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If you could travel for free to an iNatting destination, where would that be? Plane ticket, transportation, and accomodation would all be paid for for a week.
I would choose South Africa, Australia, or the Amazon.
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Related question #1: Which part of the world has the highest biodiversity with the fewest observations? Tropical Africa?
Related question #2: How would you feel about most of your observations NEVER reaching RG, due to a lack of experienced IDers for that region?
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I don’t know but I’m guessing you’re right with tropical Africa. Or maybe more remote areas of South America. New Guinea also.
I’d feel frustrated but I’m kinda used to it from iNatting in Tonga. Also I could ask an expert in that region to join iNat and identify the obs. Or I could just wait until someone identifies them.
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Free transport, accommodations, everything, to anywhere? The sub-ice oceans of Europa, Jupiter’s moon, please. Good chance of finding nothing, but wow what finds any finds would be.
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Probably my fist destination would be Zymbabwe or Kenya or somewhere in Africa :)
My second destination would be the Galapagos islands or the Amazon. Australia also, and Yellowstone. It’s really hard to pick one, As I love travelling… Indonesia… So far I’m hoping to go see the Danube Delta as it’s in my country, but in order to stay there a lot, as I want, I’m waiting for the war to stop… Spain 
Can’t stop thinking of places to go 
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What about New Zealand?
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The truth is you do not have to make a safari to darkest Africa or outback Australia to find little known or previously unidentified organisms. There will be some in your neighbourhood. Just a matter of knowing what to look for.
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Recently went to Taiwan. I was amazed at how much biodiversity there is in this heavily populated small country. The Eastern side of Taiwan has seriously rugged mountainous area covered in dense forest. Some of these places are still pretty much unexplored.
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I saw an undescribed species or hoverfly in my yard when I lived in Tonga and an unidentified shark species at an agricultural show. But I want to go to those locations because I would see a lot of species I haven’t seen or photographed yet. They don’t have to be unidentified to be cool.
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Gosh I can’t stop thinking of where I wanna go 
but money aren’t endless unfortunately.
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If you could iNat in only one country, where would that be?
For me it would be Australia. Rainforests in the North, temperate forests in the Southeast, Subantarctic islands, tropical islands, the Great Barrier Reef, deserts, the outback, the chapparal. Marsupials, reptiles, all sorts of birds and fish and plants.
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If I think it that way, I think Australia is also my choice of iNatting, considering the Great Barrier Reef is nearby 
and there are plenty of lifers to see there including marsupials and venomous snakes, and the huge variety of underwater wildlife and birds… I simply love birds :)
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If we are fantasizing here, I think I would just want a Star Trek-style transporter (powered with climate-friendly energy of course). I don’t necessarily yearn to visit “exotic” places; there are lots of spots in the larger region or in my former home state I would like to explore. But I find that a significant barrier to travel is the time spent getting there – I hate overseas flights – and even here in Germany, in a country with well-developed public transport networks, many nature reserves are very tedious to get to if one doesn’t have a car.
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First I would love to visit South Korea because almost every time @whaichi posts photos, I feel a little struck. The Mainland Raccoon Dog nearly did me in.
Next I would like to take my son to the Valley of Square Trees that @screedius kindly told me about. A good mystery like this would set our brains humming.
Finally I would like to go sit in @danly’s garden. That lovely place is so different from here! It looks a balm for what will by then be a travel-weary soul. 
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The place on Earth I most long to visit is New Zealand. Since it’s on the far side of the globe from me, it seems that almost everything I would see would be new to me. (Except for the ubiquitous and seemingly universal European Starlings, Asian Lady Beetles, and White Clover.)
What I would most like to see, aside from all the different and beautiful birds and flowers, are hedgehogs… and Hobbits.
Thanks, @ItsMeLucy, for referencing my garden!
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Madagascar.
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Panama!
According to what my mother told me (don’t you dare say my momma was wrong. 
), Panama has one of the highest concentration of plant varieties of anywhere on earth (or something like that. 
) Or maybe it was that it was the native origination point of a lot of modern day domesticated fruits and veggies. I can’t remember exactly what she said, but Gosh Dang it, I just want to go to Panama! 
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this might be able to help some folks figure out where to visit: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifriday-is-the-happiest-day-of-the-week/26908/1631.
my personal view is that visiting some far and distant place occasionally is fine, but it’s often so much more meaningful to explore locally, and in the grand scheme of things, i wish more folks would develop a deep understanding of their own places and become ambassadors for their own places.
when visiting a faraway place, i find it most satisying to see a mix of things i recognize and things i’ve never seen before (rather than visiting some place where everything is completely different). i think that’s most helpful for me to make connections in my brain. so i think that could translate to things like visiting places of similar lattitude or similar climate, visiting the spring habitat of a winter migrant visitor, etc.
and there are lots of ways to discover new things in the same place – visiting at different times of day, different times of the year, during (or before / after) different weather, etc.; visiting with dfferent tools; visiting with different people who have different perspectives, etc…
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I went to South Korea in January and I didn’t see any Mainland Racoon Dogs, but I did see Red-Crowned Cranes and other cool birds. I’ll be going there again in January next year.
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Solid.
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