Another list...
Inspired by Lonely Planet's recently published book "Bluelist", I made a little list of my own, featuring remote cities I want to visit some day.
City: Ushuaia
Country: Argentina
Precise Location: Tierra del Fuego, border between Chile and Argentina
Why?: Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world and its location between the mountains and glaciers of Tierra del Fuego sounds spectacular. And the name of the city sounds lush and inviting.
Airport code: USH
Cheapest flight I found: 1 740€. Air France to Buenos Aires (plane change in Paris), Aerolineas Argentinas from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia. Duration of trip approximately 35 hours.
City: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky
Country: Russia
Precise Location: East Coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, at the Pacific Ocean.
Why?: Russia is such a huge country most people don't even realise that it has some of the world's most spectacular volcanoes (after Ecuador, probably ;) My trip to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in autumn 2003 was extreme enough, but P-K is even more isolated (no roads connect it with mainland Russia). Russia spends so much money on keeping up appearances in Moscow and St. Petersburg that a trip to the Russian Far East truly is an eye-opener on how some people in this huge country live.
Airport code: PKC
Cheapest flight I found: 830€. Aeroflot from Moscow non-stop to P-K (flight SVO-PKC approx. 9h)
City: Qaanaaq
Country: Greenland (technically Denmark)
Precise Location: Situated in chilly northwestern Greenland, Qaanaaq is the northernmost naturally inhabited place in the world (I guess naturally inhabited means the people don't live in a research base or whatever)
Why?: Need I say more?
Airport code: NAQ
Cheapest flight I found: First one would have to get to Copenhagen and catch Air Greenland to Greenland from there. A change of planes is involved in Kangerlussuaq (wouldn't mind checking that one out as well) and the trip costs - wait for it - 1000€!!
Inspired? Shocked? Intrigued? Bored? Drop me a line on what you thought of the list!
posted by Dani @ 22:04
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4 Comments:
Hows bout somewhere crazily remote in India?
Of course, the list could go on and on and on... For some reason I didn't think about India as I have the picture it's so densely populated.
Qaanaaq, my friend... one day, believe me ;) And you seem to have found a better route. Mine involved changing planes thrice followed by a helicopter trip (?) - but then again, you're a pro when it comes to flight connections! Why not abandon this conducting stuff and become a travel agent instead? x)
Isn't this an interesting place for you: http://www.helsingfors.com.ar?
Helsingfors in Southern Argentina. The name of the place sounds familiar :-). Difficult to reach. I suppose you would find the connection ...
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