Best & worst places in the world
I was reading forums from other websites & came across pretty funny threads asking traveler's their favorite & least favorite places in the world. So, I thought it'd be interesting to put it out on Nomadlife & ask everyone here to share where is the best and worst places you've been to in the world (because let's be honest - even if everyone's very well rounded and open minded, you'll still prefer one place over another).
Since I'm the one who raised the topic, here's my two pence's worth:
Best:
Tabo & Spiti Lahaul Valley - India
Lhasa - Tibet/China (really, almost anywhere around the greater Himalaya area & old Tibetan kingdom)
New York - USA
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Istanbul - Turkey
Luang Prabang - Laos
Angkor Wat Complex - Cambodia (especially Bayon & Ta Phrom)
Worst:
Lhatse - Tibet/China. The situation was "dire"
Chengdu - China
Most places in Michigan - USA
The part of Kentucky that boarders Cincinnati - USA
Disclaimer: This topic isn't brought up to offend anyone. Everything written will represent personal, biased opinions. Just trying to have something fun to read! :)
Since I'm the one who raised the topic, here's my two pence's worth:
Best:
Tabo & Spiti Lahaul Valley - India
Lhasa - Tibet/China (really, almost anywhere around the greater Himalaya area & old Tibetan kingdom)
New York - USA
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Istanbul - Turkey
Luang Prabang - Laos
Angkor Wat Complex - Cambodia (especially Bayon & Ta Phrom)
Worst:
Lhatse - Tibet/China. The situation was "dire"
Chengdu - China
Most places in Michigan - USA
The part of Kentucky that boarders Cincinnati - USA
Disclaimer: This topic isn't brought up to offend anyone. Everything written will represent personal, biased opinions. Just trying to have something fun to read! :)
posted by Sheila Z. at 7:10 AM
23 Comments:
haha...i'll second the Kentucky/Cincinatti border area...
Best Places:
Bodrum/Gumusluk-Turkey
Dahab-Egypt
Santorini-Greece
skiing between the pine trees in Vail, Colorado (the town itself is an obnoxious display of wealth...but the skiing and scenery's great)
Minocqua-Wisconsin
Monster Bar in Hackeschermarkt, Berlin-Germany
New York City
Worst Places:
Chatanooga-Tennessee
Bitterfeld-Germany
Branson-Missouri
Deep South-USA
Seat 44F
...especially at 6'7", majority being leg
:-)
7:59 AM
Best:
Wellington - New Zealand
The Rocks - Sydney, Australia
Broadbeach - Gold Coast, Australia
Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Hangzhou - China
Shanghai - China
Montreal - Canada
NYC - New York
Boston - Massachussetts
San Francisco - California
Worst:
Guangzhou Airport - China
Lost in the NY subway system all night with Mazzy and Anuj
8:15 AM
That reminds me! Another on the "worst" list is definately all the overnight hard seats on Chinese trains!! (though, I'm sure overnight standing is worse)
And another on the "best" list: Angkor What Bar, Siem Reap!!
8:35 AM
Best:
Red Sea, Egypt
Palolem, Goa, India
Budapest, Hungary
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Worst:
Heathrow, London
Marsa Matrouh, Egypt
Charleroi, Belgium
Limmerick, Ireland
I cannot express how much those first four rock, and how badly those last four suck.....
9:12 AM
Best:
Oaxaca, Mexico
Garujau, Brazil
Valencia, Spain
Worst:
Purchase, New York
and any place with bad company
9:26 AM
best:
West Norway
New York City
Madison, Wisconsin
worst:
Houston, Texas
Kansas
1:03 PM
The purpose of this list is also a way for people to brag about where they've been. We're all such travel snobs ;)
Best Places:
Goa, India
Sipidan Island & Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Vienna, Austria
Maine (Moosecock!)
Samuc Champey, Guatemala
Austin, Texas
New York, NY (Of course)
Dresden, Germany in December
Worst Places:
Agra, India (Outside of the Taj Mahel and Agra Fort)
Dayton, Ohio
Kuala Lumpur's Bus station, Malaysia
Meerut, India
2:43 PM
Best:
NYC!
Prague
Vienna
Siem Reap, Cambodia (Angkor Thom was my favorite)
Cayman Islands
The national parks of the Southwestern U.S. (Grand Canyon, Arches, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, etc.)
BETO Junction, Kansas (I had to redeem my home state!)
Maui, Hawaii
Worst:
Cozumel, Mexico
Narita Airport, Japan (most airports are terrible, but especially this one)
Oklahoma, USA
New Jersey, USA
3:05 PM
NYC seems to be coming out a clear winner here....
3:17 PM
Best:
* Uyuni, Bolivia
* Cusco, Per�
* Purmamarca, Argentina
* San Mart�n de Andes, Argentina
* Denver, USA
* Atacames, Ecuador
Worst:
Huaquillas, peruvian-ecuadorian border
Guayaquil, Ecuador
4:05 PM
BEST:
Detroit!
Ottawa
Toronto
Paris
Florence
WORST:
Jellico, Tennessee
Utica, Michigan
DAYTON, OHIO!
Irish Hills USA
4:09 PM
Best:
Yangshou, China
Lantau, HK
Jersey City!
New York City
Madison, WI
Dahab, Egypt
Montreal, Canada
Worst:
Michigan
Ohio
Nebraska
4:40 PM
Best:
Florianopolis-Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Istanbul-Turkey
Bangalore-India
Goa-India
Austin-Texas
Worst:
Adana-Turkey
Addis Ababa Airport - Ethiopia
Benin City - Nigeria
Houston-Texas
5:02 PM
BEST:
Austin, TX
Buenos Aires
Prague
New York
Medell�n, Colombia
Kiev, Ukraine
WORST:
Sucre & Potosi, Bolivia
Huaquittas, Ecuador
Margarita Island, Venezuela
Kansas-Nebraska
7:47 PM
What's up with the no Kansas love? C'mon, you just have to be open minded...and it doesn't hurt to be the type of person who is impressed with wide prarie expanses, truck stops, and wheat. Lots of wheat.
Anyway, I'm mortified that I forgot to mention Branson, Missouri, USA. This is the worst place on the planet.
8:24 PM
Two comments:
Austin F...in Texas
Istanbul F...in Turkey
Damn I am lucky
cheers
8:31 PM
What's with so many of the yanks listing in the format of (city, country) for places outside the USA and (city, state-name-or-abbreviation) for places inside the USA?
The USA ain't anymore important than the rest of us. And I'm sure that many many people from other countries don't know the names or abbreviations of all the US states. Come to think of it, I reckon that many many people from the USA probably don't know them all either.
My thoughts:
Great places:
The king's burial chamber inside the Great Pyramid, Egypt.
The coffee-belt zone, Colombia
Middle of nowhere in Australia under a clear night sky.
San Francisco, USA
Not so great places:
Los Angeles, USA
9:43 PM
yeah, but we're bigger, much more so. So it's more descriptive that way. To the extent that it's like saying Tallin, Estonia instead of Tallin, EU. It's better, even though there's a lot of people who don't know what Estonia is.
11:09 PM
BEST:
San Francisco, USA
Washington D.C. USA
New York City, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Igua�u, Brazil
New Zealand (especially Abel Tasman Coast Track, Milford Sound, Queenstown and Wellington)
Sydney, Australia
Lisbon, Portugal
Barcelona, Spain
Stockholm, Sweden
Mexico (especially Atlixco and Oaxaca)
Costa Rica
Hong Kong
No place like home, aka, Weggis (Lucerne) Switzerland
WORST: Don't wanna think of bad places right now...
11:31 PM
Pigs arse you're bigger. China's bigger, and people aren't listing "Shanghai, relevant-chinese-province-name". They're listing Shanghai, China. And they're listing Montreal, Canada (also bigger), not Montreal, Quebec (or even worse, some two letter abbreviation for Quebec).
And for a global list, it's more descriptive with the country. You tell me what's better for someone who's not from my country:
Katherine, NT, or Katherine, Australia.
If I took your attitude, and listed Katherine, NT, then some European who isn't aware that the USA doesn't actually have a state abbreviated NT might assume that they do, and assume that I'm talking about some place in the USA.
So the system obviously doesn't work if more than one country wants to drop it's country name, meaning at most only one country can do it, and it's just bloody arrogant for yanks to think it should be them.
If you need to differentiate between Springfield Illinois and any of your other 47+ Springfields, then at least list Springfield, Illinois, USA. That is much more descriptive, and much less arrogant to the rest of the world.
Whew, boy does that feel better. Releasing a lot of built up tension here....
11:41 PM
Glad you've got the tension out.
When China starts a terrible sitcom about a sassy kids in a province of Gansu and the rest of the world imports it, then it'll be reasonable to refer to it only by that name.
It would be better obviously to mention that states are in the USA, and granted, I realize from living in Europe that we do need to be more careful, as many people in the rest of the world translate many innocent actions by Americans to arrogance or stupidity.
12:20 AM
Dan, your just mad because no one has said Canberra yet.
Well...I wouldn't hold me breath.
12:57 AM
Well I would have said Canberra myself, but I thought it might tarnish my credibility, so I left it out.
As for why I'm mad, this is seriously years of ill-sentiment about americans expressing this attitude (accidentally or on purpose) that I've been let build up inside of me instead of expressing it at the time, and today it just felt like coming out.
1:10 AM
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