Underrated places/sights

I went to the the Natural History Museum for the first time recently and had a fascinating few hours there.Well worth a visit.

rossie1977 wrote: »

Canary Islands. Usually only visited for a weekend boozing session but away from the stripmalls and bars each island offers it's own unique charm with some fantastic scenery, national parks, hiking trails etc. Weather is liw to mid 20s year round too.

I don't think any of that is underrated though, it's even used as a selling point to visit it and go train(cycling/tri/running) there.

Le Mans is an amazing old city and you can have a street to yourself even in summer - it's quite bizarre how quiet the old town is.

rossie1977 wrote: »

Milan and the lake region.... Maggiore/Como are stunning

Underrated? Everyone I know has been to Milan/the lakes! :cool: I was there myself in August and you couldn't see the place for all the tourists!


But up that end of the country: Aosta, and further up the valley, Cogne. Great mix of art, culture, history, hiking, and not too many tourists.



Also most of central France is full of quirky little towns that rarely feature on any tourist maps or TripAdvisor.

Most cities in Italy outside Florence rome and venice I think are incredibly underrated, Vicenza Siena Milan

I think Krakow is big on the tourist hit list now, most people I know who did inter railing in winter went there as part of trip from berlin through krakow, prague, vienna, budapest

pekitivey wrote: »

Lismore, Co. Waterford. Such a beautiful town. Loads of amazing walks along the R. Blackwater and some lovely places to eat. Not to mention "The V" a lovely mountain walk 20 mins from the town by car.

Lots of events in the castle too and the magical towers at ballysaggartmore!

Philippines . Spent 3 months there. Great place and people. Great beaches

It hasn't changed, a work colleague was there in early October... Got two main courses, two sides, 2 Heineken bottles for 20 Euro.
I was there myself during Summer 2016 and I'm only aching to go back. Didn't get to see half the sights.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Ljubljana and Slovenia in general is beautiful. It looks like an incredibly livable place.

The Austrian countryside is also stunning.

Oh yeah I agree with this, hidden gem! I was born and reared 45 minutes away from the border and when I was a child we'd go to Maribor at least twice a month to get Petrol, fags and booze and usually a cheap meal.
Many drive through Slovenia in order to get to Croatia and all the beauty is ignored.
A travel landmark is Trojane with this restaurant that sells these HUGE homemade doughnuts. Everyone knows it, no tourguide tells you about it though.

And since I'm from there I might be biased but Styria is so incredibly pretty. It has soft vineyard hills and rough alpine mountains with everything nice in between.

Now I'm getting all nostalgic.

Colombia is a great country to travel in but a lot of people are put off because they have a view of the country that is about twenty years out of date.

Was in Philadelphia recently. Its a little grubby, but it has some beautiful historical buildings and despite their reputation for being brash and loud, pretty much everyone I encountered was really lovely. Ended up staying a day longer than planned

I’d say Malaga, which is usually seen as an airport through which to access the mostly-dreadful Costa del Sol, but has fantastic outdoors life, food, museums, history and architecture.