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^ Sounds nice! Then again Equador does seem like one of the more pleasant S. American countries. I keep hearing bad things about Bolivia (and frankly have very little interest in it).

I also keep hearing nothing but GREAT things about Uruguay (particularly the people's character and kindness and the country's safety). Definitely wouldn't miss this one if I do continue south.

Btw, I just found out that two of the place in my trip made it to Polo's Bastards' worst of 2009 list, lol. Awesome!

p.s. Spade: I just noticed that I'd already waxed lyrical about the train earlier in this thread. Please disregard :D.
 
I think I'm probably going to drop Argentina from my plan. I was thinking Patagonia would be pretty special but the cost, effort and time involved to get there probably isn't worth it and I'm not sure what else about the country I really want to see. So unless I'm convinced otherwise, for now it's off the list. If anyone has any good reasons as to why I should definitely go then feel free to tell me. :)

Thinking maybe Columbia instead but I'd need to look into that.

Brazil is a definite so much I want to see and do there including Rio where I'll see Christ the Redeemer statue, tour the slums, experience Carnavale and see a local football game etc also want to go on some sort of Amazon trip, check out some beach towns along the coast and party (forget where but apparently there's a place with big outdoor parties every night in diff locations - beach, rainforests etc), see Igazu Falls.

Bolivia I've heard nothing but good things Jam. Met a lot of folk in Asia who'd travelled S. America and said it was a highlight and everything I've read online says it's a must visit. La Paz looks really interesting with it's witches market and drug streets, Route 36 Cocaine bar, San Pedro prison tour etc then you've got the Salar de Uyuni salt flats, the death road, lake titcaca, the Che Guevara trail etc.

Peru another must if only for Machu Picchu but also Nazca Lines as well, aside from that not really sure what else I want to see in the country but I'd go there for nothing else other than MP if need be. Wanted to see it for years.

I'm pretty open to suggestions about any other countries.

Btw, I just found out that two of the place in my trip made it to Polo's Bastards' worst of 2009 list, lol. Awesome!
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Some of the entries on that list are nonsense. Sri Lanka isn't a particularly bad or dangerous place to visit. My dad and sister were there a few years ago during the height of the final offensive on the Tamil Tigers and loved it, didn't feel in danger at all despite the fact the Tigers flew a jet into the airport on the day they were due to leave. :D
 
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Sitting in the same position for long periods of time is the most boring thing ever. Travelling is the worst part about travelling. Thank fuck for valium.
 
Mexicp has the best bus service out of all the countries i have been to. After the trains were privatized (and subsequently taken out of service!) the bus system was overhauled to a point of near perfection. Very comfortable, fairly cheap, and they go everywhere regularly. But I do miss the trains. Bolivia is a great place to travel....I have a friend who is in south america right now, participating in a trans continental rickshaw race, and he says bolivia has been the highlight. I can say guatemala has terrible buses...crazy crowded, old terrible buses, and slow as fuck. But if you can nab a window seat and have ketamine they are fantastic :D lean yr head against the window, take a shot of ketamine, and fly.........I love taking long overnight buses and repeatedly I.Ming ketamine. What a journey! <3 <3
 
TheSpade said:
Sitting in the same position for long periods of time is the most boring thing ever. Travelling is the worst part about travelling. Thank fuck for valium.
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Haha yep, I took a third class train for 12 hours overnight. No drugs either. 12 hours spent sitting on a metal bench that was broken on one side... my friend and I thought we were going to die.

It was miserable at the time but in the end, for me, it's those sort of uncomfortable "adventures" you look back on and smile. :) The stuff you remember most. I'm sort of the opposite of you I think, for me, the actual traveling was my favorite part of traveling. Some of my most favorite moments were when I was on a bus by myself, staring out the window, thinking about where I'd been, letting it all sink in, wondering what was to come.

I agree though, really long trips are better during the day. I can never sleep on the trains or bus anyway so I'd much rather just watch the scenery.
 
I agree that you often look back on those long difficult journeys that seem horrible at the time and laugh about them later. At the time though. 8o

It's not so bad if you're travelling with a good friend because you can laugh about it, but when I'm alone I just get fed up and irritated.

Why on earth did you take a third class train?

If travelling didn't actually involve any travelling it'd be perfect. ;)

I do sometimes enjoy particularly scenic journeys as long as they don't go on forever or there's loads of delays and annoyances.
 
We wanted to go from Bangkok down to the Islands that night and the other trains were all booked up by the time we got there to buy tickets. It was memorable but I wouldn't do it again. Although I have to say, the second class trains in thailand were not much better.

I feel you on the "traveling" part though in a way. In Asia I just bounced around so much from place to place... that in itself is a lot of fun but this time, when I go to central America I just want to pick one place and go live there for a few months. Really get to know the place, the people, the culture... when backpacking I sometimes moved on so fast I barely got to experience each place. I'd always wonder if the next place would be "better" and often times it wasn't.

So now my only problem is we can't decide where to go! I'm leaning towards Nicaragua at this point. Is anyone else thinking of going there/have been there?
 
reminds me of the 12 hour train ride from varanasi to bodhgaya in india. I took the lowest class train and literally surrounded on all sides the train was so packed, people on all sides 12 inches away from me, just staring at this white kid, probably wondering what the fuck i was doing. and in india they have no inhibition against staring like in america. the only good part was when it got dark i got to spend 2 hours sitting in the doorway with the door open, feet dangling outside and watching the countryside fly by. then people started yelling at me to close the door.

pretty brutal but i love that kinda thing, even if its not so great at the time, that is what travel is all about in my opinion, experiencing things that you would never get to experience anywhere else.
 
haha, it was after my 2.5 day train ride across the India. and all the other traveling ive done
 
Although I have to say, the second class trains in thailand were not much better.
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I thought they were quite good. Didn't mind them at all.

I feel you on the "traveling" part though in a way. In Asia I just bounced around so much from place to place... that in itself is a lot of fun but this time, when I go to central America I just want to pick one place and go live there for a few months. Really get to know the place, the people, the culture... when backpacking I sometimes moved on so fast I barely got to experience each place. I'd always wonder if the next place would be "better" and often times it wasn't.
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See I didn't move around all that fast. I'm pretty lazy and unorganised and take forever to get round to doing things so ended up in most places for at least a week even if the place was shit. :D
 
daysonatrain said:
reminds me of the 12 hour train ride from varanasi to bodhgaya in india. I took the lowest class train and literally surrounded on all sides the train was so packed, people on all sides 12 inches away from me, just staring at this white kid, probably wondering what the fuck i was doing. and in india they have no inhibition against staring like in america. the only good part was when it got dark i got to spend 2 hours sitting in the doorway with the door open, feet dangling outside and watching the countryside fly by. then people started yelling at me to close the door.

pretty brutal but i love that kinda thing, even if its not so great at the time, that is what travel is all about in my opinion, experiencing things that you would never get to experience anywhere else.
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"CHAI CHAI!" ;)

India's trains are an attraction in and of themselves, regardless of how uncomfortable :)

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But yeah, give me a private sleeper compartment and I can live on a train...

There is something about the clicketing, the occasional honk, the whirr, and the surrealistic gliding, uniform motion that I find amazing for some reason.
 
I really don't mind if I have company but long journeys alone can be so mind numbing. Sitting there staring out the windows wondering "is this my stop yet?". :p
 
Your ultra-exotic, mysterious, far-away fantasy travel destination?

ever since i was a real young kid i always would think about places far away and how exotic it seemed. You know how back in the day they used to call it "deepest darkest africa" and shit like that? And how the far east was like this magical, crazy unknown area to most americans up until the early 1900s? Thats the kind of shit Im talking about. The places that kind of inspires that intrigued feeling in your imagination. And these days I know that in most places the traditions and customs and shit over time ended up gettin 'westernized" and lost their mysterious "untamed" foreign feel, but there is still lots of places that kept their own very different flavor and style and are still like a whole different world than the one that i live in . For example the center of tokyo might be alot like times square but when you travel into the country far away from the cities life is completely different, like somethin out of a story book un touched by all the shit that I am used to. and that kind of shit is the stuff that always been interesting to me.

Its a stupid analogy but for anybody who seen Avatar, you know how different and crazy and beautiful their world was? For me, the places that makes me feel that way, is China and Japan. thinkin about them just sets off all kinds of excitement and curiousity in my mind. i am just mad interested in visiting there someday. both places, they just seem soooo different from the life I known. How even a regular house, on a regular street, looks different...Its so exotic and exciting....everything about it is so TOTALLY new and aint like nothing i ever felt before. I cant imagine how cool it would be to be over there and experience that. I aint sure the word for it, but to me its so exotic and mysterious that i would feel like I was in a fantasy world. it almost seems magical in the way of how completely different it is to me, so strange and new. becuz of that i almost feel like its a place like that could only exist in my imagination or dreams. so the fact that it really does exist just makes me really want to go there for real and experience that . like visiting some beatiful fantasy world, that came to life.

But....this thread aint just about me and my secret wish to go travel to china and japan. I wanted to know about yalls secret fantasy travel trip? I dont think i am the only one who thinks about some far away place and thinks about goin there. whether its south america or thailand or india or russia or egypt or where the hell ever....Any place that seems to you to be so foreign and exciting and exotic, that has a totally different flavor than the life you are used to, and you just want to go see it and get a taste of that different life? somewhere that when you think about it, your mind just feels so sparked, like your imagination just starts flowing thinking about it and you are so intrigued and fascinated becuz its so different and exciting and interesting?

Not really just "where would you like to travel someday", but where is the travel destination that when you think of it, it seems like some wild, crazy, far-off amazing exotic place that is so mysterious and foreign that visiting it would be like living in a dream? some people just like to travel thru europe and go places that they speak the language and generally share alot of the same culture....so I guess if you like that, you wouldnt really relate....but i bet there is some people here who got my same interest in travelin to somewhere totally exotic and different and finally getting to actually see the place that you been imagining for so long. So if you do, where is that place, for you? tell us about where it is and wat about it makes you so interested, and the type of shit you would like to do, see, visit, etc, when you go there some day.
 
i would love to go to denmark. its not super exotic or foreign, but i am intrigued by the super long days during the summer and super long nights during the winter. i wonder what it would be like to have the sun setting at midnight and rising a few hours later. or to only see daylight for a few hours. i wonder if my internal clock would change depending upon the amount of sunlight.
 
I've been. It was a'ight.

Have you considered travelling to Alaska? I've heard the cruises to and through that great wild country are visually breathtaking.

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I'd like to travel to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Egypt.
 
Istanbul! <3

Have you considered travelling to Alaska? I've heard the cruises to and through that great wild country are visually breathtaking.
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I did that a few years ago. It was indeed very beautiful. Sitting in a hot tub watching the scenery go by was pretty cool. Although overall, the cruise experience kinda sucked.
 
Noodle: a friend's grandfather went to Alaska on a cruise. i remember he had some amazing pictures of him in a smaller boat near the glaciers. i could imagine it's really awesome.


my ideal destination is a quiet, isolated island like Easter Island (Rapa Nui). it looks so beautiful and serene.

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though, i'd certainly settle for Tahiti. :)
 
Mine would be Patagonia for sure! That whole area of Chile and Argentina look so foreign to me, especially since I live in southern sunny california. It's like a winter wonderland. The ironic thing is that I hate the cold!

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I'd also like to go to Iceland to find some elves.

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or maybe do a bit of swimming in the blue lagoon.


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