Greatest Travel Moments

[Zen]

So most of us love travelling around our beautiful planet, but what are your greatest travel moments? Tell me about them...

For me, there are two. The first would be a day I spent in Cairo - flew from Cyprus early in the morning (flying over the Pyramids before landing which was an amazing experience), went to the Cairo Museum and saw Tutankhamun's mask, then went to see the Pyramids and Sphinx before returning to Cyprus in the evening.

The second would be an afternoon spent in the ancient Roman archaeological site of Dougga in Tunisia. Such an awe-inspiring place with a huge amphitheatre, temples and ruins. The greatest thing is that feeling of content on the journey home when you've been to somewhere amazing like that!

Who's next?

[sshenry]

One of my greatest travel moments was a Sunday morning in Stockholm, Sweeden. I was backpacking through Europe and found myself at the train station in Stockholm (a lovely work of art in and of itself, all brick and point work), with not a penny to my name and no way to get any more money until the banks opened on Monday morning (this was before there were ATM's on every corner). To top it off I was ravenously hungary, not having eaten since breakfast the previous morning.

So there I was, stalking about, waiting for a train that wasn't going to leave for another six hours, not a crumb of food to be had and my stomach growling like a living thing - with claws.

Well, there I was sitting on a bench, trying desperately to concentrate on Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (So Long and Thanks for all the Fish to be exact), while ignoring the beast within, when a voice in my ear says:

"Anyone who can read Douglas Adams on a Sunday morning with a straight face needs someone to talk to."

I looked up and there was this absolute god of a man standing next to my bench, he looked like he had walked off the cover of one of those men's fitness magazines, 5-o'clock shadow (at 7a.m mind you), a T-shirt that clung to...well, I'll spare you the details. Suffice it to say that I was struck dumb - briefly.

This vision and I walked down to a small cafe open in the station, he treated me to breakfast (and later lunch) and we talked non-stop for the entire six hours - about life, the univers, and, well, everything.

I never saw him again,

But I never forgot Sweeden either!

[LadyElement]

my most memorable travel moment and I will always love this..one year vacationing with my family we went to colorado, stayed in a cabinesh hotel thing,two events that happened in that trip,one was the white water rafter we did,I Loooved that,the other one day we decided we were going to take jeeps up high into the mountains,so we did and going up through there was so amazing,I saw my first moose from a distance and at one point we had gone up so high there was snow still,mind you this was in the middle of july or august..it was so amazing and beautiful to have a snow ball fight in the summer time..

[Roier]

Cabo San Lucas, Baja, Mexico.

WWWWWWWWWWWWoooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Like a clock works.

Like a choreography.

Every moment was expected but surprising, it was really fun, kind of dangerous, kind of sirius, kind of matrix, kind of .


Hahahaha, the adventure of my life.

Must probably I imagined the must, and I was just a crazy almost homeless fella over there, but for me it looked real.

[rug]

hiking through northeast france-in the middle of nowhere coming upon abandoned castles and little villages

and La Louvre

J'adore les francias

[rhiannon lemur]

I will never forget the trip that awakened me in so many ways. Driving in a rental convertable into the enchanted vortex mecca of Sedona, Az. I was so overwhelmed with the energy I had to pull the car over to the side of the road. my hands were shaking and for a few moments Ii was in total catharsis mode. crying for no reason and for all reason, so overwhelmed with the beauty and energy of this special place. I was 24 and since then have looked at my life in such a different way. Does anyone know anything of Mt. Shasta it is supposed to have alot of Lemurian energy, I 'm planning my next trip there.

[jsps13]

Got so many! =)

Living in Texas for almost 2 years, the trip from Houston to New York City, then Florida and back to Texas. Don't forget Toronto and Montreal, went there after visiting New York.

Going to Paris!

Inside my country visiting the most beautiful places on Serra da Estrela and Porto Santo. The gorgeous cities of Lisboa and Porto. Don't forget the Azores archipelago, traveled through S. Miguel, S. Jorge, Faial, Graciosa, Pico and the island I live in Terceira.

I will see more, travel more. Maybe I'll be knocking at your door tomorrow, he he.

[Tear_of_the_WoLF]

I just moved here to Boulder, CO like two weeks ago from the hellish land of South Florida so I am currently residing in heaven...I climbed a mountain, viewed the vast rocky mountain front range, the continental divide, and walked through this breathtaking arch on the top of this mountain near the flatirons...it was one of those "moments" in your life....the tears wellled and fell.......i finally felt home for one of the first times in my life.

Sedona was breathtaking this past April........Montana in the middle of nowhere was another wonderful moment, I was 12 then...

[Annette]

My favorite travel story was the Daeboreum Festival in Korea. My daughter (she was 4 years old at the time) and I went on a tour of the Buddist temples. The day was kind of rushed because we had 10 temples to go to and they were located all over Korea. We would arrive at a temple, look around a bit and then get back on the bus. One of the temples that we went to (I can't remember the name but it was the one that had "the house of 1000 buddas") I lost my daughter. She was by my side one minute and then I looked away for a second and she was gone. It was getting time to get on the bus and I panicked!! I looked everywhere for her. Everyone on the tour started looking for her. I finally found her talking to this little old monk. She was talking away in English and he was talking back to her in Korean. They looked so much like they were understanding eachother. I was so happy that I found her and almost rushed in on the scene to hug her but when I saw the dynamics I just had to stop. I watched for a long time...I was just amazed! Finally, she saw me and dragged me over to the monk. She said his name in Korean. I must have looked puzzled because he repeated his name very slowly for me LOL. Then he pointed at my daughter and made this hand gesture (opening his hands up to the sky). I must have looked puzzled again because he repeated the gesture and pointed to my daughter again. He had the most beautiful smile on his face. Then he bowed to me and my daughter and my daughter gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. I asked her later when we were on the bus what they had been talking about. She looked at me and said, "Don't you know, Mama? We were talking about love."

[LadyElement]

Oh wow such an amazing story Annette,she is very much a crystal child*giggles* i can feel it

I love you
Mia

[dreamerin2003]

Hey Tearofthewolf, Boulder? You are so lucky, I have wanted to live there forever.

Everybody has a nice travel story,except me. Every place I have gone, just seems to look like every other place. Except for Arizona and New Mexico, the dessert is magical.

[Zen O]

I have done so much traveling that picking a favorite is hard to do. Any place I have liked too much I have lived in (Sedona / Maui) until the thrill was almost gone. Having walked across many of the united states on the Great Peace March I got a nice, slow chance to see much of the country. Jamaica was beautiful, but scarey at times. Ixtapa, Mexico was the bottled Club Med experience. I still have not spent all the time I would like to at the Mesa Verde Cliff dwellings (Guided tours / only limited time). And I could spend a while longer in the Bryce Canyon area. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...lbumId=1382766