the most amazing and unusual place, you have ever been to? just like it is not from this world

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Nov 5th, 2002, 12:51 AM

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Jon Strong

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Skellig Rock off the coast of Kerry in south-west Ireland had a monastery built around 1,000 years ago about 500 feet up the side of a hill.The buildings are now abandoned but visitiing there is magical.A lady from Milan who travelled in the small boat with me described it as "Magnifico".

Nov 5th, 2002, 02:27 AM

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rar

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glacier national park, montana

Nov 5th, 2002, 03:31 AM

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Zarina

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The places that have impacted me the most: Iceland Yangtze River, Great Wall, Xi'an Forbiden Palace in China Ring of Kerry, viking ruins Ireland Torres del Paine, national Park Tierra de Fuego in Chile Bellagio,Roma, Trieste, Genova, Cinque terre, Italia Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Hong Kong harbour Alaska, the glaciers Iguazu Falls, Brazil & Argentina Inverness, Edingburg, Scothland The Alhambra, Spain Portugal, Algarve Norway, North Cape Finland, Fjords Denmark, Copenhagen Sweeden Aruba, Barbados,Eleuthera Island Bahamas, St. Lucia, Paradise Island Bahamas, So far these are the ones that come to my mind,I think that were ever we go there is allways something that leaves us with a surprise.

Nov 5th, 2002, 02:07 PM

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alice

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thank you all for sharing your memory with me!!!!!!!

Nov 5th, 2002, 02:36 PM

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Bob

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Reading all of these makes me want to pack up and head out again!

Nov 5th, 2002, 03:29 PM

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by far and away...

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I am very surprised no one else mentioned a visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. As a lifelong Catholic, and having attended countless masses, Catholic schools, etc., I was shocked to discover that you can actually visit the cave in which Jesus was born! Stand where the Three Wise Mean stood! Put your hand in the hole that held the crucifix upon which Christ was hung! Touch the marble slab on which His body was laid out! Not to mention the remaining bit of the Western Wall of the temple of David, the tomb of Moses, the mosques, etc. Jerusalem makes your flesh crawl...it was my first ever tactile contact with religion and the first time I ever, really deep down believed, that such a person as Jesus Christ lived and also feeling the roots of Judaism and Islam was more than amazing. A day of tears, calls home and never forgotten.

Nov 5th, 2002, 03:30 PM

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Malvolio

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The most amazing place I;ve been? My first girlfriend's panties!

Nov 5th, 2002, 04:17 PM

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Alana

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The inside of the 25 Broadway, NYC post office. I was going to mail a letter and was stunned by the artwork inside. I walked around with my nose in the air while admiring the ceilings. Most beautiful US Post Office.

Nov 5th, 2002, 04:24 PM

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nancy

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Tough call but I always come back to Capadoccia, Turkey followed closely by a safari in Kenya.

Nov 5th, 2002, 04:33 PM

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Karen

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Hard to pick, but.... Amazon rainforest - going to sleep and waking up to the sounds of the forest! And walking thru the rainforest with only kerosene lamps. Xian - Terra Cotta soldiers - even more amazing than the Great Wall - although I was pretty darn amazed with it! Venice - need I say more? Macchu Picchu - the first glimpse took my breath! Pyramids in Cairo. Alhambra. Yellowstone National Park. Rocky Mountain National Park.

Nov 6th, 2002, 08:43 AM

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Adela

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Patmos! the Grotto where St.John the Evangelist, the Theologian, inspired by the Holy Spirit, wrote the Book of Revelation, (or Apocalypse). It is a place where you can feel the legacy and unity, harmony, with God!

Nov 6th, 2002, 09:55 AM

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rob mccoist

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Both Jerusalem and Cairo for me were both wonderful. Couldn't quite believe I was there. I have to say though that my most magical experience was standing looking up at the floodlit Parthenon from the enternce to the Agora. A site I'll never forget.

Nov 6th, 2002, 10:12 AM

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Ryan

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There is an island I visited in the Andaman Sea, near Phuket, that is home to thousands of swallows. There is a community of citizens whose sole job is to harvest the saliva which is eventually used to make a soup that sells for thousands of dollars in Hong Kong and mainland China. Unbelievable.

Nov 6th, 2002, 10:57 AM

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1. Hill climbing in Gros Morne National Park Newfoundland - red earth, red rocks, no vegetation, hard blue sky, ground shaking like jelly underfoot with every step because of the bog conditions underneath. A cross between Mars and the Moon. 2. On an unmarked hiking trail somewhere near of Savigny-le-Beaune in France, we found ourselves on the edge of a high cliff overlooking a farming valley. Light planes were flying, but below us ! Felt as though we were Gulliver in Lilliput.

Nov 6th, 2002, 11:42 AM

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Kim

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Haleakala...an inactive volcano in Maui. It's how I imagine Mars!

Nov 6th, 2002, 01:03 PM

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Mark

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Curacao, Dutch Neterland Antilles: The serenity and quaintness of the people and this uniquely small island just relaxes me and calms me down...

Nov 6th, 2002, 01:56 PM

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Snoopy

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Taroka Gorge, Taiwan Valley of the Moon - La Paz, Bolivia Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife) Akureyri, Iceland

Nov 6th, 2002, 02:06 PM

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North America: Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland Europe: torn between Paris bridge on the Seine at dawn in October and a park in the Abruzzo National Forest (in Italy) a meadow high in the hills in early May

Nov 6th, 2002, 02:42 PM

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David

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I, too, agree with Bob and Elaine that Venice has an ambience unlike any other place I have experienced. Some others that come to mind (in no particular order): --Kamakura, Japan: Amazing temples, history and artifacts --The Alhambra, Spain --Boating/swimming over the Marianas Trench between Saipan and Tinian. Spooky and scary because the ocean floor was seven miles down and the water was black! --Exploring Stonehenge 27 years ago in the fog--before it was fenced off Strive

Nov 6th, 2002, 02:58 PM

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carolyn

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Most any place in Hawaii, especially with a rainbow First view of Edinburgh Castle lighted at night with an almost full moon shining above it Venice Grand Platz in Brussels Scottish highlands Glastonbury Abbey ruins Sainte Chappelle

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