Countries one doesn’t consider but should

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the tourism reputations places have are generally merited. Places that are great but not on the beaten path include Iran, Iraq, and Slovenia (in that order). Romania, Bulgaria and Albania are nicer than you might think, though a bit of a clean-up would make them nicer. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras also have much to recommend them, though like Colombia the crime is not negligible.

Iran? Iraq?

I’ve been to Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Love seeing a fellow traveller (vs a tourist) on here!

Didn't know that war zone tourism was still a thing?

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Anonymous wrote:I took my first trip to Tbilisi Georgia and was amazed. Beautiful culture, that cheese bread thing - wow- their wine was nice and I really enjoyed interacting with the people. Of course they are no Italy or Spain but what a wonderful city. I went with a culturalExchange group and Georgia had the least people signing up. I would have never gone nor considered it. Now I’m wondering if I should broaden my horizons. Can you recommend other places where you were pleasantly surprised?

It’s called Khachapuri. Did you really go to Georgia and not learn that?!

I didn’t want to be disrespectful to their food or talk above the heads of readers.

Anyone familiar with the food should know the name. It’s very common. How did you like the khinkali and the badrijani? I’ll give you time to find a picture in Google.

Georgia is nothing to write home about and yet the PP loved it. If trump were in office - it would be a shithole country per his book. I agree with others- relax! Khachapuri is probably their best offering. If the people there are anything like you- incredulous- most of America and everywhere else should skip Georgia and they probably do. I enjoyed their post.

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Laos

New Caledonia

Wales

Montenegro

Albania

Macau

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the tourism reputations places have are generally merited. Places that are great but not on the beaten path include Iran, Iraq, and Slovenia (in that order). Romania, Bulgaria and Albania are nicer than you might think, though a bit of a clean-up would make them nicer. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras also have much to recommend them, though like Colombia the crime is not negligible.

Iran? Iraq?

PP forgot to mention North Korea and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is incredible beautiful. The people and the mountains were lovely. I’ve also been to North Korea, I went with young pioneer tours. They won’t take Americans anymore, but I’m canadian.

Open your mind, pp.

Sorry, I guess I'm just closed minded by not encouraging Americans to visit countries that take American hostages.

That’s fine, you stay home pp. The rest of us want to see the world.

LOL taking the risk of visiting North Korea is not "seeing the world." This is no better than the poverty tours people take.

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Anonymous wrote:I took my first trip to Tbilisi Georgia and was amazed. Beautiful culture, that cheese bread thing - wow- their wine was nice and I really enjoyed interacting with the people. Of course they are no Italy or Spain but what a wonderful city. I went with a culturalExchange group and Georgia had the least people signing up. I would have never gone nor considered it. Now I’m wondering if I should broaden my horizons. Can you recommend other places where you were pleasantly surprised?

It’s called Khachapuri. Did you really go to Georgia and not learn that?!

I didn’t want to be disrespectful to their food or talk above the heads of readers.

Anyone familiar with the food should know the name. It’s very common. How did you like the khinkali and the badrijani? I’ll give you time to find a picture in Google.

Georgia is nothing to write home about and yet the PP loved it. If trump were in office - it would be a shithole country per his book. I agree with others- relax! Khachapuri is probably their best offering. If the people there are anything like you- incredulous- most of America and everywhere else should skip Georgia and they probably do. I enjoyed their post.

Wow, how clueless. Khachapuri is nowhere near Georgia’s best cuisine, far from it. Have you even been there?!

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Anonymous wrote:Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Lovely, friendly, historic. Easy to do in one trip too.

Is Lithuania a better vacation than Ireland? Wife's heritage is Lithuanian, mine is Irish. She wants to go to Lithuania, I'd rather go to Ireland. Both pretty well travelled in other parts of Europe, neither of us have been to either place.

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Anonymous wrote:I took my first trip to Tbilisi Georgia and was amazed. Beautiful culture, that cheese bread thing - wow- their wine was nice and I really enjoyed interacting with the people. Of course they are no Italy or Spain but what a wonderful city. I went with a culturalExchange group and Georgia had the least people signing up. I would have never gone nor considered it. Now I’m wondering if I should broaden my horizons. Can you recommend other places where you were pleasantly surprised?

It’s called Khachapuri. Did you really go to Georgia and not learn that?!

I didn’t want to be disrespectful to their food or talk above the heads of readers.

Anyone familiar with the food should know the name. It’s very common. How did you like the khinkali and the badrijani? I’ll give you time to find a picture in Google.

I think they were probably typing fast (maybe didn't have time to check spelling; lord knows they probably would have been called out for spelling it wrong too) and wanted to be a bit glib and funny. I liked the post! I think you need to chill out and focus on the bigger picture of the praise and excitement, which is always cool. If a person from another country visits the US and raves about the country and 'those delicious potato things,' I could care less if they can't remember they are called french fries

I would think they were an equally big moron.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these places mentioned (like Turkey and Tunisia) are major tourist destinations, just not for Americans.

Georgia is too. Tons of visitors from Indian subcontinent and Middle East, among other places.

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Anonymous wrote:Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Lovely, friendly, historic. Easy to do in one trip too.

Is Lithuania a better vacation than Ireland? Wife's heritage is Lithuanian, mine is Irish. She wants to go to Lithuania, I'd rather go to Ireland. Both pretty well travelled in other parts of Europe, neither of us have been to either place.

Wow can you be well traveled in Europe and not have visited Ireland or Lithuania? That’s simply impossible.

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Anonymous wrote:Vietnam

+1. We went there on our honeymoon ~12 years ago and no one could understand why. A lot of variety and beautiful landscapes, amazing food.

Really? I would love to go there and then pop over to Cambodia to see Angor Wat

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Anonymous wrote:I took my first trip to Tbilisi Georgia and was amazed. Beautiful culture, that cheese bread thing - wow- their wine was nice and I really enjoyed interacting with the people. Of course they are no Italy or Spain but what a wonderful city. I went with a culturalExchange group and Georgia had the least people signing up. I would have never gone nor considered it. Now I’m wondering if I should broaden my horizons. Can you recommend other places where you were pleasantly surprised?

It’s called Khachapuri. Did you really go to Georgia and not learn that?!

I didn’t want to be disrespectful to their food or talk above the heads of readers.

Anyone familiar with the food should know the name. It’s very common. How did you like the khinkali and the badrijani? I’ll give you time to find a picture in Google.

Georgia is nothing to write home about and yet the PP loved it. If trump were in office - it would be a shithole country per his book. I agree with others- relax! Khachapuri is probably their best offering. If the people there are anything like you- incredulous- most of America and everywhere else should skip Georgia and they probably do. I enjoyed their post.

Wow, how clueless. Khachapuri is nowhere near Georgia’s best cuisine, far from it. Have you even been there?!

It’s a fantastic country by the way, so also have to dispute you on that!

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Anonymous wrote:Finland

My friend went for her honeymoon and the pics look great. It is on my list.

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Portugal! Great spot for expats as well!

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Anonymous wrote:Portugal! Great spot for expats as well!

That’s the very definition of beaten path, sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the tourism reputations places have are generally merited. Places that are great but not on the beaten path include Iran, Iraq, and Slovenia (in that order). Romania, Bulgaria and Albania are nicer than you might think, though a bit of a clean-up would make them nicer. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras also have much to recommend them, though like Colombia the crime is not negligible.

Iran? Iraq?

PP forgot to mention North Korea and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is incredible beautiful. The people and the mountains were lovely. I’ve also been to North Korea, I went with young pioneer tours. They won’t take Americans anymore, but I’m canadian.

Open your mind, pp.

Sorry, I guess I'm just closed minded by not encouraging Americans to visit countries that take American hostages.

That’s fine, you stay home pp. The rest of us want to see the world.

Not all the world is safe for Americans or women in particular. Besides you can go elsewhere and don't have to "stay home" You lack imagination that you accuse others of not having.