And what were your experiences like there? I'm talking about nowhere places like Nunavut, Papau New Guinea, Kamchatka Krai, Western Sahara, Kosovo, Northern Territory...
>>1116580
Guam. When I was in the military. I killed a giant tree snake.
Not much to see really. It's a shithole island.
Probably Kazbek in Georgia. Drove there in the middle of a huge snowstorm and there were thousands of trucks standing at the side of the road waiting for the weather to clear up, very surreal.
We also drove past the South-Ossetian border on our way there. Was strange
>>1116608
Post pics of South Ossetia border.
>>1116617
This is the closest I got a pic of afaik
>>1116672
Woops, that was Kazbek
>>1116580
Probably Macedonia, which isn't really very obscure I suppose. I loved it, beautiful place with friendly people and everything is ludicrously cheap
I think it would have to be Yap, well-known to numismatists for their stone money, and maybe to scuba divers. Being neither, I ran out of things to do fairly quickly. I had booked a "cultural tour" at a village, but it was cancelled for insufficient interest.
Iraqi Kurdistan and the then-Peshmerga controlled portion of Mosul. Got close to the India-Pak border as well.
I have a German friend who went to Abkhazia in 2013 as well as the Iranian portion of Balochistan.
>>1116608
Saw the same thing last summer - it didn't quite run in the thousands, but the truck line was several kilometers long.
Pic is Georgian border post at South Ossetian border in Truso gorge. Didn't get any closer as they started waving us back even from that distance. Easily avoided if you wanted to, but then you'd be in South Ossetia without valid papers.
>>1116580
The Academy of the Five Sciences at Sêrtar, Easter Tibet/Western Sichuan.
At times closed to foreigners, it has been open for the last few years. Took me two 8 hour bus rides to get there from Chengdu. definitely worth it. only tourists i saw were chinese
Living in Kuwait now. Traveled to Iran, East Timor, Moldova, Transnistria, and will be going to Andorra this summer.
Kuwait sucks.
Iran is amazing. Incredible souvenirs, amazing architecture and art.
East Timor was very raw. Some interesting experience without a doubt, but everything was a challenge, and it was just kind of a difficult lifestyle. Outside of the capital, the food was sustenance-level shit. It was extremely hot. Pricey, too.
Moldova -- didn't see much of it, to be honest. But then I don't think there is much to see. I bought red wine in an old sprite bottle from an old babushka on the side of the street. I fucking hate red wine and yet it was one of the most delicious things I'd ever drank. I wish I'd bought a shitton more.
Transnistria -- cool, if you like abandonedporn or old Soviet architecture. Bit of an interesting place. I wouldn't spend more than 2 or 3 days there though
these pictures are amazing
Personally, I'd love to go to Kamchatka or Mongolia but it seems like a bit of a stretch at present
>>1116580
Like a poster above, and a moderate number of other /trv/ people, perhaps Moldova. Good cheap wine (and bad very cheap wine), suspicious locals, post-Soviet decrepitude, a handful of monasteries. Had a very good time.
Also went to some unpopular places in Africa for work--Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Burundi. Burundi was a little bit scary (political tension), but SL and Liberia were mostly just depressing. Very poor, still war-scarred. Lots of kids sniffing glue. A guy in Monrovia wanted to sell me an eagle.
But other than that, just towns in Thailand where tourists don't go--I lived in Isaan for years and spent a fair amount of time in places where I was the only visible white dude. I love it but there is little to see and it's probably hard to get around if you don't speak Thai or Lao.
>>1117035
What do you do for work?
Wyoming
>>1117043
This gentleman >>1117044 was not me; I do NGO work mostly related to enterprise development and market linkage. Used to do some supply chain and corporate social responsibility work for very large, very boring companies.
>>1116882
I stayed at a hostel and asked the guy working there what tours were offered. It was pretty much all tours to abandoned shit. Falling in factories, abandoned villages, etc.
The "country" is rife with them
>>1116828
Beautiful
Walked across the Darién Gap (not all of it, just a part)
Also went eastward into Los Llanos Colombianos until the road stopped and stayed there for a few nights
Several other places along the Colombian Pacific coast that I would count as obsecure
>>1116836
Great picture
>>1117074
I'm going to college for supply chain management right now. So it's good for travel? Any tips on getting in to the corporate and NGO sides of the house?
>>1117074
What's the pay like on the corporate and business side?
>>1116580
I guess Kosovo. I only spent three or four hours there, but it was a completely positive experience. Pic is from a mountainside in the south near the border with Macedonia and Albania.
I've also been to Andorra, but it's not too exciting. It's mostly mountains and valleys.
This is in the extreme north of Vietnam about 1 Km from the chinese border. The tiny farm villages along this road were far and few, and the people lived in straw shacks with dirt floors. Only later did I find out that it is illegal for a foreigner to visit this area without a special permit, and that I could have gotten in some serious trouble if they caught me out there...
>>1117224
It was one of the most breathtaking places I've ever seen. Definitely the highlight of my trip in 'Nam. I rode the whole thing on a motorcycle
>>1117074
Can one get into this with an economics degree?
>>1117035
>A guy in Monrovia wanted to sell me an eagle
Only to be expected in a city named after an American president, really
Novosibirsk
>born there.
>lived 21 years
>left
>don't have much to tell
>>1117250
On the NGO side, with an advanced degree (MA/MSc/MPhil or PhD) and a couple of good internships, certainly.
On the corporate side, probably. But it will take a couple of years to do interesting work.
>>1117196
Good for travel with some seniority, but I didn't travel that much--two or three 10day-2week trips per year in my case.
Get an MBA and apply.
>>1117208
High five figures to start; depends on who you work for but with an MBA mid 100s is common.
Less on the NGO side (most jobs peak in the very low six figures), but the work is more interesting.
>>1117225
Looks interesting Anon
>>1116828
What are those watchtower-looking thingies you see all over the Caucasus? Granaries?
>>1117225
This literally gave me goosebumps.
>>1116608
Some other anon was saying he walked across the SO border, the soldiers saw him, waved to him, and let him go. Was he full of shit, you think?
Here's Musandam, Oman. We hired a fisherman to take us to a secluded beach to camp; hiked to top of ridge, saw this.
Te Urewera forest in New Zealand. This was taken with three days since we'd last seen another person, and it would be four days until we'd see another one.
I've been to the Western Sahara. Simultaneously incredibly beautiful and incredibly boring. the coast would be nice if it weren't clogged up with the western world's trash. I really don't have a superlative to describe how much garbage is piled up on the beaches there.
Weirdest things about it:
-About a hundred French/German pensioners drive through in their campervans every day. I know this because I was hitchhiking and they never bloody stopped to pick me up. I don't know wth they were looking for down there, apart from some time away from the grandkids so they could fuck in their Winnebago.
-Dakhla is one of the most pristine and orderly cities in Morocco, thanks to heavy government subsidies, which all the citizens apparently spend on trendy clothes and makeup. Compared to elsewhere in Morocco, Dakhla was like stepping into a city populated by models.
Unless you think police checkpoints are adventurous, the WS is not adventurous. I laugh when I see bloggers trying to enlarge their travelpenis by exaggerating the place. Even the minefield on the southern border is as easy to cross as hailing a taxi.
Many people go to China, not so many go to Weifang while they are there. Many people go to Korea, I suspect few go to Uiseong. Many people go to NZ, not too many spend much time in Ashburton.
Best I can do -- I don't go to a lot of really obscure places.
Oman
I know it is babby-tier on /trv/ but about half of the people I know have never even heard of the country
I'm surprised it's not a bigger tourist destination, it's one of the most affluent Arabian countries,
has beautiful mountains and beaches and loads of older districts/historical sites. Plus its right next to mega-destination Dubai. I guess the constantly 100+ degree temps and enduring sharia law make tourism a bit less appealing
>>1117944
I'm interested in going there; seems like about the last safe place you can travel freely in the Middle East. Apparently (from what I've read) renting a car is the way to go. Although I suspect it's not as safe as it used to be, with Yemen imploding next door.
>>1117961
Yemen is nofuckingway-tier for travel but the war hasn't affected Oman at all. Oman only has a couple million people and is mostly neutral, plus Muscat is several hundred miles from Yemen. It is really just a blip world affairs wise
Sure Arabia has quite a few shit zones in this era but you can still go many places there safely. Assuming no surprise uprisings happen, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and Oman are safer than anywhere in the USA, and you could probably go to Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Israel without problems too
>>1116882
i don't speak chinese either except a few phrases. at one point i literally read phrases out of a phrasebook to people answering me with google translate. it did help though that i knew a lot of chinese characters from japanese and i learned to pronounce pinyin and the tones in isolation before i went. in general people are very willing to help you out and there is always some way to make yourself understood
I've lived in East-Timor for two years.
Had to evacuate because there was a civil wat going on.
The capital, Dili, is not that interesting. The beaches all around the island are beautiful though, especially if you like diving.
It's interesting that the people are different than Indonesians, considering it's location is in the middle of Indonesia.
>>1117580
>What are those watchtower-looking thingies you see all over the Caucasus? Granaries?
They're what they seem: watchtowers. Occasionally they also doubled as fortresses when the guys from the next valley over decided it was time for good old-fashioned plunder.
>>1117961
You really know nothing about the ME, apart from needing a car in Oman.
>>1117979
"probably go to Kuwait and Bahrain without problems"
lol Kuwait and Bahrain are safe as fuck. They're on par with the UAE and Qatar. I'd swap its placing with Jordan.
Lebanon is a great shout as well. Very fun country
>>1117292
i'm not sure the third most populous city in Russia is an "obscure" place
>>1118135
Bahrain does have a lot of black flag areas though, and Kuwait had that bombing last year so may not "feel" as safe as qatar even though it probz is fine
Point taken on Jordan though
>>1118043
How are they different? I understand that Timor-Leste was a Portuguese colony and they were converted to Catholicism, but has it had that much of an influence?
>>1116836
Noice. I am have a Chinese student who biked there from Chengdu (his home town), and was showing me pics a couple months ago.
>>1116844
>red wine in an old sprite bottle from an old babushka on the side of the street.
Might have been more than just red wine, m8.
Suwa, Japan.
I have a funny feeling that we were the only people of our nationality in this city.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we were the only ones there in the last, lets say, 10 years.
>>1118259
Not that guy, but the Tetum, the closest thing Timor has to a majority, speak a distinct language fairly distantly related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages that predominate in the rest of Indo. And people are Catholic, and a mix of Malayan, Portuguese, and Melanesian ethnic stock--so they're browner and curlier-haired than many of their neighbors.
Indonesia is actually a very diverse place in general. But the people of East Timor are noticeably unlike, say, the Javanese.
Probably Kabul, unfortunately I have been there only for a few hours.
Second best has to be Iran. Photo is from the zoroastrian part of Yazd.
>>1117916
Ashburton, NZ, right outside of Christchurch. Are you serious? I bet if you can find a bunch of fucking 19-year old german backpackers there in less than an hour.
Actually there is no place in New Zealand where you wouldn't be able to find that "just finished high school" german kid.
If you are planning to go to NZ i suggest you practice on your german.
>>1118289
cozy as fuck
>>1116580
Visited Manus Island off the coast of Papua New guinea paddled out to an island off the coast of manus, around the island the water was crystal clear, about 10 feet deep and I could see everything and it was terrifying, I saw the colorful schools of fish, the odd saltwater crocodile and a million fucking sea snakes, like they were everywhere. It was so surreal like floating on top of a fish tank that was packed to the brim.
>>1117944
O man, that's cool my dude
>>1118427
Haha fune joke
10/10
>>1117580
>What are those watchtower-looking thingies you see all over the Caucasus? Granaries?
Part watchtower - many aren't built in places where they can serve as such, part granary, part house, and for a large part, status symbol.
>>1117580
>Some other anon was saying he walked across the SO border, the soldiers saw him, waved to him, and let him go. Was he full of shit, you think?
Going by my experience with Georgian border guards: possible, as long as you look like you're just blundering across it by accident, and you get intercepted before you get too far. Depends on the officer in charge, I suppose.
On one occasion, while walking near the border with Ingushetia, I was called to a checkpoint while only carrying my ID card - forgot my passport in my tent. All of the soldiers were simply sitting outside, idling the time away by stripping willow branches for whatever purpose, smoking and lazing, or checking the occasional passer-by. Most wore slippers instead of combat boots. When I gave them my ID, I was met with an annoyed grunt and some Russian mumbling, which I luckily managed to understand. Showed them where I was headed that day, got some help from a few Polish mountainbikers who spoke far better Russian than I did, and was waved off with a smile and a joke after someone grabbed the walkie-talkie to contact an officer about what to do with 'the Belgian idiot without passport.' Friendly bunch simply doing their job really.
Tiny white speck in the middle of the pic is the border post where this happened.
>>1116580
my bedroom
>>1118399
Maybe so, but I didin't see them.
I did get taken to Rotary Club by some locals, though. Possibly why I missed the backpackers: they may not have been invited to Rotary. Also hit the Lynn museum of stem engines and such like, which was similarly bereft of backpackers.
Def Kabul for me. Loved running into westerners who were surprised I wasn't military or associated with an NGO
>>1118752
so wat were you
>>1118808
Someone who wanted to see the place his father deployed to. Beautiful country and wonderfully nice people.
Heading over to Samoa in July, any recommendations on things to see or do? I don't personally know anyone that has been there, does it vary much from Fiji and other islands?
I used to work on boats and have been to so many little blip bumblefuck island nations in the middle of nowhere and that will be gone in the next 50 years by global warming. I've been to Isla de Cunha, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Haiti, Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville, Pitcairn Island and the Azores as well as many others.
Compared to some it's nothing, but I went to a few rural towns in Russia. Towns where as I understood I was the first American to anyone's knowledge ever going. Went to a birthday party for a woman turning 100. The only building in the entire town big enough for everyone was the school. Was a lot of fun and got to talk shooting with two guys who were very jealous I had a basic m1895 Nagant.
When i was a kid i spend 2 years in Saint Pierre, a French island in the Northern Atlantic Ocean.
Not super obscure, it has 6.000 residents and sometimes a few tourists.
>>1119017
Rightful Newfie Clay.
>>1116882
If you want to go to Tibet but don't want to see "The PRC Presents: Tibet!" Then go to Ladakh in India. It's where a shit ton of Tibetans fled and it's extremely similar in terms of culture and geography. I believe it's the only part of the Tibetan Plateau that's not in China. The Indian government doesn't give a shit what they do so they carry on their culture as they would have if China hadnt tried to stamp them out.
>>1118043
Is East Timore worth a visit if someone's already traveling nearby Indonesia?
>>1119288
wut ?
>>1118924
How were you able to do that?
>>1119309
I can't say for sure since it's been a while.
The people haven't been that influenced by tourism yet so it's definetely a different experience than for example Java, if you're into that.
If you speak portuguese then that'd convenient as the native's rarely speak English but some speak Portugese.
Outside the capital the population is very slim so it's good for hiking and you can easily find empty, beautiful and clean beaches with tons of sealife relatively close to the coast.
Sadly I don't have anything really remote, the closest maybe was a visit of a palestinian refugee "camp" (it's more of a town) in lebanon. The camp is controlled by palestinian militia, not the lebanese authorities. Also went to some remote valley near the syrian border.
not sure where it was exactly, but I lived with a family for a month in a fairly remote village in japan. there were 3-4 other farms on this forested mountain but not much else, and it was a few hours drive away from tokyo. im sure ive been geologically far more isolated just driving around my home state of nevada, but ill never forget how dark and quiet the nights were in that part of japan.
Waffle restaurant on the side of a hill in a fairly remote part of Sweden. Could only access it by snowmobile.
Abandoned Iraqi bunkers out in the middle of the desert in Kuwait. Kuwait is not that remote, but this part at least FELT remote.
>>1119324
Rightful = they belong to
Newfie = Newfoundlander
Clay = land
>>1119456
Under the same underlying theory that says the Malvinas are Argentine?
>>1116580
Half of the places you've mentionned are nowhere near obscure, and you'd be surprised at the amazing stuff you can find there...
Anyways, that being said:
A small abandoned yurt, at 6000m altitude, in the middle of the easter Tadjik mountain range on the border with China, stuck there by landslides having carried away the only road.
>>1116810
When were you in Kurdistan? I was in Sully and Erbil several times over the past couple of years.
>>1119458
It's a meme, you humorless faggot.
I'm not sure if any of these count as obscure, but at least not well travelled.
>DPRK
>Myanmar
>Bhutan
>Botswana
>Kosovo
>San Marino
>Bangladesh
>>1119534
> Nork land
Tell us more, anon
>>1119474
YPG bro?
I didn't think I'd run into anyone else on /trv/
>>1119558
Not exactly. Haven't been to Syria itself since the start of the conflict. Just a concerned party I guess.
Re-read your original post: I was also in Iranian Balochistan desert up the the Pakistan border in summer '15.
>>1119554
I went on a guided tour with Koryo. Other anons have been there too, it's still kinda rare but I'm not the only /trv/ler who has been there.
>>1119665
Oh no, I wasn't the anon you originally replied to
But since you were a concerned party, I'm curious. Fighter or support? Or something like the Rojava plan?
>>1119867
Rojava is a regional autonomous entity in Syria, I was in Iraq at that time. Iraqi Kurdistan is nothing like Rojava.
Let's say I've never really been the idealist type. Nothing wrong with it, just isn't me. Although I respect the shit out of any group of individuals willing to lay down their lives for autonomy and self-governing under a system that they choose, rather than is imposed on them.
>>1119474
I am the Anon you originally replied to, and I was there in June of 2013.
>>1120088
Interesting. Didn't think many people on /trv/ were into those kinds of destinations.
Usually read mostly NA/EU roadtrips, and the occasional SEA.
I went to Nara, Japan a few weeks ago. That was pretty nice
>>1117219
Kosovo is great, especially the capital. It's entirely colonized by UN/EU diplomats and extremely westernized which is fascinating in a weird way. I'll spend a month there this summer.
I also lived in Bosnia for two years. The most 'obscure' place was probably Albania though.
>>1119378
I feel like your post is perfect for what the OP mentioned.
>>1120959
The capital of Kosovo is a shithole, I don't know what you're talking about
>>1121143
Maybe some people like things that you do not like? Shocking, I know, but some people are just contrary like that...
>>1119378
if it was operated by an old woman and 2 men & they sell hot choco aswell, i've been there, cozy
The border of Inner Mongolia with Mongolia.
After many hours of driving, we reached a remote PLA outpost that stands watch 24/7, looking north at this posh gate erected before a bridge.
Nice soldiers on duty. Very friendly.
Both Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao had visited during the coldest months a few years back in order to boost morale and propagandize.
Doesn't change the fact that no one wants to drive over 24 hours in remote countrysides to a border station, but hey, what do you do when the person bringing you around is the chief of the largest prison in China.
>>1116750
pics and stories please?
>>1120898
I hadn't planned on going there. I missed a flight from Athens to Cairo and wound up going back to Turkey in time to inhale a ton of tear gas and get pelted by rubber bullets in Istanbul. I was traveling around near Diyarbakir and got stranded at a bus station. Since I wasn't sure if I should be wandering around the Old City late at night, I sat around for a while. I had a short little brown guy come up to me, convince me to visit his kiosk, and offered me a cheap ticket to Iraq. I got a kick out of his reaction when I asked if the bus would pass by Mosul and he said "no, Mosul problem" before spreading his arms wide and yelling "boom!"
Currently in Costa Rica and going to Nicaragua tomorrow. Don't consider myself a Real Traveler, but I always get a kick out of more off the grid destinations (not that CR is off the grid at all; same applies to Nica, albeit to a slightly lesser extent).
My favorite part of traveling has always been meeting people, and I've found the friendliest folks are usually in developing countries. I liked Europe as well, but I don't have as many strong memories as I do from Iraq, India, Kazakhstan, Georgia, etc. Planning to do Moldova to visit a friend in winter as well as Tanzania for another friend (they're both in the peace corps). I'll be planning a Pakistan trip after I renew my India visa in a year or two. Doubt it'd be a problem, but I have a 5-year visa now and don't want to get denied a 10-year because of a Pakistan visa clearance.
>>1121172
I guess, but if you want a shitty, dirty town devoid of anything interesting, I'm sure you can find them pretty much anywhere.
>>1116580
Derby in WA.
>>1122222
For some reason your opinion strikes me as more valid than many...
>>1120954
Nara is world famous, not obscure at all.
>>1116580
This probably doesn't compare to many people's experiences, but rural Michoacan Mexico.
I stayed up in Volcano country for a few days. Pretty scary place. Many people with machine guns walking down roads and stuff.
I went to the Netherlands once it was ok
>>1118289
Looks exactly like Oahu
>>1122362
It's not even obscure there
I went to sandals Jamaica and got my hair braided and played steel drums with the locals
>>1123554
where do you all you spergs come from?
>>1116928
Mongolia is absolutely great, man. I've been there last year - the best place ever. You ride through hundreds of kilometers of steppe and it never becomes boring. Every single local I met was very friendly (well, exept some guys in Ulanbaatar. Nothing interesting there). The most I liked some lonesome road connecting two tiny cities, 200 km long. I was hitchhiking the whole trip and this distance took me four days, but the sights were literally to die for.
Seriously guys, go there before you die.
>>1118141
man, have you ever been to Russia?
and, more importantly, have you ever been to Siberia?
Literally bears, wilderness, hard climate and vodka. One may like it, but certainly it's not one of the most fascinating places
>>1116836
Fuck I really want to visit that place. What more can you tell me about what's there to do/see there?
>>1122130
>the chief of the largest prison in China
tell me more...
Also, what border are you talking about? definitely not Eren-hoto (or however the fuck do you spell that) I take it...
>>1116836
Man Buddhists always have the dopest names for stuff.
>>1123628
Through some friends who turned out to be the sons and daughters of prominent Chinese government officials,
one of which was the daughter of the Guangzhou police force 'commissioner' (equivalent title),
who then had friends from his academy days that had been assigned all over China, including one of which who was the chief of 报按照 BAOANZHAO prison.
"Hey, you want to visit this place?! It seems fun!" and so I went with a group of about ten or so and got driven all around.
Pic related with the stars are the only major names I can remember. I really had no idea which way we were going 80% of the time.
This chief guy was one of the nicest people I've ever met. He and his staff took pride in being ethnic Mongolian in a Han-dominated government, and took even more pride in giving some Mongolian hospitality.
Spoke candidly, got total-annihilation drunk with everyone else during dinner, loved raising horses, genuinely wanted to help the inmates at his facility reenter society (as his was not 100% maximum severity).
The border of China's autonomous region Inner Mongolia with the country of Mongolia. I went to one of many border crossing stations that have these gigantic, Arc de Triomphe-type arches that you drive under, telling you either "hey, you're leaving the greatest country on Earth" or "hey, you're entering the greatest country on Earth".
Saw miles and miles of farms, windfarms, huge packs of land animals, birds (IM has one of the world's largest avian conservation regions), old WWII Japanese aircraft bunkers, and of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98
Met the guy who constructed many kilometers of the fence on the border of CN-MNG.
Also I made a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSSuu2kJGXc
>>1123641
Oh, that's cool.
thank U 4 da pic.. >>1118330
>>1117916
Well for one I have already been to Weifang. Ugly city.
In my case I'd say Paraguay, and camping out in the Gran Chaco with a horse. Rode a horse for days in the area, did some fishing, and took a bath in a small pond of water. Loved every second of it, despite my asthma.
Probably the Matsu islands. They're a weird historical oddity, they're just off the coast of Fuzhou (PRC) but are owned by Taiwan (ROC), they're technically the first line of defence if China invades.
Really beautiful place, huge butterflies there, amazing sunsets, etc. Only way on and off is by boat iirc, and due to the seas that can be cancelled at a moments notice.
Food is breddy good too, really nice pink rice dish with tiny prawns.
Pic related is a tiny beach shrine to Matsu, the sea goddess. Think this one is on Beigan.
Stayed on a straw mat in the attic of this lovely hostel/cafe run by a Catholic woman. The grandmother mothered me a bit, as I was the only guest, though the Mandarin they speak on Matsu (or at least, the grandmother's dialect) was fairly impenetrable. The owner kept it a bit more standard putonghua though
>>1118660
> Belgian
Sup bruh. How expensive is it to go to the region?
>>1123641
Tuva is not Mongolia, bud. Tuvans are a somewhat related ethnic group (there's been a lot of cross-polination between local Mongolian and Turkic groups over the centuries -- but Tuvans are distinctly more on the Turkic side). They also have different traditions of khoomei.
Jerash, Jordan is probably my most obscure place; I enjoyed it more than Petra
>>1123866
I wouldn't know, sorry.
All I know is that I attended a ceremony that involved similar vocal techniques in a performance hosted by those who called themselves ethnic Mongolians, despite being in the Chinese autonomous region.
>>1124044
No worries, I'm just being pedantic as the guy in your vid is (perhaps not so clearly) Tuvan, not Mongolian. I've been throat-singing for about 10 years (yea, before it was cool... *cigarette flick*), so it's something I get aspie about.
It's native to the region in any case. Mongols and their Turkic brethren do it all around Mongolia, Siberia and I guess China too. IMO, the most virtuoso types are from Tuva.
The most obscure places I've been too?
>*adjusts lenseless glasses*
Obscure huh?
>*flicks dreadlocks out of face*
Places that not many people go to huh?
>*deploys selfie stick*
...you probably never heard of them kid
>>1123862
Georgia? Take Belgian prices, divide by 2 or 3. If you really cheapskate it, make that 4.
>>1124378
I don't think "obscure" is quite the right word for what OP means. I mean, I think Perry City, New York, is so obscure that nobody else here has heard of it, even if I explain that it is a few miles from Podunk.
>>1124378
The fag you are describing only visits India and SEA though. Never seen them anywhere else. You need to get out more and stop memeing shit up.
In Europe, Moldova and Transnistria. Not the most riveting of places but I only spent a week there. Nice food, and really good soviet buildings.
In the Americas, Paraguay and Cuba. Paraguay was when I was a kid, but I remember it being a nice place, lots of poor people though. I don't remember actually seeing many sights there.
Idk if Cuba counts, seems lots of people have been there now, but at the time it was still a bit more obscure. Lots of street hustlers, and the food was shit except for this one restaurant we went to and the hotel restaurant. I loved the architecture there.
In Asia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and North Korea. Pakistan was filthy, the air there was nearly as bad as in China. The people were friendly, but at the time there was a spate of suicide car bombings going on, so everything was rather on edge. The market we went to was bombed the next day. I was there for a wedding so kind of weird but I managed to go to the shah jahan sufi shrine place, that was actually really fun, probably the best part of that trip. The food there is so spicy.
Turkmenistan is perhaps one of my favorite countries I have been to. Almost no tourists at all, even less than in NK. The locals are friendly but not in your face like some countries. I really liked the food there, best thing was this liver shashlik.
NK I enjoyed too. Our guides were really chill and funny. It was a very interesting place to visit, and the people we were allowed to talk with were genuinely nice. NK has a fuckton of wildlife surprisingly. I thought it would be rather barren like Laos because "apparently" everyone is starving to death in NK, but there was huge flocks of different birds around the place and I spotted porpoises at the coast.
In Australasia, Vanuatu and Niue.
Both of these I went to as a child, but I remember them pretty clearly. Niue was tiny, I think we drove around the island in a day. I joined in some festival dance thing there.
Vanuatu was great, saw the volcano in Tana.
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I disagree with the words but I agree with the numbers
Damn, I've gotta make a choice here
Probably Sri Lanka and the British Indian Ocean Territory.
