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littlelisa
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Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca is considered unique/remote? Don't most tourists who go to Bolivia visit there?
I don't think this qualifies as remote, because it's two hours away from Stockholm, but if anyone here's been to Herr�ng, Sweden, there are good chances that if I haven't met you we at least have a ton of friends and a hobby in common. Small enough that the school has shut down, and there isn't a bank machine or a supermarket until the next town over. Most Swedes have never heard of the place, but it's well known to swing dancers all over the world. I consider that at least unique. |
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hagwonnewbie
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banjois
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Been to Iqualuit and Yellowknife, but since both have airports and government offices I wouldn't say either is remote.
I'd say the most remote/isolated place I've ever been would be a four day paddle E/SE of Pinehouse Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. You can floatplane in or paddle in w. canoe/kayak.
Wild blueberries by the bucketful, and the best pikerel (walleye) I've ever tasted. |
Which lake/river? Beautiful country up there, I grew up doing three week trips on the Churchill or up towards Reindeer Lake with the folks. It's been way too long since I've gotten back. |
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Yahowho
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Most remote place - Tory Island, Ireland
Worst place - Riga, Latvia
Best Place - Fraser Island, Australia
honorable mention - Amsterdam  |
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balzor
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| meh, only Monterrey, Mexico or Fairbanks Alaska would qualify, other than Korea. However, of all of my friends in the states, I have been the farthest from home. |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| Pink Freud wrote: |
Been to Iqualuit and Yellowknife, but since both have airports and government offices I wouldn't say either is remote.
I'd say the most remote/isolated place I've ever been would be a four day paddle E/SE of Pinehouse Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. You can floatplane in or paddle in w. canoe/kayak.
Wild blueberries by the bucketful, and the best pikerel (walleye) I've ever tasted. |
Which lake/river? Beautiful country up there, I grew up doing three week trips on the Churchill or up towards Reindeer Lake with the folks. It's been way too long since I've gotten back. |
The trip I'm describing was from North of the town of Pinehouse near Snake Rapids to Otter Rapids. Sorry, I forget the trip number. It is all the Churchill River, eventually passing through Black Bear Island Lake and Trout Lake. We did it in 8 days, but should have taken 12 just to enjoy the trip more. It was pretty hardcore.
This summer the plan is from Stanley Mission to Pelican Narrows, I think. In two years some friends plan to do a once in a lifetime trip on the Nahanni. That will be the most remote place I ever will have been.
Beautiful country. |
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NovaKart
Joined: 18 Nov 2009
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Harlan County, Kentucky. OK, maybe that's not really remote but it's totalliy hillbilly.
I went to a really remote village in Guatemala on the mountaintops. That was perhaps the most remote place I've been. It was during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal and outside the houses were partly covered with newspapers. One of them had Monica Lewinsky on the cover so even out there in rural Guatemala you couldn't get away from the news coverage of it. Most of the people there were illiterate so I doubt they knew anything about it.
Perhaps Tbilisi, Georgia isn't really that remote but it's a place not a lot of people go and many people haven't heard of, so maybe that would count. |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Pink Freud wrote: |
The trip I'm describing was from North of the town of Pinehouse near Snake Rapids to Otter Rapids. Sorry, I forget the trip number. It is all the Churchill River, eventually passing through Black Bear Island Lake and Trout Lake. We did it in 8 days, but should have taken 12 just to enjoy the trip more. It was pretty hardcore.
This summer the plan is from Stanley Mission to Pelican Narrows, I think. In two years some friends plan to do a once in a lifetime trip on the Nahanni. That will be the most remote place I ever will have been.
Beautiful country. |
Yeah, I've done that stretch a few times. It's great, but the Big Devil portage is a slog!
If you're into flatwater paddling there's some great stuff off of both sides of the road west of Reindeer Lake.
Nahanni's the dream. My dad's talked about doing that as long as I remember, but now insists he's too old. I really want to do it someday too (better get around to it before I'm too old!). The Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson is a great trip. One big easy fast float through some of the greatest scenery anywhere. |
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drkalbi
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I hope you visited the spa and the "Al Capone" caves, saw a Moose Jaw Warriors game, and ate at Nit's Thai food. |
Been to many Warrior games. Can't wait to do the rest  |
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beercanman
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| St. Pierre - Miquelon, . |
I'm from Newf and don't recall meeting anyone from there or even remember hearing from anyone who been. Seems like a pretty well kept secret.
But I believe a bunch of classmates taking French went there in high school with a teacher as a school trip, maybe some kind of intro to French culture. I just don't remember very well. |
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bossface
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| one time i fell asleep on the subway and ended up in Brooklyn. chilling. |
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DrugstoreCowgirl
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Location: Daegu-where the streets have no name
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| littlelisa wrote: |
Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca is considered unique/remote? Don't most tourists who go to Bolivia visit there?
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Yeah, I went there when I was in Peru/Bolivia.
I suppose I've never really been anywhere remote. I've been to Denali in Alaska, but it's not as if a million tourists a year don't go.
I guess if I had to say, it would be the Neptune Islands off of South Australia. 47 nautical miles off land, nothing but rocks, fur seals and big sharks. |
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blade
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| Maningrida NT, Australia. It's a small town pop: 2,500 right in the heart of Arnhem Land. It's about 500 km east of Darwin. |
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KevinLS
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I've been to the Most Serene Republic of San Marino a couple times. Sure millions of tourists -- mostly septuagenarians and better on bus tours have been there, but there's no airport or train station in the country, which compared to surrounding Italian cities makes it remote.
I also went by train to the tiny village of San Marino deep in the Dolomites after a few transfers, arriving on a two car train that was almost empty to a shack of a train station, which had nothing more inside than a large plasma TV with the train schedule on it. That was before I realized you couldn't get to the country San Marino by train. Or that paese can mean either country or village in Italian. |
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rocket_scientist
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