Hey Geography, so geography co is coming up and in light of that

I'd like to answer a question that many of you have asked over and over again

And I've been a little hesitant in answering this because you know I was afraid it might portray some kind of bias

I have towards certain things but in the end

We all have our bias and interest so I may as well just jump in

What are my top 10 travel?

destinations for me this was an incredibly difficult

Task to rank this list because I had over 60 top

Locations that I really wanted but I had to whittle it down to ten

I Think I got it down though these are places that ranked high on my top Seven Criteria

List and ranked at least a three or lower on the poop care index if you don't know what that is check out this video

Where I kind of explain everything for this list some of the places are countries as a whole and some of them are general geographic

Regions or trails that encompass multiple countries in it so let's just jump in number ten the icy south of course

You know what I'm talking about antarctica, and of course to get there

I'd probably have to depart somewhere off of the patagonia region of South America you would think

Antarctica would be higher on my list because I've been to six continents, and that's the last one

But I can hold it off for a little bit longer nonetheless, not only is antarctica visually stunning

I mean who doesn't want to see the blood falls?

But the other cool thing is that the research stations are kind of like a little world Microcosm on King George Island alone

You can drive all the way from the russian base to the China base to the brazil based at Argentina basis the chile base to

the South Korea

Base you can get your passport stamped at each one and of course once again

Patagonia in order to get to antarctica. You kind of have to leave from there

Oh my gosh, patagonia is just mind-boggling that is my number 1 spot in South America

I would absolutely love to check it out glaciers ice penguins the indigenous mapuche people to me that's absolutely fascinating anyway

It's all wishful thinking, but hopefully one day. I'll make it moving on number 9 the seven sisters

There's a thing India is heavily packed in touristy

Let's just be honest although beautiful sites abound in every corner of the country

Chances are most places are going to be a four or five on the] poop care index

Except Northeast India well everybody else is waiting in line trying to get a picture of the Taj mahal, or some hindu shrine

They're totally missing out on places like meghalaya Assam and nagaland this place only has about 4 percent of India's total

Population and is made up of six official states and auto natural Pradesh which is that place disputed?

but in all honesty

It's pretty much all administered by India one reason why I chose this place is because the vibra secluded

incredibly well-maintained regional Hilltribe culture that stands in such stark contrast with the rest of India especially

Nagaland oh my gosh that place has like over 15 different tribes their own languages cuisine traditions

Architecture customs everything also entering arunachal pradesh might be kind of cool

I love that feeling of sovereignty limbo nonetheless there are still tourists that know about this place

And you know they come regularly and you know the hilltribe people have to put on traditional dance shows to entertain them and make money

From them which kind of kills the mood, but and I get it in the end you can take your taj mahal

I'll take nagaland moving on number 8 turkic Siberia now

This was a really hard one because there were so many places in Russia that I wanted to put on this list

I mean there was like Kamchatka. There was Sakhalin Chukotka autonomous okrug that would actually almost beat this one however

I have to stick with Yakutia

Or the Shaka republic the reason being because not only does it score high on the criteria list and the poop care index

But this place is like a cultural anomaly

This is the northernmost region of turkic people's on the planet most turkic peoples are

concentrated in Central Asia and in the caucasus turkey region

But then you find a strange remote far off domain locked away in the freezing siberian taiga, then you're like

Oh, hey, those are the cousins well, and they've been living there for thousands of years

That's weird

Stuff like that blows my mind and makes me want to see it for myself of course Russian assimilation is still visible

But they haven't lost that turkic spark that makes them who they are plus

You know the siberian landscape around them is not too bad either

Speaking of Central Asia number seven the [MTC] [and] the gate to hell

who's back Assad has been on my mind for almost ten years and the reason being because

The Arrow see at one point the entire [sea] was in danger of completely drying up through the human usage however in the past ten

Years all surrounding countries are like

Oh, shoot yeah

We should probably stop to cleaning this major source of life

Nourishment and since then parts of the sea have seen a rebound

I would probably have to fly to new coos in qatar called Pakistan, and then go up North to the sea and then immediately

Backtrack down South to Gaza since it's not too far

I may as well go see the gates of hell in

Turkmenistan the drive would probably suck as it goes to the empty desolate got a room desert

But it's worth it to me

And I'm good at killing time in a perfect ideal setting I would probably add august and and calm [Iran] to this itinerary

But those mountains keep getting in the way and ruining everything

This is probably the smoothest and quickest unobstructed route with the best

Landmarks that I could find number six the [wet] desert at the end of the day

I have to see then Sois Modernist ever since the brazil episode this place has been stuck in my head

And I can't get it out. There is just no place on Earth like this consistently flooded freshwater desert. That's insane

You know tourists still know about this place

but it's incredibly hard to get here the largest major city would be [sol] louise and even then it's still like a four and a

Half hour drive to the nearest town that barely even touches the sand Dunes however that wouldn't be the end of my journey after [them]

[Joyce] Martinez

I'd probably fly up to [Macapá] and then hire a [four-wheel-drive] truck driver to take me all the way to the border of French

guiana After that, I'd crossed the oil river and then continue on to Cayenne the capital of French, guiana

And then I continued on to surnames and then continued on ending my journey in

Georgetown Guyana in a perfect ideal setting I would like to drive along the coast in Venezuela all the way to the mcClure

Peninsula, and then take a ferry to trinidad

But unfortunately there are no roads that connect guyana with Venezuela speaking of Coastal roads number five the guinea gulf

This is actually a trip that I've been crafting in my head and dreaming about for years the plan is to start in abidjan ivory

coast and then drive all the way to Lagos Nigeria Lagos Lagos

I've heard people pronounce it both ways the entire trip only takes about three days

longer if you want to stop and look around the best part is for many parts of the ride you actually get to see the

Guinea Gulf Coast especially

[when] you enter togo and bending with low may and close [anew]?

[oh] my gosh

And togo that place is weird in the coolest way possible in the perfect ideal setting I would like to add cameroon to this itinerary

But the problem is it's incredibly difficult to drive from Nigeria to Cameroon, and if that was the case

I'd probably just buy a flight ticket from Lagos to

Dwolla and then maybe take a little trip to mount cameroon off the coast to end my [journey] speaking of Africa again number four

The black spot now don't get me wrong. I'm a city boy at heart

I love my metropolitan Chaos, but I do kind of have a thing for big empty desolate areas

I don't [know] why I just do maybe I appreciate the placid reassurance of calm quiet solitude every so often the point is

Libya thing is people are so blinded by mainstream news and media [that] they don't realize how beautiful libya

Actually is libya is one of the least visited countries in the world which to me is ridiculous

[I] mean yeah yeah politics politics

But the everyday citizens could care less and they would love to just show you around

the thing that strikes me the most appealing about Libya though is not the [coast] but what's hidden deep inside within the interior of the

Country Libya is loaded with secret secluded gems like the you

heritage site of Old Town [Gadhafi's] an entire

Abandoned beautifully constructed town of hundreds of buildings that you have full leisure to run around and scamper through

but the one thing in Libya that I am dying to see would be while on the move close to the geographic center of the

Sahara this place is

Incredibly hard to get to rarely photographed or

Documented and it is almost as far as you can go to be literally in the middle of nowhere

It's an abnormally peculiar Volcanic field with dark basalt tech granules that cover an entire area for about 10 to 20 kilometers

In each direction with a caldera in the center surrounded by an Oasis let me repeat that a volcano

Oasis in the middle of the Desert [that's] enough reason for me speaking of Volcanic activity number three saw cart vezo

Georgia came on top for me the thing that really appeals most middle is how

Incredibly rooted this country is with its history and distinct Georgian culture and on top of that that you can find a multitude of monuments

castles fortresses and landmarks juxtaposed against snow peak Mountain backdrops

And you have something [that] looks like it came out of a fairy tale and abkhazia. Oh my gosh

That series is just not fair plus. It would be really cool to get a knob [toffee] and stamp on my passport

Thanks seriously

I want to try hot [jacory] like real hot reporting made by real [Georgians] in Georgia

Then I can die peacefully [the] problem

Is that Georgia is not as obscure as it used to be and tourism has just exploded in the past [10] years

I don't know if there's an asian invasion yet

But hopefully I can visit there before the conquest begins number two the lone rock

Polynesian areas have always been at the top of my list now [rue] is as of right now the least visited country in the world

And I believe Tuvalu only ranks like two spots lower at like three or [four] to me now rule is still intriguing because it's so

Small and it's an entire

nation

state you can literally like jog around the entire country [and] make it back home for like lunchtime or early dinner each country only has

About 10,000 people each but they fiercely maintain their culture and lifestyles

It's amazing

Now when it comes to tuvalu the entire country is made up of skinny actual which might make you a little nervous as some parts

Of the Islands are only a few meters wide only the main capital food a booty has an international airport otherwise all the other eight

Islands are only accessible by boat, but to be honest meeting the people here [would] probably be my biggest joy

I mean I can research these places as much as I want

But actually meeting a real now ruin or Tuvaluan would be like finding gold

Hidden in a suitcase filled with diamonds and the suitcase is also made of gold which brings us [to] the final [number-one] destination

But before I get there here are some honorable mentions that almost made the list the black sea coast starting in turkey and ending up

In ukraine cutting through Moldova's Gagauzia and Transnistria Breakaway regions the Melanesian trail starting in Port Moresby going through the Solomon islands [and] Vanuatu

ending in New Caledonia

Namibia Skeleton coast and at Osha Pan Basin and Fairy Circles ending in the African Quadra point the Scottish hebrides

Faroe Island and Svalbard trail it kills me not to put this one on the list chad and Nettie plateau through two new shares

UTa flight 772

Memorial this one would have been too difficult to plan and finally the western Sahara [coast] [in] new [option] Mauritania

Don't forget good addition Stein also for personal [reasons]. I feel like at some point

I have to visit all the countries [of] my ethnic makeup france

Ireland and as you know my last name is Barb otto which is Italian so italy and I actually really want to go to the

small town called some [polar] [Mikedz]

Which is where all the bar bottles come from they even have a plaque in like the Village centre that shows all [of] the ancient?

Bar bottles and since I've already lived in South Korea. I kind of feel [like] now

I have to go to North Korea [alright] that being said

Number one now some of you have already been following me for a long [time]. So you know exactly what I'm going to say

Greenland you know it's actually kind of funny because I hate cold weather for me personally

Anything below 65 degrees or like 18 degrees [Celsius] is considered freezing for some reason I've just been growing in this

Fascination with the Arctic for years greenland is like the closest thing you'll get to a sovereign inuit nation the landscape is absolutely breathtaking

glaciers and Icebergs as far as the eye can see

Aurora borealis

In the winter and the entire interior of the country is a complete and seriously strange empty desolate ice sheet that few people ever go

Into nobody has ever really extensively explored the interior of Greenland [the] main language is greenlandic

Which is an inuit language and everybody here even the white people

even look like two black people that live [here] learn how to speak it everyone lives on a high diet of protein and fat from

Sea animals like whales seals fish and seabirds and yet

they've come well into the 21st century with modern conveniences and technology most people have access to the internet for me personally I would like

to start in new capital

And then make my way [up] to Disco bay to the small town of a whole suite an incredibly small town

beautifully located in the Valley

encapsulated on three side

By a mountain on Google maps you can see that the [residents] hunted and killed a whale off the coast and if I have time

I would really like to make it all the way up to the us military base in too late