Who would have thought there are places are completely out of bounds to travellers? Your guess is as good as mine. It is a surprising fact. One would have thought that as a traveller or globe trotter, all borders and places are opened. However,this is not so. There are some places that should be off ones bucket list lest face the repercussions. They include:
1.North Sentinel Island
This is one of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. It is a heavily forested island, surrounded by coral reefs lacking natural harbours, patrolled by the Indian Navy. The island is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. They know no form of modern civilisation. In January 2006, two fishermen fishing illegally in prohibited waters were killed by the Sentinelese when their boat drifted too close to the island. In November 2018, John Allen Chau, a 26-year-old US missionary was killed during an illegal trip to the restricted island, planning to preach Christianity to the Sentinelese.
2. Snake Island
The island sounds like it is covered with snakes, well you guessed right. Its official name is for the infamous island off the coast of Brazil is Ilha da Queimada Grande. It is thought to have a population of about 430,000 snakes though latest estimates are much lower. According to some estimates, there is one snake in each square meter of the island. The island is the only home of the critically endangered, venomous Bothrops insularis (golden lancehead pit viper), one of the deadliest snakes in the world. Queimada Grande is closed to the public to protect both people and the snake population; access is only available to the Brazilian Navy and selected researchers vetted by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, the Brazilian federal conservation unit.
3. Poveglia Island
It is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy .Poveglia has long been considered one of the most haunted places on earth. Rumour has it that the ghosts of plague victims, war victims, and the ghost of a murderous asylum doctor roam the decaying grounds. For more than 100 years beginning in 1776, the island was used as a quarantine station for those suffering the plague and other diseases, and later as a mental hospital. The mental hospital closed in 1968, and the island has been vacant since.