“Can’t Recommend It Enough”: 22 Travelers Share Unpopular Travel Destinations That Are Worth It

Awesome destination, i live in the south east of France so it's only 7 hours driving and it worth it so much. It looks like a mix of switzerland, austria, italy and hungary. It's so damn clean and people are really nice. It's a small country and Ljubljana is one of the most enjoyable capital city in Europe, not much cars, lot of places to chill, great and cheap food.

Lakes of Switzerland and the mountains of the Dolomites with a dash of Eastern Europe and Italy!

Went there for work for 2 weeks. The Slovenian engineer I was working with, showed me small villages and of the track places. So beautiful, I could live there.

Hopefully will go there this September, fingers crossed! <3

Absolutely gobsmacked with it's beauty. I'm from Slovakia, so just crossing borders to Austria is relief, beauty and cleanliness of it. But then crossing from Austria to Slovenia was another level how different country could look like. In a week spent in Slovenia, no bad roads, no rubbish dumped anywhere, .

Beautiful rural landscapes too

Don't forget the food and the woods.

Lovely mountains, and architecture!

And prehistory

Completely in incorrect. Too many tourists, buses packed and never on time, too much building work going on, dirty, full of illegal immigrants and crime is on the rise. Lived here for 12 years and it's changed so much and not for the better. Go somewhere else.

"mix of arabic and italian:" - YUM!

Buy a prepaid bus ticket at the airport.... They're much much cheaper than paying cash.

Malta: setting a land speed record for poaching and hunting migratory birds. A disgusting cultural habit from the day when there were barely two cavemen to rub a rock together. Yet it goes on. Decimating many species. Frankly the whole Mediterranean has this problem.

In 2014 I did a trip to Austria. 4 days in Vienna, overdosing on art and culture. The architecture is gorgeous, like living in a wedding cake. Then a beautiful train ride to go visit a friend in Graz. The scenery was so gorgeous that I got a pain in my neck from looking out the window

Austria is not "half the cost" of Switzerland. Maybe 15% less, and only outside of major cities. Wien, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Linz are terribly expensive. They see tourism as a necessary evil, and you can definitely tell. If you want "cities, history, culture and architecture" for cheap and being treated better, then avoid Austria altogether and go to German Bavaria or Italy.

Vienna is such a grand city from what I remember

That pic is of Hallstatt, in the salzkammergut. I went there, luckily, the old fashioned way, by train and boat, and even more luckily, before instagram.

I would like to go someday to see where my family came from. My great grandmother's family crossed the alps to flee Austria during the war because they didn't believe in what Germany was doing. She refused to watch the Sound of Music because it brought back so many painful memories.

Yes, amazing views, food and prices, fantastic people. Kotor was absolutely stunning!

It's one of only two countries in the world that have joined the Euro without being in the EU, on the basis of "what are they going to do, sue us?" So it's not *incredibly* cheap. It is beautiful though - it was part of the Venetian Empire so the architecture is gorgeous.

i went a few years ago with my dad and uncle, we went to a monastery in the mountains. i presume it was lovely, i can't remember much. also it was 45+ degrees so that was fun

Ya this is quite popular with irish and English especially for honeymoons.

Went there for my honeymoon. Stayed in a hotel near that mountain in the picture. We also did a tour of the island. Such a pretty place

What ! Doesn't everyone know this an overated, very expensive, boring place where you can watch rich, pretentious overweight peope eating and posing ? Or did I catch it on a bad month ? UK if you wondered

Thank you! :) I highly recommend not visiting only Prague if you ever come. It's awesome, don't get me wrong but there's so much more to see and most people tend to stick only to it. Highly recommend YouTube channel Honest Guide if you want some tips.

Fell in love with Prague, definitely in my top 5 destinations! Can't wait to go to Brno this spring, heard it's a very underrated city but has so much to offer. Would love to explore more of the country one year.

Go to U Fleku if you're thirsty. They sell exactly one drink, a lager beer that they brew themselves, and the waiter just counts heads. It's very nice and then you fall over

Exactly where do I go in Bolivia to get cuddles from that very cute lamb in the photo?!?

These days the cuisine is really getting recognition too. And there's some amazing architecture. I'd love to visit Bolivia

He has a little hat!

It's one of the few SA countries I have not been to, along with Bolivia. I am in the US and flights to both, for me, are 30 to 40 hours. Even when I have been in Chile or Argentina there is no direct way. Hopefully someday!

I agree completely about Colombia. We took our daughter to visit her dad's homeland when she graduated from college. To make life easy we hired a cab driver for our entire stay. That made life so much simpler! We were able to visit all the gorgeous places we wanted to from his childhood and from my years living there, and it couldn't have been safer.

Colombia is indeed incredible and highly underrated. However, Cartagena is miserable. We've been many times to Colombia and Cartagena is always the worst. People are aggressive and never stop trying to get you to buy. You can't walk around in peace at all. It's oppressively hot. The only city where people aren't nice in Colombia.

My sister in law went last year (rather shamefully I had to look it up) and couldn't speak highly enough of it

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world, all other countries are run by little girls.

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Zanzibar was one of our worst holiday experiences. Appalling roads, grabby locals always trying to rip you off, awful levels of poverty... Yes, some of the beaches are nice but it's one of those places where you can end up just staying within the confines of your compound hotel. We had a car and did lots of stuff, but got so fed up with it that we moved to a different hotel for the last few days and did just that.

I could agree with this. I went to Mongolia but was only in the Ulaanbaatar area. When people ask me how it was, I reply "I went to Mongolia so now you don't have to." But I really regret not being able to see more of the Gobi dessert and other interesting areas of the region. I did get a cool fur hat that when I wear it in Northern Michigan I get a LOT of questions regarding where I bought it. No one seems to like the answer.

Mongolia is truly special. The landscapes is stunning and there is something truly grounding about the isolation. We did a hike up a mountain to a temple built in the side that was truly inspiring. Definitely go. Pitstop in Ulaanbaatar (go to the museum) then head out to the desert.

I was there last year. The Albanian Riviera area is ghastly now (well, tastes differ, you might like it if your checklist for beaches is things like loud music, beach bars and lots of touts). The mountains are stunning though. And the bridge in that picture marks the start of a super-fun and very wet hike!

Albania is the next Croatia for sure, in 10 years it will be crowded by tourists, just enjoy it now !