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❓ Question of the Day ❓
If you could spend a year vacationing, with an unlimited budget - where would your destinations be?
My dream is to be able to travel to locations all around the world to swim with turtles. The Galapagos Island, Maldives, Akumal, the Great Barrier Reef, Gili Islands - Bali, Borneo, Barbados. I would end my vacation in Japan, so I could visit my brother and his wife, and swim with the turtles there, and end my vacation with family. 🐢🌊
We seemed to prefer the travelling part more than the destinations and love being on the move so I think every week we would just fly first class with Emirates, Etihad, and Singapore Airlines to different parts of the world. We also love trains so we'd get on 1st class on all the cool trains everywhere. With unlimited budget, we'd also love to sail on a nice catamaran to Greece and maybe go for the most expensive cruises to the cooler temp places. We hate hot and humid and bugs :).
This is a great reply. everyone’s talked about where they want to go, but not how they were going to get there. I forgot… Unlimited budget means first class everywhere. 👏👏👏
I want to a great deal of places in my 12 years in the Navy, some good, some terrible. I still like Singapore despite what it's become, but for sheer beauty and lovely people there is...... Pembrokeshire.
Many months in Ireland, I would also go to Nepal, to see the Himalayas, not to climb them,Iceland, and for some reason, the very tip of South America, to see the place where the oceans meet with the Antarctic Sea.
Iceland is very beautiful, and a wonderful country. my daughters been a couple times, and my mom’s been once with her. I highly recommend - but not so much for me, because there’s no turtles just swim with 😂😂😂
Joke response to all the Antarctica talk on here lately: Antarctica.
I would love to check out all the ancient landmarks like the pyramids in Egypt and South America , Petra, Angkor wat, fly over those giant line drawings (I forgot their name), etc etc.
Jordan is supposed to be pretty awesome as well. I saw some of that on the amazing race, and it just looks so pretty. Not so sure it’s a great time to go there at this point in time though 🤷♀️
Nazca Lines.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nazca-lines-peru
Thank you ! Yes that!