Where's the coolest place you've recently been to?
I really liked Flagstaff. Went there for the first time in February. There's a super inexpensive ski resort that no one knows about called Snow Bowl right outside town. The weather on the mountain is cold, but it's pretty mild in town. There are a bunch of breweries. The downtown is really nice. The Mead Hall had the best booze I think I've ever had in my life. Sedona is only 40 minutes away too if you're into hiking. You can get to the grand Canyon in about 40 minutes too. I'd stay in Flagstaff again anytime.
German in New Mexico this place is fucking nuts I love it. I've been just driving all over for two weeks it's like a play palace. The Indian reservations where they live in mud huts, the hippie girls, the methhead colonies. Feels like the wild west I see cars with no plates just packing a bowl in front of cups. I've been to US many times but New Mexico is my new favorite state. And if it were a country it would so far be only below Nepal, Laos, and Brazil (I've been to 62 countries)
>Sitangkai Philippines A town literally built on an atoll, with Venice-like layout. It’s also in a very undeveloped, distant province so you feel kinda like you’re going back in time. It’s also a bit of a stigmatized area still due to a past of muslim seperatism and kidnapping so barely any tourist visit it including locals. So you stand out alot.>ChongqingNo further elaboration required>Western NorwayExtremely dramatic landscape and gorgeous fjords. Camping is a must.
>>2873824Where even is this?
>>2873919It's pretty clearly somewhere in Japan
Nothing is really that cool.I'm staying in a ski resort town right now and at night I went for a walk uo the mountain, on the path up and the slope down. It's quite peaceful and probably not something usually done. I also accidentally set off an alarm at some cabin up there. I'm not even sure what it was for, it was empty and dark.
>>2873824Florida Keys
>>2873914Go to Chaco Culture NHP if you haven't yet. It's home to a literal lost city in the desert.
>>2873949if you like the keys check out the panhandle, often more nature for less money. big fan of indian pass
>>2873919>thing, Japan
recently, Osaka Japan. I've only ever seen it featured in popular media like video games and movies and online videos. Being able to actually check out the scenery and walk the same pathways yourself was really interesting. Some parts, you feel like it never left the 1980's and you step back in time. There is still a lady running a wood shack stand on the sidewalk, selling her Yakiniku fried skewered street food late at night with 1987 newspapers and posters still hanging behind her. You walk a little ways and you might run into three Yakuza wearing modern suits, sitting at a table over beers at some dark market alley. I went into a nightclub and it was just filled with foreigners- not too different from a club in the USA. It had its own feel.
>>2873824Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Largest radio telescope of its kind in the world. If we ever find evidence that aliens exists, this could realistically be the place to be the place to do it. Very scenic location as a bonus in the middle of nowhere, almost no other visitors. Got to climb on the telescope too. The best part is that it was technically a work trip, so I didn't pay anything for it. Sometimes working in academia has its benefits
>>2874024Also, Meteora in Greece. Doesn't really need an explanation>>2873917>ChongqingGod willing I'll be visiting in May. Do you have any recs?
>>2874025Dazu Rock Carvings and Wulong Karst if you want to get a little bit out of the city. The carvings are hundreds of years old and you're completely surrounded with buddhist sculptures. Wulong is basically the kind of nature you see in old Chinese paintings.
>>2874025Sorry bro, it’s been 10 years and it was a Chinese-American friend who showed me around so I don’t remember the exact details, but…>Raffles City(just viewing it is enough)>Hongyadong>Liziba station>Kuixinglou>Three Natural Bridges, Wulong(not too far away)
>>2874029>>2874031Thanks to both, I had these places in my itinerary.As a bonus, I'll add another cool place: El Jem roman ruins in Tunisia. Insane Roman architecture with barely any other tourist around.
>>2874035That’s a pretty insane intact colosseum
>>2874037Tunisia has a lot of rather impressive Roman architecture. Out of the places I visited, the El Jem coliseum is the one I remember most vividly. The Antonine Baths in Carthage were also a highlight. I've also heard great things about Dougga, but haven't been there.
>>2874047Since I'm in a good mood, here's another cool place I've been to. Hill of Crosses in Lithuania. Started as a way to commemorate an uprising against the Russians, was destroyed multiple times by Tsarist and Soviet authorities, and continuously rebuilt until it became what it is today
>>2873824every city in japan looks like utter shit in every video without a whole unity engine filter of saturation and vibrancy.
>>2874083Cities are trash. Though Tokyo did have some unique architecture with a brashness unheard-of back home.I just got back from Nikko and loved it. The mountain forests with the thick puffs of mist spattered around, the remote onsen that looked out into the wilderness, Edo Wonderland (one day is enough but it was a full one, and the kids loved it). I wish we'd stayed longer.
>>2873824Osaka
I'm gonna visit Japan as soon as I can a) legally bring cannabis products on an international flight from the US to Japan, as well as through customs, without any issue guaranteedb) buy and use cannabis products in Japan itself without going to mystery jail forever>inb4 you wanna smoke on the streetno, just not be harassed for taking my medicine
>>2874109Lardy lardy lardassssss
>>2874109Well, you pothead retard, you’ll be waiting a long, long time then.
>>2874109Weed smokers will tell you it isn’t addictive but then they act like this
