I've always been tempted to go to the DPRK just to see if it really is as crazy as it sounds: like a sort of Stalinist theme park (with real political prisoners tortured to death!); the idea of giving money to such a regime doesn't really appeal, however. A while back, when I visited Lebanon (which, incidentally, has some fantastic Roman ruins), I didn't have the time to nip over to Syria; some colleagues who did said it was well worth seeing.
I have, somewhere, a probably-about-8-years-old-by-now copy of a guidebook to the world's most dangerous places by Robert Young Pelton. A quick Google tells me it's now on the web (http://www.comebackalive.com/df/index.htm) (like everything else). Makes for fun reading, even if it's now a little dated. (Saddam Hussein? Who he?)
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Date: 2005-04-21 12:38 pm (UTC)Looking at your list, it's very sad that so much of the ancient world is such a terrible focus for violence in these modern times.
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Date: 2005-04-21 04:05 pm (UTC)It's tough, kid, but it's life....
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Date: 2005-04-21 07:15 pm (UTC)Garlic festival!
Cider!
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