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  1 0 thailand! new york state of mind answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by new york state of mind and Shannon Osten… 0 0 more specifically, Chang Mai for mountains and temples and elephant rides through the jungle. phuket (sp?) for beaches, fishes, and awesome little drinks with umbrellas in them. also, once you get to thailand it's free to change your departure date. And it's only like $20 to fly anywhere else in Southeast Asia (i.e. Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) new york state of mind commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Definitely Thailand. Krabi has some great rock hiking and I think I remember some people repelling down the side of the cliff if you are into that. Also, do the Adventure tours. Mine included white water rafting, waterfall hike and riding elephants up into the mountains Shannon Osten commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 * Bali, not on the beaches but up in the mountains where it's all temples and beautiful music and great food. * Luxor, Egypt; walk around the temples and go inside the tombs and look at the incredible art inside! Drink tea outside. * Iceland: geysers, Viking horses that do a special kind of "floating" gait done only by these horses (it's called tölting), great music, hiking, hot springs for swimming, delicious food, nice people. Did I say great music? Great music. * Chamonix (France) will take your breath away. Hiking!! * Ireland: go straight to the west (Galway, Connemara, Ennis, Dingle, Donegal). Listen to music for days and nights; go hiking; drink tea and pints of Guinness. * Samarkand: it's in the very center of the Silk Road and a stunning blend of different cultures (languages, religions, architectures, musics, textiles). * Kyoto: temples, shrines, kabuki, tea, bunraku, noh, sake. Just Asking answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Rev.Enant… 0 0 excellent list: thoroughly second egypt, iceland, ireland and kyoto!! Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 I'm more of a city boy, but I would include, if possible: * Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico -- larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Take the train through it. * Hike the Na Pali coast in the impossibly rugged, remote knife-edge cliffs of NW coast of Kaua'i, Hawai'i. For take the helicopter ride that takes you down into the perpetual rain of the Mt. Wai'ale'ale crater (500 inches a year), and then over the rim of Waimea Canyon (I like canyons). * Visit Tsingy de Bemeraha nature reserve in Madagascar, with its freaky limestone formations, pointed like the tines of a fork but a hundred feet tall, sharp enough to slice you to ribbons if you fell on them, and see the lemurs and some of the zillions of other species found nowhere else on earth. * Uluru and Kata Tjuta in central Australia. These bizarre red-rock domes bulging out of the desert scrub are sacred to the Pitjantjatjara people but can be visited by sensitive white people. Don't climb them; walk around them. If you really want to get out there, head another thousand miles or so northwest to Purnlulu National Park to see the Bungle Bungle Range, a landscape of thousands of beehive-shaped sandstone towers. * Take the walkway at Iguazu Falls (aka Iguaçu) on the border between Brazil and Argentina, where you can be surrounded by 260 degrees of falling water, in what is sometimes the biggest waterfall in the world -- it varies with the year and the season. This past year record rainfall (I think) brought Iguazu temporarily past Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa (which wouldn't be a bad choice, either), as several normally-separate cataracts combined into one mega one. * See the fourteenth-century mud mosques of Timbuktu, Mali, or the even older rock-carved churches of Lalileba, Ethiopia, or the more accessible architecture carved out of solid rock at Petra, Jordan. * You can't go wrong with the pyramids of Egypt, but maybe think about the Mayan ones like Chichen Itza or Palenque in Mexico, or Tikal in Guatemala. My personal preference would be to combine a cleaned-up, tourist-friendly site like Chichen Itza with one that still partly belongs to the jungle, like Tikal or Palenque. * If you do decide you want a city break, why not try to decide for yourself which city has the most beautiful natural harbor: Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janiero, Brazil; or Hong Kong, China. Fnarf answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Interlaken Switzerland. It is a beautiful small town in the middle of the Swiss alps. It is also the extreme sports capital of Europe. You can do everything from sky-diving to bungy-jumping to canyoning to rafting. Check out this company for all those crazy activities.  My recommendation is canyoning, because you've probably never done it, and the gorges are amazing. Another awesome thing to do is rent mountain bikes and cycle/catch the gondola up to the Schilthorn.  Best view in Europe. Billy in 4C answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Rev.Enant… 0 0 Isn't that a Bond villain lair? Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The Manuel Antonio area of Costa Rica was a wonderful surprise find. A rainforest right on the beach? Yes please! Honestly, the country is small enough that you can easily visit a few different locations, which is great fun. (The Monte Verde/Santa Elena cloud forest region is very cool, but can be pretty full of tourists seeking Quetzal sightings. But the Santa Elena part is less trafficked than MonteVerde. The tortuguero region is pretty cool, too, but you are more "held hostage" by your accommodations as it requires canoe/boat to get anywhere (a series of canals, no roads). Still, might be fun for 2 or 3 nights.) The Malaysian part of Borneo was amazing (nothing against the Indonesian part of the island, I just haven't been). Most tour guides I've seen tend to hype the Sabah region, but I found the state of Sarawak to be much more to my liking. Kuching (while a city) makes a decent base to get your bearings. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Great food. Amazing rain forest. Wonderful people. If you're going through western Europe, I second the recommendation for western Ireland. Areas of Portugal are gorgeous, too. I was surprised at the amount of diversity in such a small country. Most of my time in Southern Africa was in cities or national reserves. But the "Garden Route" area of South Africa is gorgeous. Simonstown (near Capetown...which is a great city, btw) has a beautiful Boulders beach area, with penguins! You can check out whales in Hermanus. The Cango Caves in Outsdhoorn (sp?) are very cool, and they offer a more "intensive" cave tour, should you be so inclined. We only traveled from Capetown to Port Elizabeth and then left the beaches/coast to head up to Kruger National Park. Victoria Falls area was truly breathtaking!! But I'd stay in the Zambian part right now, as traveling to Zimbabwe is politically fraught. Do you provide some much needed business to the economy, or does your presence continue to legitimize the government? I was there in 2001 and things were already getting pretty dodgy. Not sure I'd go right now. Do some serious research before deciding. Seeing Tikal in Guatemala was wonderful...not only for the awe-inspiring views after hiking the pyramids, but because there's a giant preserve all around the site, so howler monkeys and tons of other critters can be found, as well. I only had 12 hours here, but you could spend a few days. Tracy M answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 penang, malaysia the med coast of spain morocco ireland turkey Sarita Rosa answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 New Zealand and Viet Nam. New Zealand is a bit expensive. Viet Nam is cheap. In New Zealand, rent a camper van. There are several companies that rent them. The "Spaceship" ones are really nicely equipped, but the "Escape" campers are painted with really cool murals. Either will come with everything you need, including a stove, cooler, pots and pans, and blankets and sheets. They generally have a bench seat in front, so you can fit a driver and two passengers secured with seatbelts. See both islands, taking the ferry between the two. Whatever you get, make sure it's an automatic. You'll find it a lot easier to adjust to being on the wrong side of the car, and the road, if you don't have to use a manual transmission. In Viet Nam, visit the mountains and Hai Long bay in the north. Book tours through the Kangaroo Cafe (http://www.kangaroocafe.com/) once you get to Hanoi. Make sure to go the the real one, as there a lot of imitators. For other transportation, use the tourist-class trains and long-distance buses. In towns, use Mai Lin taxis, which seem uniformly honest. Tom Sackett answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 -New Zealand. It's only about the size of California but with a population of just over 4 million. A wide variety of well preserved nature - hot springs, beaches, lakes, mountains, etc. It's really easy to get around by car even if you are not familiar with it, as long as you don't mind driving on the left. -Great Barrier Reef! Gorgeous scenery and wildlife. -Key West, the color of the water is ridiculously blue. westcoastin answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I'll get upset if you don't include a wee trip to Scotland in your travels. Stay in Edinburgh for a night, a city like no other, then head north, up through Perth to the highlands, then head west across to the coast for some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world.   Flashman answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Torres del Paine National Park in Chile! It's got mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers. There's lots of other great parks in southern Chile, like Vicente Perez Rosales National Park near Lago Llanquihue. And if you're in Patagonia you should definitely check out some Magellanic penguins. Those little things are adorable! Carole answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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