Have you visited an obscure destination??

TheDriver

Just wondering has anyone visited a country/city which people have to get out an atlas and still struggle to find it. the type of place your Geography teacher would have put on every table quiz.....

Somewhere like the Falklands or Tuvalu. Come on folks, tell us where, why you were there and was it what you expected........

Sheldons Brain

I was in Hackballscross and Minsk.

Cookie_Monster

The Omanese enclave within the UAE

For Forks Sake

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

I was in Hackballscross and Minsk.

On the one day?

orangesoda

Glack in co.derry. I expected sheep and that's exactly what i got.

wretcheddomain

The road up Mary Harney.

Gran Hermano

Does Leitrim count?

Ihatecuddles

I was in Stingray City, Grand Cayman. That's the most obscure place I've ever been to.

I got a back massage off one, and kissed another one. They were the size of a small car!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Torshavn in the Faroe Islands is one. I went to watch a WC qualifier in the summer of 2005, stunning place that I'd like to visit again.

calanus

The Fist of the First men - Well where HBO filmed it anyway.

Red Kev

Guinea Bissau.

So good I stayed for a couple of years.

Great country, great people but total chaos politically and insanely corrupt.

The Pheasant2

I've been to Lilongwe in Malawi, Zambia, Sun city South Africa, The Philippines and Singapore - they're fairly obscure

debabyjesus

Brunei, shook the sultans hand! Richest man in the world at the time. He asked me about Ireland and said our countries were similar. They are pretty similar except that Brunei is a paradise with more money than it can spend and Ireland is, well, Ireland.

Cookie_Monster

I wouldn't think of Singapore as obscure, one of the busiest airports and shipping areas in the world...

squirestarter

Whitehorse and Dawson city in Yukon Territory, Canada.

I had to hitchhike to the latter as no buses or trains went there

stefan idiot jones

Not sure where it was exactly but I couldn't understand a thing the locals were saying.

It was an hour's drive west from Waterford, it began with a 'C'.

Ihatecuddles

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Not sure where it was exactly but I couldn't understand a thing the locals were saying.

It was an hour's drive west from Waterford, it began with a 'C'.

Aren't you from Wales?? :pac:

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/49/4963f64b9c28b8d9113e61189a72f9eba1ac1a2ebe76f87807708c830668a02f.jpg

BillyMitchel

Jindo island it's an island off Korea and all for the sake of looking at the Jindo dog.

It was like I was the only foreigner there in a million years. 3/4 of the people I seen actually stopped and just gawked at me. It was surreal

stefan idiot jones

mauzo! wrote: »

Aren't you from Wales?? :pac:

I'll be there now in a minute.

Who's coat's that jacket?

lukebyrne

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

The Omanese enclave within the UAE

Not to be a grammar Nazi, but Omani*.

chubba1984

Stayed in Mathathane, Botswana for a month last year

WilyCoyote

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

I was in Hackballscross and Minsk.

Simultaneously? Come on now Padre Pio. You're a rereg aren't you!

Highcontrast1

chubba1984 wrote: »

Stayed in Mathathane, Botswana for a month last year

lived in selibe phikwe for a number of years. The heat there!!

I am pie

Sana'a and Hodeidah in Yemen, spent a month there as a very young child. Faded memories, was visiting my old man who ended up living there for a stretch in the 80s.

Mickey H

Does Cavan count?

WilyCoyote

Worked in Sierra Leone in the mid 70s. Hotel room invaded by red ants and had to move to a bungalow within the grounds.

DieselPowered

Skellefteå

Jimoslimos

Central African Republic*

*No, I haven't actually. Just always wanted to say it - somebody will get the obscure reference.

Tokyo

Lived and worked in Gori, Georgia, about 100m from Stalins's birthplace. Also worked in Calcutta, in a bar in Luang Prabang in Laos, earthquake relief north of Chengdu, China, to name a few.

Ihatecuddles

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Central African Republic*

*No, I haven't actually. Just always wanted to say it - somebody will get the obscure reference.

Hello, hi there.

old_aussie

I've been to Dapto (no no really), via Wollongong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYM7mve7lI

Amirani

I haven't been anywhere particularly unknown. Morocco and Vietnam are probably the most obscure I've been to.

Lurching

Spent 6 weeks in Lagos, Nigeria as a kid.
Some mad memories from there.

Baked.noodle

Nadi and Suva, and more rural parts of Fiji.

Ericaa

I've been to Zambia and Zimbabwe, would love to go back!

kowloon

Sarlacc's pit in Tunisia.

Agent Smith

Spent 3 weeks in Galati, Romania

GenieOz

Santa Ponsa in Majorca, might have to google it. Nice place though!

Ihatecuddles

GenieOz wrote: »

Santa Ponsa in Majorca, might have to google it. Nice place though!

Did you go with your girlies?

GenieOz

mauzo! wrote: »

Did you go with your girlies?

I went with my boysies.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Was going to call growing up in Gaborone, Botswana one of my obscure places but I'm the third or fourth to mention Bots! Also did a lot of travelling as a child so was in Namibia, Zimbabwe, half of SA (Sun City, San Lameer, Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban...), to name a few.

ongarite

Spent a weekend in Harbin, China.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Central African Republic*

*No, I haven't actually. Just always wanted to say it - somebody will get the obscure reference.

mauzo! wrote: »

Hello, hi there.

Enlighten me.

charlie_says

Sipadan, a volcanic sea mount off the east coast of Borneo, and El Nido, Palawan island, Philippines.

Gaunty

I for one would like to hear stories from these obscure places you people have been.

diomed

Chinde

Shane-KornSpace

Spent 2 years in Offaly...

Rosy Posy

Went to Swaziland as a child, it was hot and dusty with terrible roads and beautiful people.

A beach on a lake in Montenegro that had the densest covering of sunbathers and swimmers I've ever seen. The water had a film of sunscreen on it.

A town in the Himalayas on the India/Nepal border that was empty except for an old man and an old woman- more people lived there in the summer and migrated down the mountain in the winter but the old pair were two frail to make the two day walk to the nearest road access so their son made the trip weekly for supplies and they had a yak that they milked.

A town at the top of a mountain in Laos that was run by children. All the adults were out of their minds on opium and the kids were basically feral.

Rarotonga sounds exotic to anyone outside of aus/NZ but it's actually the equivalent of going to France or Spain over here.

I carried a watermelon

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Central African Republic*

*No, I haven't actually. Just always wanted to say it - somebody will get the obscure reference.

Pointless (TV show)???

SuperS54

ChaLuHeZhen in Jilin province China. Named after the most significant feature around there ~ a cross roads. Get to spend chinese new year with my inlaws in -40°C weather for a week each year, lucky me!

dancrowley

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Krai, Russia