Randoms by Rach

To Travel Or Not To Travel?

Day Four - What's one place in the world you have yet to visit, and have absolutely no intention of ever, ever going? Why are you so adamant about never visiting?

This is another difficult prompt. A lot of the places I have no intention of ever going; I feel that way because of the governments who are abusing the citizens. Not because I have no desire to see the country. For example: India. For as long as I can remember, I've thought it is a beautiful country (in the main part). I remember seeing Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon in "Sense & Sensibility" describe India as, "The air is full of spices." It sounds so exotic. So different from my little English life. Also, I remember as a child watching Michael Palin travelling through India on a train. There was great poverty in places, but it looked so beautiful. But there have been stories in the last few years of women being gang raped and beaten and killed, and men getting away with it. Women being blamed. I couldn't go to a place that allows that to happen. I understand it's not everywhere, but it's too common.

Saudi Arabia is probably the place I have never wanted to go, and would never go. Their treatment of women as second class citizens is hideous. Beating women who are raped because they "cheated on their husbands." It makes me sick. Women can't even drive there; they are considered that inferior. I would never want to go to a place like that. I've been there before in my own home, and I am never going to choose to go there in another country. Plus, it's unbelievably hot in Saudi Arabia. Nope. Not for me.

North Korea. Never. Ever. Ever.