Top 10 hells right here on earth

published by Asianpost on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 15:02


Had a bad trip? It probably could have been a lot worse.


Men’s website AskMen.com has come up with a list of the world’s worst holiday destinations to prove how much more dire it could have been:


Port Moresby, PAPUA NEW GUINEA


Type of hell:

Disease


With over 115 new HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed every month, the capital of Papua New Guinea is in trouble. The population is expanding at an uncontrollable rate, unemployment levels have rocketed, income levels have plummeted and gang members have been known to carry out bank robberies with M16 machine guns and hijack cars wielding machetes.


Linfen, CHINA


Type of hell:

Darkness

Linfen, China, is sooty and dark, located in a 12-mile industrial belt, and affected by the 50 million tons of coal mined each year in the nearby hills of Shanxi. There’s no escaping the smog.


Bujumbura, REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI


Type of hell:

Corruption

Burundi has the lowest GDP per capita and is the poorest country in the world. It is scarred by a history of genocide, mass killing and assassinated political leaders. A pool of 178 countries found that Burundi’s people had the poorest satisfaction of life in the world.


Pyongyang, NORTH KOREA


Type of hell:

Oppression

While its modern-day facade may look like any other Western city, underneath it is entirely autocratic. Radios and TVs have only one channel which broadcasts special programs controlled by the government, and bicycles are banned as part of a political regime to restrict movement and interaction.


Oklahoma City, US


Type of hell:

Natural disasters

Located in the direct path of "Tornado Alley," the worst time to visit would be from March to August. Scenes of devastation are pretty much expected. The severe weather season makes Dorothy’s Kansas look positively calm, with Oklahoma City being the city worst affected by tornadoes in the United States.


Chernobyl, UKRAINE


Type of hell:

Radiation
Famed for a nuclear meltdown in 1986 that contaminated most of its living organisms, Chernobyl is certainly not the kind of place you’d like to holiday in. Everything is still largely abandoned and remains as it was 20 years ago, with hundreds of miles of uninhabitable space, deserted buildings and poisoned lakes and rivers.

 

Mogadishu, SOMALIA

Type of hell:

Lawlessness

With the collapse of central government in 1991, Mogadishu is largely lawless, with no structure of real peacekeeping present, despite a failed effort in 1992 by the US marines. Indeed, Mogadishu certainly won’t be found in any glossy holiday brochure anytime soon.


Yakutsk, RUSSIA


Type of hell:

Environmental extreme
Officially the coldest place on earth, temperatures here often drop to a hypothermia-inducing -58°F, and if it drops below this (which it does), children get the day off school. Another hellish aspect of Yakutsk is its isolation — a whole six time zones away from Moscow.

 

Dhaka, BANGLADESH


Type of hell:

Pollution

Despite enduring political instability, military suppression and devastation from war and natural disaster, the capital of Bangladesh faces a new crisis over critically high pollution levels. Rapid industrial development has filled the city with so much smog it is causing environmental damage, with 9.7 million tons of waste dumped in the river by the city each year.


 

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