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  • Elliot Koch July 3, 2015 at 2:14pm

    TCC falls short on many places to be listed that is why clubs like "The Most Traveled People" and "Best Travelled"  have a much broader base of places as destinations the same is true for the Ham Radio operators club with their  designated locales. The Globetrotters club in London has their own list as well and the S-ISO club has even more then anyone with a listing of 4,ooo places

  • Elliot Koch July 3, 2015 at 2:06pm

    if its under the control of Israel then you are in Israel! they annexed it after the Yom Kippur War 1967

     Now when it comes to South Ossetia it was part of Georgia and they declared independence and broke away Russia just backed them up so its not part of Russia

    Nagorono-Karabakh is considered an enclave to it's Mother country!

  • Scot McKay June 24, 2015 at 3:27am

    I was in the exact same situation there for a while a couple of years ago.  I had 99 and the Golan Heights would have been 100.  The TCC counts it as Israel, although most of the UN considers it Syria.

  • Mike Kendall June 23, 2015 at 7:23pm

    Hi Thomas,

    Its OK I have been to the Golan Heights recently and spent 10 days in Syria before the unrest. I was asking the question on behalf of my 17 year old daughter who is on 99 TCC destinations and visited the Golan Heights with me.

  • Scot McKay June 23, 2015 at 6:01pm

    If you take a left turn while driving around Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) in Israel, you'll find yourself in Golan Heights without much fanfare, really.   You'll know you're there because of the UN vehicles and the occasional abandoned military tank in a field here and there.  But as of '11 when we last went to Israel there really wasn't anything going on that seemed threatening.   Really no more nutrageous than driving from TIberias to the Dead Sea through the West Bank, which is fairly routine.

  • Thomas A Pettit June 23, 2015 at 1:55pm

    Hi Mike,  I recommend you look at the Department of State's website for travel advisories.  I personally would not recommend you go to the Golan Heights at this point in time.  I lived in Jerusalem from '67-69, and it was quite unsettling then.  Regards, Tom Pettit

  • Scot McKay April 5, 2015 at 10:39pm

    I asked TCC the same question when signing up.  It counts as Israel.

    Gamla is a cool place to go in Golan Heights, FWIW.

  • Mike Kendall March 30, 2015 at 7:56pm

    Thanks Steve, I visited recently on the Israeli side and there is quite a lot going on. Although some of the area is no mans land (UN Buffer zone) I think every piece of land on the planet is somewhere so it should either be Israel or Syria. 

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