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From: Grover Beach, CA 93433
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posted 01-29-2005 18:35               

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Red Sea - diving on the Saudi side- not a soul for hundreds of miles, just the camels!
Madin Salah- a Petra-like area in Saudi- also no one there- not much tourism in Saudi- huge tombs carved out of rocks faces

Road to Arctic circle in Alaska- goes on for hundreds of miles, eventually you lose the trees and it becomes tundra.

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From: New York
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posted 01-29-2005 22:58               

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The Bronx, NY. You don't have any idea of how exotic it is there!!!!

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From: Norfolk, VA
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posted 01-30-2005 07:49               

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The Joint Security Area in the DMZ for 12 months thanks to uncle Sam. The dividing line between the Koreas ran down the middle of the negotiation building and table.

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From: Auckland, New Zealand Owner Fiji Palms, Sun Pacific (NZ), Cedar Lakes (Aust)
Registered: May 2001

posted 02-02-2005 00:59               

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Chang Mai in Northern Thailand - 28 years ago it was "undiscovered" and Westerners were fairly few and far between.

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From: Tri-Cities, WA, & 3 Edelweiss , Whitefish MT, 1 Pelican, St. Maarten
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 02-02-2005 17:21               

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Bayburt, Turkey, during Ramadan. On top of the citadel at dusk and the entire town disappears en masse at sunset. Town is bustling and the next minute - no one - total silence. Something out of Piercing the Darkness by Frank Perreti.

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From: East Coast, Mid-Atlantic; Club Sunterra Founding Member
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posted 02-02-2005 17:46               

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Cairo
Jerusalem
Rabat
Nauru
Ulithi
Tinian
Iwo Jima
Galapagos

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From: Tri-Cities, WA, & 3 Edelweiss , Whitefish MT, 1 Pelican, St. Maarten
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posted 02-02-2005 17:47               

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Also Morocco - returning from Marrakesh by rental car we took a shortcut on gravel road and it looked like parts of grazing-country Montana I have been to. About as desolate(population) as MT too. I'm always struck how some areas have geography/fauna that resembles areas in US. For instance- Cappadocia, Turkey has same roadside weeds as found here in shrub-steppe areas of Columbia Basin WA/OR. Now there was a geographically exotic area - Cappadocia - home of the fairy chimneys and trogolydytes!

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posted 02-02-2005 17:48               

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The Joint Security Area in the DMZ for 12 months thanks to uncle Sam. The dividing line between the Koreas ran down the middle of the negotiation building and table.

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...and the North Korea side of the table in the negotiation building in the DMZ.

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From: Philadelphia pa usa
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posted 02-02-2005 19:10               

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Mount Sinai

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From: New York State
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posted 02-03-2005 15:37               

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Has to be Australia. Great Barrier Reef area, also sailed to an island off the gold coast, took a ride in a sea plane. Most incredible site I have ever seen. The scenery will never leave my mind

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posted 02-03-2005 18:22            

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I feel like we're unadventurous compared to all of the trip examples, lol. I consider exotic traipsing across English sheep farms before the hoof and mouth disease outbreak so we could walk along and atop Hadrian's Wall. Nothing around except sheep, quiet, the wind, and vast hills and farms of green and mud. It was beautiful! And isn't that what matters? I would love to go back and do that all over again.

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posted 02-03-2005 18:24               

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Palau before Survivor got there

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From: Murrieta, California
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posted 02-06-2005 07:39               

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Barstow, California.

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From: McDonough, GA, Owner : Tree Tops, Gatlinburg, TN
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posted 02-06-2005 11:38               

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I think exotic is a little hard to describe and I used to think I would love to travel outside of the United States, but there is SO much to see in the U.S. that we have not seen yet. We try to go to a different state every year in our timeshare travels. I still think I might like to go to Austria (everytime I watch "Sound of Music".

When I hear or see the word Exotic, I think of the time our children were young and we were on our way to a Florida vacation. Our son looked over at some "dive" and said "Oh, look Dad they have idiotic dancers there!" Of course the word was exotic. I just now looked the word up in my Webster's dictionary and it says (among other definitions) "of or relating to striptease".

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