Comments on: Where No Man Has Gone Before...

Question: Where No Man Has Gone Before...

Avenger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:22:07 -0800

Give me some ideas on some exotic and "remote" places to vacation. Remote as in, obscure, sparsely populated areas. I've already considered Greenland. Anything similar?

By: emilyd22222

emilyd22222 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:24:19 -0800

Well, my fabulous world-traveling great aunt visited Antarctica in her 80s...does that count as exotic?

By: Sova

Sova — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:24:25 -0800

Svalbard!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:25:35 -0800

Nunavut.

By: meerkatty

meerkatty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:28:07 -0800

Easter Island. A friend just got back from there and LOVED it.

By: glider

glider — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:28:21 -0800

The Azores or some other "far away from everywhere else" type island?

By: Sova

Sova — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:28:56 -0800

Kamchatka is also similar, but a little warmer, and with a few more people.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:34:27 -0800

Kiribati. You might also want to check the UN's "least developed countries" list or their "small island developing states" list. I probably don't need to tell you that lack of "development" pretty much ensures almost no touristy infrastructure, but it seems like that might be what you are looking for.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:46:23 -0800

Hebron, Labrador

By: AzraelBrown

AzraelBrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:49:40 -0800

If you want to stay stateside (or visit the U.S., if not already), the national grasslands in Wyoming are some of the most remote places I've been lately -- there's nobody for miles, few trees, rarely any telephone poles, you can drive thorugh them without meeting another car for hours (they have warnings about this on signs when leaving the last populated areas; if you run out of gas, you're going to be stuck a while). A couple years ago my daughter and I stopped and walked a good half-mile into the grasslands, and was overwhelmed at the lack of noise - any noise - other than wind in the grass and a rare distant grasshopper. Most "remote" areas in the U.S. seem to be mountainy or foresty; the grasslands are a different beast.

By: chairface

chairface — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:06:33 -0800

Socotra?

By: Emperor SnooKloze

Emperor SnooKloze — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:14:44 -0800

Jan Mayen, Franz Josef Archipelago (as yet by permit only), Little Diomede (in the Bering Strait), and (picking up on Jessamyn's idea) Alert, Nunavut.

By: Flood

Flood — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:29:42 -0800

Alaska's North Slope. ANWR.
It is a beautiful place.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:32:27 -0800

Cape Verde.

By: benzenedream

benzenedream — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:32:30 -0800

Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Population 89. Atomic bears prowl at night.

By: Gneisskate

Gneisskate — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:50:16 -0800

Cerntral Baja California. It contains a very unique desert and not much else. There are a few tiny towns to stay in, but it is definitely not touristy like La Paz at the southern end.

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:31:24 -0800

The climate is different, but the population density is similar: The Australian outback.

By: andraste

andraste — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:38:52 -0800

Central Australia; particular the vast, sparsely populated parts of the Northern Territory, northern/central WA and northern SA.

By: univac

univac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:58:40 -0800

I liked Kosrae. It's a quiet little island.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:47:47 -0800

If you're digging Nanavut, there's the Canadian North: Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik July 10th to the 19th.

By: Avenger

Avenger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:36:04 -0800

Interesting links, everybody. I'm actually seriously thinking about that Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik. Anybody up for some arctic road trips?

By: porpoise

porpoise — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:52:20 -0800

Avenger; I brought that up because I want to attend that event.

It's "drivabable" (ie., Canadian government acknowleged highways are open (parts of it are made possible by federally subsidized ferries) during that timeframe) but I doubt anybody would be willing to rent me a car to get up there (from Vancouver, BC). My plan to make an excuse to take some time off my grad studies was to take two weeks off to drive to Inuvik for this thing.

Looking up flights (it's accessible by flight year-round, ONLY accessible by flight much of the year) but can't find their airport code.

Right now, flights to Yellowknife (Yukon Terroritories), "reasonably" close by, are under $500 CDN. It's something I could do, if the Yellowknife -> Inuvik isn't exorbitant. Couldn't find anything online for a flight package to Inuvik, though.

By: pintapicasso

pintapicasso — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:21:42 -0800

St. Helena island
Tristan Da Cunha
Kerguelen
St. Paul/Amsterdam islands
Pitcairn Island

By: Midnight Skulker

Midnight Skulker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:11:01 -0800

Big Bend National Park, in southwest Texas, has a lot of room. There are areas where you can park and hike, and see noone for a day. In the same area of the state are other chunks of parkland that are even more remote, wild, dangerous, and desolate. And beautiful.

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:30:28 -0800

There are plenty of places in the Northwest Territories or Alaska where you won't see people, planes, cars, etc. Moreover, you'll see animals that have never seen people before. They're curious about you, but not flighty. They just don't know what you are. That's pretty amazing.