Somewhere funny in the eastern hemisphere

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Any advice? Somewhere funny, funny being a shithole in some third world country. You get the idea. Isn't ´ there any bucket list for those places?

I live i Norway, so places like Baghdad is closer than Tijuana. I was thinking about 2-3 weeks. Probably going alone, don´t know anyone stupid enough to follow. Might be persuaded into joining someone from the Café, departing around the Easter holidays. Served in the navy, 5 years experience in SAR, tech diver with 500 dives, tech. high school grad. in electronics and telemetry. I might be useful.

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Sudan is always nice... And it is a timely destination with the recent creation of South Sudan. You can observe events on the border firsthand.

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Thanks for the advice, sounds good. I´m guessing places like Iran is less exciting then Sudan then? On the other hand it would be interesting to write an article on how these places are now that the U.S. has packed their bags and left.

[vagabond]

Thanks for the advice, sounds good. I´m guessing places like Iran is less exciting then Sudan then? On the other hand it would be interesting to write an article on how these places are now that the U.S. has packed their bags and left.

Depends on what you're looking for. "Third world shithole" covers a lot of places and "fun" is relative. Eastern hemisphere covers a lot of places. What exactly are you interested in? How long of a flight can you stand (and/or how much you willing to pay)? Afghanistan is in the eastern hemisphere as is Jakarta but there's a bit of a difference there.

[rickshaw92]

Sudan is always nice...

I was in Khartoum last year for the referendum. The place is a shithole.

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And whilst I´m at it; What do you guys bring to these DPs? And just how D is these Ps? Is Sudan just a hellhole warzone, or is it a normal city in there? Can´t go walking around in Scottvest-ish clothing in the nicer places. Might look suspicious.

Plan for what to bring:

E&E bag; Water, FAK, rain-poncho, Zippo lighter, batteries, 50 ft of paracord, GPS, hard cash, cigarettes, energybars, babywipes
Other: Camera and lenses
Wear: LL bean fieldcoat W/O inner-lining, t-shirts, scottvest khakis, some low key shoes(palladium-ish), normal khaki chinos, brown brouges, sunglasses(Ray-Ban Aviator) and suitable amount of wool socks and underwear.

Figured i buy the rest like a couple of informal shirts and a shemag or some kind of protective head and neckwear, toothbrush, toothpaste and shampoo and stuff.

BTW; Meds; Bring or buy?

Something I should remove or add?

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Thanks for the response guys

Flight time is care, but price is more important, so hard-to-get-to-places witch is very expensive is out of the question. Thinking flight cost at max $2500(remember, I am traveling from Norway, not US)

Thinking 2-3 weeks.

I am interested in seeing the world, nothing very specific, but I´d prefer some dangers. I am not riding a donkey through a firefight, but something exciting. I´ve had basic military training and know how to handle a firearm and I have the paramedic medicine courses so I am not completely lost. I was thinking something like an unstable area, with the possibility to find somewhere decent to sleep and stack gear every night or so. Prefer warm weather(kinda cold in Norway...)

Not my objective for this trip, but a nice sum up; When somewhere asks where I´ve been, I expect to be called crazy.

[rickshaw92]

And whilst I´m at it; What do you guys bring to these DPs?

Jeans and tee shirts, camera, beer opener, cons. White people wandering around Africa and Asia in safari suits look like retards. They look inbreadedly retarded when they go 'local'

[vagabond]

You should be able to get to most places for less than $2500, even from Oslo. I really have nothing better to do right now and enjoy looking this shit up so here's some possible ideas.

Since you seem to have a pretty broad criteria, I just typed in "flights from oslo" in Google. Here is the abridged version of non-stop flights from Oslo:

To Duration Airlines

Agadir, Morocco 5h 5m Norwegian - Morocco isn't really a DP but you can head south into W. Sahara and Mauritania.

Antalya, Turkey 4h 20m Norwegian - skirt the coast and head to border area w/ Syria, crossing over if possible. rickshaw was just there and details are on the board. Cyprus is a flight/ferry ride away as is Lebanon.

Bangkok, Thailand 10h 50m Thai - You can get up to all sorts of trouble here. Other places an easy flight away.

Belgrade, Serbia 2h 50m Norwegian

Doha, Qatar 6h 25m Qatar

Dubai, United Arab Emirates 7h 0m Norwegian - good transit point for other places in Africa, ME, S Asia

Geneva, Switzerland 2h 35m Norwegian - die from boredom

Islamabad, Pakistan 7h 0m Pakistan
Istanbul, Turkey 3h 40m Turkish

Moscow, Russia 2h 22m Aeroflot, SAS - go around the time of the elections (March)

And since that really didn't reveal much here's some ideas from Dubai (Oslo - Dubai on Norwegian is a little over 500 euros r/t; 371 euro on Lufthansa via Munich):

To Duration Airlines

Accra, Ghana 9h 0m Emirates
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 4h 5m Ethiopian, Emirates, flydubai
Aden, Yemen 3h 0m Yemenia
Al Basrah, Iraq 2h 0m Emirates
Aleppo, Syria 3h 55m flydubai
Alexandria, Egypt 4h 17m flydubai, EgyptAir
Algiers, Algeria 7h 30m Air Algerie
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 2h 27m flydubai, Turkmenistan
Baghdad, Iraq 2h 47m Emirates
Baku, Azerbaijan 2h 57m Azerbaijan, flydubai
Beijing, China 7h 43m Emirates, Air China, China Southern, …
Beirut, Lebanon 3h 43m flydubai, MEA, Emirates
Berbera, Somalia 3h 15m Jubba Airways, African Express
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 4h 2m Altyn Air, Air Bishkek
Cairo, Egypt 4h 8m EgyptAir, Emirates, Singapore Airlines
Dakar, Senegal 10h 55m Emirates
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 5h 30m Emirates
Dera Ghāzi Khān, Pakistan 2h 45m Pakistan
Dhaka, Bangladesh 4h 33m Emirates, flydubai, GMG, …
Dimashq, Syria 3h 25m Emirates, flydubai, Syrian Air
Djibouti 3h 25m flydubai
Durban, South Africa 8h 45m Emirates
Dushanbe, Tajikistan 4h 0m Somon Air
Erbil, Iraq 3h 5m flydubai
Esfahan, Iran 1h 45m Kish, IranAir
Faisalabad, Pakistan 3h 0m Pakistan
Glasgow, UK 8h 0m Emirates
Hyderabad, India 3h 25m Emirates, Air India, Jet Airways, …
Islamabad, Pakistan 3h 2m Emirates, Pakistan, Airblue, …
Jaipur, India 3h 20m Air-India Express
Jakarta, Indonesia 8h 15m Emirates, Garuda Indonesia, Yemenia
Jeddah Saudi Arabia 3h 4m Saudi Arabian, Emirates, nasair
Johannesburg, South Africa 8h 10m Emirates
Kabul, Afghanistan 2h 46m flydubai, Safi Airways Ltd., Kam Air, …
Kandahar, Afghanistan 2h 0m Ariana
Karachi, Pakistan 1h 57m Emirates, flydubai, Pakistan
Kharkiv, Ukraine 5h 15m flydubai
Khartoum, Sudan 4h 23m flydubai, Emirates, Sudan Airways
Kigali, Rwanda 5h 15m RwandAir
Lagos, Nigeria 8h 20m Emirates
Lahore, Pakistan 3h 0m Airblue, Emirates, Pakistan, …
Lamerd, Iran 1h 50m Iran Aseman
Lār, Iran 1h 0m Iran Aseman
Luanda, Angola 8h 16m Emirates, TAAG, Hainan
Manila, Philippines 8h 0m Emirates
Mashhad, Iran 2h 15m Iran Aseman
Mukalla, Yemen 2h 15m Yemenia, African Express
Multan, Pakistan 2h 50m Pakistan
Novosibirsk, Russia 5h 40m S7
Odesa, Ukraine 5h 5m AeroSvit
Peshawar, Pakistan 3h 3m Pakistan, Shaheen, Airblue, …
Port Sudan, Sudan 3h 40m flydubai
Quetta, Pakistan 2h 30m Pakistan
Riga, Latvia 6h 20m Air Baltic
Riyadh Saudi Arabia 1h 58m Saudi Arabian, Emirates, flydubai, …
Rostov, Russia 4h 20m Donavia
Sana'a, Yemen 2h 50m Emirates, Yemenia
Sao Paulo, Brazil 15h 15m Emirates
Shiraz, Iran 1h 30m Iran Aseman, IranAir
Sulaimania, Iraq 3h 10m flydubai
Tabrīz, Iran 2h 37m Caspian Airlines, Kish
Tashkent, Uzbekistan 3h 20m Uzbekistan
Tbilisi, Georgia 3h 20m flydubai, Georgian Airways
Tehran, Iran 2h 26m Emirates, Mahan, IranAir
Ufa, Russia 5h 0m flydubai
Yanbu Saudi Arabia 3h 20m flydubai
Yekaterinburg, Russia 5h 0m flydubai, Ural Airlines
Yerevan, Armenia 3h 15m Armavia, flydubai
Zāhedān, Iran 1h 30m Iran Aseman

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Moscow, Russia 2h 22m Aeroflot, SAS - go around the time of the elections (March)

Ooooo, now that would be good entertainment!

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I was in Khartoum last year for the referendum. The place is a shithole.

Hence "nice" for the denizens of the BFC...

Jeans and tee shirts, camera, beer opener, cons. White people wandering around Africa and Asia in safari suits look like retards. They look inbreadedly retarded when they go 'local'

Jesus Christ, that is so true. I saw so many guys in India dressed like the douchebag in the picture you attached - it was just unbelievable.

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Whoa! Great advices, or so it seems.

My list of actual places, no spesific order;

Khatorum
Islamabad
Baghdad
Gaza-strip (?)
Al Basrah
Kabul

Anyone of these boring, and witch is the least boring alternative. Or did I just skip all your funny places. Already been to Glasgow, Morroco, Turkey, Riga and Switzerland of those on your list. They weren´t even slightly fun.

[rickshaw92]

Islamabad is boring but has a Pizza Hut. If going to Pak Lahore and Peshawar are cool as is the KKH. Kabul is also worth a few days and I think the Kyber Pass is open to foreigners again.

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Reviewed some photos of the places mentioned.Bad places, but not shitholes as far a I could see, but these may well be pictures showing the sunshine version. By shithole I am thinking in the lines of ruined houses, and militia in the streets. Was in the Mathare slum in Kenya, interesting place. Extreme poverty and all you expect to see, but this time i am looking for a place where a corrupt pretend-to-be-state-official might kill you with an AK47.

[rickshaw92]

but this time i am looking for a place where a corrupt pretend-to-be-state-official might kill you with an AK47.

Why oh why do I pay the time of day to newbies? Welcome to my ignore list.

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but this time i am looking for a place where a corrupt pretend-to-be-state-official might kill you with an AK47.

Why oh why do I pay the time of day to newbies? Welcome to my ignore list.

Thank you. Why, if I may ask? This is not a very unlikely situation in i.e. Congo.