Best place you've ever travelled to?

[PositronicRay]

alpertonian said:

Pico's mountains in Spain on a motorbike

It bloody snowed when we did them. At one point during a whiteout I seriously considered hiring a van just to get me back down onto the plains.

[Matt..]

I’ve started to see travel as a really important part of my life and it takes a large portion of my income now. To me life is about experiences and seeing more than what’s immediately around you.

My favourite so far is probably wilderness camping in Wrangell St Elias national park in Alaska. It involved driving out to a remote and tiny town, taking a plane to somewhere more remote, then a bush plane to the wilderness and hiking from there. No one for miles and miles other than our group of 4. Surrounded by big mountains and glaciers and with the occasional curious grizzly. This trip also included kayaking upto a constantly calving glacier and going to see the bears in Katmai (at that waterfall that’s always on documentaries with bears catching salmon!).

My trips are mostly to take photos and hike and this has taken me to some amazing places.

Eg: Month long road trips to NZ, US southwest, US coast to coast, US PNW/Canada, Alaska. Mountain hiking in Italy/Switzerland/Austria/France/Spain/Slovenia.

I’m at 25 US national parks now, so nearly half!

Blow more money travelling. It’s so much more interesting than spending weekends stuck inside playing computer games.

Edited by Matt.. on Wednesday 20th November 18:41

[DB4DM]

South Georgia, 23 June 1983, stamped my own passport at British Antarctic Survey at Grytviken

[Europa1]

Tricky one.

In terms of "one offs", as opposed to places I'd go back to time and time again, I loved Cameroon, and Timbuktu and the Sahara were awesome.

[bazza white]

Mexico, the wildlife is amazing.

[thebraketester]

Probably the rockies in BC.

[Prohibiting]

Matt.. said:

I’ve started to see travel as a really important part of my life and it takes a large portion of my income now. To me life is about experiences and seeing more than what’s immediately around you.

My favourite so far is probably wilderness camping in Wrangell St Elias national park in Alaska. It involved driving out to a remote and tiny town, taking a plane to somewhere more remote, then a bush plane to the wilderness and hiking from there. No one for miles and miles other than our group of 4. Surrounded by big mountains and glaciers and with the occasional curious grizzly. This trip also included kayaking upto a constantly calving glacier and going to see the bears in Katmai (at that waterfall that’s always on documentaries with bears catching salmon!).

My trips are mostly to take photos and hike and this has taken me to some amazing places.

Eg: Month long road trips to NZ, US southwest, US coast to coast, US PNW/Canada, Alaska. Mountain hiking in Italy/Switzerland/Austria/France/Spain/Slovenia.

I’m at 25 US national parks now, so nearly half!

Blow more money travelling. It’s so much more interesting than spending weekends stuck inside playing computer games.

Edited by Matt.. on Wednesday 20th November 18:41

Sounds perfect. Your Alaska trip with the group of 4, how was that arranged and organised? I'm on 2 US parks; Yosemite to do the half dome hike made me realise how stunning the World can be and I want to see more.

Edited by Prohibiting on Wednesday 20th November 23:02

[hman]

Australia, I now live here, which is nice.

[Matt..]

Prohibiting said:

Your Alaska trip with the group of 4, how was that arranged and organised? .

I used St Elias Alpine Guides. They were very good.

Next year I’m planning long distance hikes. Eg. Kungsleden, TMB, etc...

[Prohibiting]

Matt.. said:

Prohibiting said:

Your Alaska trip with the group of 4, how was that arranged and organised? .

I used St Elias Alpine Guides. They were very good.

Next year I’m planning long distance hikes. Eg. Kungsleden, TMB, etc...

Looks fascinating. Thanks!