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Top 8 Geek Travel Destinations: Are You A High IQ Traveler?

Wired has released The Best Geek Vacations – eight top places where the “smartest of the smartest” prefer to trek, including:

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  1. Akihabara Tokyo
  2. Chernobyl, Ukraine
  3. Palo Alto, California
  4. CERN
  5. Mauna Kea Observatory
  6. Sidi Driss Hotel
  7. New Zealand
  8. The South Pole

For my RTW trip, I’m personally psyched about Antarctica and Tokyo, and … (why not?) Chernobyl. Does that mean I’m kind of smart and kind of geeky or both?

How much of a geeky high IQ traveler are you?

Mike Richard
Founding Editor
Mike Richard has traveled the world extensively since 2008. He's kayaked in Antarctica, tracked African wild dogs in South Africa, and survived a near-miss great white shark attack in Mexico. He loves the great outdoors, good bourbon, and he (usually) calls Tulsa home. He also enjoys speaking in the third person.

5 Comments

  1. Hehe, ‘Geekotourism’!

    I have been to number one as a tourist and that’s it. I’ve lived 25 years of my life in NZ so am pretty familiar with LOTR scenery. Although I’ve heard the Hobbiton tour is crap – $100 (NZ$ so = US$81 now) there isn’t much of the ‘original’ Hobbit village there now.

    None of the others excite me except the last one, so maybe I’m not as big a geek as I thought.

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  2. Yeah, I wouldn’t take that as too much of an insult. The idea that someone would travel somewhere just because some movie was filmed there is more than a bit bizarre to me.

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  3. You know, I just can’t see the person going to visit Chernobyl being too smart… I mean, I’d like to go see it too, but the environmental impacts probably aren’t under control yet, no matter what they tell us.

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  4. Except New Zealand – I’m really happy not being a Geek Traveler then. What’s interesting about those places? But maybe I’m just too narrow-minded – as usual. Let me lean back and try again – ooohhhhhhmmmmmm! Ah yes, give me the North Pole anytime to cool my nerve endings…

    :)

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  5. Yeah, Chernobyl’s probably not the safest of destinations, unless you’re cool with growing a third arm out of your forehead, etc. I wonder if the Ministry of Tourism there hands out complimentary haz-mat/biohazard suits? Like the kind the folks at the CDC use before they start playing with ebola and small pox in their labs.

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