Top 10 Most Controversial
Vacation Spots
7.
Ukraine
Ukraine - Controversial Vacation Spots
Home of the terrible
Chernobyl accident,
Pripyat, Ukraine has found its way onto the controversial vacation spots list.
Chernobyl was the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, costing the most in damages and causing the most casualties.
Back in
1986, the year of the nuclear disaster, traveling to this spot would have been impossible. Decades later, it’s a potential vacation spot, although cancer cases and deformities related to Chernobyl are still occurring in the present.
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6.
Alcatraz Island
Controversial Vacation Spots
What was once a lifelong locked-up sentence for some is now a vacation destination for others. If you’re in the
San Francisco area, you can schedule a cruise around Alcatraz Island. Because such trips allow you to stay on the boat, learn about the island’s history and because the prison is no longer used, such tours are quite popular. The site is considered controversial nonetheless, as it was once a place of human imprisonment and despair.
5.
Myanmar
Controversial Vacation Spots
Tourism is a growing industry in this developing nation. Myanmar’s strict government keeps it mostly cut off from the outside world, however, making it controversial to stay here.
The government also formerly used forced labor as a means of building up the nation’s tourism, which raised some red flags. Now, although still controversial, travelling to Myanmar is actually a good thing, some people argue, as it provides employment for hundreds of thousands of
Burmese people.
4.
Palestinian Territories
Palestinian girl reacts after
Israeli forces
Although the
Palestinian territories (
East Jerusalem,
Gaza and the
West Bank) offer beautiful landscape and temperate weather, political instability makes traveling here highly controversial. The
Israeli military blockade of land, air and sea has kept the
Gaza Strip almost entirely off-limits.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem have been accessible, although not easily so, but remained controversial as vacation destinations.
3.
Peru’s
Human Safaris
Peru’s Human Safaris
Peru makes this list again for their “human safaris.” These “attractions” have been growing in popularity recently. Certain indigenous tribes residing in the
Amazon are being exploited by tour operators. Some of these tribes are “uncontacted,” meaning they purposefully avoid interaction with the outside world. To embark on such a vacation is heavily frowned upon but has not yet been taken down with legal action.
2.
Iraq
Kurdistan Region of Iraq
With all the media coverage in recent years, who would want to travel to Iraq? Some people, apparently, are drawn to the desert, culture and adventure. In fact, war zone tourism has been trending in recent years. In
2010, for example, a trip to
Baghdad through
Warzone Tours could have cost up to $40,
000. The situation is a little different just four years later, although tourists in Iraq still can’t travel alone, as individual travel in this nation is prohibited. You can schedule group tours and a guide will lead you, if you’re interested in visiting Iraq.
The country may not be as riddled with violence as the media wants you to believe, but with all the action, history and
AK-47s, it’s still a controversial destination.
1.
North Korea
Film festival in
Pyongyang North Korea
North Korea is not an ideal place to live, what with the malnutrition, starving or even death facing more than half of its brainwashed population. But what is it like to vacation there?
Beyond it being controversial, due, of course, to its repressive totalitarian state, North Korea as a vacation spot is not impossible. In fact, despite the horrors of the
Kim dynasty, people continue to travel here. The vacations are very structured and anyone planning a trip to North Korea can expect a tour of only one side of the nation.
- published: 27 Dec 2015
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