Is there any less known but cool places you want to visit one day? I would be interested to check out Yakutsk.
Ask HN: Any less known but cool places you want to visit one day?
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#2Big Bend National Park in Texas is on my wish-list. I had a work trip to Austin and thought I could add it on staying over through the weekend, but turns out Texas is REALLY BIG and Big Bend is about a 7 hour drive from Austin. Also after researching it a bit more the park sounds enormous and to really do it right you need a couple days at least to explore. So, I will be going back when I have more time!
Bisbee, Arizona is also somewhere I'd like to stay for a month or so. I've heard it's a fun artists town with funky bohemian vibes.
Finally, my partner has never seen Maine so I'd love to take them to Acadia and then take the ferry over to Newfoundland.
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#3I have an odd dream to visit Georgia (the country). I know extremely little about it, but the combination of language-geek attraction (Georgian is a totally out there language with its own script) and the absolutely stunning images of everything I see really makes me want to go.
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#4Big Bend National Park in Texas is on my wish-list. I had a work trip to Austin and thought I could add it on staying over through the weekend, but turns out Texas is REALLY BIG and Big Bend is about a 7 hour drive from Austin. Also after researching it a bit more the park sounds enormous and to really do it right you need a couple days at least to explore. So, I will be going back when I have more time! Bisbee, Ariz…
Someone told me once that National Park rangers had voted Big Bend as their favorite overall National Park. I’ve never been able to verify that statement, but I’ve really wanted to go ever since I heard it.
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#5The Channel Islands, and the surrounding parts of France (Brittany/Normandy).
In general I'd like to spend more time checking out the lesser traveled parts of France, Germany and the UK.
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#6The Azores. They're virtually unknown here in the US, but they look like a nice place to take a vacation.
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#7Well, I've already been, but Bacalar, MX. Amazing place.
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#8Numerous pre-historic era archaeological sites (eg. remote places in Tibet). Ruins yet to be unearthed (eg. Sumatra). Major ancient world sites (Nalanda, Silk Road oases) The initial locations of famous chemical syntheses. Specialist factories. CERN. Remote islands. Undersea trenches.
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#9The Azores. They're virtually unknown here in the US, but they look like a nice place to take a vacation.
You could island hop across the Atlantic. Bermuda -> Azores -> Canaries. Work your way up the Irish sea from the Scilly Isles -> Lundy -> Skomer -> Bardsey -> Angelsey. On up to Faroes (Bonus points for a stop off on Rockall) -> Iceland -> Svalbard.
That would make an nice amateur radio Islands On the Air (IOTA) expedition.
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#10Jeju-do (Jeju Island, South Korea) - especially to see Halla mountain.
Xi'an (China), along with the other ancient capitals of China (or what we would call China, today).
Other areas around Asia that were inhabited by the Mongols, Manchu/Jurchen, and other related groups. Separately, I'd also like to see the parts of Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos where Hmong people live.
Parts of India, such as Arunachal Pradesh because of the diversity and history of people living there (Tai, Monpa, Naga).
Locations that were formerly part of the Assyrian Kingdom along with areas from the Akkadian Kingdom.