Your top 5 travel experiences and dreams

[Imua 0]

I think there are a lot of well-traveled people on this board, and I curious about what you consider to be your top 5 places you have seen and what are the top 5 places you have not seen yet but dream of going.

For me my top 5 would be:

1. The many times I have circumambulated Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu in the early morning - there is something truly powerful about this place and it is truly my 'heart place' - when I first came here in '01 I felt as though I had found my true home. It was very appropriate that my husband and I first set eyes on each other at its base, at the foot of the huge Buddha statue - and also appropriate that we spent our wedding night at the wonderful Hotel Vajra nearby.

2. Climbing Mt. Emei in China-probably the most physically challenging thing I have done.

3. Samye Monastery in Tibet - the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery,founded by Guru Rinpoche

4. Walking through Venice on foggy winter mornings

5. Rewalsar, HP, India

My dream places:

1. The Manu clay licks, Peru - I think heaven must be seeing so many parrots in one place flying free

2. Watching the Aurora Borealis in Alaska

3. Annapurna Base Camp trek

4. Circumambulate Mt. Kailash

5. Climb the other 3 holy mountains in China(Wutaishan, Taishan, Putuoshan)

[no name 1]

Top 5:

New Zealand

Cote D'Azur

Rome

Hvar, Croatia

Alaska

Want to go:

Antarctica

Russia

Japan

Scandanavia

Fiji/some Pacific Islands

[MissStacey 1]

Top 5 I have been to:

1. Banff/ Jasper Alberta

2. Cancun Mexico

3. Alaska

4. New Orleans

5. Cuba

Top 5 I would love to see:

1. Tibet

2. Rome

3. Greece

4. Hawaii

5. Japan

I have seen the Northern Lights many times in Alberta- they really are gorgeous.

Edited October 24, 2007 by Stacey33

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

My top 5:

1. Going swimming in Loch Lomond the summer I was 18. One of the best times of my life.

2. Hearing the call to prayer in Cairo whilst watching the sunset over the Pyramids

3. Climbing (and I mean literally climbing) the Great Wall of China

4. Staying at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo - eating Kobe steak nearby, best meal of my life

5. Amsterdam - first trip with my now husband. Best weekend of my life

Want to go:

1. India

2. Russia (would love to take the Tran-Siberian railway)

3. Kenya

4. Machu Picchu

5. Morrocco

[jundp 191]

Russia (would love to take the Tran-Siberian railway)

A friend of mine is doing that this summer. So jealous, I am!

Top 5 I have been to:

1. Berlin in winter, staying on Unter den Linden in a friend's apartment

2. New Orleans. Doesn't matter what happened to it, it's still my home. St. Louis Cathedral, Cafe du Monde, O'Flaherty's pub....

3. Aran Islands, Ireland: no words to express how gorgeous that was

4. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: there on a missions trip, but learned much more from the people. And GORGEOUS place!

5. Southern Germany. Driving from P's town to Neuschwanstein (touristy, I know) and seeing the Alps in the background.

All my top 5 have people or sentimental things attached.

Top 5 Wanna Go to:

1. Tuscany

2. Prague

3. Hawaii

4. Moscow

5. Japan

[Toshtishtash 1]

Top places I have been:

Venice

Mexico (Cancun)

Paris

Dubai (Amazing place)

Everywhere that I have been in America so far has been awesome!

Places that I want to go:

Mauritius (sp)

Norway

Japan

China

Alaska

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I keep thinking of more places - I don't know if they are top 5:

Alaska (Gates of the Artic NP looks amazing)

Iceland

Norway during the summer solstice

Cuba

Belize

[almaty 19]

Top places i have been...

1. zuni and the hopi reservations and was invited into a Kiva

2. pine ridge.sioux res..and was in a sweat lodge with people i admire and attended a sun dance done by leonard crowdog

3, el progreso honduras..

4. almaty kazakhstan

5. eastport maine..walking on the beach with my sun and telling jokes..and hanging out with Passamoquoddies and hearng their myths and legends

6. Jamaica

6 Cancun

like to go...

1. helsinki finland

2. the amazon..my dad and his friend traveled down the amazon when he was 70 for 3 weeks

3. back to almaty

4. moscow

5. germany

[LiszyandKenny 5]

Top 5 have been to:

jundp - I will have to copy this one from you

1. Southern Germany. Driving to Neuschwanstein (touristy, I know) and seeing the Alps in the background.

2. Italy - I love that country so much. Cinque Terre, Tuscany, Calabria, everywhere there is heaven to me.

3. Brazil - My country is very beautiful and is way much more than just Rio de Janeiro (which sucks )

4. Portugal - Lisbon, Cascais... lovely places

5. Normandie (St. Michael, Dol-de-Bretagne) and Provence

Want to go:

India

Pacific Islands

Scandinavia

Croatia

Serbia & Montenegro

[Imua 0]

Top 5 have been to:

jundp - I will have to copy this one from you

1. Southern Germany. Driving to Neuschwanstein (touristy, I know) and seeing the Alps in the background.

The first trip I took overseas was to southern Germany, in high school- I will never forget it. The architecture, the Black Forest, the paintings at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich(definitely one of my top 3 European cities), the food(spaetzle with cheese and mushrooms -to die for), my first legal(and GOOD) beer and the first time this Hawaii girl had ever seen snow mountains.

I wanna go back!!!

I also love Austria for similar reasons.

Brazil - I think I would go nuts(in a good way) seeing parrots and monkeys all over the place

Edited October 25, 2007 by Pattu Rani

[LiszyandKenny 5]

lol....yuo will only se parrots and monkeys like this if you either go to the Zoo or to the jungle

[Imua 0]

lol....yuo will only se parrots and monkeys like this if you either go to the Zoo or to the jungle

Aww, don't spoil my dream!

There are plenty of monkeys in Nepal and on Mt. Emei(very aggressive and smart - they waited in ambush on the balcony outside our hotel room for us to come out in the morning) but I want to see wild parrots!!! The only ones I have seen were in Rewalsar- ringnecks like my avatar - very cool to see them roost in the trees on the cliff overlooking the lake.

Edited October 25, 2007 by Pattu Rani

[LiszyandKenny 5]

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[Jasman0717 9]

My all-time favorite was exploring the Philippines. Of course I would also like to play a few course in Scotland but there are also lots of places in the good Ol U.S. of A that I want to see too. I have never been to the east coast so haven't experienced all that history so will certainly put that on my 'things to do list' when I retire.

[Ta Ta 1]

Been to :

1. Germany

2. Austria

3. Hungary

4. France

5. Sierra Leone

Want to go to :

1. Sierra Leone ( see my fiance's village in the bush where he was born and raised )

2. Senegal ( to get this 2. interview over with )

3. Carribean

4. anywhere there are gorgeous fall colors

5. any deserted island