotype and shall consider them one country.
Brazil. If for no other reason than to hang out in Rio de Janero for a week or two.
I won’t get a chance to go until late 2006, unfortunately.