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Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Hondruas, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Libya.....
But in all serious here are some relatively touristed countries that I have little or no interest in visiting
Will Never Visit: Brazil (the Olympics have diminished my view of Rio and of Brazil), Turkey (too dangerous now, too much terrorism), Egypt, India, Peru, Costa Rica, Thailand
Not That Interested in Visiting: Ireland, Greece, Portugal, anything in Scandinavia, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, South Africa
In Mexico I will limit myself to the resort areas, will never visit the border cities or the Mexican interior including Mexico City
The most faraway countries I do like to visit are Australia and New Zealand. In terms of "risky" countries I AM fascinated by Israel and the Biblical destinations there. But don't really want to visit the Palestinian territories though, only Israel proper.
Curious = if you don't want to go to China that is all well and good plenty of other places to vacation but what exactly are you guys so frightened of?
China gets almost 100 million tourists per year, I'm pretty sure it is the number one tourist destination in the world. All these people from all over the world families with kids etc. go to China on holiday and there are a couple of people saying it is rational to be fearful to go because not a democracy, this doesn't make much sense to me. My parents went a few years ago and they are in their 70s, they had a great time on the Great Wall, seeing the Terra Cotta Warriors, etc.
Are you thinking that out of all those millions you'll be picked up and interrogated or something?
their imagined "communism" I suppose.
China is not a great place to live, especially its large cities, but it is well worth visiting. Sometimes I annoys me that people can't even put aside their political bias even when it comes to traveling. In terms of safety, China is 10 times safer than the US (pickpockets excepted).
You don't read much do you? Go ask Mr Daniel pearl's family or many others who were captured by moslem terrorists and slaughtered by way of beheading.
It must suck to let such paralyzing fearfulness dictate your travel choices.
By going to Bali or Malaysia you might be one out of the millions of annual tourists in Islamic countries who gets beheaded. You're far more likely to get killed in an accident on the road in any other country you visit than to be a beheaded western tourist.
Curious = which cities in China have you lived in?
Shanghai.
My family still lives there. I can only visit. Life is downright stressful because the city is way too big and too money-oriented. Everyone is obsessed with making money.
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Venezuela
Honduras
El Salvador
Haiti
Cuba Jamaica
Somalia
Sudan
South Sudan
Erythrea
Madagascar
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
Angola
Centrafrica
Chad
Lybia
Algeria
Syria
Iraq
Yemen
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
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Just spent 8 days in Jamaica. It was amazing. The people are the friendliest I have ever encountered anywhere.
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