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Remotest place you have been

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    The closest thing to remote would be Blacksod bay which is a piss-poor attempt compared to some replies here


  • Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭2forjoy


    I drove to Lettermullen in Co Galway. Now thats remote.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    I got lost and ended up in Louth once, but I don't like to talk about it.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    uch wrote: »
    Dursey Island, by cable car with a hole in the floor

    If you walk to the far end of the island, it's like the edge of the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Goz Beida in south east Chad, mud hut central near the Chad/Sudan border.

    Voinjama or ZorZor near the Liberia/Guinea border.

    Not a Supermacs to be seen anywhere.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Somebody, I think jokingly said 'Mayo', but Mayo in the bleak winter can seem like...something else. The first place to come to mind when I saw the thread title was Iceland, but Iceland's remoteness is the reason for going there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭magentis


    hairyslug wrote: »
    The closest thing to remote would be Blacksod bay which is a piss-poor attempt compared to some replies here

    I know.Blacksod bay is like time square compared to Leitrim.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
    I guess Tahiti too but that was only the airport.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Denali National Park Alaska


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
    I guess Tahiti too but that was only the airport.

    I hear it's a magical place ;)


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    About 90 miles north of Yamoussoukro at the northern tip of Lake Kossou, though I've been in other remote places in Africa that struck me as the most isolated.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    Gander, Newfoundland and Nobber, Co. Meath.


  • Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭dusty207


    Darjeeling in the Himalayas. Pretty remote but on a tea estate on top of a mountain I met an assistant manager who had a brother teaching in a Dublin school who taught the brother of my bosses wife. Feckin' small world isn't in it.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dusty207 wrote: »
    Darjeeling in the Himalayas. Pretty remote but on a tea estate on top of a mountain I met an assistant manager who had a brother teaching in a Dublin school who taught the brother of my bosses wife. Feckin' small world isn't in it.

    My auntie recently sent me some tea she'd bought from a Darjeeling plantation, another visitor there was another British woman who had just moved into a house about five streets away from hers. :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
    I saw a film about that
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Shore


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Ushguli in Georgia. Absolutely stunning place and a pain to get to.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Desert in northern Sudan.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    Addu atoll in the Maldives in 1970's before it became a resort. Took 8 days in a fishing boat to get there and no electricity, phone or any way of getting back until a fisherman felt like taking me a few weeks later


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Goz Beida in south east Chad, mud hut central near the Chad/Sudan border.

    Voinjama or ZorZor near the Liberia/Guinea border.

    Not a Supermacs to be seen anywhere.

    Were you wishing for a supermacs?

    Pity so many of these places have become unvisitable due to Al Qaeda kidnappings


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    When you're as far out as Fanad lighthouse you're well out.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    When you're as far out as Fanad lighthouse you're well out.

    Ah Jaysus I thought you'd be going up past the Tor rocks on a regular basis, stopping off in St. Kilda for a pint before heading to North Rona for a bit of peace and quiet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Gondola in Mozambique. A 3 hour drive from the airport on roads that are made of holes held together by tar!


  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
    I guess Tahiti too but that was only the airport.

    Me too, only one hostel, did you stay on the beach or hillside? Great place


  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Denali National Park Alaska

    Ive been a few places in alaska, most remote remote is probably its capital juneau, only accessible by boat or sea plane. Weird town


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Ah Jaysus I thought you'd be going up past the Tor rocks on a regular basis, stopping off in St. Kilda for a pint before heading to North Rona for a bit of peace and quiet

    Love to go to St Kilda sometime, supposed to be great stone houses on it.

    Spent two nights in Barra in a Hino fridge once, that was far enough out!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,089 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    The shetland islands after a 13hr boat ride from aberdeen. Lerwick is a biggish kinda town, the rest of the island is just scattered houses and windswept cliffs.
    Also the similan islands in thailand, a protected national park in the Indian islands, a 1hr drive and 90min boat ride from phuket. Was pretty beautiful


  • Registered Users Posts: 41,000 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Had a police escort halfway across Azerbaijan.

    Drove between Baku and Gabala. The bits in between were very remote.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,114 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Antartica. Flew in from New Zealand. Met some guys who were doing a winter over in our Summer. Brave fookers. Fabulous place. I only went for the money. It doesn't get more remote than down there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Antartica. Flew in from New Zealand. Met some guys who were doing a winter over in our Summer. Brave fookers. Fabulous place. I only went for the money. It doesn't get more remote than down there.

    Was it for the NZ Govt? Hard to get work there?

    I applied recently enough to go Antarctica with the Brexit crowd but they sent me a PFO


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    I've been to Dapto. :)


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