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Budget Travel's 10 Best Undiscovered Locations
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It's that time of year again when Budget Travel reveals its Best Places You've never Heard Of.Every year the editors of this fine magazine interview 10 travelers and ask them to "reveal the places they've recently discovered." The underlying theme here is that these are very cool places which most people have never heard of before, but may some day become popular tourist destinations when word gets out.
True to form, nine of the 10 suggestions this year are places ... I've never heard of! The lone exception is the city of Wroclaw, a rather nondescript Polish town I visited 12 years ago and found exceedingly boring. Things, however, have apparently changed -- at least according to traveler Walter Lowry, who touts the city as having the "prettiest plaza in Poland and perhaps in all of central Europe." He also applauds Wroclaw for its fine shopping.
As for the other nine cities, here they are. Click, discover, and enjoy!
• Castelmezzano, Italy
• Caraiva, Brazil
• Baranja Region, Croatia
• Estacada, United States
• Yirgalem, Ethiopia
• Puerto Angel, Mexico
• Jura Region, France
• Jomsom, Nepal
• Sangkhla Buri, Thailand
Gadling's own Leif Pettersen is traveling through another not-so-well-known location: Ia?i, Romania.
Gallery: Iasi, Romania
Filed under: Ethiopia, Nepal, Thailand, Croatia, France, Italy, Mexico, United States, Brazil
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Belinda Sep 10th 2007 12:20PM
Castlemazzano Italy seems like a place I would like to visit. Especially if it's relatively inexpensive to do so. When I had family in the military stationed in England and Germany, I had an opportunity to get around in Europe quite a bit. It's easy to go from place to place by ferry when you don't have to pay for hotels and such. That's where the expense comes in.