Places You Want to Visit

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05 Jun 2010 07:15 PM
Orual

Places You Want to Visit

http://www.touch4health.com/garden-staircase-kyoto.jpg
Kyoto, Japan

http://www.transitionsabroad.com/pub...ama_castle.jpg
Slovenia

http://fredvidal.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/prague.jpg
Prague, Czech Republic

http://www.nowirehangers.net/USERIMA...ullo%20(c).jpg
Lake Garda, Italy

http://nature.wallpaperme.com/4448-2...ul_+Turkey.jpg
Istanbul, Turkey

And one I have definitely no chance of seeing in real life:

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1716..._iran-Iran.jpg
Persepolis, Iran
06 Jun 2010 01:00 AM
Oliveloaf

http://gluttonize.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/tokyo.jpg
06 Jun 2010 01:26 AM
Exy

http://images.vliz.be/resized/4339_t...ny-Alesund.jpg
Svalbard, Norway.
06 Jun 2010 07:15 AM
OneCentStamp

Exy, I've always wanted to visit Svalbard as well, since I knew it existed.
06 Jun 2010 08:06 AM
Cluricaun

Glacier national park

http://www.viamigo.com/img/l/p_o_s_t...nal-park_2.jpg
06 Jun 2010 08:21 AM
Rube E. Tewesday

You know, I'm perfectly aware Svalbard is a real place, but I can no longer think of it without imagining an empire of armoured bears.
07 Jun 2010 02:06 PM
Orual

If I ever went to Svalbard, I would only be disappointed by the lack of Iorek Byrnison.

Glacier National Park is one of the most gorgeous places in the whole freaking country.

I also wouldn't mind spending some time here:

http://www.hpwt.de/China/KarstGuilin2.jpg
07 Jun 2010 04:52 PM
Myrnalene

Edinburgh

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/acurt...CaltonHill.jpg

Vienna

http://www.burtonholmes.org/business...tOpera1902.jpg

Venice

http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/new...ges/Venice.jpg

Zurich

http://www.otp.co.uk/xmas/markets/zu...night-pano.jpg

ORUAL I TOO WISH TO GO TO KYOTO, WE SHOULD TOTALLY GO TOGETHER.
07 Jun 2010 11:58 PM
Orual

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

Vienna

http://www.burtonholmes.org/business...tOpera1902.jpg

I know this was not your intent, but my initial thought was: "Myrna wants to visit Vienna in the year 1904?"

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

ORUAL I TOO WISH TO GO TO KYOTO, WE SHOULD TOTALLY GO TOGETHER.

YES. YES WE SHOULD. WE WILL STAY IN A RYOKAN, AND ADMIRE TASTEFUL GARDENS WHILE COMPOSING SMUTTY HAIKU.

http://www.kikokuso.com/english/kikokuso_bridge1.jpg

Ryokan
08 Jun 2010 08:04 AM
jali

http://media.news.com.au/travel/lp/images/BN1522_6.jpg

I want to go to Botswana. I've been reading novels set there and the country has been calling me.

http://homeshuling.files.wordpress.c.../04/egypt2.jpg

I also want to see Egypt.

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/...4617London.gif

I'm singing The Clash too!
08 Jun 2010 10:34 AM
Cluricaun

The Moonlight Bunny Ranch. Yeah, I'm a scumbag.

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//c...1643574dab.jpg
08 Jun 2010 11:43 AM
OtakuLoki

San Jacinto, TX

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/img/texas3.jpg

Groton, CT

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lus_SSN571.JPG

Fall River, MA (Though I've been here once before.)

http://www.yagrs.org/images/Battlesh...battleship.jpg

Quincy, MA

http://image48.webshots.com/48/9/96/...2dVmutn_ph.jpg

Bikini Atoll

http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal...toga-deck.jpeg

Kwajalein Atoll

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/...63a040e049.jpg

Portsmouth, UK

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/royalmar...0511093859.jpg

Belfast, Ireland

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/68/...8_f1776a44.jpg

St. Petersburg, Russia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...eur_Aurore.png

Talcahuano, Chile

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-Huascar1.jpg

Philadelphia, PA

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...SS_Olympia.jpg

Oslo, Norway

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/med...polar-ship.jpg

Stockholm, Sweeden

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...om_the_Bow.jpg

Yokosuka, Japan

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hip_Mikasa.jpg

Chicago, IL

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...505chicago.jpg

A nice, well-rounded range of intersts, don't you think? ;)

(For anyone interested: the ships are, in order, Texas, Nautilus, Massachusetts, Salem, Saratoga, Prinz Eugen, Victory, Caroline, Aurora, Huascar, Olympia, Fram, Vasa, Mikasa, and U-505.
08 Jun 2010 12:53 PM
Orual

Quote:

Originally posted by jali

I want to go to Botswana. I've been reading novels set there and the country has been calling me.!

Is it the books about the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency? Those are a hoot!
I'd also like to visit Africa - Botswana or South Africa, or maybe Tanzania.

http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/ng...ter-tza063.jpg

Quote:

Originally posted by jali

I also want to see Egypt.

Oh my, yes. I want to see Alexandria

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/3360...Alexandria.jpg

http://www.dorma.de/cache/113de11b87...e2d32ac583.jpg

Abu Simbel

http://www.gonomad.com/destinations/...mbel-Angle.jpg

and Hatshepsut's Temple of Awesome

http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/a...sut_temple.jpg
08 Jun 2010 02:50 PM
Myrnalene

Quote:

Originally posted by OtakuLoki

Quincy, MA

http://image48.webshots.com/48/9/96/...2dVmutn_ph.jpg

I can't see your boat ;) but yeah I want to go to Quincy too and see the Adams family homesteads and stuff.

Quote:

Originally posted by jali

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/...4617London.gif

My favorite city out of the ones I have been to.
08 Jun 2010 05:29 PM
artifex

Quote:

Originally posted by OtakuLoki

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/img/texas3.jpg

Been here, several times! It's pretty fun!
08 Jun 2010 09:23 PM
Glazer

OtakuLoki, what about Mobile Al.?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...labama_002.JPG
08 Jun 2010 09:36 PM
OtakuLoki

Quote:

Originally posted by Glazer

OtakuLoki, what about Mobile Al.?

Well, I'd been on her sister ship, Wisconsin while she was still in commission in the 90s. Much more recently than I was on Massachusetts. I'd enjoy seeing Alabama, but I don't have the same sort of questions about her than I do for most of the other ships I posted.

Not that I'm about to turn down an invitation. ;)

ETA: Whoops. Alabama isn't an Iowa-class ship.
08 Jun 2010 09:40 PM
The Original An Gadaí

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/...54442eeaa0.jpg

Doha, Qatar

More realistically, The Isle of Skye, Scotland

http://www.skiraware.de/Wandern/Scho...IsleOfSkye.jpg
08 Jun 2010 11:59 PM
Orual

... I think I've been on that very hunk of rock on Skye.
09 Jun 2010 09:30 AM
jali

I've read all of "The #1 Ladies" series, and I have all the episodes of the HBO show in my itunes library.

D'mella Maa. Koko.... koko.

I've read a lot of Alexander McCall's novels. The ones set in Scotland are pretty good too.
09 Jun 2010 11:54 AM
Taumpy

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

but yeah I want to go to Quincy too and see the Adams family homesteads and stuff.

Since I grew up two steps from there, it is really hard to think of Quincy as a tourist destination in any capacity.

For me if I had travel cash to spare I'd like to go on a road trip with no particular destination, and just see where it leads. Can't really show a picture of that.

Of course there's always my favorite summer destination, Provincetown, MA (which is the very tip of Cape Cod, for those unfamiliar). Both for Commercial St. This appears to be during Pride Week. Never been to that:

http://www.bostonharborcruises.com/i...incetown35.jpg

and for the beaches:

http://www.southwindcourtcottages.co...town_beach.jpg
09 Jun 2010 01:17 PM
Cluricaun

Dimmuborgir:

http://www.lamedon.de/urlaub/island/is-m35.jpg
09 Jun 2010 01:59 PM
artifex

Shark Bay:
http://www.sharkbay.org/assets/images/strom13.jpg

I'd also like to wander around Asia for a while.
09 Jun 2010 02:14 PM
Exy

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

Dimmuborgir:

Hells yes! I just first read about that place the other day, it looks fucking awesome.
09 Jun 2010 02:34 PM
Cluricaun

Quote:

Originally posted by Exy

Hells yes! I just first read about that place the other day, it looks fucking awesome.

Quote:

Originally posted by Wiki

Dimmuborgir (dimmu "dark", borgir "cities" (or "forts"); pronounced [tɪmʏpɔrcɪr]) is a large area of unusually shaped lava fields east of Mývatn in Iceland. The Dimmuborgir area is composed of various caves and rock formations, remnants of volcanic activity that are perhaps reminiscent of an ancient collapsed citadel.

In Icelandic folklore, Dimmuborgir is said to connect earth with the infernal regions. In Nordic Christian lore, it is also said that Dimmuborgir is the place where Satan landed when he was cast from the heavens and created the apparent "Catacombs av helvelte" which is Icelandic for "The Catacombs of Hell".

The Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir takes it name from the Dimmuborgir area. In late 2004 they played a benefit gig in the area for sufferers of cerebral palsy.

It is the most metal place on earth.