Have you ever been to *insert mad place*

beano345

id love to go to black rock,nevada desert for the burning man! anyone ever been to it?

blatantrereg

I've been to Harlem and Darndale. Harlem is a lot nicer.

Boombastic

beano345 wrote: »

id love to go to black rock,nevada desert for the burning man! anyone ever been to it?

Yep, went to the burning man in 2006 for the 21st birthday , absolutely surreal experience. I would love go back again.

Mr Benevolent

Chemical Burn wrote: »

I have booked a holiday with my amazing beautiful girlfriend

I've just booked a holiday with your girlfriend too.

The Backwards Man

Stornoway in the Hebrides, it was that much fun I almost died.

In my sleep.

LizT

Plazaman wrote: »

Butner, North Carolina. Talk about a hicksville central, up the main street down the same street kind of town. The nicest paranoid, xenophobic, racist pack of people you could ever meet. "Do you really talk like that?" was the most asked question off me, don't think they ever heard an accent from outside Butner.

I love small town America

I was travelling with people from all over Europe and people from South Korea. We got some really weird looks.

robindch

Kichote wrote: »

Okpo, South Korea. Mighty spot

Amateur. I've been to Pyongyang in North Korea:

BTW, the tall building to the left is the Yanggakdo International Hotel.

bobwilliams

The most beautiful girl in the world (ie, my beautiful girlfriend) and I are going to Budapest on holiday in July Just booked it now Can't wait .. love you so much S****** Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ♥

please op tell me you're no older than 17 or 18,i'd say if she blows you out it's straight down to woodies for a good rope.

Auldloon

Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Saudi's are horrid.

Plazaman

LizT wrote: »

I love small town America

Lynchburg Tennessee is a lovely spot. Is it just a town square and that is it, but a gorgeous diner there and lovely people. On the upside it has the Jack Daniels factory to keep it in business with tourists but on the downside Moore County is a dry County so you can't even taste a drop of JD within a 20 mile radius of the place it's made.

LizT

Plazaman wrote: »

Lynchburg Tennessee is a lovely spot. Is it just a town square and that is it, but a gorgeous diner there and lovely people. On the upside it has the Jack Daniels factory to keep it in business with tourists but on the downside Moore County is a dry County so you can't even taste a drop of JD within a 20 mile radius of the place it's made.

I was near there, didn't go though. We camped in a small town on the Alabama/Tennessee border. The locals used to drive across the border to Alabama to buy Jack Daniels, made zero sense to me.

Paramite Pie

I went trekking in Peru, in the Urubamba mountains in the Sacred Valley. It's not that far from the touristy stuff but is very isolated since you can't drive there and we hiked for almost 2 weeks camping in some very scenic spots.

Quechua was more widely spoken than Spanish in the 'villages' we passed through... we saw thatched cottages with no running water, electricity.. living only on subsistence farming etc.. it looked alot like Ireland would've hundreds of years ago.

They even cooked for us in a pit dug in the ground (like a fulacht fia). Before the food was eaten we would toast to 'mother earth' by everyone pouring some wine on the ground and drinking the rest. Afterwards we had a few shots of some kind of spirit (tasted like Sambucca) to kill any germs to lessen the risk of food poisoning.

There were people still living in the mountains at altitudes of 4100 ft (we hiked to 4500ft) whereas Machu Picchu is 'only' 2500ft.

We were the only tourists these people had seen all year because of the difficult terrain despite our geographical proximity to well known tourist sites...

dj jarvis

Hitched hiked from Dublin port , via the UK - France - Belgium - Holland -Germany - Poland and onto the Belarus border with Russia.
It took 3 weeks , done some festivals along the way,
And this was only a few years after the wall came down - Place was rough to put it mildly - but have to say the further east i went , the nicer the people got.

Might not be a exotic location but was a change of scenery from Ireland.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

kaimera wrote: »

Chad
Sierra Leone

****holes. don't bother going.

oh, and **** Nigeria as well

Ditto!

I wont even look at them on a map anymore! Absolute ranch!

bnt

I've been to Hillbrow in Johannesburg (South Africa) several times, but (to be fair) it wasn't that mad when I was there: my last visit was in 1991.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRaJka_1l28

It used to be the most interesting part of Jo'burg with nightclubs, guitar and records shops, funky food, and so on. The video touches on what happened later in the 1990s, though it's a bit PC about it: apartment buildings "hijacked" by gangs, some local, some from other African countries such as Nigeria. There have been signs of a turnaround in recent years (example).

travis1976

I've been to Dojč in Slovakia. Modern town but the outskirts are like something out of Hostel, bad roads, houses with bars on the windows, real bad vibe in the bars. Interesting though.

Balmed Out

I have found that in general the more off the tourist radar a spot is the better the reason for being off the radar. Its either crap or getting there is so difficult as to not be worth it.

FTA69

I was in Kurdistan once i.e. eastern Turkey. Easily the maddest gaff I've ever been, and I don't mean "mad" in the loveably fun-crazy sense; rather mad in the sense you've an odds-on chance of being kidnapped and never seen again. The place is wracked with political conflict and on a local level there's more bandits and armed clans (often one and the same) than you can shake a Kalashnikov at.

I'm off to Palestine after the summer which should also be an unmitigated barrel of giggles.

Seachmall

Malelane in South Africa.

Using the bus and stopping in Matsulu was an experience for sure. It was an honour being the first white person some of the local children had ever seen.

And there are some of the most beautiful views in the world on that bus route.

Celly Smunt

Off to Tehran to a friend in October myself.Ive never been that far into the middle east but apparently its safe and the people are nice.

liamygunner29

You 2 little mad scones going on a wild adventure!!!

So random.

Totes amazeballs and beautiful 4eva.

:pac:

kaimera

pmcmahon wrote: »

Off to Tehran to a friend in October myself.Ive never been that far into the middle east but apparently its safe and the people are nice.

tehran is nice.

go for a climb of tochal if you can

opinion guy

liamygunner29 wrote: »

You 2 little mad scones going on a wild adventure!!!

So random.

Totes amazeballs and beautiful 4eva.

:pac:

wtf is this MAD SCONES **** ABOUT!?!?!??!?!?

ARHGHGHG

phoenix999

Went to Kaliningrad (people always ask 'where the fcuk?'), formerly Konigsberg, the capital of Eastern Prussia where the German Kaisers were crowned. The allies bombed the crap out of it during WWII and it was annexed by Russia. A shadow of its former self.

kowloon

The pit of Sarlacc. It's nowhere near as impressive as it was in the movie, and I went on a bus, not a hovering party barge.