If you could travel to any place in the world, where would it be and why?

SkyBlueClouds

If you could travel to any place in the world, where would it be and why?

I'd love to visit Japan. Seems like a cool place with an interesting culture.

AudreyHepburn

Egypt;

I've always loved history and have a degree in Archaeology both of which stemmed from learning about Ancient Egypt when I was in primary school and there's nowhere I've wanted to visit more than Egypt.

Jack Skellington

Ah, there's so many places, but like above I always liked learning about Ancient Rome and Greece in school so either of those.

Tokyo

Antarctica - would love to be stationed there for six months to a year....

jamo2oo9

SE Asia without a doubt. Beautiful scenery, women, cheap beer.

Miss Lizzie Jones

Ireland!! I want to see if it rains as much as everyone says it does.

larrlin24

So many places but number one on my list right now would be the Scottish Highlands (thank you Outlander).

indigo twist

Praiano

mojesius

New Zealand. I'd love to get a camper van and drive around both islands. Someday pepe, someday.

Simonigs1.0

Bergen, Norway, I've even figured out where I want to live, up in the hills facing west out over the city towards the ocean. I spent a few weeks Norway back in 2007 and fell in love with Bergen. Fantastic country.

Duff

North Korea. Just to see if it really is best Korea.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Japan.

antodeco

Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »

Ireland!! I want to see if it rains as much as everyone says it does.

I think its rained once in over two weeks here! I can tell you this from the comfort if my couch!

SkyBlueClouds

Duff wrote: »

North Korea. Just to see if it really is best Korea.

You may never get out alive

RobbingBandit

Easter Island, has always been my dream since I was 5 years old to see the Moai statues in person.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »

Ireland!! I want to see if it rains as much as everyone says it does.

It doesn't really. The typical Irish day is overcast with a mild temp. We get blasts of extremes now and then but overall it's a pretty moderate climate.

shruikan2553

Korea. North and South.

The Th!ng

mike_ie wrote: »

Antarctica - would love to be stationed there for six months to a year....

Oh, Yeah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg

MRnotlob606

Right now would probably be Brittany in France. Looks superb and shares a similar culture with us.

Curly Judge

Bouvetoya! The nightlife and the craic is mighty.

Links234

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

I'd love to visit Japan.

I'd love to go back, I seriously miss the place.

Even the little things like the dingy little ramen bar near us in Tokyo that looked like a complete ****hole and was full of old men, but served the most amazing ramen for like nothing. The incredible public transport. Amazing country.

darragh_haven

Austin Texas. Epic spot

beano345

Desolation island

Reason: no one to fcuking bother you apart from penguins

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolation_Island

TheEnigma

County Donegal after an all ireland final loss

Links234

Oh, and speaking about going back to Japan, I would want to be careful not to just go to the same places and do the same things. I want to see things I didn't last time, like one thing I seriously want to do is go to the Sapporo Snow Festival, it would be amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjE7oAI7c_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TuwVR6waVk

Yeah, that's right up there on the bucket list, that is.

SkyBlueClouds

Links234 wrote: »

Oh, and speaking about going back to Japan, I would want to be careful not to just go to the same places and do the same things. I want to see things I didn't last time, like one thing I seriously want to do is go to the Sapporo Snow Festival, it would be amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjE7oAI7c_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TuwVR6waVk

Yeah, that's right up there on the bucket list, that is.

That looks EPIC

Andrewf20

Greenland for me. Would love to do 2 weeks trekking through its splendid emptiness. I reckon it would provide that real sense of occasion, knowing that you are in a relatively untouched part of the world. And yet so close to home.

westernfrenzy

Tokyo, Paris, Berlin and Seoul most likely

Links234

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

That looks EPIC

I know, right? Another thing to do is, go to Nara. Enjoy all the old temples and amazing historical and cultural stuff, it's incredible and downright breathtaking, but really take the time to have fun with the deer :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3C4sML8hA

John Doe1

I'd love to visit Granada and see the Alhambra. Also Dubrovnik is definitely on the bucket list.

McChubbin

Can I come to Japan with you, Links? Seriously, it's on my bucket list to do the samurai trail someday- start out in Hokkaido and work my way down the country taking it all in.
As for goals I'm close to fufilling now, I'm 75% certain that I'll be going to New York next year. Always loved the place- it looks awesome, has great nightlife, food and culture. I've never been but I've been seduced by the likes of Sex & The City and Will & Grace into believing it's a grand place to be.

Icepick

Patagonia

_Brian

Egypt is wonderful, spend the whole time there in complete awe !!

Last time we visited the Great Wall there was fresh snow and It was beyond magic. Would go back in the morning.

Next trip back to China I'd like to see the terracotta warriors.

maryishere

The euromillions lottery ticket office.

coolemon

Socotra.

Curly Judge

The Persian city of Persepolis.
In fact, the whole of Iran.

Leogirl

John Doe1 wrote: »

I'd love to visit Granada and see the Alhambra. Also Dubrovnik is definitely on the bucket list.

Alhambra for me too. Fascinated since I watched a programme about it a few years ago & a bit annoyed with myself for not just going alone at this stage! Right- that's gonna be my New Years resolution!

DazMarz

Japan. I've always been fascinated with it. I reckon I'll hit Japan in 2016 or so. I've generally got holiday time around August, so I'll be pencilling in Japan for August of that year.

For 2015, I'm pencilling in a cross-America road-trip to visit my relations across the nation; fly into Houston, Texas... drive to San Francisco, California... drive to Olympia, Washington... drive to Chicago, Illinois... drive to Washington D.C. and finally drive to New York and fly home then. That is the plan anyway... how practical it will be remains to be seen and I will possibly be gutted and skinned by a serial killer somewhere en-route.

shalalala

I have one of those impossibly long lists of places to go or go again.

Iceland, Japan, Hawaii, Mauritius, Barcelona... The list goes on... It would be hard to pick one place

dimcoin

SkyBlueClouds wrote:

I'd love to visit Japan. Seems like a cool place with an interesting culture.

It is like its own world.

dimcoin

Duff wrote:

North Korea. Just to see if it really is best Korea.

I saw N. Korea from the DMZ. Bleak looking place and we could not see farther than the mountain range. I am sure the mystical Communist Gumdrop Forest was right around the corner.

osarusan

I've been in Japan for a few years.

It's great to find out that I am actually living the dream after all.

BoJack Horseman

mojesius wrote: »

New Zealand. I'd love to get a camper van and drive around both islands. Someday pepe, someday.

Done it.

Unforgettable...... Sell your spleen if you must to achieve this trip.
Money well spent.

BoJack Horseman

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Egypt

You should go for it.

2 days Luxor
2 days Cairo.

Then bail on the place because tbh, its an absolute armpit of a nation.

Merkin

Iran. Fascinating place and people by all accounts.

Billy86

Gili Islands, Indonesia.

Three tiny islands, one where most of the locals live, another mainly used for family holidays, honeymoons and the like, and a third that is more of a party island. No police, no motorised transport, no electricity for most hours of the day (apart from 2 or 3 hotels apparently), surrounded by coral reef, and it looks like bloody paradise. And obviously loads of Indonesian food!

http://2sporks1cup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Gili-islands.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vYC0P6PbdbA/UVswB2hlqyI/AAAAAAAACO0/YMrJwJlSPMk/s640/2_dreamvillagetrawangan.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/3d/8c/01/restaurant-on-gili-trawangan.jpg
http://blob.vilondo.com/content/galleries/gili-guide/F44/Gili-Meno-beach2.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-vRvPtAx7g/TfGZx5fjteI/AAAAAAAAAqs/W41ufUMw_x8/s1600/Gili+Trawangan+Underwater+Enchantment.JPG

Undertow

So many to mention. Iceland, Bolivia, Nepal, Patagonia for a start!

All sound like epic adventures and have unrivalled scenery anywhere in the world, from what I can tell! Climbing to Everest Base Camp over Christmas so that will be one ticked off the list!

dimcoin

I would also like to check out Ireland someday. I heard it rains all ot there, I like the rain.

gramar

It's Monday morning and I'm in no mood to be at work so if I could travel anywhere right now it would be home.

Balmed Out

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

You should go for it.

2 days Luxor
2 days Cairo.

Then bail on the place because tbh, its an absolute armpit of a nation.

Totally disagree though it was pre 9/11 that I went. Cairo is one of the few cities with enough to see and do to fill up more then a week. Go to Cairo spend a few days then head to Sinai then a few more days in Cairo before heading south via luxor to Aswan. Back to Cairo for a few days then west to Alexandra and on to Siwa. Back to Cairo for a few more days. Cairo is an amazing city and possible the most foreign feeling place ive been to but it is polluted, crowded, intimidating etc and I wouldn't spend one large block of time there.
Of anywhere Ive been to its one I would love to return again though it was my first time out of Europe / USA so perhaps I have romanticized it a bit in my head.

Anyhow back to the OP, id like to explore Indonesia or a trip to Israel/Jordan. Two trips id planned before a wife and kid tied me down.

Jawgap

Travel to any place?
- New Zealand
- Iceland
- Kerguelen (read about it in a book as a teenager and have been fascinated by the place ever since!)
- South Georgia
- Alaska, Death Valley, Monument Valley in the US

Live in any place?
- Switzerland
- NZ
- Northern California