Already been to many listed here (total of 73 countries/islands). First some comments on some listed. Maldives my favourite, place. Been to Madagascar and Seychelles, both wonderful. Mauritius Ok, but has it's slum areas. Zanzibar an amazing place, but also has it's slums.
Places not been to but would like to:
Borneo (island, not strictly one country). Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe/Zambia). New Zealand. Any pacific islands such as Hawaii, Cook Islands, Fiji Whitsunday Islands, off of the coast of Queensland.
Japan can be done reasonably cheap as mentioned Elsewhere, Beer Can be Expensive when eating out but otherwise Hotels about the same as here. Japan Travel card best for trains.
Norway-northern lights, whale watching, fjords, ice climbing. Beautiful people... Costa Rica- amazing animals, apparently the happiest place on earth Madagascar - loads of endemic species, including lemurs! Antarctica-landing on a sheet of ice and being somewhere pretty much untouched by people Ecuador-the Galápagos Islands! Always wanted to visit South America
Travelled around Borneo for two months a few years ago, best place I have ever been. So different in each country, wild orang-utans are something else, as are the proboscis monkeys. The tribal people are absolutely fantastic, friendliest people I have ever met. Unfortunately much of it is being deforested at a ridiculous rate for palm oil, so I would recommend visiting sooner rather than later if you have the opportunity.
It's top of my wish list @moutuakilla (though not on my posted list funnily enough). Main reason I want to go is to see the orang-utans. I think it's heartbreaking what is happening because of palm oil. I try not to buy anything with it as an ingredient but it doesn't help when it can be listed as vegetable oil. Man will never learn.
Wow - amazed at Japan appearing on so many wish lists. Can I ask why people haven't gone?
Cost I would imagine? For the purposes of this survey I was assuming money being no object - hence the Scandinavian countries in my list - they are easily accessible but I couldn't afford to do what I enjoy doing (eating out and drinking) if I went there.
You're telling me, visited Helsinki recently and it was insanely expensive.
It's top of my wish list @moutuakilla (though not on my posted list funnily enough). Main reason I want to go is to see the orang-utans. I think it's heartbreaking what is happening because of palm oil. I try not to buy anything with it as an ingredient but it doesn't help when it can be listed as vegetable oil. Man will never learn.
Consider Sumatra as well. It has orangs and is relatively easy and cheap to organise. It doesn't have proboscis monkeys but it does have siamang gibbons.
As an aside, look up the website 'Mongabay' if you want up to date news on palm oil, forests and of course animals.
hiya! colin here, and my first visit to this forum!!! longtime addick fanatic, born shooters hill, first lived kidbrooke, first fave players, len glover and keith peacock (1963 maybe?) been in los angeles for 25 years though, but never settled, and london accent retained:>) regarding this international travel thread, we (girlfriend and myself) have tried southern ecuador, jamaica and haiti in the last year, assessing different places/ways of living, and now off to chaing mai region of northern thailand in the next year...anyone, familiar? considering burma, laos, bali, cambodia too - we want a simple, rural, permaculture lifestyle (both longtime raw/vegans)...any inspired suggestions anyone?
...and on a footie note, while somewhat anxious, (well, it is charlton...), i am open-minded re the new season/regime etc., you gotta be right? what's the alternative? follow no-one? nahhh, i'm an addick forever, whoever is at the helm, however, i have of course wondered at some of their decisions - nevertheless, anything is better than the hulyer tumult, or more recently, the dowie/reed/pardew/parky years, surely?
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Malaysia
Borneo
Antartica
Vietnam
Places not been to but would like to:
Borneo (island, not strictly one country).
Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe/Zambia).
New Zealand.
Any pacific islands such as Hawaii, Cook Islands, Fiji
Whitsunday Islands, off of the coast of Queensland.
Iceland
North Korea
Burma
Madagascar
Japan can be done reasonably cheap as mentioned Elsewhere, Beer Can be Expensive when eating out but otherwise Hotels about the same as here. Japan Travel card best for trains.
Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
Mali
Tibet
Peru
Sri Lanka.
Australasia
North Pole
South Pole
Africa
Bhutan
Iceland
Brazil
PNG
Italy
US
Germany
Vietnam
New Zealand
Canada
Barbados
Kenya (or other decent safari country)
Won't get to any of them in reality
Iceland
Norway (If thats where the fjords are)!
Galapagos Islands
Japan
Malaysia
Canada
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Italy
New Zealand
Brazil
Russia
Costa Rica- amazing animals, apparently the happiest place on earth
Madagascar - loads of endemic species, including lemurs!
Antarctica-landing on a sheet of ice and being somewhere pretty much untouched by people
Ecuador-the Galápagos Islands! Always wanted to visit South America
Vietnam
Borneo
New Zealand
India
New Zealand
India
Nepal
Greenland
Argentina
Chile
Ghana
Thailand
Russia
USA only been to Vegas but would love to see so much more of it
Australia
Morocco
Italy
Bosnia
Rwanda
Peru
South Korea
Denmark
That's assuming my one trip to the Canaries prevents me from choosing Spain.
Germany
Italy
South Africa
Japan
Only been to the US, UAE and a few countries in Europe so plenty to choose from.
As an aside, look up the website 'Mongabay' if you want up to date news on palm oil, forests and of course animals.
Thailand
Australia
Brazil
Russia
England
America
Australia
Germany
France
Canada
Venezuela
South Korea
Vietnam
...and on a footie note, while somewhat anxious, (well, it is charlton...), i am open-minded re the new season/regime etc., you gotta be right? what's the alternative? follow no-one? nahhh, i'm an addick forever, whoever is at the helm, however, i have of course wondered at some of their decisions - nevertheless, anything is better than the hulyer tumult, or more recently, the dowie/reed/pardew/parky years, surely?