Personal top-10 dark tourist experiences
4. climbing down into
Ijen crater in the middle of the night to see the blue flames at the sulphur mine next to the crater's acid lake,
Indonesia, August 2014
9.
Fukushima two-day tour in and around the exclusion zone, also featuring some of the remaining damage from the 2011 tsnunami, April 2019,
Japan
10.
Goli Otok former prison island, by privately hired boat and then three hours alone on the island exploring the ruins, April 2018,
Coatia
more extraordinarily dark experiences:
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Nagasaki,
Japan, for the
Atomic Bomb Museum in April 2009, and again in April 2019, this time with an add-on private tour with a local historian to other sites associated with the A-bombings as well as with Korean POW camps.
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Montserrat with the erupting/glowing Soufriere Hills volcano & viewing the destroyed capital Plymouth, the island's "modern-day Pompeii", in December 2009/January 2010.
- Exploring the Alien-like dilapidated monument of
Buzludzha,
Bulgaria, in April 2011
- tour of the disused
Zwentendorf nuclear power plant, including the reactor core, in November 2013,
Austria
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Hohenschönhausen former Stasi remand prison guided tour with a former inmate who was an extremely interesting case, March 2008,
Berlin,
Germany
- full day tour of the war sites on southern
Okinawa, April 2009,
Japan
- 8-day tour of
East Timor, including 5 days by jeep through the countryside + 3 days in
Dili, August 2014
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