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Where is the most foreign place you’ve visited?

September 4, 2010
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In one week, Chief of Everything, Lisa Schultz will journey to Sierra Leone to launch the Peace Wall.  Although I’ve looked through photos of the country and seen images of the people, I have no idea what she will find upon her arrival.  I am eager to hear her stories when she returns.

The furthest I’ve ever traveled is to Bali, and the sights, smells and sounds harked of the most foreign territory I’ve ever covered.

Where is the most foreign place you’ve visited?

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  1. sorchae

    Oh redhead…Bali is on my list of want-to-go’s! A group ski trip to Austria/Germany was for me an adventure…being on the top of the alps was humbling and amazing. Also a trip to Cape Breton Nova Scotia many years ago. And I have to say, moving/driving myself from Massachusetts to California was a great adventure…and although the two places are in the same country…both coasts are so VERY different! Moving here was like moving to a foreign country :)

  2. poorgood

    yep. bali was the most foreign place i’ve ever been. that, and cheesecake factory in marina del rey.

  3. ckay

    Most foreign in a more abstract way would be Bergen-Belson near Hanover, Germany. The first Death Camp to be freed by British Forces. Words can not express the immediate saddness and most intense sacredness and confusion my mind and soul felt. I was lucky to be there with a very small group of people and time stood still as I took it in. My senses overloaded. Then all the apologies from the world etched in stone. Such overwhelming effort for forgiveness of a seemingly unforgivable act. That was the most foreign place I’ve ever experienced. To balance that experience I’d love to visit Machu Picchu I think that will help to balance the emotions.

  4. rosendo

    My garage~

    ;)

  5. dangerousideas

    @ckay- Strange isn’t it that these most horrible and truly evil acts were conceived and executed by a first world, highly developed, culturally sophisticated, supposedly highly civilized nation. Makes one despair for humanity.

    As far as the most ‘foreign’ (as in very different culturally from my own upbringing) places I’ve been- It’s a close race between the Berber ‘blue people’ tent camps of Southern Morocco, the high Himalayan villages of Pakistan’s northwest sector in the shadow of K-2 (Chitral, Hunza…), the voodoo culture of the small villages in the hills above Port au Prince (drums at night, trance rituals, witchcraft) and our very own city of lights, faux sites and endless nights rising from the desert and fixated on obsessive-compulsive behavior, Las Vegas.

  6. wonderwall

    The most foreign place I have been was here in the United States, I spent a week in the South when I was 15. It was the first time I had ever flown, and everything about the South was foreign to me, the smells, the people, the culture. I was enthralled, it spurred the travel bug in me.

  7. dreaddaze

    we did a tour of Estonia a few years back
    Tallinn then into Finland
    that was awsome vibes
    good folks and
    and fresh salmon

    peace-in

  8. awaken2sun

    I’ve been lucky that I started traveling at a young age and have been through much of Europe alone as well as a number of other countries in Asia and Central America — which was a wonderful way to meet people. No place felt truly foreign as I think going to Sierra Leone will. For some reason I flashed on the time I went to a Martin Luther King Day parade — being one of the only whiteys around is something I think all of us should experience. Being one of the only whiteys in one of the poorest countries in the world where one of my goals is to identify which ones we can best help and will include meeting quite a number of amputees, will be a whole other experience.

    Yesterday I had a masseuse randomly approach me and begin giving me a hand massage. He said, “aren’t you glad you have two hands?” I suspect I am nowhere as glad as I will be in about a week’s time.

  9. grool

    Minnesota is the furthest I’ve been…

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