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My ultimate dream destination. Ever since Happy Feet, I made a pact with myself that I am good to die when I see the Aurora Borealis in real life.
Tromsøya, Tromsø, Norway
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I have a creepy obsession about the Holocaust. Its dark past, sad walls, Hitler, Himmler and the rest of the Nazis and SS, Auschwitz, the Jews, the survivors, the victims—their stories. One day, I’d walk in these same walls, breathe the air in these same rooms where no movie, documentary or book can ever describe and define history as these walls can.
Oswiecim, Poland
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The same way I feel about the Holocaust, Hiroshima houses remnants of World War II. The Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. I mean the rich history that made the world.
Japan
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Here in Krakow was the ghetto where over 1 million Jews were murdered in the concentration camp—men, women, and children. Auschwitz Birkenau was also inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. I would recommend for you to check out a few Netflix docu-series/movies on holocaust just to get the feels of these camps.
- +48 33 844 80 99
Ofiar Niemieckiego Faszyzmu 12, 32-600 Brzezinka, Poland
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Located in a renovated warehouse in the Kazimierz district is where you’d find an exhibit of the horror Jews in Krakow were in World War 2.
- +48 12 421 68 42
Dajwór 18, 31-052 Kraków, Poland
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Remember the movie Schindler’s List? About a German businessman who saved over 1,200 Jews, portrayed by Liam Neeson? Yep, this museum was entirely dedicated to that exemplary one human being that lived during the holocaust.
- +48 12 257 10 17
Lipowa 4, Kraków, Poland
- https://www.facebook.com/FabrykaSchindlera
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I recalled a quote from one of the holocaust survivors, “It was a terrible situation that even God didn’t want to be in this place.” I cannot imagine leaving this extermination camp as the same person. It would take a ton of grit and courage to visit this.
DW627, 18-112, Poland
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Outlaw Run was featured in Guinness World Records 2015 as the world’s steepest wood coaster. Definitely not for the weak! Who’s with me?! 😂
- +1 800 888 7277
399 Silver Dollar City Pkwy, Branson, MO 65616, USA
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The ultimate honeymoon destination to me is Maldives. The ultimate Me-time destination to me is Maldives. The ultimate squad destination to me is Maldives. Maldives all the time, TBH. 🍺
- +960 682 1234
Gaafu Alifu Atoll, Hadahaa, North Huvadhoo 20054, Maldives
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Pristine Blues, crisp Whites, salty air, laid back afternoons, sunset, a glass of wine—hold it, a BOTTLE of wine—we’re done here.
Naxos, Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, Greece
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Oh, Aurora. I could watch you my entire life.
- +358 16 667100
Kakslauttanen 9, Saariselkä, Finland
- https://www.kakslauttanen.fi/
- Check rates and book
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Just another auroral zone. For obsession purposes only. 😏
- +1 907 616 1661
1110 John Kalinas Rd, Fairbanks, AK 99712, USA
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Another locale in Greenland that offers a magnificent view of the Aurora. 😌
Sisimiut, Greenland
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If there are nationalities I envy the most, it would have to be the Icelanders. Being so privileged to catch the Northern Lights more than 8 months in 1 year! Migrate? 😆
Landmannalaugar, Iceland
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Reviews say Svalbard is overpopulated so Aurora spectators flock to it’s neighboring locales to catch the dancing lights. BUUUUUUUT, do not be so quick to check out cos apart from the sky show, there is a chance to see live Polar Bears around!
Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
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Apart from Fairbanks and Anchorage in Alaska, you can catch the Northern Lights in Brooks Range. The least preferred locale but better than nothing.
Brooks Range, Alaska, USA
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I mean sure, Scotland and the rest of the UK rarely get sunshine but they have the Aurora! Let’s be okay with that. 😅 Shetland highland is closer to the North Pole than anywhere else in Scotland! Closer to🎅🏻!
Shetland Islands, UK
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Like its Northern Hemisphere counterpart, the South has Aurora Australis. Mostly seen across the horizons of Australia and New Zealand. Definitely closer in proximity to where I am but let’s target the big ones, yes? 😅
Stewart Island / Rakiura, Southland 9818, New Zealand
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The Dancing Lights of the South are best seen as far South possible which is Tasmania in Australia. The show may not be as spectacular as the Borealis but theirs is visible ALL YEAR ROUND especially during winter and spring equinox in September! Not bad, I say. Other locales in Tasmania to visit: Satellite Island Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park Central Highlands Bathurst Harbour You’re welcome! 😉
Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
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I cannot stress enough that apart from the Northern Lights and Greece, Maldives is where I want to be. Exactly here. At this 5-star luxury villa that’s priced at PhP35,000.00/night.
- +960 400 6000
Emboodhu Finolhu, South Malé Atoll, Maldives
- https://taj.tajhotels.com/en-in/taj-exotica-maldives/
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The very first place I’d go to ONCE I achieved that summer beach body! Ehrm.. 🤔
- +960 668 0901
South Atoll, Dhidhoofinolhu, Maldives
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Majdanek is where about 360,000 Jews were killed during the Holocaust. It is the most preserved Nazi concentration camp just on the outskirts of Lublin. Here in Majdanek is where you will find the “Gates of Hell” memorial. At the far end is another memorial where the buried ashes of the victims were.
Majdanek, 20-319 Lublin, Poland
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Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp that housed approximately 60,000 prisoners during the WW2.
- +49 3631 495820
Kohnsteinweg 20, 99734 Nordhausen, Germany
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I love, love, love drinking and I imagined myself to live like a haciendero and just bask in vineyards, wait until harvest season and just drink wine and eat cheese and prosciutto. Uhm, is that so wrong? 😂
- +1 707 963 1160
3070 St Helena Hwy, St Helena, CA 94574, USA
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Bodegas Ysios, a vineyard that reminds me so well of Like Water for Chocolate.
- +34 945 60 06 40
La Hoya Bidea, s/n, 01300 Guardia, Araba, Spain
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TBH, I am confused if this is a vineyard or an architectural piece, IDK. I need a bottle of Red. 🍾
- +34 913 45 28 67
Paseo de la Castellana, 104, 28046 Madrid, Spain
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I would like to think that this is the Napa that Mr. Big left Carrie for. If yes, then I’m fine with it.
- +1 707 944 9442
7900 St Helena Hwy, Oakville, CA 94562, USA
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I don’t know about you but this is where Vince and I would marry the third time. 🍷🍷🍷
- +1 707 942 4981
1060 Dunaweal Ln, Calistoga, CA 94515, USA
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Portia is powered by rooftop solar panels! Cool, huh? And then when it’s harvest season, grapes are dropped on the roof where they are crushed then processed. Then its juice pours down the containers below. A little FYI. 😬
- +34 947 10 27 00
Carretera N1, km 170, 09370 Gumiel de Izán, Burgos, Burgos, Spain
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A constant item on my NY Bucketlist is the World Trade Center Memorial (alongside Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment in Manhattan.)
- +1 212 312 8800
180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007, USA
- https://www.911memorial.org/
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Looks helluvexpensive but why not! 😂 Iceland’s Blue Lagoon is believed to be beneficial to people with skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. I am so happy to have found this on NatGeo! I mean the Powder Blue water! It looks so creamy I could marinate myself in there until I prune!
- +354 420 8700
Nordurljosavegur 11, 240 Grindavík, Iceland
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I have this (fictional) feeling that the closest I could get to Tony Stark is in MIT. Of course, him being a (fictional) graduate of the university and me as a mega fan of the Iron Man/Avengers franchise. 😍 #FanGirl
- +1 617 253 1000
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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I never liked flowers. They are beautiful but man are they expensive and they rot. But Husband liked giving me flowers for special occasions so I started appreciating them as years went by. Like the time when he said sorry through a bouquet of White roses. Or a said Happy Valentine’s through 3 colorful Tulips. And if course my beautiful wedding bouquet. So somewhere along the way, I imagined training Vince to be an Instagram husband and maybe getting him set up a photo op in Holland’s Tulip fields. 😂 Dreaming of Tulips and Calla Lillies right this moment.
Langeweg, 4571 Axel, Netherlands
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Tooooooleeeeeeeeeeeeps! I will come for you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 I’m sure you are one of the happiest things in Amsterdam apart from weed! 😂
- +31 252 465 555
Stationsweg 166A, 2161 AM Lisse, Netherlands
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More Tulips right here at Sapporo City in Hokkaido. Catch these blooms in spring from March to May! 🌷🌷🌷
- +81 11 592 3333
247 Takino, 南区 Sapporo, Hokkaido 005-0862, Japan
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Whispering Springs Lavender Farm is one of Young Living’s sources of Lavender flowers apart from France. Mona is the largest herb farm and distillery in the world with 1,400 acres of Purple field! Can you imagine the world smelling like Lavender?! Visit the farm when you’re in town and learn a thing or two on essential oils, go on a group farm visit, etc.
- +1 435 623 8006
3700 Old Hwy 91, Mona, UT 84645, USA
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A Lavender field in Asia! 💜 These tiny beauties are cultivated in Hokkaido, Japan and are in full bloom in summer. That is late June to early August. So, start planning your 2021 wisely!
Furano, Hokkaido, Japan
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Purple party! 💜💜💜 Now here’s a reason why you need to extend your Cherry Blossom trip to another month! Cos these blooms appear after Cherry Blossoms! Weeeeeee! Mid-May, you can already see the magnificence of the fields until early June!
- +81 152 66 3111
393 Higashimokotosuehiro, 大空町 Ozora, Abashiri District, Hokkaido 099-3232, Japan
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Did you know that Sunflower symbolizes Hokkaido’s summer? (Lol, for real? Sunflower for summer?) 🤣 Anyway, here’s a refreshing splash of Yellow in your face! Just makes the heart happy, doesn’t it? Tourists flock in this vastness of Golden fields mid-July to mid-August.
143 Itaya, Hokuryu, Uryū-gun, Hokkaido 078-2511, Japan
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Now that it’s looking like I need to park my Japan dreams due to Corona, lemi consider planning on domestic travel—like driving long hours for this cold, dreamy place that is up North. 2 hectares of Cabbage Roses, Sunflowers, Snapdragons, Marigolds with a stunning view of Mt. Pulag. Why not.
- +63 908 151 3368
Atok, Benguet, Philippines
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What about artificial and LED-powered roses in Cebu? Consider this a side trip before or after skydiving in Bantayan Island? 😜
- +63 32 496 7023
Day-as Barangay Road, Cordova, Cebu, Philippines
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Another flowery side trip if you’re in Cebu, yes? :)
- +63 946 183 1320
Cebu City, 6000 Cebu, Philippines
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The world’s highest elevation at 29,029 feet, Mount Everest or Mount CHOMOLUNGMA is found in Nepal. I can almost resonate with how much fervor the toughest mountaineers in the world have over this magnificence. The same urge I have to dive into the RMS Titanic wreck that’s about half of the Mt. Everest’s height. And of course, that might kill me at the depth of 1,100 feet. 🥴
Mt Everest
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Mount Aconcagua towers at 22,841 feet. It is the highest mountain outside Asia and considered the 2nd highest of the Seven Summits (Mt. Everest being 1st). Fun facts: - First recorded ascent was in 1897 by a European expedition - First female ascent was in 1940 and she was French - Youngest person to reach the summit was a 9 year-old from California - Oldest person to climb it was an 87 year-old grampa - and more than 140 deaths due to altitude sickness, falls, heart attacks and hypothermia Nice. 😏
Aconcagua, Mendoza Province, Argentina
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Very Vanilla ice cream from afar! 🍦 Mount McKinley in North America peaks at 20,327 feet! Fun facts: - First ascent was in 1913. - In a year, about 1,275 people attempt to climb the summit. Only half succeeds. (But not necessarily die. 🤪) About 14 need rescuing. - There is less oxygen at the summit compared to other mountains given its location which is so far North.
More details
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Mt. Kilimanjaro is located in beautiful Africa, towering at 19,341 feet. Fun facts: - Kilima means “little mountain” and Njaro means “White” or “shining.” - Scientists predict that seasonal ice on the mountain may completely disappear by 2022 as it started to decrease by over 90% between 1993 to 2000.
Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Sounds like Bullmastiff? 🤪 Massif is actually a section of a planet’s crust that is demarcated by faults and flexures, according to Google. 😜 Mount Vinson is in Antartica with its peak at 16,050 feet. Fun facts: - It was first climbed in 1963 by an American expedition - Called the PEAK OF SUPERLATIVES being the last discovered, last named and last climbed of the Seven Summits - It is also the most remote, most expensive and coldest of the Seven Summits Sounds: A. Scary B. Intimidating 🤣
Vinson Massif, Antarctica
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Doesn’t it look mean and deadly? 😂 Mount Carstensz Pyramid is the tallest mountain in Australia and Oceania, located at a province in Indonesia at 16,024 feet. It is also home to one of the world’s largest mines. One mountaineer described Carstensz like a “beautiful woman that seduces you while remaining mysterious. Once in a while it shows you all of its beauty, only to be covered in the veil of mist a minute later. It is provocative but attainable. It makes you tormented and restless, as it does us.” Hmmm.. 💃🏻
Puncak Jaya, Tembagapura, Mimika Regency, Papua, Indonesia
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White fluff at 18,510 feet! Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain at the boarder if Asia and Europe and is actually an inactive volcano that last erupted between 0 and 100A.D. Maaaan! 🔥
Mt Elbrus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, 361616
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One of the safest ways to whale watch. So not a supporter of theme parks holding whales and dolphins captive for the pleasure of showing them off obeying trainers’ commands. It’s animal abuse, frankly speaking.
- +1 800 450 6858
950 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Everybody now: Havana, oh na na Half of my heart is in Havana, oh na na He took me back to East Atlanta, na na na But my heart is in Havana Okay, stop Camila. 😂 Capital of Cuba, hometown of my favorite free diver, Pipín Ferreras. Before getting hooked in diving, I only knew of Cafe Havana in Makati, kidding. 🤪 I imagine festivals and jazz and hot summers here very much like Rio. One day, Havana. 💙
Cuba
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Living a-la Ree Drummond, yes? I would absolutely settle here without the caring for ranch animals part. I’d hang in the kitchen all day long but def not helping a cattle to give birth. 😜
- +1 250 395 6541
Eagan Bonaparte Forest Service Rd #3700, Thompson-Nicola E, BC V0K 2K2, Canada
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Argentinian haciendero for a day? Why not. 😏 Few things I love about this ranch: 1. Its colonial-style mansion 2. Meat 3. Selection of wines
- +54 3525 46 5888
Camino a Santa Catalina km7, Santa Catalina, 5221, Córdoba, Argentina
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Sergio Santibañez and MariMar having such “moment” by the pool. Enter Señora Angelica Santibañez. Stabs MariMar with an evil look. Turns to Macha, MariMar’s pet hen—writer’s block. Ooops. 😂 Right??? Like plucked from a scene in MariMar, the telenovela that put Thaliá on the limelight in the ‘90s.
- +52 312 316 0300
Domicilio Conocido, San Antonio, Comala, 28463 Colima, Col., Mexico
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Jackson and I would live happily ever after here, for sure. Located in Montana, too, this super lush ranch is complete with a camping butler! Hmmm.. How much a night, please?
- +1 866 915 5122
40060 Paws Up Rd, Greenough, MT 59823, USA
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Blanket Bay ranch is located in New Zealand and has been featured as backdrop for LOTR films. Neat, yes? 😉
- +64 3 441 0115
4191 Glenorchy-Queenstown Road, Glenorchy 9372, New Zealand
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Living Belle’s provincial life! 😍
- +49 561 92047910
Kurfürstenstraße 9, 34117 Kassel, Germany
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This is possibly the site where Jesus Christ was buried and resurrected. Unearthed in 1867, the site is presently a place of Christian worship. I think I would not want to leave the place alive once I set foot in it.
- +972 2 539 8100
Conrad Schick St, Jerusalem
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Considered as one of the most significant pilgrims in Israel as the sulfuric waters bring healing to people visiting. Tabgha is also the place where it was believed that Jesus Christ fed 5,000 people with loaves and fish.
Tabgha, Israel
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It was during the storm when Jesus Christ performed another miracle by walking on this very sea. “Take heart: it is I. Do not be afraid.” I specifically love this story in the Bible where Peter’s faith was tested when he doubted Jesus’ power to save him. If I will ever renew my Christian faith, this is where I’d want to be re-baptized.
Sea of Galilee
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Cana is where Jesus performed His first public miracle by turning water into wine, proving He is the promised Messiah. His second miracle also happened here when He healed an official’s son.
- +972 4 651 7011
Kafr Kanna, Israel
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Reminiscent of one of my most favorite K-Drama, My Secret Terrius, Prague was where Kim Bon lost the love of his life, Agent Choi Eun-kyung from a secret operation.
Karlův most, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia
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Who would've thought the structure was built in the 1800s. This reminds me of the Romanovs in Russia (only Prague).
- +420 224 497 111
Václavské nám. 68, 110 00 Praha 1-Nové Město, Czechia
