Is there anywhere in the world you wouldn't mind visiting for a few days but the effort or cost prevents you from ever actually going there? Like if you could teleport there instantly for a few days, you would do it.

I guess this would preclude dangerous places like Somolia or the top of Mount Everest where being there itself would be dangerous and you might not survive just being there.

For me, it would be the Kerguelen Archipelago. It seems like an interesting remote place with penguins and out of this world geological vibes kinda like Iceland. Then you look at what's required to get there: it costs $10k per person and only 40 people can visit a year, other than scientists. Plus it takes about a month just to get there by ship from Reunion, and a month again to get back, so that's 2 months time commitment at sea. (https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kerguelen).

Even if that $10k was paid for, I don't think I would commit to that much time just getting there and back. You could similarly visit Antarctica where you can at least check an entire continent off your list, and people would be impressed you've visited Antarctica. Most people have never heard of the Kerguelen Archipelago, and oddly enough it doesn't even show up on blogs when searching "most remote places on Earth". I honestly think it is the most remote place on Earth, so much so that people writing the blogs don't even know of it to write about it. Also if you search for Kerguelen on this subreddit, there are no results other than this post.

Submitted August 29, 2023 at 01:42AM by Wisp1971 https://ift.tt/CJ3cwqv