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You Call That Weird Travel? We Know Better.

Weird is something we embrace here, so what could make better reading than The Age's top 10 weirdest cities list? Well, perhaps a list that didn't include quite so many cities that we don't consider weird at all. We just can't agree that cities like Tokyo, Amsterdam and New Orleans are quite weird enough to make a Top 10 list.

Getting closer to weird is Songjiang in China, which makes the list for having "Thames Town," a faithful recreation of England with a Tudor pub selling pints to all those Chinese who figure they no longer need to fly to London. Ashgabat in Turkmenistan is the one place on the list we agree is weird, being home to the late president who named everything after himself and swapped TV sets for rubber boots.

One out of 10 doesn't really cut it for a weird list, and they really should have come to us. A secret jungle in England is weird. A Russian city that has an enema statue is weird. Trust us, we know weird.

Related Stories:
· World's Top 10 Weirdest Cities [The Age]
· Russian Spa Erects Bronze Tribute to the Enema [Jaunted]
· Secret Jungle Discovered. In England. [Jaunted]

[Photo of our "favorite" Turkmen president: Henrik Moltke]