The list of countries where it's better to avoid going to see WW2 battlefields gets longer. I can think of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria , parts of Ukraine, I'm sure there's others. Shame that , must be upsetting for people wanting to see where their relatives served & who may still be there in one of the cemeteries or on a memorial. Would have thought the world should be a safer place all these years after WW2.
Probably a good time to visit Egypt. I travelled there just after the Luxor massacre in 1997. Got a free visa and armed guards just about everywhere I went - never felt safer. Easy to bargain a price also! Having said that I was single and younger - probably wouldn't take my family there at the moment. Same with Tunisia, which I've visited in the past. Myanmar (Burma) used to be off limits, but I think things are better there now - does anyone know the latest situation? I've always wanted to go to Yemen - my old man was there with 45 Cdo in the mid-'60's fighting terrorists. Can't go there now as there are too many terrorists. What goes around comes around.
Threatening their tourist trade would be top of the list I think. I wonder if the prophecy by some that they are coming in with the refugees is true. There must be a "cell" operating there and providing the weaponry.
I'd vote for Papua New Guinea. I don't know about violence, but that is still one of the most untamed and disease-ridden parts of the globe. I wouldn't go there unless I was a hardened outdoorsman.
