Your Favorite Place, Your Actual Budget (self.asklemmy)

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What are the best places you've been to that are actually worth exploring?

Not looking for the obvious tourist checklist, more curious about places that surprised you, felt different from what you expected, or just stuck with you long after the trip ended.

Could be a country, a random small town nobody talks about, a trek, a street you wandered into by accident, anything.

A few things I'd love to know if you're up for sharing:

Where was it, and what made it stand out for you?

Was it planned, or did you just stumble into it?

Would you actually go back, or was it a one-time kind of place?

Roughly how much did it end up costing you, and did it feel worth that amount looking back?

I'm building a list for future trips, and honestly the best recommendations I've gotten have always come from real people's experiences rather than "top 10 places to visit" articles that all say the same five cities.

Drop your favorite spot, I'm genuinely taking notes.

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[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 26 minutes ago

Home.

Explore your home area as if you're a tourist and you'd be surprised the things you find to do that you'd never thought of before.

Most of us don't explore our homes anywhere near enough because we're busy working and then pushed to "get away" for a holiday.

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago

My local library. I hadn't been to a library since I was in school, over 10 years ago now. Went recently with a friend to try 3D printing and was surprised how many services were offered entirely for free.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

About 20 miles north of NYC there are cheap hotels, hilly county roads through small towns, nice hikes (paved or natural), bookstores, distilleries, old cemeteries, etc.

South Padre Island in Texas. During tourist season it's packed, but much of the year you can have the beach mostly to yourself.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The beach, costs nothing for me to visit.

Some decent publicly accessible woodland closer to home could be nice.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Sopot Poland. Beautiful oceanfront, cheap, and so many pierogi.

Also, one of the best times I’ve ever had on vacation was at a cruise stop in Ensenada. The trick was walking far enough from the port they expected pesos then hanging out at a bar where the workers all had face tattoos. Very cool blokes and we might have found a local ski resort too; iykyk.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

I really enjoyed caye caulker in Belize. Super chill island vibe, low cost, great food and scuba diving.

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