" Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of the popular Lonely Planet travel guides who recently published a book on his travels to nine rogue nations he labelled "bad lands' told the trend reflects travellers' growing desire to visit places few others have been to before."
Thus went a quote in an article I read recently in the TOI. It is quite topical and interesting considering the amount of trouble most such countries are in right now thus generating constant news footage and therefore getting a lot of free visual space on Prime Time news.
It affected me for sure, par exemple, I bagged a four day Taj package to Sir Lanka a while back, and I said, hey why not? The beauty I saw there, even though there was a bomb balst just minutes before we, my Sis and I landed was a little unnerving. Neverthe less, the country caught my curisoty. You can check out my blog entry for the same http://deeptijhangiani.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=14
So the moment I read in the papers that Prabhakaran's HQ has been captured by Sri Lankan commandos, ( http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/15056 ) it seemed like a crazy buy apt idea to head back there.
Thats the kind of trip that really brings the zing in travel! Just a thought.
