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Just wondering for those who have traveled around the world (military, business, pleasure, etc) what was the prettiest and Poorest that you got to visit. I was in the U.S.Navy so i got to see alot of the world so for me the prettiest was Monaco as the Casino with the highway going thru it was pretty awesome and as we walked around the entire city we could not find even a piece of trash anywhere. Also the train ride thru the tunnels along the coast into France to Nice and Cannes was cool.
The poorest was Karachi, Pakistan as it was very,very poor and dirty and our taxi was a mule pulling a cart. This was back in the 80's when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and there were about a million refugees there living in squalor tents all along the river and the stench was really bad from all the waste and what not. It was sad to see.
Anyway thats my two choices......
Note: I haven't traveled much, mainly only through Spain, Morocco, and Costa Rica, in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and to New York and Washington D.C.
Prettiest cities would be Florence, Prague, Tallinn, Paris, Krakow, Oxford, Edinburgh not necessarily in the order. So many beautiful places though. I concur with BlueWillowPlate on France's "Beaux villages"and towns. Some are almost impossibly pretty and quaint, Riquewhir, Sarlat, La Roque - Gageac , St Cirque Lapopie, Cordes sur Ciel, Collonges la Rouge, Conques, St Bertrand de Comminges, Castelnau de Montmirail, les Baux de Provence, Beynac, Domme, Locronan,Ste Enimie etc.... Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
Poorest I have ever visited was the "Cite du Soleil" in Haiti and Calcutta. Other contenders would be Angola ( all the more shocking because it has so much oil), Mozambique and Somalia and Eritrea back in the mid 80s. I found a lot of poverty in some parts of South America too but nothing quite to be compared to African or Indian poverty in my experience . Not quite as much malnutrition and rampant disease due to unsafe drinking water, despite a general lack of sanitation.
I was also shocked at some of the poverty in the ex USSR new republics and Russia and pockets of the US ( like the rural South and some inner cities ghettos). The US always shocks me all the more because it is after all the worlds biggest economy and has so much wealth that it really does astonish me.
Maybe not the poorest by any stretch of the imagination but certainly one of the places with India with the strongest disparity between the top and bottom rungs of the social ladder...
Nicest I've been to: Lauterbrunnen and Luzern, Switzerland; Munich, Germany; Florence; White Mtns of NH; parts of Lancaster/Chester County, PA; beaches of the Florida Panhandle
Poorest: its better now, but El Salvador in the early 90's was a mess. Some bad parts of American cities are bad in comparison to the US in general, but nothing like a third world country.
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