Great places to visit

[mjens]

I was asking some people what places should I visit to get inspiration or just say "woooow". Here's my list:

New York City

Saudi Arabia

Grand Canyon

Prague

Paris

[Corwin]

Favorite one: Croatia (the coast, mostly)

And the bit of Bosnia I've seen was amazing aswell, although the amount of bullet holes in houses' walls removed a bit of its charm.

[dux]

Wales:

Scotland:

Ireland:

England:

[Seldoon182]

Helder's sister (She's fucking fit!)

Btw to kill the joke I would say...

Pearl Harbor

Miami

Thunder Dolphin in Toyko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8yFQvDvBk

Hollywood boulevard

Cap canaveral

Arecibo observatory

Saint tropez (Such a beautiful place.)

Kazantip

Mars

[Sentura]

siberia:

mongolia:

thailand:

my next stop, colombia:

[e-freak]

Scotland:

i second that! best place in the world

next to iceland:

and the rhein-main-neckar area (Frankfurt to Mainz to Heidelberg and the Odenwald) - Three completely different cities each with a huge historical background next to each other and the Odenwald is one of the most beautiful areas to discover here.

[sarge mat]

The lake district in England.

[Duff-e]

San Francisco:

[Warby]

i am enjoying the hell out of being back in hamburg !(best place on earth)

[Pericolos0]

lac du salagou in southern france is awesome, the purple-red volcanic rock everywhere makes it a really unique place =)

[DaanO]

(too lazy for pictures warning)

But anyway:

Malta: By far the weirdest country i've visited yet (out of a decent 35). Everybody's been in charge on the island, the Arabs, the English, Italians and whatever they called themselves before they were Italy, the French, name it. And it shows. It's a small country that you can see pretty decently in a week, and it's the only country where you'll find ancient catacombs with the bones still in 'm (and no security so d3 you can go lie next to them and take supercool gothic pictures ) next to an ugly JFK memorial thingy. Many movies are recorded there so there's a fun studio and sea storm simulator, they know how to cook their fish and the weather is awesome in the summer. The public transport on the islands (don't know if this still applies) consists of old school busses and during Christmas the entire country changes into some kind of Las Vegas light freakshow.

Iceland: Prettiest sights i have ever seen, more impressive deserts than the bloody Sahara, great waterfalls, the famous Geysir and what not. I'm pretty sure that any picture anyone will be able to find on the web will be incredible. Besides this the people are really friendly. I remember a restaurant where you could eat what you want and afterwards just tell the cook what you had and he's charge that. I remember wanting to visit a lighthouse, and we could just borrow the key at some bar, that kind of stuff. Another plus: gorgeous women who are direct and will just ask whatever, but that may also be thanks to my gorgeous ass.

St. Petersburg: For all the obvious reasons.

The old city center of Marrakesh: It's a place where all the cliches are true. Blind beggars with white eyes and long beards that ask for money in muttered Arab, young idiots that make the snakes dance (what's the word for this?). It's basically a maze of small corridors, stairways and little shops where you can buy carpets, Moroccan guitars, clothes, rusty rings and what not. It's also really cheap. I don't remember the Marrakesh hotel prizes but in Casablanca i paid 7 euro's a night for a hotel room in the city centre. It's an insane country where there are just more smells, more to see at any given moment, more sounds than in Europe or in the US. It's one big sensory overload. Only downside is that it can be dangerous. I hitchhiked across the country when I was 19 i think, alone, and got a knife on my throat in the countryside. But the public transport is fine and safe.

Val Sinestra: Val Sinestra is one of my best childhood memories. It's an old kurhaus, and now a chique but really affordable hotel. In the summer the Alps are really beautiful, but there's still some snow on the mountaintops. Everybody that likes drawing landscapes (like yours truely) should go here. It's a little heaven on earth.

Other places i liked: The artist quarters somewhere around LA, where ginsengavenger lived (can't think of the name right now), i remember a night of the weirdest conversations, drinking beer on the corner of the street listening to some ancient negroes playing Jazz, and a musictree! Jaw Jaw, a town in Surinam in the Amazone where my mom lives, the most relaxed place on earth and monkeys in the morning, Metz' centre (France), but no particular reason, Murano, one of the other islands of Venice, some small towns in Croatia (pictures above), Parisian graveyards, there's something very computergamelike about 'm and you can have a beer with Jim Morrison's ghost, Berlin, the entire city is the opposite of chique (buying cases of beer in bars?) but i loved the squatted places (free place to sleep if you ask nicely and pose as a squatter), all of it's obvious history and it's entire atmosphere, Istanbul, also for all of it's obvious reasons.

[Sentura]

i never saw a reason to go to st. petersburg, what obvious reasons are you talking about?

[DaanO]

Are you by any chance from Finland?

[Sentura]

i'm not. but i've been to russia, and almost deliberately went around going to st. petersburg because i felt moscow would show me all that st. petersburg would have anyway. with the exception of ayn rand's birthplace, but i bet that is as easy to find as an unmarked grave.

[Duff-e]

with the exception of ayn rand's birthplace

/me strokes beard and connects the dots...