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[Tiger Beer]

We all have our cities of interest...either for potential living or visiting or whatever interest..

A list of about TEN of my own...

BRAZIL - Fortaleza, Maceio, Sao Luis
COLOMBIA - Cartagena
UKRAINE - Kiev, Odessa
UZBEKISTAN - Tashkent
KAZAKHISTAN - Almaty
CHINA - Shanghai
MYANMAR - Yangoon

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List 10 of your own...or comment on other's lists..

[bossface]

for cities to visit that i've never been to:

1 (with a bullet) istanbul - i've been dying to go there for years

the rest in no order:
beijing
buenos aries
rio
berlin
mexico city
pyongyang
shanghai
budapest
moscow

tiger, i haven't been anywhere on your list, but the pictures i've seen of yangoon and kiev make both look pretty appealing to visit.

[VanIslander]

cities?

ew,... you urbanites!

I look forward to the 10 list of rural country areas

in the meantime I will TRY to think about this, and bypass thoughts of the traffic, pollution, rush, indifference, crime and concrete jungleness of most cities... guess I'm gonna have to think of flying in an airplane to an airport at a city as a fun way and place to "travel"... I love Vancouver and Auckland but unless yoyu live in crowded noisy downtown it takes a long time to get into and out of the cities (and don't get started on the transit ugliness of the Bay Area unless sequestered in San Francisco itself!). Montreal was fantastic because so many neighbourhoods are infused with downtown, is more of a sprawling small city with some major streets spread out.

but of cities i've never been to and would want to go to... hmmm...

Bilbao, Spain as the capital of the Basque region and home of the Guggenheim, with great food I hear


Though I'd quickly make for the smaller city ofSan Sebastian before hitting the beautiful rural areas



While in that part of the world, and to minimize jumps between airports, I'd love to venture to Cannes, not during the snobby film festival (though I'd check out the theaters and film archives, but for Carnival on the Riviera, the best one outside of New Orleans and Latin America I hear. And the restaurants and hotels!


I could do some serious chilling out in Cuenca, Ecuador with its everpresent Springlike weather, closeness to nature, laid back manner, and good recommendations by anyone who has ventured to it: I could seriously spend a few weeks there


Shimla, Northern India, the old Imperial summer retreat, the city in the mountains, is great to by train and is a good point to set off on regional sightseeing. I've heard the city has some of the most breathtaking vistas in the entire world.





I have since the age of 10 wanted to make Perth, Western Australia the destination of a pan-continental journey. No way would I fly there. Half the romance of the city is in its remoteness and yet Englishness, sort of alone on the shores of the Indian ocean.





I have been to Japan six times but never made it up to Sapporo, Hokkaido, especially in wintertime to the Olympic city, especially nice would be during the snow festival. I could play tourist then.




Another place I've always imagined traveling to. Have been to California three times but never made it down to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. I'll get there by car.



There is a very tempting intensive two-month Cambridge DELTA program in Durban, South Africa that would make an awesome edu-tourism opportunity for an ESL teacher. Yeah, I'd fly.





And for a desired trip to Ireland I'd spend some time in Dublin, Ireland:

[soviet_man]

soviet_man's Top 10 cities:

1. Esfahan (Iran)
2. Moscow (Russia)
3. Pyongyang (DPRK)
4. Kuwait City (Kuwait)
5. Murmansk (Russia)
6. Casablanca (Morocco)
7. Islamabad (Pakistan)
8. Van (Turkey)
9. Tunis (Tunisia)
10. Sochi (Russia)

[santafly]

Interesting what turns people on....Not really being a city person (my excitement over nightlife and "culture" generally doesn't last longer than a couple days, especially after being reminded of how expensive cities are) I usually think of cities in terms of their physical beauty - Rio, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, Valparaiso, Brugge, Manhattan.

VanIslander - I'm from Santa Fe - it's a great place but it's really going downhill fast. It's becoming a retirement community - I go into the grocery store and I'm usually the only person under 50. Urban sprawl is taking over, like everywhere else in the states, and the city is quickly loosing it's charm. Best to visit when it's warm too.

[santafly]

Hey Soviet man - All of your cities are on the same continent (except for Tunis and Casablanca). You know there is more to the world, right?

[santafly]

The word for describing one of the planets 7 land masses has just been censored from my post!

[Tiger Beer]

I made it to three on VanIslander's list, none on Soviet Man's list.

Cuenca, it's a small interesting colonial town. I liked Quito better as it was more of a city, but if you aren't into cities, then Cuenca would be the place. Yes, ideal climate as well! (I've also been to Santa Fe and Dublin on that list).

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Bossface, I did make it a number of those - Beijing, Buenos Aries, Rio de Jainero, Shanghai and Budapest. I loved Rio de Jainero, that city should be on everyone's list!

Yeah, I gotta agree that Kiev does look good on pictures. Very photogenic place it seems to me. Unlike anywhere else I've seen.

[samd]

In no particular order (haven't been to any of them):

Pyongyang
Vladivostock
Moscow
Ulaanbaator
Lusaka
Lagos
Buenos Aires
Casablanca (cheesy I know)
Tallinn
Dubrovnik

[articulate_ink]

Cool thread.

Ten that aren't so far away, that I'm keen to visit and probably will:

1. Beijing (but in 3 weeks I can scratch this one off the list)
2. Sapporo
3. Tokyo
4. Luang Prabang
5. Mandalay
6. Goa
7. Manila
8. Saigon
9. Hanoi
10. Osaka/Kansai region

Ten I'm drawn to and must see sooner or later:

1. Rome
2. Dubai
3. Buenos Aires
4. Lisbon
5. Cape Town
6. Muscat
7. Stockholm
8. Dubrovnik
9. Athens
10. Istanbul

And my personal top ten, lived and/or visited (in no particular order):

1. Barcelona
2. Singapore
3. Hong Kong
4. Sydney
5. San Francisco
6. Vancouver
7. Portland, Oregon
8. Paris
9. Bangkok
10. tie: Melbourne, New York, Amsterdam, and Toronto
(OK, I cheated.)

[mark dew]

just a couple of points, shimla i don't think is a city is it? I know its the state capital but its only the length from kyobo bookstore to chongno 3 ga. There are several layers of terraced streets though. So there is a bit of a sprawl. Only it's short and vertical.
Goa itself is a state and not a city.
The trouble with cities except probably hong kong is that you don't get a real feel for the culture or the people. Or you do but its a false one.
I'm a country boy and i found i had more in common in many ways with villagers in india than i have done with people in london.
vanislander, some very nice photos.

[biggpoppa]

i know it's not a city...but the Maldives is the first place I'll be heading to on my next vacation...haven't decided where, but oh man...just search it up...breathtaking...

[nomad-ish]

1. CAIRO and surrounding area (Egypt)

and the rest in no particular order:

2. Nairobi (Kenya)
3. Moscow (Russia)
4. anywhere in Madagascar
5. Jakarta (Indonesia)
6. Xian (China)
7. Vatican City
8. Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)
9. Machu Picchu site (Peru)
10. Abu Simbel (Egypt)

[Hightop]

Van Islander, are you sure your Sapporo pics are Sapporo??? Not Harbin, China? http://www.snowfes.com/english/place/index.html Sapporo does not seem to have an Olympic ice festival but this year in Harbin the Snow and Ice festival has an Olympic theme

[ajgeddes]

Out of all these lists, the only place I think I have been to, except for Tokyo, is Esfahan in Iran. I would also put it in my top 10. I have to think before I can make a full list though.