NationStates Jolt Archive

if you could go on holiday/vacation to just one place for a week, right now, where would you go? cost is not an issue, all expenses paid, and they only show the best movies on the flight (mostly porn ;))
post a pic of your destination if you can find one :)


myself, my current #1 fancy is i'd love to go to Machu Picchu in Peru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu (and take a shitload of photographic kit :P )

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Peru_Machu_Picchu_Sunset.jpg/450px-Peru_Machu_Picchu_Sunset.jpg

I would like to visit my gf in aberdeen (although she normally only lives 22 miles away over there *points*, i still dont get to see her often transport her is terrible :()

I would probably go with Switzerland or Austria.

Somewhere in Europe, probably.

I would like to visit my gf in aberdeen (although she normally only lives 22 miles away over there *points*, i still dont get to see her often transport her is terrible :()
mm i hear that... i'd like to visit my gf in inverness, but she's back on tuesday so its not so bad. be cool to go up there though, cos the views and islands and mountains etc just look fantstic (and would be perfect for a spot of walking and photography...)

Philadelphia. True it's only 2 hours away.. but I think it's the best place in the world. I even know my favorite store and starbucks. Betsy Ross' house, Starbuck, a Real World house, and a cool store all on one corner. How American. God bless 3rd & Arch.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/philly/

PM you would love South Street.

http://southstreet.com/ssp/

Anywhere I want to? Oooh... then I'd have to say the Ennedi and Tibesti regions in Chad. I've had trouble finding decent pictures online, but you get the idea:

http://tchadmonpays.free.fr/cartes/hte_def/recueil-de-rochers.jpg

And if that didn't work out, I'd go back to here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereyouthinkyougoing/92763204/in/set-72057594055931133/) in a flash. :)

1 week? Pfft, I don't care for big holidays less than 2 weeks long. I'd rather i didn't get all expenses paid, but could live and work there for 2 month or more. There are so many places to go to though... I'd have a hard time choosing just one. Probably somewhere in the non-European part if the former Soviet Union. Maybe Azerbajian or Kazakhstan.

1 week? 1 week doesn't give you enough time to do anything indepth. I scorn on your short holidays.

Scandinavia. No contest. I've wanted to go there for a long time now.

I think I'd make a tour from the North Pole to the South Pole, through Europe and Africa.
There's so many places I'de like to see on the way, Norway, Finland, St. Petersburg, Moskow, Yalta, Istanbul, Egypt, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, the Victoria Falls, Kruger National Park.... to name but a few.

Scandinavia. No contest. I've wanted to go there for a long time now.
It snows at the moment. Do you really want to deal with that, in frakkin' March?

I'd go to Galway. To see someone. *le sigh*

Anywhere I want to? Oooh... then I'd have to say the Ennedi and Tibesti regions in Chad. I've had trouble finding decent pictures online, but you get the idea:

http://tchadmonpays.free.fr/cartes/hte_def/recueil-de-rochers.jpg

And if that didn't work out, I'd go back to here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereyouthinkyougoing/92763204/in/set-72057594055931133/) in a flash. :)
That reminds me of somewhere else...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Pinnacles_pano_2005-08-26.jpg

Pinnacles desert, in Western Australia. It's pretty cool.

I'd go to Ireland.

I'd go to Galway. To see someone. *le sigh*

Well, my second choice would be Bochum. For much the same reason. But, if things go well, I'll go there anyway at the end of this month :)

I'd check out Kurdish Iraq, just to see if its as safe and sound as the media says it is.

I'd check out Kurdish Iraq, just to see if its as safe and sound as the media says it is.

*lol
I remember the terrorist attacks of the Kurdish PKK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKK) in Germany too well to assume that anywhere with a lot of Kurds around is a particularly safe place :p

And if that didn't work out, I'd go back to here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereyouthinkyougoing/92763204/in/set-72057594055931133/) in a flash. :)
wow :eek:

That reminds me of somewhere else...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Pinnacles_pano_2005-08-26.jpg

Pinnacles desert, in Western Australia. It's pretty cool.

Oooooohhh, that's like porn to me, you know. Travel porn. :p
That looks great.

Did you see Zhang Yimou's "Hero"? That picture totally reminds of that insanely beautiful white Chinese desert where the "white" part of the movie is set. I'm not having too much luck with pics today, here's all I could find: one (http://www.geocities.com/azuchiwind/hero_desert.jpg), two (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/film_award/images/index/hero01.jpg), three (http://csc.ziyi.org/news/hero-ziyifeature01-variety-pic01.jpg) (the last one mainly because it best shows the actual colors). It's in Inner Mongolia, IIRC, and I really want to got there one day.

ETA: Um, yeah, I just realized that these pics look nothing like the one of Australia. :p But in the movie it did, I swear!

I remember the terrorist attacks of the Kurdish PKK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKK) in Germany too well to assume that anywhere with a lot of Kurds around is a particularly safe place.
From what I hear, the Kurds in Iraq love American's right now. I don't know about the ones in other states, but having met a very vocal Canadian of Kurdish descendant, I've learned that Kurds are apparently the worlds largest minority without thier own country, or something along those lines. I take everything with a bit of salt, because I really have no idea. Anyhow, Northern Iraq is where I'd be going on this weekend vacation.

Oh, Mongolia, totally forgot about that! Gotta check that out sometime! :D

I'd go visit my bf... I was going to do that this month, but due to very little holiday/ major issue of being kicked out (soon) of the appartment i'm living in, i'm gonna have to be moving then/ other random crap that's keeping me from going :(

Kakadu & the Top End.

http://www.trafalgar.com/upload/images/map/pcdda_map_aus.jpg

http://www.adventure-tours-australia.com/gulf-top-end/images/kadadu-yellow-waters.jpg

http://www.australianbedandbreakfast.com.au/northern-territory-bandb/gallery/images/kakadu-escarpment.jpg

Probably the Pyrenees. I havent been on a snowboarding holiday in aaaages.

http://psych.fullerton.edu/navarick/tahiti.jpg
http://www.janeresture.com/tahiti/TAHITI%20Postcard%20Gorgeous%20Sunset%20Over%20Moorea1.jpg
Tahiti. Hands down.

Rome, probably.

Sitka, Alaska. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitka%2C_Alaska)

Scandinavia. No contest. I've wanted to go there for a long time now.

Yeah I'd go to Iceland to visit my gf's parents and to see all the things she has told me about.

Right now, nowhere. In a few weeks, Disneyland Resort Paris.

Tokyo, probably.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Shibuya_tokyo.jpg

I happen to like big cities, and Tokyo is the biggest. :p

...myself, my current #1 fancy is i'd love to go to Machu Picchu in Peru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu (and take a shitload of photographic kit :P )

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Peru_Machu_Picchu_Sunset.jpg/450px-Peru_Machu_Picchu_Sunset.jpg

machu picchu is amazing! and it looks even better in real life then it does in the pictures :).

me i would eather go to london or some where really warm with a beach.
i would also love to go to the middle east and go hawking in the desert from horseback.

if you could go on holiday/vacation to just one place for a week, right now, where would you go? cost is not an issue, all expenses paid, and they only show the best movies on the flight (mostly porn ;))
post a pic of your destination if you can find one :)I'm surprised no-one has explored the parameters of this question as far as they could... Theoretically you could say anywhere in the universe, you know...


But I won't be greedy. Let's just say I choose Mars. (I'm assuming my expenses would include provision of pressure suit, suitable environmentally-sound accomodation and the flight be some sort of usable interplanatary starship or possibly even Stargate.)

I'd take a bucket and spade and bring some rock back. Provision of said samples to earth-bound scientists at even bagain-basement prices (compared with how much 'standard' collection of samples would cost) should allow me to retire and afford as many more other weeks of more earthly travel as I could wish as well... [Unless the ability to holiday there had not as mysteriously evapourated after my trip as it had much as it had somehow materialised before, in which case fair game to those that go after me... But I could at least live off of the fame... ;]

Philadelphia. True it's only 2 hours away.. but I think it's the best place in the world.

I am totally on the same page...I am planning a vacation in Philly right now for May. I especially love the University City district.
http://www.ucityphila.org/home/index.cfm

Besides that, I'd probably like to go see my old stomping grounds around Harrogate and have some fun in the UK now that I'm not 10 years old anymore.

The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. Why spend a whole week in a salt mine you ask?
Looky (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Wieliczka.jpg)

The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. Why spend a whole week in a salt mine you ask?
Looky (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Wieliczka.jpg)
That's beautiful :)

That's beautiful :)
The History Channel had a Modern Marvels thing on Mining, and Wieliczka got a bit of screen time on it for being one of the biggest (or maybe it was the biggest) underground mine. Sad part is, they closed off the part of the mine that you used to be able to go boating in after a couple of dumbass tourists got themselves killed.