Is There a Favorite Destination You Feel Stands Out?

Lately I've seen a lot of travel offers for Japan, but I'm Muslim. Judging from the pictures, Japan has a very cool spiritual side! But I would feel more appropriate in a Muslim majority destination. :-]

I have visited Bishkek Kyrgyzstan a few times and I think Kyrgyzstan is wonderful! There are places also outside Bishkek, like Кой-Таш. It's amazing!

I miss it and am contemplating another trip there. Which destinations are the best?

 

We spent several days in the Loire Valley of France…wonderful chateaus, DaVinci s tomb and workshop and verdant countryside.

 

Anywhere that's densely forested with creeks or rivers and no people. It's the most spiritual environment I've found.
I'm partial to the Sequoia National Forest. Although a good portion of it has burned down is the last 5 years. Including some of the most spiritual places I've been.

 

I'm Muslim and somehow Dubai feels a little misplaced... I think about it and feel like I'm elitist if I do that and with that, I count myself more reserved. Modesty is always apparent in my mode of dress when I go to Kyrgyz hotels or shopping places, even if my brand identity is clearly American.

I want to go to Türkiye with a woman I know. We have 5 years to thank and so many memories to cherish.

I think those would be better served in Istanbul than ever they would in Paris...

 

I love Sequoia! Went there when I was a kid with my parents. It snowed, I froze in the car, and we played gin rummy in the hotel; I don't think it had a TV. And I was confined to a troubled-teen wilderness course on more than one occasion, so I got to see Idaho and Montana. For that, I would push people to Coeur d'Alene, though I haven't been.

Lake Arrowhead is pretty cool.

 

Isn't tourism about seeing new places and experiencing new cultures? I don't understand you limiting your destination just to Muslim countries because you're actually limiting yourself. Equally, I wouldn't understand a white person like myself, not going to a so-called Muslim country.

Have you considered Canada, Malta (history of many countries' colonisation), Ireland, France (with its sizeable Muslim population), Australia?

 

I've never had the financial privilege to afford to travel. Any trips I've taken in my adult life were usually work conferences. I've never had a true vacation in my life. It's one of those sick, twisted symptoms of capitalism: Employers give you two weeks vacation every year, but don't pay you enough to actually go anywhere.

I'd be thrilled to just be able to afford to visit some of the cool destinations within my own state. Let's see if I can make it to White Sands or Lincoln before I start planning trips to countries on the other side of the world.

Also, no offense, but I'm trans and wouldn't visit a Muslim country for a million dollars.

Again, I have none of that pesky privilege people need in order to travel.

 

I had no idea Islam was so well represented! When I conjure thoughts of visiting New York, after I put down the Buffalo Bills ball cap, I realize that I might feel 'Islamophobia' is more congruent with social themes than is any notion to the contrary. France is a place of renaissance to be sure, but I fear some of that is lost in the throng of visitors, half of whom conform to one more than the other.

I had planned a trip to Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Nice, and Paris that would be about 30 days. The cost impairs any savings pointless though, and I still feel Istanbul is a more genuine opportunity for my personality. I have a very strong affinity to French nationals, and it doesn't require much to know France is very beautiful simply by factoring out a beret and the Louvre.

For Canada, I'm more of a Yukon person than I am of Central. I like the idea of Montreal more so than I do the idea of Toronto.

If I had to pick a place to go next, I'd go back to Bishkek!

 

Here is where I'm a sexual predator if I exercise! =-)