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Places you'd like to go to before you die.

Tayus
Tayus Posts: 313 Forumite
in Overseas holidays & travel planning
Really want to go travelling this year but cant decide where to go to, then i got thinking and wondered what places people would like to see/ things they would like to do before they die?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
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  • paul2468
    paul2468 Posts: 845 Forumite
    What i would like to see before i die is....Everton winning the champions leauge.
  • Tayus
    Tayus Posts: 313 Forumite
    lol, can you think of anything realistic?!
    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
  • Broken_hearted
    Broken_hearted Posts: 9,553 Forumite
    Everywhere the I need to do Austrailia, India, Canada, Russia and home I always need to go home.
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  • savvy
    savvy Posts: 31,128 Forumite
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    Nice one Tayus but I have too many! icon11.gif

    Mostly;
    Machu Picchu
    Seychells/Mauritius
    The Ice Hotel - Sweden
    Tonga
    New Zealand

    Then for snowboarding;
    Banff
    Whistler
    Serbia again! icon12.gif
    Possibly Bulgaria

    Am loving cooking Thai food at the mo (well getting Godders to do it), so am thinking that may be a place to go too, probably south. Have also fancied Jamaica too, especially for the food icon11.gif

    Oh and Belize is a possibility too icon11.gificon11.gif
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  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
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    I want to go to Canada, cross the Rockies on a train, back to Oz for a long holiday do the West, back to NZ for the bits we missed. The Carribean, the Far East, China Japan, there are places in the US I want to go to.

    I don't plan on dying for a very long time so hopefully I will see them all and more.
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  • saveapenny
    saveapenny Posts: 6,773 Forumite
    Alaska, Thailand, New Zealand (aint gonna happen hubby wont fly that far), Rio (him on the sofa will only do it on a cruise said its crime riden),China, Japan and more of Russia.
    If you look anything like your passport photo....Your too ill to travel
  • iwanttosave_2
    iwanttosave_2 Posts: 34,292 Forumite
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    This is the place I want to go, looked how much it would be for a week as a guide for a honeymoon and it was about £3,500

    http://www.tahiti-explorer.com/hotels/bb_pearl1.html
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  • rdwarr
    rdwarr Posts: 6,159 Forumite
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    Just one for me.
    Boulders Bay in South Africa to see the penguins.
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  • Dr.Lou
    Dr.Lou Posts: 266 Forumite
    Mmmm, lets think - Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, The Pyramids, Machu Pichu, Borneo, Iceland (geysers), African Safari, Niagra Falls, Italy's Lakes, Hong Kong, Sydney, Venice, New York, California, Las Vegas, New Orleans, The Rockies, Florence.....could go on, want to see it all (better get saving)!!!
  • cundall
    cundall Posts: 859 Forumite
    My list is:

    bora bora
    papua new guinea
    eastern timor
    french polynesia
    Turks & Caicos Islands
    Comoro Islands
    Lakshadweep Islands
    Andaman & Nicobar Islands
    ICELAND!!!!! (No not the superstore)
    samoa
    kazakhstan !!!!!!!
    Diego Garcia - i know its an air base at the moment / Chagos archipelago
    And lastly Russia!!!!

    A bit of a mixed bag...
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