Your Dream Destinations?

[tuppaware]

Where would you like to go , but haven't made it yet ?

Mine (as a plane buff) is to spend a couple of days at St Maarten.
For those who dont know - Airport next to the beach - half french/half dutch island in the northeast Caribbean.

 

[tuapekastar]

Generally, Antarctica. Specifically, nowhere.

I've seen some of those St Maarten landings, and reckon it'd be sensational to be on the beach there for one of them.

Hope we both manage to make it there some day.

 

[notzac]

It's a fairly long list for me..!

In terms of places I haven't been to and want to see - Santiago de Chile, Lima, Chicago (at least, more than the airport), Vancouver, Barcelona, Berlin, Prague, Moscow, Osaka and Taipei. There are heaps more...

 

[tuppaware]

Generally, Antarctica. Specifically, nowhere.


Hope we both manage to make it there some day.

Hopefully next year for me. But thats too far off.

 

[Skyring]

The places I dream about.

1. Sitting, lying, walking, driving beside a beautiful woman, holding her hand, loving her and she loving me back. I'm a lucky man, because that's pretty much every day of my life.

2. The places I'd like to go. Um. Everywhere. Antarctica, South America as continents to tick those boxes, and Africa because half an hour on the dock in Port Said is not near enough. The Pyramids, the Nile, the great game parks, the Andes and the glaciers. Skyring Sound in Chile. Berlin, New Orleans, Rome, Cape Canaveral and about a million other places.

3. The places I want to go back to. New Zealand. All of it. I love it. Paris and San Francisco are the two great cities I love best. My heart beats harder and faster in both of them. St Malo, Guernsey, Edinburgh, Chicago, Seattle, Charleston, Barcelona. Fraser Island. Fremantle, Manly, Port Arthur. So many places, so many memories, so many dreams of what I'd do again.

4. The great art galleries of the world. Each different, each a feast. Some I've seen, some I dream about. Each one is a place in its own right, each one a tour of the imagination, a feast of the senses, a world of dreams. A few weeks from now I'll be in the Rijksmuseum gazing on the Night Watch. There's a dream of dacades right there.

5. But, you know, of all the places in the world, the one I love most is right here in Canberra. There's no other place quite like it, and though self-government is destroying the dream, it's still a marvellous place.

I'm a lucky, lucky man.

 

[anat0l]

Dream destinations?

I think this will be popular, but Antarctica.

Apart from that, there's a lot on my list....would it be crass to list them all....(I won't 'cos I know I could go on for a while)....so in no particular order....

• Easter Island
• Macchu Picchu (but I need to be a lot more fit to do that )
• Cape Town
• Escondida - largest copper mine in the world. Located in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. Yes, I know this doesn't appeal to many people... I have my reasons.....
• Ushuaia, the capital of the southernmost Argentinian province, Tierra del Fuego
• Moscow - although how to do this without being shot, ostracised, ripped off or poisoned by the city water
• Iceland - all over, not just Reykjavik
• Anchorage
• Scandinavian fjords (now where would be the closest city / best way to see some prominent ones....)
• Ayers Rock - yep, born in Australia but haven't seen it yet. Embarrassing, isn't it?
• Istanbul
• Niagara Falls
• Budapest

 

[ronza]

• Easter Island
• Macchu Picchu (but I need to be a lot more fit to do that )

Amazing - spent New Years 09/10 on the trail. There's a train that goes up there too which saves a heck of a lot of walking aye

I'd love to see more of Australia - most backpackers I've met overseas have seen more of it than me. Great Ocean Road, Uluru, Kakadu, Broome, more of Cairns and Cape Trib...

Apart from that, really keen to visit more of the Middle East. The old city of Sana'a in Yemen in particular. Hopefully I'll get a chance i the security situation improves (or go a little insane and go anyway) when I'm over there in July.

I've got an unfinished mug collection from the Guggenheims of the world too...

 

[samh004]

Machu Pichu sounds good. Mt Everest (to the top) is also on the list. Tibet I guess.

Generally, Antarctica. Specifically, nowhere.

I’d have to agree with you on that one. Could almost apply to live at a research station for a year, but I doubt I’d have internet access to AFF

 

[k_sheep]

Ahh to dream.

Machu pichu and antarctica are on the list for me too. Also central america (again, without being robbed and shot would be preferable). Mongolia. The rest of Eastern europe. Plains of Africa (without contracting horrible diseases).

Mr k_sheep has a bug in his bonnet to go to Keurgulen Island because one of his ancestors was born there. Not an easy place to get to though! (fly to mauritius - reunion - 6 week boat trip on research vessel - wait for good weather to chopper to land).

 

[Dave R32]

Firstly to get to and from my dream destinations I would have to be travelling First Class with my wife. ( kids at home, safe and sound for the duration)

1. Villers–Bretonneux and Pozières war cemetries to place poppies on the graves of my great, great uncles who are burried there (2 out of 5 GG uncles who went to WW1, 4 of which were brothers)

2. To watch the finish of the Tour de France in Paris and then cycle some of the stages.

3. Northern Italy to introduce my wife to the wonderful people and food.

4. San Franciso, New York in 5+ star luxury.

Cheers
Dave.

 

[tuppaware]

Firstly to get to and from my dream destinations I would have to be travelling First Class with my wife. ( kids at home, safe and sound for the duration)

1. Villers–Bretonneux and Pozières war cemetries to place poppies on the graves of my great, great uncles who are burried there (2 out of 5 GG uncles who went to WW1, 4 of which were brothers)

2. To watch the finish of the Tour de France in Paris and then cycle some of the stages.

3. Northern Italy to introduce my wife to the wonderful people and food.

4. San Franciso, New York in 5+ star luxury.

Cheers
Dave.

They are all every achievable travel goals.

The Antarctic sounds interesting, but I know that bumpy sea voyages make me sick. Unless they can flight me there. I know there is a A318 flight down once a year in summer?

 

[samh004]

Mr k_sheep has a bug in his bonnet to go to Keurgulen Island because one of his ancestors was born there. Not an easy place to get to though! (fly to mauritius - reunion - 6 week boat trip on research vessel - wait for good weather to chopper to land).

That reminds me, not in the same frame of mind, but I’d love to visit the Falkland Islands, as I’m a little patriotic like that

 

[drron]

Did reply last night but after pushing the submit button AFF disappeared-off on a dream trip?
I am very fortunate having retired in 2006 but able to work part time so that we can afford to keep travelling in style.We have our bucket list which tends to grow with time.I am doubly fortunate to be able to travel with mrsdrron and live on the Sunshine Coast-one of the World's beautiful areas.
Still to do this year are Svalbard and the arctic circle,Helsinki,Moscow,Prague and in December the Antarctic.for 2011 we have already got a cruise of the Aleutians and Siberia.
For the future Africa with a selection of game parks along with the Victoria and Tugela Falls.
More of South america-Macchu Picchu,Tierra Del Fuego,Iguazu falls and the Falklands.
More of europe.
A driving tour of Scotland.
Along with our shopping trips to the US,working around australia and at least an annual Asia trip.
I am following my 2 life guidelines-Life is not a Dress Rehearsal.
Treat others as you wish to be treated.

 

[k_sheep]

That reminds me, not in the same frame of mind, but I’d love to visit the Falkland Islands, as I’m a little patriotic like that

That is far more achievable though, go for it!!

Good words to live by drron

 

[tuppaware]

That is far more achievable though, go for it!!

Good words to live by drron

I thought there was trouble brewing in that part of the world again?

I'm patriotic to the motherland - in fact Australia behind in a lot of civil liberties compared the Uk. But I wouldn't live there.

 

[RockDoc]

Great topic! In no particular order:

1. Japan, making sure to take in Hombu Dojo - where Aikido was founded. Headed there in Feb so soon to be knocked off the list.

2. Persia. Pretty much all of it.

3. North Eastern Syria / Far southeast Turkey. I have been here already but there is so much to see and experience, and the hospitality of the locals is fantastic (compared to having a target printed on your chest in places like Istanbul as an obvious outsider)

4. Antarctica. Prince Charles mountains would be awesome to experience.

5. New York, going 5 star the whole way; food, hotel, transport, nightlife. A lowly Perthite like myself can only dream of such cultural diversity and vibrancy.

6. Home, after I've been at work for weeks in the middle of nowhere.

 

[JohnK]

I wish there was an endless supply of time and money so I could visit all the places I dream about.

• Another planet in another galaxy
• All the Ancient Greek cities including Constantinople and Trapezounta
• Jerusalem and other cities from the Old Testament
• Agion Oros
• Scotland, Ireland and Wales (some magical places and great golf courses)
• All the Greek islands (stonewash houses and crystal clear water)
• Alexandria, Pyramids and the Nile
• Easter Island
• Macchu Picchu and other ancient Incan, Mayan and Aztec sites
• Iceland
• Alaska
• Seattle
• The Great Lakes area in USA and Canada (especially places like Chicago and Detroit)
• Myrtle Beach (a gorgeous 70 miles stretch of manicured golf courses
• Monterey peninsula
• Mt Everest, Nepal and Tibet

Dreams don't cost anything....

 

[Soundguy]

Hoping to get to EAA Airventure in OshKosh this July - where I'll be aircraft looking + shopping.

Would like to visit Israel and Iran (might need to reverse that order for visa stamp reasons). At this rate one or the other may just be a glowing hole in the ground by the time I get there.... google earth could be as close as it gets!

Hmm, for now I'll be content with cruising the US in July; see the fireworks, suck in the anti-communist vibe at a Tea Party....

 

[NYCguy]

The Moon. That's about it.

 

[tuppaware]

The Moon. That's about it.

I'd think the journey to the moon would be more exciting then the moon itself. It just being a rock with little gravity .

Outerspace (ie star trek style) would be cool.