Countries one doesn’t consider but should

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

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

dp I'm not going to NOT go just because it is a nice place and everyone else has gone. There is a reason why and I want to see it!

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Anonymous wrote:

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

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

dp I'm not going to NOT go just because it is a nice place and everyone else has gone. There is a reason why and I want to see it!

OK, that’s fine. But let’s not include it on a thread of off the beaten path destinations. Let’s include it on a thread of vastly overrated destinations ruined by mass tourism.

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We loved Sri Lanka. I don't think that's off the beaten path, though. We were there maybe four years ago and it seems to have boiled up a bit since then.

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LOL'ing at Croatia and Portugal. My list would include Slovakia, Romania, Egypt

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Slovenia was such a wonderful surprise! We did a trip to Hungary to visit DH's relatives and decided to tack on Slovenia at the last minute and were so glad we did.

I feel like Asia in general - outside of Tokyo maybe - is off the beaten path for many Americans and people are absolutely missing out! South Korea and Thailand were both awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL'ing at Croatia and Portugal. My list would include Slovakia, Romania, Egypt

Egypt? LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Taiwan

+1

We love Taiwan. Amazing food, people and beautiful places to explore. My husband has family there so we have visited twice but we don't just visit family when we go and have probably explored more than family that lives there. Alishan NP is amazing.

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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.

How's the view up on your high horse?

People not going to Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan are not doing so out of closemindedness. wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:Laos

New Caledonia

Wales

Montenegro

Albania

Macau

Not all of these meet the definition of country.

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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.

Go to both.

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Belize

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This thread could have been so fun...sigh...

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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.

Yes, Vietnam? Come on folks, let's come up with some more unique places than that...

I really liked Yunnan, China. Beautiful geography and a couple very cute cities.

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Panama

Guatemala

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Laos and Cambodia. Both feel like traveling back in time and the pace is slower than Vietnam.