Great places to go to

AFI_Sorrow · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:33 am

I haven't really been outside of the east coast...but Florida is nice to visit. I've only been there once, and I was five, but I like to look at the pictures.
I want to go to Ireland, England or Japan. They all sound like very interesting places.

Sapphire Faerie, those pictures are gorgeous! I have always wanted to visit a cave. *writes down Mammoth Cave, Kentucky* Maybe one day I will get to visit there. Mmmm, I smell a road trip!

pokemew233 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:57 am

You know what's a great place? Lincoln, Nebraska.

Seriously. There's some neat stuff there.

Though I guess it would be less entertaining to me if I was there for something other than the International Thespian Festival.

So Lincoln, Nebraska is great if you're there for the International Thespian Festival.

Ken · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:19 am

Out of all the countries I have been to, these would be my favorite :

The whole 50 states (GO usa!!)
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Puerto Rico
Thailand (go thailand!!)
Switzerland
The Netherlands
Greece
China
Brazil
Japan
Belgium
Spain
and
Portugal

Eskimo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:28 am

Italy. I lived there for 3 years and it was sp beautiful. If you go to Venice, you HAVE to go to the San Marco Square. The pigons fly on your head. And amazingly, I didn't get crapped on.

It is AMAZING there. The gelato is soooo good! The masks are awesome too!

Here is one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/ ... x/mask.jpg

SORRY ITS HUGE! heh.. My Uncle Mark got that tatooed into his arm.. At its like 4 by 5 inches.

DiscordantEdit: Made the picture a link, so it wouldn't stretch the page.

o_0 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:57 am

Oh, and Japan. ^_^ My city is a sister city with a city in Japan, and we hosted many Japanese girls from there. My sister went to Japan for a month with the exchange program and she loved it. There's so much to do there.

Nani · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:04 pm

FrankieG wrote:

Naniwai wrote:

Sunny Ft. Myers, Florida!

Now that's a pretty sight.

There are nice beaches too, though they may have been wiped out by the hurricaines.

Do you live there? I've been there a few times my self. (I have family living in that area)

I wish! Colony of Red Sox Nation, and it's sunny.
As of this time next Friday, that's where I'll be.

Charisma · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:56 pm

Chass those pics were all of Mammoth caves? Some of them look a lot like Luray Caverns. I recommend that as a place to go if you are around the VA anytime, near Front Royal.

I haven't been, but my sister's husband is from El Salvador and she went too the biggest mall they have and enjoyed it. It is the biggest mal in central america. She also enjoyed the great hotel rooms at the low prices compared to here.

Igg · **Posts:** 6288 **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:47 pm

kyra foxx wrote:

Italy. I lived there for 3 years and it was sp beautiful. If you go to Venice, you HAVE to go to the San Marco Square. The pigons fly on your head. And amazingly, I didn't get crapped on.

It is AMAZING there. The gelato is soooo good! The masks are awesome too!

I didn't get crapped on either, and I've been there many a time. You always end up in St Mark's Square though. If you go in from mainland by ferry, you get off really near there.

There's a lovely café in St Mark's square that does the nicest slush puppy type stuff, and decent ice-cream.

I reuse to be poncy and say San Marco's and gelato, because I'm not Italian.

However I will say Ponte Rialto. Nice little stalls for tacky tourist stuff. nThe Bridge of Sighs is pretty cool too.

JellyFish72 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:57 pm

Sapphire Faerie wrote:

Oooh!

I know one nice place.

Mammoth Cave. Located in central Kentucky, is the longest cave system in the world. I've been twice. Not only is the cave itself amazing, the surrounding areas are gorgeous. Particulary in autumn, the trees are gorgeous.

There are various different tours you can take inside the cave. The first time I went was a school field trip, so of course we went on the Historic tour. The natural entrance to the cave is just a gaping hole in the side of a hill. You could stand on top of the hill and have no idea there was a cave beneath you.

Natural Entrance

The Historic tour takes you through all the historically significant places in the cave. Places where mining took place, and places where people suffering from tuberculosis camped out hoping the cold air would cure them.

There's also the Frozen Niagara tour. Which requires a lot more walking, but is breathtaking. This is the tour where you get to see the most beautiful natural formations.

Frozen Niagara

It literally looks like a waterfall made of stone. That photo doesn't do it justice at all, it's gorgeous in person.

More Formations

The cave itself is mostly small passageways, but there are several large areas, as large as a theatre. There are also bottomless pits. And underground rivers. And bats. And scary fish with no eyes.

Also, the tour guides like to turn off the lights at at least one point in every tour. You don't know true darkness until you're 300 feet underground with no lights. Scary, but oh so fun.

Is that the one where they set off a firecraker at one point, or am I thinking of somewhere else? Because I've don't remember going to Kentucky, but it looks like a cave system that I went to...

ahoteinrun · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:00 pm

I went to caves when I was in Britain... can't for the life of me remember what they were called though. *shakes head* But they were quite spectacular. (what a lovely lack of memory I have. Grm.)

Venice had the best Gelato... because it was the cheapest. It was weird... we started in Venice, Gelato was one euro per cup thingy, and the price got higher everywhere we went. Firenze, and then Rome, and Verona all had more expensive Gelato. Sad really.
Made me miss Venice.
The glass in Venice is simply spectacular. Go to the Murano glass works if you get the chance, and oggle. But don't touch.
I bought a little pink horse (because I secretly like pink), and managed to get it back to Canada without it breaking. Which was a feet, considering that was day one of a 15 day trip, and it's legs aren't even a CM thick in places.

Igg · **Posts:** 6288 **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:47 pm

Burano's got some nice colourful houses

Paul · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:08 pm

ahoteinrun wrote:

I went to caves when I was in Britain... can't for the life of me remember what they were called though. *shakes head* But they were quite spectacular. (what a lovely lack of memory I have. Grm.)

Wookey Hole caves? I've been twice...

http://www.wookey.co.uk/

ahoteinrun · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:11 pm

Yup! Wookey... darn that was... *blinks* Six years ago.
Wow.
*old moment*

Cripes.
Anyways. Those caves were cool. Lots of neat things, we saw a few bats, some girls screamed I mocked them openly. Life was grand.

Paul · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:13 pm

ahoteinrun wrote:

Yup! Wookey... darn that was... *blinks* Six years ago.
Wow.
*old moment*

Cripes.
Anyways. Those caves were cool. Lots of neat things, we saw a few bats, some girls screamed I mocked them openly. Life was grand.

Did you see bother to see the mirror maze? =P I nearly broke my nose...

ahoteinrun · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:50 pm

It doesn't ring a bell. I was with a school group and we were only there for a short time. I wouldn't mind going back and doing some watercolor paintings of the formations.
It was a really nice place.

*dreams*

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