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So far it has been Thailand. So exotic that the political unrest/turmoil there was a big part of my stay there. I did like Thailand though, the culture and food especially. The people seem very easily convinced of things though, from my observations.
Lots of places I still want to see, will report on them if I see another place widely exotic.
The exoticness of a country is correlated to how many international visitors they get. The lower the number, the more exotic. So, as we can see, poorer countries (with few exceptions) are usually more "exotic" than richer ones.
The most exotic country I've been to is India, and I'd say that it will probably remain the most exotic that I have plans to visit in the future. I am returning this fall and I would like to visit either Ladakh, up in the controversial state of Jammu and Kashmir, and I would also like to see some of the Northeastern states like Assam or Nagaland. These aren't often reached by foreigners and all three don't have any rail connections.
Way down the road I'd like to visit Myanmar.
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Originally Posted by P London
To me exotic is like a fruit or a food item. How can a Country be exotic?
ex·ot·ic
iɡˈzädik/
adjective
1.
originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.
The exoticness of a country is correlated to how many international visitors they get. The lower the number, the more exotic. So, as we can see, poorer countries (with few exceptions) are usually more "exotic" than richer ones.
Disagreed. Turkey gets some of the highest arrivals of foreign visitors on Earth, as does China. How would neither of those count as exotic to a great deal of people? It's all relative.
As I said in the OP, define "exotic" any way you like, since everyone has their own criteria of what kinds of places they would consider to be "exotic".
For example, I consider Reunion and St. Pierre/Miquelon to be among the "exotic" places I've visited, even though on the ground they are indistinguishable from France. But they are hard to get to, and not many travelers go there, and they have a very un-France-like climate and geography and history.
I also consider China to be exotic, but for an opposite reason, it is easily reached and commonly traveled, but a traveler from the west encounters a great deal of experiences that are culturally different from what he is used to, and has to learn to adapt and be mindful of making behavioral adjustments..
To a Westerner, anyplace outside the Christian-coated ethical arena would be exotic for that reason alone, such as Dubai or Singapore or Seoul.
The least visited county in the lower 48, Daniels County Montana, would qualify as "exotic", in a certain manner of speaking. As would New York City, to a person from Daniels County.
Yemen and Mongolia so far. I didn't really get to see much of either country though. I'd go back to Mongolia in a heartbeat. Not so much Yemen at the moment but it is supposedly a breathtakingly beautiful country in some areas.
My next exotic destinations may be Cambodia, Laos, or Myanmar. Maybe Uzbekistan.
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