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This is kind of spurned on by my planning of a month long journey round Europe, but what is your favourite, most inspiring, most beautiful and most awe inspiring places on Earth?
It can be a city, a vista, a region, a building or anything fantastic really!
Pictures are particularly welcome!
It can be a city, a vista, a region, a building or anything fantastic really!
Pictures are particularly welcome!
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Actually, everything I saw in Norway was pretty cool. And damn if they don't keep their cities clean.
Otherwise, Chicago.
I distinctily remember it being pretty awesome watching the sun rise over Machu Picchu, also.
There's very little different today than when Hausmann put pen to paper. The vibrancy of eclectic styles built up over centuries is what makes cities visually interesting and thrive. Paris was either 99% 19th century styling, or crazy ass moderne in La Defense. No thank you. Now, for a week or two, it was quite nice.
Yep. Then when you introduce something interesting and new (see: Eiffel Tower, Pompidou Center, Pei's Pyramid) they raise one hell of a stink about it and immediately condemn the horrific blight upon their cities beauty.
30 years later they love it unconditionally.
I've been there about three times now (and going again at the end of June) and it's an amazingly beautiful country, full of lovely people. I go for about three weeks and just feel so relaxed and in awe of the countryside,
The fountain and plaza was full of Parisians just mulling about for lunch or whatever on top of all the tourists.
I really want to go and see Latin America sometime. Mayan ruins and more than a few cities in Brazil just seem like they'd be incredible.
I fucking love living here.
What are you doing in Rwanda?
My parents moved out there a couple of years ago. In fact, they've just bought some land and are getting a house built - it's gonna be so cool!
That could be because of the awesome street vendors.
I had like the best crepe of my life there oh goddd it was so good.
Which ones? I am interested in Brazil too but don't know where to start/what is essential.
I'd figure Rio, Sao Paolo, and Curitiba at least.
Go to Granada and other parts of Andalusia.
Actually, I'll also say Capri. There's just something about that place that I love.
The blue grotto?
Also, that belly button of the world at Delphi is really wierd. Crazy Greeks.
I want to go either to Rwanda, or the Congo. Their highlands are my holy grail, as far as the outdoors go.
Rwanda is beautiful, and well worth a visit. Not sure about the Congo. My Dad went recently but I think he was mostly stuck inside at the conference and didn't see much.
Of the ones I haven't been to, Berlin is very high on the list.
Go to southern Spain, or the Italian coast, and just absorb the atmosphere for a few days. Have red wine and big pasta meals overlooking the sunsets, and eat lots of tomatoes and olives. In the cool evenings just walk around, looking at all the little shops and stalls.
The medditeranean culture is absolutely fantastic.
If you want to do NOTHING and relax somewhere that your money will last hit up the dalmation coast in Croatia - somewhere like Split.
Egypt is way awesome if you travel up the Nile. Extremely touristy, but you wont get away from that if you want to see the big stuff. A 4 hour armed convoy through the desert to see Aby Symbal is fun as well ;-)
After all my travelling - I went back home to New Zealand. THATS got to be one of the best places to be.
Or the Salt Mines outside Krakow. The underground church looks like the set of an Indiana Jones movie, and the illusion is only ruined when you see a tourist surreptitiously licking a mural just to see if it really is made of salt.
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Barcelona was absolutely fantastic. Parc Guell was so cool, as was the rest of Gaudi's stuff that you could visit. I loved the mix of the historical with the modern, which I suppose is an effect you can find in a lot of Europe (but that I've grown up completely without -- Nebraska is quite lacking there). It was amazing walking down the main drag (can't remember the name) and seeing all the big shops, all the metropolitan aspects, butting right up against centuries of history. Plus, the street performers were hilarious.
If you go, you must eat at Els Quatre Gats, the cafe where Picasso used to hang out. Aside from the "neat" factor, the food is fantastic. http://www.4gats.com/web.html
That, and Montreal so far has been more comfortable than any city I've visited or lived in so far. Well, except for the weather.
Kyoto and Nagoya are great places to go. Not quite as overcrowded as Tokyo, they've both got some just fantastic bits about them. Walking through medieval Japanese castles and shrines is goddamned amazing.
Strange as it is to say, Kansas has a great appeal to it. IN aprts of the state you can just stand and see nothing but rolling wheat fields all around you, and it's a pretty spectacular sight on a cloudy day.
Cant wait to see St. Peter's, the egyptian obelisks, the statues, all the churches...etc.
Also, I went to the capital city of Finland, Helsinki on last friday...I've been there for like fifty times before, but this time I was stunned to see how beautiful the city actually is. I must have been too young for those other times, because it really hit me this time. It really has some amazing buildings there.
If you ever get a chance to go to Finland, Helsinki is your number one stop.
Africa: Namibia
Asia: Taiwan
Europe: Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps
North America: British Columbia
South America: Curitiba
Places I've hated:
Africa: Nigeria
Asia: Uzbekistan
Europe: Bosnia
North America: Peoria, Illinois
South America: Rio De Janero
Places I've always wanted to go:
Africa: Victoria Falls
Asia: Hokkaido
Australia: Anywhere
Europe: Scotland
North America: Alaska
South America: Peru
Heh, one time in archaeology class the prof was talking about the Minoans and she showed us some pictures of the palace there. Eventually she got to this one picture of a throne, and I realized that somewhere at home I had a similar pic of 7 year-old me sitting on that very seat.
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
Also Como, Como kicks ass.
So cool.
I've heard Greece is beautiful, but I've never been there yet. I also want to see Spain.
So, yeah. If I could go anywhere right now, it would be those three places in a single go-round.