Where’s the strangest place you’ve travelled to?

[RedInnocent68]

Probably mine is in the picture. 😉

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The Old Town, looking towards one of the Flame Towers. Baku, Azerbaijan

[midnightmoon05]

Tibet. It was so close to the sky. It’s strange to have so many people living up there with so little resources.
west part of China. Lots of Muslims. The restaurants are in 2 different languages. Out of nowhere…while driving seeing green patches of rice patties.. a huge mosque 🕌. Beautiful, clean. We saw a lady and spoke to her, she invited us in.

[RedInnocent68]

Interesting! I’m sure being close to the mountains was gorgeous.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Macau.

It was interesting how I felt like I was in Portugal in China.

and then one district away, I felt like I was in Las Vegas.

[RedInnocent68]

Very cool to experience the colonial influence as an anachronism.

[exitseven]

Nantucket Island. It has jackrabbits and you can pick up TV stations from as far away as Canada. The gulf stream warms the ocean a lot more than the mainland. And that is where the famous Man From Nantucket lives.

[RedInnocent68]

I once knew a Man from Nantucket… 😂

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Massageman]

Haiti.

[RedInnocent68]

Sounds chaotic and dangerous!

[Massageman]

Went there after it got clobbered by a hurricane. Talk about "tent cities". Electric for an hour a day on a staggered basis, even on a "good" day. "Hot" water only if you had a drum or other means of storing it in the sunshine. We were fortunate enough to live in a solid home, even though with scarce electricity. Hot shower water was a bucket of water heated on the (propane) stove- no piped gas. And bathing water is NOT drinking water: that you had to remember to take from a 5 gallon bottle in the kitchen. So odd to have a really well designed and nicely built house but having it lack basic utilities. Kind of like an episode of Twilight Zone. When we went out working for the day (painting the local ministry buildings) , we had to be rather self-sufficient, though. Bring own water, own toilet paper (yup), own wet wipes, etc. By the time we got used to the routine, it was time to leave (10 days).

[Massageman]

Thanks for the MHO.

[andreasderjuengere]

Newhaven, Connecticut.

I was sent there on a work related mission.

The natives were friendly outside, but egocentric in their core.

The local culture was... disturbing in the way they socially interact, and exploit each other, pretending what Europeans would call 'good manners'.

They also exposed an addiction to either drugs, or money.

None of those I suffered to have contact with were to my liking.

Thankfully, I'm back ''home'' now.

[RedInnocent68]

Sounds worthy of an ethnographic expose! The Trobriand Islanders of the Northeastern United States!

[4ngelic]

andorra la vieilla (I don't know if thats the good spelling). imagine a whole city where everything is either cigarettes, alcohol, hashish, perfume & makeup discount stores back to back never ending in sight

[RedInnocent68]

I’m sure that’s someone’s fantasy!

[SamA_nold]

Atlanta, Georgia. Went there for a band trip, and while sitting on the bus we passed a man on the highway walking his 12 goats. Also saw a guy in a full on suit and tie riding a unicycle down a spiral staircase and across the road.

[RedInnocent68]

Rando! Sounds like y’all was trippin!

[Chandelier8]

Somewhere in Canada, in the mountains, as a kid. We found this indoor hot springs place with no one there, no lights on and it was creepy! lol

[RedInnocent68]

Hmmm, indoor hot springs in the mountains, like in a cave?

[Chandelier8]

It was an indoor pool and it smelled bad.

[RedInnocent68]

Makes sense. A lot of hot springs would have sulphur.

[Chandelier8]

Sulfur and mold lol

[NathanDavis]

El Cielo...

one of the most beautiful and vivid places in the middle of "nowhere"

[RedInnocent68]

Sounds wonderful! In Mexico?

[NathanDavis]

yes, North-Eastern Mexico... and it does look like it sometimes, a rainforest in the middle of the clouds

biosferaelcielo.com/.../miradorvista-1024x738.jpeg

[RedInnocent68]

Beautiful! Definitely will try to go.

[AviatorTom]

Many years ago, my colleagues and I made a trip to a small town in Guyana, in the jungle, next to a river.

[RedInnocent68]

Interesting, @AviatorTom! Bringing civilization to the jungle, or other work?

[AviatorTom]

We were trying to improve transport in the middle of nowhere... unfortunately, it didn't happen.

[RedInnocent68]

So, kind of? That’s a shame. Why did the project lose traction?

[AviatorTom]

The project never got off the ground. Like many projects, the customer had no money, and wanted my company to foot the bill. 🤔

[Sharkstealth]

I dint consider anyplace strange that I have travelled to.

[RedInnocent68]

Interesting or unusual then?

[Sharkstealth]

The Eagles Nest Germany. Hitlers war getaway. Or Dachau Jewish concentration camp. Very eerie place.

[RedInnocent68]

I’m sure! Both would be fascinating.

[WindSwept]

The bathroom at a rural rest stop

[RedInnocent68]

I ought to post a separate question about that! 😱😂

[RedInnocent68]

Whereabouts?

[Charliefretz329]

The catacombs in Sicily

[RedInnocent68]

What were they used for? Did they have bodies?

[Charliefretz329]

Yes, they displayed the bodies on shelves and hung em up on the walls

[BLP11520]

Saudi Arabia, USAF it was no fun at all.

[RedInnocent68]

It doesn’t sound fun at all. Qatar maybe…?

[BLP11520]

My son went to Qatar, 7 years ago 6 month hitch USAF too

[sheikalana]

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

[RedInnocent68]

I can see that! What made it so strange?

[sheikalana]

Dirty, unsafe, people stare at you.

[Jennz6]

Israel 🇮🇱

[RedInnocent68]

Did you port in Haifa or Tel Aviv?

[Jennz6]

I’m in the Navy and I’m not supposed to be talking about it

[RedInnocent68]

Fair. Sorry. 😘