Countries you most definitely DON'T want to visit

Hande hoche!

TeddyTedson wrote: »

East Germany.
Persia.
Rhodesia.
Siam.
Zanzibar.

Czechoslovakia?

EverEvolving

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Narnia.

That place is right up on my top ten, who wouldn't want to go there?!

Hank_Jones

Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin island!

Poor Craythur

Sergeant wrote: »

Myself and the missus were there when doing the trans-mongolian. Meh. Between the hoops you jump through to get a visa, the mostly dreadful food, the prices, the corruption encountered when dealing with the police, the "frosty" nature of many of the people we encountered, well it wouldn't be a place I'd visit again in too much of a hurry.

Ooh, thanks for this. I was thinking of doing the Trans-Mongolian but it's so expensive, so this post gives me food for thought.

ballsymchugh

Karsini wrote: »

Oddly enough I'd be interested in visiting North Korea, haha. I wouldn't visit Saudi Arabia though.

this crowd do excellent tours to north korea

http://www.koryogroup.com/

i have zero interest in visiting australia. not since bouncer left ramsay street anyway.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

EverEvolving wrote: »

That place is right up on my top ten, who wouldn't want to go there?!

No pubs.

old hippy

OPENROAD wrote: »

Surprisingly little coverage at the moment, but will be a big boost for the UK in terms of publicity, you only have to look at how many journalists the US networks are sending over :eek:

Heh. You're being sarcastic, right?

It will be a huge boost, mind. Take peoples minds off the wars, tory govt and high unemployment. After all, it worked in the 80s...

Poor Craythur

TeddyTedson wrote: »

East Germany.
Persia.
Rhodesia.
Siam.
Zanzibar.

I'd like to go to British Honduras, personally, then I'd like to go to the Irish Free State.

old hippy

Poor Craythur wrote: »

I know someone who went on holiday there a few years ago. They had to go on government tours and pose for official photographs and stuff. All very controlled and creepy.

Closest I got was a tour of the DMZ. Pretty intense. Things were tense between the 2 Koreas at the time.

Latchy

Sergeant wrote: »

Myself and the missus were there when doing the trans-mongolian. Meh. Between the hoops you jump through to get a visa, the mostly dreadful food, the prices, the corruption encountered when dealing with the police, the "frosty" nature of many of the people we encountered, well it wouldn't be a place I'd visit again in too much of a hurry.

Yeah , just as I thought to and that dreadful history in the sense of how a large nation turns in on it's own people with the paranoia and slaughter that was a normal part of daily life and the the whole slum like look of huge parts of it...

TeddyTedson

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Czechoslovakia?

Absolutely.
Yugoslavia too now that I think of it.
Oddly enough however the USSR is a country I most definitely like to visit.
I'd love to see the motherland return some day.

old hippy

Hande hoche! wrote: »

But the gum and the porn??

Avoid doing both at the same time

TeddyTedson

old hippy wrote: »

Closest I got was a tour of the DMZ. Pretty intense. Things were tense between the 2 Koreas at the time.

epic post count right now.

krudler

one place I shouldnt want to go to but really do is Pripyat, mostly because I'm a big Call of Duty fan and it plays a big part in one of the games, but it also looks like the creepiest place on earth. A friend of mine went a couple of years ago and said its not so bad until you get into the school and see empty desk and headless dolls and the like around the place, creepy as ****

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat_%28city%29

Agent Smith

Bray

TeddyTedson

old hippy wrote: »

Avoid doing both at the same time

...gone

cosmicfart

Nazi Germany

Brenireland

Bermuda Triangle,their are only 3 corners but still you'll always manage to get lost.

Daegerty

cosmicfart wrote: »

Nazi Germany

Just spend the whole day going on about how much you hate Jews and you will be left alone

old hippy

TeddyTedson wrote: »

...gone

Goshdarnnit!

cosmicfart

Daegerty wrote: »

Just spend the whole day going on about how much you hate Jews and you will be left alone

I didnt want to visit because of that it cus they didnt destroy the British bloody wasters

Spunge

krudler wrote: »

one place I shouldnt want to go to but really do is Pripyat, mostly because I'm a big Call of Duty fan and it plays a big part in one of the games, but it also looks like the creepiest place on earth. A friend of mine went a couple of years ago and said its not so bad until you get into the school and see empty desk and headless dolls and the like around the place, creepy as ****

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat_%28city%29

I'd say Call of Duty 4 and Stalker increased the tourism to Pripyat a fair amount

Daegerty

Spunge wrote: »

I'd say Call of Duty 4 and Stalker increased the tourism to Pripyat a fair amount

I dunno its hard enough for the lads playing that to crawl up from their mother's basement not to mind travel to the back arse of the Ukraine

Deedsie

KeithAFC wrote: »

Germany

I am quite surprised you didn't come in with some hilarious sectarian quip about the ROI or The Irish Free State, Or Éire.

Good on you Keith.

Dangerous Man

I can't think of one. I'd like to see as many as possible. Even though they're probably all filled with assholes.

Dj Stiggie

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I can't think of one. I'd like to see as many as possible. Even though they're probably all filled with assholes.

Same. There's very few countries I wouldn't like to visit. In its current state (or non-state) I suppose Somalia, but if things got under control in the future I'd go.

cosmicfart

Islamabad, its got a dangerous tone to its name

latenia

I'll never visit Dubai-what's the point?

7sr2z3fely84g5

Colombia,forward to 1.35 to see-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4xCJjINeo

dx22

latenia wrote: »

I'll never visit Dubai-what's the point?

Its now called the O2 arena

cocoshovel

Somalia.

Daegerty

dx22 wrote: »

Its now called the O2 arena

Only a consumerist sheeple would call a thing by its rebranded name

wolf moon

russia
ukraine
some of the african countries

starlit

Anywhere in Asia, South America, Africa, Middle East countries and a couple of islands.

30txsbzmcu2k9w

Congo. This is a fantastic read if anyone has nothing else to do. Belgian couple detailing their trip on a message board. Insane they made it out at all. Hell on earth.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50799

Rhys Essien

Before anyone slags it off.............

Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium
All other countries inferior potassium.:D

Sergeant

Donald Loud Blackberry wrote: »

Congo. This is a fantastic read if anyone has nothing else to do. Belgian couple detailing their trip on a message board. Insane they made it out at all. Hell on earth.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50799

Being from Belgium hardly made them flavour of the month in fairness.

Daegerty

Everleigh Polite Chickpea wrote: »

And of the Stans

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Before anyone slags it off.............

Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium
All other countries inferior potassium.:D

A few years ago I saw a documentary series called "Meet the Stans" about all these countries, fascinating places I'd love to visit. Turkmenistan doesn't look bad either

rossie1977

germany is a great country and i would highly recommend everyone visit the beer festival in munich (not on saturday night or opening night though too many people) and berlin is a world class city

loled at op description of netherlands, englands not bad either, go for a weekend in blackpool sometime

tommy21

krudler wrote: »

Somalia would top the list for me, Mogadishu is meant to be hell on earth

Ditto and add to that Saudi Arabia, Swaziland and Nigeria. Even tripadvisor only lists two hotels in Moghadishu, of which one has a review: http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g294440-d1229336-Reviews-Hotel_Shamo-Mogadishu.html

Located near K-4, 10 minutes drive from the center of the city, hotel Shamo is one of the best hotels in Mogadishu. The rooms are large, with air conditionned, wi-fi and electricity 24 h a day. The restaurant is extremely decent, and serve lobster when available at the fish market. The Shamo hotel is also relatively safe, which remains something important in Mogadishu.

Daegerty

tommy21 wrote: »

Ditto and add to that Saudi Arabia, Swaziland and Nigeria. Even tripadvisor only lists two hotels in Moghadishu, of which one has a review: http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g294440-d1229336-Reviews-Hotel_Shamo-Mogadishu.html

Located near K-4, 10 minutes drive from the center of the city, hotel Shamo is one of the best hotels in Mogadishu. The rooms are large, with air conditionned, wi-fi and electricity 24 h a day. The restaurant is extremely decent, and serve lobster when available at the fish market. The Shamo hotel is also relatively safe, which remains something important in Mogadishu.

That would put me off really. If i'm going to a war stricken place like that I'd expect at least one opportunity every morning to empty a few magazines of my AK47 into a bunch of troublemaking scumbags cause that just isn't legal where I'm from unfortunately

Saila

united states of guns

ironictoaster

Russia

Poor Craythur

I'd go to Russia but no fúcking way am I ever getting on an Aeroflot plane. They're on my blacklist. You too, American Airlines. *frowns and mutterly to self incoherently whilst pacing around the room*

b.o.m.d.a.s.

i don't want to visit Jamaica

Saila

Asia, ALL of it

Pauleta

All of Africa, every arab country, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Most of Russia especially the Caucases (although the winter olympics is tempting), Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, most of Mexico and all of central America bar Panama, USA, Albania, Moldova, Haiti, Myanmar, Phillipines, indonesia, Jamaica.

pragmatic1

Pauleta wrote: »

All of Africa, every arab country, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Most of Russia especially the Caucases (although the winter olympics is tempting), Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, most of Mexico and all of central America bar Panama, USA, Albania, Moldova, Haiti, Myanmar, Phillipines, indonesia, Jamaica.

Essentially the ****holes of the world.

SuperInfinity

What's wrong with Saudi Arabia?

I think some people have a bit of a warped opinion of some of these nations... probably from the media. Saudi Arabia is a beautiful country with fine people. Their wealth mainly comes from oil, true. US wealth mainly comes from their banking system and corperations systematically strangling other economies.

The US executes and tortures far more people than these countries. And despite what the western media sometimes likes to portray, it is NEVER for a simple offence like adultery or homosexuality.... not in countries like Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia.... the so-called "axis of evil"....

OH NOES!!! THE AXIS OF EVIL!!!111!!!1

You can thank each other all you like and live in your ridiculous euro-centric ignorant view of the world.

Yakult

The middle-east, what a **** hole if I've ever seen one. North africa, was in Tunisia a few years back and it was as exciting as the pope.

Unforunly Japan now, which is a shame as I always wanted to live there for a year. Aint happening now.