I've visited 170 countries - these are five of the worst places I've been to… and why Canada and France make the list

There's the glitzy Mediterranean spot with 'no culture', the African federation wherever men volition 'just pee anywhere' and the Asian federation with 'a hostility that seems to linger conscionable beneath the surface'.

Allow america to present globetrotter Lauren Heavner's hallway of shame - a database of the 'least favourite' places she's been to that's noteworthy due to the fact that she has been to an astonishing 170 countries successful total.

So she's surely not lacking successful perspective.

Lauren, a nonrecreational vocalist from Arkansas, talks done the database connected a TikTok (@laurenheav) video with implicit 3,000 likes and reveals further details present astir experiences she had successful the countries she's named.

Scroll down for more, including her explanations for the arguable determination to see France and Canada on the list.

Monaco

In her TikTok video, Lauren explains that she’s been to city-state Monaco ‘at slightest 20 times’, but says ‘it’s not for her’.

She says: ‘It conscionable doesn’t person overmuch of a culture. It’s intolerable to locomotion astir the streets and spot anything.'

Speaking separately to MailOnline, Lauren reveals: ‘The happening astir Monaco, the bitter pill you can’t rather swallow, is that it’s unapologetically built for the ultra-rich. Every clip I’m there, I’m confronted by my spot successful the nutrient chain. Just idiosyncratic passing through, acutely alert of what I don’t have.

‘It’s not adjacent subtle, either. Monaco whispers it to you done each overpriced solid of wine, each gleaming yacht, each diamond-studded wristwatch you walk connected the street.’

In the video, Lauren recounts her acquisition of entering a store to look astatine a ‘pair of shoes’ that she thought she could spend and being told by the store adjunct that they were $500 (£394) and feeling similar a ‘peasant’.

Despite its flaws, Lauren admits that Monaco is ‘beautiful astatine night’ successful the video and tells MailOnline the ‘view alone’ could get her backmost there. 

The traveller says: ‘To beryllium fair, Monaco is thing other entirely.

‘It’s a playground of indulgence and spectacle, wherever the metropolis lights astatine nighttime from the harbour deed you similar a country retired of a imagination oregon movie you’re not affluent capable to prima in. That presumption unsocial could bring maine back. But if there’s 1 happening that mightiness truly propulsion maine successful again, it’s the Grand Prix.’

She besides explains that Monaco isn’t a unsafe destination, saying: ‘Monaco isn’t the benignant of spot wherever you consciousness unsafe. It’s excessively polished, excessively tightly controlled. When there’s this overmuch wealth floating astir - billions tied up successful yachts, diamonds, and offshore accounts- petty transgression doesn’t basal a chance.’

And possibly the champion portion of Monaco is the easiness with which you tin permission it. 

Lauren tells MailOnline Travel: ‘Monaco, for each its gilded edges, has its charms. One of them is the bid station. In 15 minutes flat, you’re successful France. Head the different way, and you’re successful Italy. It’s similar a portal, a speedy flight from each the polished perfection.

‘On the train, abruptly the French Riviera unfolds earlier you from your window. Towns similar Villefranche-sur-Mer, Antibes, Cannes, and Nice - places that consciousness little similar an exclusive nine and much similar determination you really belong.’

Ghana

In the video, Lauren explains that she's been to the superior of Ghana, Accra, a fewer times, but laments that determination 'wasn’t truly overmuch to do'.

What's more, she tells MailOnline Travel that she felt ‘unease’ arsenic she explored.

She comments: ‘I wandered the streets of Accra connected my ain for a while. But it didn’t instrumentality agelong earlier unease crept in. 

'The chaos, the unfamiliarity, it’s not the benignant of spot that coddles a lone outsider. I felt somewhat connected guard. 

'Maybe it was paranoia, possibly it was instinct - but either way, I retreated aft lone a abbreviated clip of wandering solo.’

In the video, different antagonistic astir Accra, according to Lauren, is that ‘men volition conscionable pee anywhere’.

She adds to MailOnline: ‘What stayed with maine astir astir Ghana was the stark world of its struggles. The poorness was intolerable to ignore. Children working, shops stocked with imported goods acold retired of scope for most.’

Despite her experiences, Lauren explains that ‘the lingering regret of not seeing enough’ could lure her back. 

The traveller reveals: ‘There’s extent to Ghana. It’s a state that deserves much than a passing visit. It’s not conscionable a state to see, but 1 to understand.

‘What I did get to spot was a gift, a glimpse into a civilization truthful vibrant. There’s truthful overmuch much I privation to see, truthful overmuch much I request to learn.

‘It’s a state that calls you back, not conscionable for the sights, but for the extent of knowing you tin lone summation by staying longer, listening harder, and letting it each alteration you and your perspective.’

Malaysia

In her TikTok video, Lauren slams Malaysia arsenic ‘pretty corrupt’ and reveals that she visited the superior city, Kuala Lumpur, and the Batu caves, a bid of limestone caves that are a fashionable tourer attraction. 

She says determination were ‘like a 1000 steps astatine the cave’ and was disappointed erstwhile she reached the apical to find ‘it wasn’t a cave’.

Speaking to MailOnline, Lauren adds: ‘I was determination with a radical of friends. It was 1 of those punishingly hot, humid days wherever adjacent breathing felt similar work.

‘We were each successful shorts, naturally. But past came the rules: women had to beryllium covered - nary knees, nary shoulders. Men? “Yeah, travel arsenic you are, it doesn't matter."

‘Typical. A tiny service of women astatine the entranceway of the steps starring up to the “cave” were forcing america to bargain $15 (£11.84) agelong skirts to screen our bodies. All 9 of america bought one, begrudgingly draped ourselves and trudged up the steps.’

Lauren explains that the worst facet of her clip successful Malaysia was ‘the deficiency of things to bash successful the capital’, which she says ‘felt similar a metropolis waiting to impressment but ne'er delivering’. 

The traveller adds that the state had ‘an edge’ which she describes arsenic ‘a hostility that seemed to linger conscionable beneath the surface’, though she jokes it mightiness conscionable person been ‘the somewhat assertive monkeys’.

And she won’t beryllium back.

Lauren says: ‘If I’m being brutally honest, Malaysia doesn’t telephone maine back. It’s not that it wasn’t absorbing oregon without its charms - it’s conscionable that it didn’t permission a mark. Some places bash that - they walk done you without sticking, without giving you overmuch of a crushed to return.

‘Maybe I didn’t spot the close things oregon walk capable clip digging beneath the surface. Or possibly it’s conscionable 1 of those places wherever the transportation wasn’t determination - and that’s okay. Not each spot is meant to.’

Canada

Lauren explains successful her TikTok video, aft pleading 'please don't travel for me', that going to Canada is ‘really not that exciting’ for an American.

Although it’s connected her database of worst destinations, she tells MailOnline ‘there aren’t galore antagonistic aspects of Canada’, it’s conscionable excessively ‘familiar’. 

She explains: ‘It’s acquainted to the constituent of feeling predictable. The aforesaid big-box stores, the aforesaid wide vibe - conscionable with amended manners and a batch much Tim Hortons (a Canadian coffeehouse and edifice chain).’

Despite her dislike of Canada, determination is 1 portion that Lauren likes. 

She tells MailOnline: ‘It’s French Canada that holds my heart.

‘Quebec City is an implicit gem. A portion of Europe tucked into North America, with cobblestone streets, centuries-old architecture, and that unmistakable charm that feels some overseas and familiar.’

In the video, she besides explains that she thinks French Canada has ‘better food’ than the remainder of the country.

And 1 of those determination dishes is really Lauren’s favourite representation of Canada. She reveals to MailOnline: ‘One happening I genuinely enjoyed successful Canada? The poutine.' 

Poutine is simply a accepted crockery from Quebec made up of French fries with food curds and topped with gravy.  

Lauren shares: 'It’s the benignant of crockery that doesn’t conscionable fulfill - it comforts, indulges, and reminds you that sometimes the simplest things are the astir perfect.

‘Poutine isn’t conscionable nutrient - it’s an experience, a small sensation of Canada’s psyche served connected a plate. And for that, I’ll springiness recognition wherever it’s due.’

But adjacent the poutine won’t tempt her backmost to Canada. 

Lauren says: ‘Canada is great, but it’s not precisely exotic. Sure French Canada has its old-world charm, and British Columbia has that Pacific Northwest mystique, but beyond that? It feels excessively overmuch similar home.’

France

In her TikTok, Lauren prefaces revealing the 5th state successful the database with different plea: 'Please don't travel for me, I americium truthful frightened to accidental this.'

Then reveals that it's France.

She slams Paris arsenic ‘overrated’ and says the superior is ‘the worst portion of France’.

The traveller recommends heading to ‘the French Riviera’ oregon anyplace ‘other than Paris’.

Speaking to MailOnline, she says she has ‘never felt unsafe successful France’ but adds that ‘Paris tin beryllium somewhat dodgy successful definite areas’.

Lauren adds: ‘Let’s conscionable accidental France isn’t precisely known for rolling retired the reddish carpet for outsiders. There’s a definite coolness, a guardedness that tin consciousness similar a partition if you’re not prepared for it.’

It's not a implicit fail, though.

The intrepid traveller shares successful her video that she spent astatine slightest a period crossed 5 wintertime seasons successful skis edifice Val d’Isere, which she describes arsenic ‘impossibly charming’.

She adds: ‘It was the benignant of spot that feels similar a postcard travel to beingness - snow-dropped roofs, winding streets and a timelessness that sinks into your bones.’

And the nutrient gets a treble thumbs up.

Lauren tells MailOnline: ‘The nutrient unsocial is worthy the journey. It doesn’t substance if you’re eating astatine a Michelin-starred edifice oregon grabbing a baguette from a country bakery. In France, nutrient is ne'er an afterthought.’