countries you'd like to visit before you die

Mauritius
India
Mexico
Ireland

worldfap ireland will happen eventually, i'm certain.

china
japan
australia

Italy.

mexico yeah definitely

Brazil
Egypt
Iran

does the moon count as a country

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Poland
Vietnam
China
Argentina

Chile
Sweden
Israel
Hong Kong

former yugoslavia countries
argentina
fiji/ other south pacific
vietnam
singapore

also
S. Korea
Japan

maybe
Hungary
Bhutan
China
Nepal

Shakey Mo, what interests you about going to Iran?

mongolia -- i don't know why, just developed sort of a fascination with it about 10 years ago.

and lots of other, more obvious places, too. definitely feel like i should go to germany and poland, my most direct ancestral places.

Cuba and Turkey (this may happen by the end of the year so if I stay alive through December I have a shot at this).

Technically I've been to Turkey already, but it was for work, was only for twenty-four hours, and I spent all of it in meetings in our hotel. Istanbul looked utterly fabulous and frankly I'm owed a trip back.

croatia and region

Iceland

Bosnia too. More or less all the countries I've already been to as well, they were nice.

the central asian states - particularly kazakhstan and uzbekistan

slovenia and croatia

seychelles

BRAZIL

and iceland, yeah!

also anywhere in the caribbean/pacific, not so much to ~see what it's like~ but b/c if i'm there it presumably means i'm having a beach holiday in the caribbean or pacific

mongolia -- i don't know why, just developed sort of a fascination with it about 10 years ago.

yeah, i think it would be pretty amazing to go there

Shakey Mo, what interests you about going to Iran?

Persian culture is just so ANCIENT. also always been kinda fascinated by Freya Stark's travelogues from the region. Jungles, deserts, crazy architecture, a culture that's been more or less "closed" to the west for generations - I dunno seems like it has a lot to offer.

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Russia
Iceland
China
Scotland

There probably isn't anywhere I wouldn't like to travel, but those are my top four.

so glad I got to visit Russia when I did - post-Berlin Wall but pre-totally insane meltdown

if any ilx ppl have been to Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar area of the world, report back here. i'm really fascinated by those places

Tanzania

Australia!
Scotland, I guess? I mean definitely yes but more b/c I think I should, than because it seems partic foreign or something.

Vietnam
New Zealand, Australia
Ireland, Scotland
Belgium, France...all of western Europe really.

w europe is pretty sweet it's true

I just spent two weeks in Iceland and it's amazing. Go there. I want to go there again. forever.

Peru
Turkey
Croatia
Vietnam
Whole of Scandinavia
China

My dad just went to Latvia & Sweden earlier this year and it's weird to me that there are all these places all over the world that are Not Here and where people and their lives are different, and you can get there by getting on a plane...?!?!??!??! NO WAY.

I am not a traveler.

I'm too big a chicken to set foot in Mexico. I know there are safe places there and that all I hear is the bad news, but you couldn't pay me to go there now.

Pay me! I'll go!

I've been there twice in recent years & would happily live in Mexico City.

Colombia
Norway
Iceland
Ethiopia (been to addis ababa for 1 night but that doesnt count)
North Korea
Russia
Spain
Italy
India (again)
Japan (again)

Uzbekistan for me too.

oh and some former yugoslavia countries

I wd like to spend the rest of my life wandering up and down the Silk Road tbh

Mexico.

"Australia!"

nothing to do there.

Iceland
Greenland
Kazakhstan
Afghanistan
someplace where diving is great

And del, I've been to Madagascar. Beautiful place, but it is kinda fucked right now I think. Went there for a month and a half and loved all of it.

j/k

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Vietnam is amazing. Super expensive to get to compared to its neighboring countries but easily my favorite SE asian country.

(ie, I toured the entire country and would w/o question return)

sin cafe?

What did you think of Hue, Steve?

tbh Hue was my least favorite place in Vietnam. The food gets talked up in a major way but the city is bleak and it was the only place in Vietnam where I wasn't left alone/given space/unwanted attention by hustlers. I took a couple of my favorite photos there but other than that, neighboring Hoi An is way more charming and people are friendly and I preferred Hoi An's cuisine to Hue which is near-sacrilege to Vietnamese foodies.

Maybe I should expand on a partial thought there: nearly everywhere I went in Vietnam, I was left alone to wander and explore and people were really cool and nice but only when I went out of my way to ask for assistance (a little French is beneficial in the North as well). But in Hue, people were either angling me or crowding me when I was doing just fine getting from pt. a to pt. b (god bless google maps mobile btw) and it was a little out of character compared to my experiences everywhere else. It happened on a few occasions in 2 days in Hue.

Hmmm, interesting.

I've got a Vietnamese friend (w/family near Hanoi) and if I ever went, I'd definitely want to go with him.

i was bothered by hustlers a lot in saigon, but that was 10 years ago. wonder if it's changed some.

on topic:

seychelles
iceland
mongolia
andaman and nicobar islands (india)
maldives
new caledonia

Seychelles sound cool, actually. What was that book I just read?

Actually it was Mauritius I was thinking about, never mind.

what was the mauritius book, then?

'Le Chercheur d'Or', I think.

thanks!

Iceland
Sweden
Argentina
Malaysia
Spain
Morocco
South Korea (North Korea - know someone who want a couple of years ago and said it was awful, for pretty obvious reasons)