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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/7/2008 12:54:32 PM | | All my life I'd wanted to go to Greece. I'd planned to honeymoon in Greece. A few years back, my mom treated all us kids (I'm the youngest at 46 yrs old) to a cruise in Greece and Turkey. I hated most of Greece--LOVED TURKEY!! My bro and I thrived in Turkey, had some interesting and memorable excursions there. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:41:57 PM | | Undoubtably my most recent trip. The golf trip of a lifetime. Hong Kong, Singapore, Bintan [Indonesia] and Bangkok. 19 days and just made it up as I went along. Recife Brazil is pretty cool too. I went there a couple years ago. Totally unspoiled by tourism and American influence. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/12/2008 10:19:41 PM | | Malaysian Borneo was pretty spectacular but I can't just pick one. Indonesia was special especially Borabodur Temple in Yoyakarta and Bali. Koh Samui and Koh Tao, Thailand were very beautiful. Rarotonga, Cook Islands isn't all that exotic but the island is so beautiful, that I wish it were easier to get there from here. One of the most fantastic and fascinating things I've done in my travels was a hike into the Actun Tunichal Muknal cave on mainland Belize. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/14/2008 11:47:24 AM | | Libya, Malta, Greece, UAE, Thailand, Philapines,Switzerland,Netherlands, Chile, Alaska, Hawaii, Trinidad, Aruba and Southeastern Oklahoma...LOL | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/14/2008 2:08:34 PM | | I have been to many places but probably my favorite was the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. There were lots of celebrities there as well as Royalty but the luxury of the resort was breathtaking. I guess my second choice would be the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. The snorkeling was great in Grand Caymen though. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/15/2008 6:34:32 PM | Dream vacation would be a 3 mos. stint in Kenya....I would love to go on a Safari.
I know how 'the other half' lives and want to learn from them the basic needs they have and the 'wants' from them, which is so minimal to them, and taken from granted by us.
Family keeps me in town but the most beautiful island I've been able to see was St. John's. No, not thousands of miles away, but a WORLD away when you're there. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/16/2008 4:59:31 PM | | To me cruising the islands is the most exotic. This way you can choose the islands you would like to go to and then maybe go back and spend a week at one of them. My best place in the whole world is Aruba. Well not quite anymore. When I first starting gooing there was no one for miles. You could walk the whole beach andmaybe run into 5 people. Now there are like 200 hotels and if you aren't on the beach at like 7:00 in the morning your lucky to get a spot at all. It has become so materialistic with its sprawling malls and big name hotels. Give me back the old Aruba anytime. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/20/2008 4:54:53 PM | I'd say at this point, it would be Botswana (Africa). I went there for photo safari for my 50th birthday. Those bucket showers were a delight! For me, there was nothing more awesome than to be sleeping in my tent, and hearing a lion roar in the distance. Africa had been my dream since I was a little girl - I had seen John Wayne starring in "Natari", and when he was chased by a Rhino, I knew I had to go to Africa.
This year, I'll be going to Galapagos Islands. I've been to: Belize; Costa Rica; Holland; England; Bahamas; Mexico; Cayman Islands; and lived in Germany for 2 years. I have at least 40+ more places to go to, I guess you could say those are my "bucket list". | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/25/2008 11:35:59 AM | In the mid-1980s I drove to a little village in Mexico called Cuetzalan. It is up in the clouds in the central highlands, and its residents are Nahuatl indians. I was there to go caving.
You can get lost in the fog at night - lay out some string from your hut to the outhouse. Farmers feed their livestock with the epiphytes from the trees they cut for firewood - orchids, ferns, bromeliads, etc. - probably worth several hundred dollars per armload up here in the States.
They have these amazing aqueducts that I think are centuries old. Locals told me they didn't know who built them. The aqueducts are made of flat stones, held together by craftsmanship, not mortar. Sediments over the years have plugged the cracks, so tthey barely leak at all. The troughs are covered with flat stones and are elevated on stone stilts. The aqueducts originate up on the ridges sourrounding the valley, and as they wind diagonally down the sides of the ridges there are offshoots that distribute water to each farmers' fields. The tops of the aqueducts serve as paths when walking from the farm to the village.
The mayor of the town let us stay in his adobe barn while we were there, but first he had several of his sons clean it out. It was small, say 3m x 5m, and the floor was dirt, but it kept the rain off us. They left the farm tools hanging on the walls, and it looked for all the world like a museum in Appalachia with a hand plow, bicycle-style grinding stone, old-timey 2-person logging saw, adzes, etc.
A large chert boulder in the middle of the barn driveway scraped our truck axles, so the mayor sent his oldest and youngest sons to deal with the boulder. The older fellow, maybe 19 or 20, hammered away at the boulder with a sledge and the kid kept him company. It took a couple of hours for him to chip it down to ground level.
They wanted no money from us for either the barn or the boulder. Later, they got us drunk on cana (pronounced canya), the local rum made from sugar cane. Our host had made it himself, altho I never got to see the still. He had no drinking glasses, there were only 2 cups in the house, so we drank it from saucers and tin cans. We bought some for our personal use for $1.00/quart. I smuggled a gallon of the stuff back to the States when I came home, pretending that it was water. I thought it ironic: Gringos usually take water with them when they visit Mexico, and there I was bring "water" back from Mexico!  | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/27/2008 5:43:55 PM | I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts and am garnering ideas for my next journey. Keep it up!
My most amazing and memorable single day of travel was during a guided tour by a egyptologyst who had been credited on the Discovery movie Lost City of Atlantis, while visiting the Giza flats, a Cairo marketplace and the Tutankhamun Cairo Egyptian Museum.
He understood and read the inscription from King Tut's burial chair (the one on all the magazine covers) in the actual spoken langauge HYEROGLYPHICS. I viewed the bodies of the pharaohs and their wives under glass in a special room where the humidity, light and sound is controlled to diminish decay. The beauty of the artifacts were absolutely beyond belief! The Egyptian people I met were very pleasant and accomadating.
Probably the next most memorable travel experience was Roma. I didn't really know much about Rome until the trip outside a few references to it in highschool or television. The week was spent entirely on foot with a crude map, which we usually didn't use much because we would find something to blow us away before we ever got to the intended destination! Imagine my response when searching for the Spanish Steps, turning a corner and being thrust into the majesty of the Fountain of Trevi!! My breath was literally taken away. To be surrounded by so much culture and beauty is awe-inspiring, to say the least. | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 1/28/2008 6:18:02 AM | | Well, I wouldn't consider it exotic...Burkino Faso, Africa. Just look out for the mamba's. hissssssss. My favorite visit was to Paris, France. What is up with that postage stamp size of the Mona Lisa? I was expecting a much bigger portrait. ~sigh~ | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 2/18/2008 10:44:17 PM | Depending on your definition of "exotic" I would say either:
Tehran, Iran
Grotto Azure, Capri, Italy
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Timbuktu, Mali, Africa
Of the three, I suppose Timbuktu would be number one just for the Name.
James, Port Orchard, Washington, USA, Earth | |
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| What is the most exotic place you have traveled?
Posted: 9/5/2008 5:36:51 PM | If by exotic, you mean different from the cultures here in the United States, I would say Ghana and Morocco. What made both of these trips so pleasant and different is that I was not a part of a tour. I was able to live among the people of those countries. I really enjoyed those trips immensely. One thing that stands out about Morocco is when I spent time in a mountainous area. I actually got to see how the people lived. I enjoyed sitting around on the floor at meal time, sharing a meal that was served in a big round dish. Everyone partook of the meal using their right hand to eat. That was so wonderful. Another part that I vividly recall is being awakened in the middle of the night by numerous dogs running through the street barking. Another memorable event was riding in a taxi-type vehicle and having people get in there with the chickens in the cages.
I really enjoyed Ghana too because I was able to meet people of different social classes. I met and went in areas where the very poor lived. I went in areas where middle class people lived and in areas where the rich lived. The sounds of float-like vehicles going through the streets playing music from morning through out the night is very memorable to me. I enjoyed visiting the very large cities and going into the beautiful countryside. The wonderful treatment I received in both countries still stands out in my mind. What also stands out in my mind traveling to Morocco, Ghana and Egypt is the gentleness of the dogs and independence of the domesticated animals like chickens, goats, cats, and lambs. I liked watching them as they crossed busy streets. They seemed to have it down pat.  I did not see any of them get hit or even come close to it. It was fun finding out the language and methods used to get dogs and cats to come. I have very positive memories of all of my trips. | |
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