Where is the most un-touristy place you have ever been?
Apr 3rd, 2002, 04:47 PM
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I have enjoyed some of the small hamlets in Bavaria. It is fun to hike or bike in parts The Black Forest. I went days w/o seeing all the tourists. Of course there are very touristy areas w/in these places.<BR>Right now I can't remeber specific names of villages, but it was truly enjoyable.<BR>I think if you go off the beaten path away from the areas that are touted on this board and travel books you can really soak up some local culture.
Apr 3rd, 2002, 04:58 PM
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Basically any place that wasn't worth going to. I overlook the touristy aspect. I figure that anywhere in the world worth visiting has already been discovered. The number of tourists visiting it will be in direct proportion to how worthwhile it is to visit.<BR>Sure I have happened upon some tiny little villages or remote spots that still seemed undiscovered, but there really is no reason for them to become major destinations. They just make for wonderful diversions from the major tourist circuit.
Apr 3rd, 2002, 05:19 PM
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Patrick's right -- there are plenty of places that are unspoiled because they're not worth gong to. <BR><BR>I used to have to travel all over the US, evaluating School Lunch Programs that had been chosen at random. There's nothing like being the only guest in a DelMarVa resort hotel during January! Unless it's staying in a motel twenty miles away from the town I'm working in, cuz that's the closest place. <BR><BR>I'd have to say that rural West Virginia was the most beautiful and least tourist-y, and the least visited by any aspect of the outside world. Sorry this isn't about sites in Europe, but I'm sure there are equivalents.
Apr 3rd, 2002, 05:38 PM
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In a rented gite a couple k. from Gordes (touristy, of course); no close neighbors, overlooking a poppy field; the gite, "typique de Provence", as they said, was surrounded by olives trees. We could smell fresh herbs as we drank our morning coffee on the patio, out of bowls, of course!
Apr 3rd, 2002, 07:14 PM
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A small fisherman's village in the north eastern part of Barzil. the village is called Pipa. The last time I was theer(over 5years ago) the only people that traveled to Pipa were the fisherman and Brazilian's on holiday. I've traveled to many different beaches over the years and i still believe Pipa and the beaches of North Eastern Brazil are the most beautiful in the world.<BR>
Apr 4th, 2002, 04:42 AM
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Sue, you're breaking my heart. Tell us more about your gite and can't you give us a tiny little clue about which one it was and how to rent it? Guess that would be foolish. alas.<BR><BR>For what it's worth, I've found these little towns to be unspoiled and quiet places to come back to at night while visiting the more important destinations nearby: Harburg (just north of Munich), Leissigen (Lake Thun, Switz.), Gerra-Gambarogno (Lago Maggiore), Dambach-la-ville (Alsace), Bulach (near Zurich flughafen), and Rivaz on Lac Leman. I travel in June, so I don't know what they are like at other times. I suppose you were really asking for destinations waaaaay off the beaten track. How about anyplace in southwestern Louisiana, bayous, food, old stuff. But get there quick; it's heating up. J.
Apr 4th, 2002, 05:28 AM
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Barbara! I am sorry to tell you that there have been charter package tours from Finland and Sweden to Pipa, Brazil for at least two years now.<BR><BR>I have been to many places in Europe, Asia and Africa that are truly unspoiled and very much worth a visit or even a longer stay. But then those visits are not for sightseeing, they are for breathing slowly and savouring the atmosphere. <BR><BR>But it is true that often touristy places are touristy because they are really worth seeing. I remember reading one question about Egypt. The person asked about places worth seeing there but thought that she will just skip "pyramids and temples and other touristy stuff".
