Your top 5 travel experiences and dreams

[Amby 490]

top places:

1. paris

2. dublin

3. prague

4. copenhagen

5. london (I love it soooo much!)

want to visit:

1. russia

2. machu picchu

3. kiribati

4. seychelles

5. alaska

[SteveLaura 0]

In no particular order:

1. Potala Palace, Tibet

Did you get to go inside? When I was there in '05 the Chinese were not letting anyone go inside the Potala - they were hyper paranoid because Hu Jintao was coming to visit Lhasa and made all of these restrictions - all foreigners had to leave Lhasa one day before his arrival - there were tanks and PLA soldiers with guns all over the place and the Barkhor was deserted - in the end I wasn't complaining because it meant we could spend more time at Samye. During our brief stay in Lhasa we did get to go inside the Jokhang(the holiest temple in Tibetan Buddhism) so I was happy.

Yes. I was there in '97, I think it was. There were CCTVs everywhere. Monks worked as guides. I had been to India a few times and told one monk who was showing me round that my regret was that I didn't get to Dharamsala & try to see the Dalai Lama. He ushered me into a corner, out of view of the cameras, and whispered to me, "We pray for his return."

[Imua 0]

top places:

1. paris

2. dublin

3. prague

4. copenhagen

5. london (I love it soooo much!)

want to visit:

1. russia

2. machu picchu

3. kiribati

4. seychelles

5. alaska

Interesting Kiribati is on your list - have you read the book The Sex Lives of Cannibals? It's about a guy who spent some time there working for an NGO, thinks he is going to a 'South Seas island paradise' but his experience was completely otherwise - hilarious book. My mom and grandmom went fishing there in the '80s and enjoyed it. I would love to go to the Cook Islands myself.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Top 5. ( in no particular order love them all for very different reasons - Top 5 dreams:

Australia

Hawaii

Canadian Rockies

Victoria, BC

Colorado

I flew over the Canadian Rockies last year on the way from Calgary to Vancouver; very beautiful, got to see the rising sun turn the peaks pink

[Emancipation 2]

Top 5. ( in no particular order love them all for very different reasons - Top 5 dreams:

Australia

Hawaii

Canadian Rockies

Victoria, BC

Colorado

I flew over the Canadian Rockies last year on the way from Calgary to Vancouver; very beautiful, got to see the rising sun turn the peaks pink

Yep.. someday that will be me tee hee.. I actually snowboard so i'll probably be ON the mountain but either way it's pretty amazing stuff!

[Sister Fracas 5]

India

Finland

Estonia

Spain

Wales

I have way too many places I want to go but I'd guess that I'll try to keep it to a list of 5 top spots

Kenya

Russia

Sri Lanka

Iceland

Australia

and then there is Thailand, Japan, Greenland, Peru, Czech Republic............................................ETC

[Jasman0717 9]

the bunny ranch and mustang ranch is better if you leave sister nessa at home....

let's plan the next vj meetup at the bunny ranch

hell yes, men only vj meet-up...

the wives/significant others can go shopping for shoes...

claudeth will happily organize that

you know it...sister claudeth is a world class shopper

amd brother jim, a world class horn dog...he will be the star of the bunny ranch..

She is the "pro from Dover" when it comes to shopping. I just don't see how she does it

[maya62 7]

Top 5:

Nepal (trekking & visiting the in-laws)

Northern New Mexico

Nova Scotia/Maine

France (particularly Cote d'Azur et Paris)

Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Dream of going:

all the way to Everest Base Camp & around the Annapurna Circuit & other less-traveled Nepal destinations

northern Europe & UK

Northern India (including Ladakh & Dharamsala)

Italy & Greece (esp by water)

somewhere along the Asian portion of the Ring of Fire, not sure exactly where

and SOMEDAY I'd like to take a trip around the world (or two) that does not involve any air travel... just trains, boats, bicycles, walking, etc...

[JeanneVictoria 55]

I have had several interesting trips by train (Europe & USA) but my favorite was from Washington DC to California on the Amtrak...book yourself a sleeper cabin and experience the trip across the states!! I went in the fall so the landscape was brilliant with fall colors, then thru the rockies with the snow....

[Imua 0]

Top 5:

Nepal (trekking & visiting the in-laws)

Northern New Mexico

Nova Scotia/Maine

France (particularly Cote d'Azur et Paris)

Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Dream of going:

all the way to Everest Base Camp & around the Annapurna Circuit & other less-traveled Nepal destinations

northern Europe & UK

Northern India (including Ladakh & Dharamsala)

Italy & Greece (esp by water)

somewhere along the Asian portion of the Ring of Fire, not sure exactly where

and SOMEDAY I'd like to take a trip around the world (or two) that does not involve any air travel... just trains, boats, bicycles, walking, etc...

Did you ever make it to Pokhara? What about Nagarkot? That is our special place..

I want to go to Ladakh, too, so many amazing gompas there and wonderful culture.

Go to Dharamsala after Losar when HHDL is giving teachings, but book a room well in advance b/c it's packed. Maybe see if you can go on a group tour/retreat with a lama who has some clout and get a private audience - we were so lucky and it is something I will never, ever forget.

[maya62 7]

Top 5:

Nepal (trekking & visiting the in-laws)

Northern New Mexico

Nova Scotia/Maine

France (particularly Cote d'Azur et Paris)

Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Dream of going:

all the way to Everest Base Camp & around the Annapurna Circuit & other less-traveled Nepal destinations

northern Europe & UK

Northern India (including Ladakh & Dharamsala)

Italy & Greece (esp by water)

somewhere along the Asian portion of the Ring of Fire, not sure exactly where

and SOMEDAY I'd like to take a trip around the world (or two) that does not involve any air travel... just trains, boats, bicycles, walking, etc...

Did you ever make it to Pokhara? What about Nagarkot? That is our special place..

I want to go to Ladakh, too, so many amazing gompas there and wonderful culture.

Go to Dharamsala after Losar when HHDL is giving teachings, but book a room well in advance b/c it's packed. Maybe see if you can go on a group tour/retreat with a lama who has some clout and get a private audience - we were so lucky and it is something I will never, ever forget.

Neither yet, but both are on the itinerary for next year when our son is on winter break from school. We plan on going for 2 weeks again and only trekking to the village in Nuwakot (not any extra trekking) so we have time to fly up to Pokhara for a couple of days and maybe a side trip to Nagarkot.

I also REALLY want to find out where Matsyagaon is... I think it is an outlying community somewhere in the Kathmandu Valley where the air monitoring station (there are 5 or 6 set up around Ktm and you can get the reports online) shows the cleanest air by far in the Valley. THAT'S where we're gonna live! My sinuses kill me every time in Ktm... I basically have to stay on sudafed to keep from getting the mother of all sinus infections. We have a friend there who thinks he might know where it is. I going to find it, come hell or high water.

[JODO 2]

Top 5 Travel Experiences

1. Visiting the Eiffel Tower at night/Sunset on the Pont Neuf

2. Dinner in Trastevere

3. Visiting the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam and seeing the bookcase that actually hid her room.

4. Seeing the Pyramids at Giza with my mom and my husband

5. Cocktails overlooking the Bosphorus in Istanbul

Top 5 to do list

1. Provence

2. Tuscany

3. Athens and Santorini , Mykonos

4. London

5. Petra

[Putali 0]

TOP FIVE visited:

1) Spain

2) Nepal

3) Bali

4) Thailand

5) Philippines

TOP FIVE want to visit (this is part of my next RTW itinerary):

1) India (especially west coast)

2) Argentina

3) Egypt

4) Croatia

5) Vietnam

[mybackpages 0]

Top Five visited

1. Italy (can't narrow it down to one place)

2. Machu Picchu

3. The dunes of the Sahara

4. Red Square Moscow

5. Paris

Top Five yet to see

1. Anartica

2. Cuba

3. Beirut

4. Chile

5. Mont Saint Michel, France

[Fandango 1,440]

3. Visiting the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam and seeing the bookcase that actually hid her room.

Yeah, walking through that place gave me the chills!

I have to think about my top 5....I'm unprepared right now, lol.