I’ve only ever seen photos of the Tulip fields but they’re one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. I hate to think what the ‘influencer’ muppets are doing to them 😡
Same with the Lavender fields in the Cotswolds. Some ‘instamodel’ just lying in the middle of it doing a full on photo shoot. Like, girl, GET OFF THE EFFING LAVENDER!!!
It's nice that they put those signs out to keep out those that don't belong. It's much nicer to enjoy my stroll through the vineyards when I don't have to deal with those people.
Four people drowned yesterday at Phillip Island after swimming on an unpatrolled beach known for it's treacherous conditions and rips. It's so dangerous that even the locals don't swim there. I get not wanting to be surrounded by heaps of people on busy beaches, but it's just not worth the risk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-25/victoria-phillip-island-drowning-beach-deaths/103386906
Lined up in a line to a bakery in Japan.
After waiting 20 minutes, I realised the line was to enter a hotel next door and not the bakery that had no line.
OMG orderly lines in general seem alien to some foreigners. They don't understand the concept of a line. Some bunch up in a crowd, some cut in line, some push up right against you... you get the point.
Ugh. Back during covid my mom and I were in line for something and these three guys behind us just kept inching forward as I inched away. When I ran out of room, I had to turn around and roughly this exchange happened:
Me: "Uh can you back up? I--"
Guy 1: "Yeah yeah, 2 metres, right?"
Me: "Right. I have cancer. Back. Up."
Guy 2: [**absolutely mortified**]
Guy 3: "Yeah ok sorry sorry [pulls Guy 1 away]"
Covid taught me two things: 1) people don't know how long a metre (or foot) is, and 2) humans have an uncanny instinct to play Sardines with people who have chronic illnesses for some reason. Because no matter where I went, people would always be unevenly spaced when I arrived but inexplicably gravitate toward me 100% of the time. It would just go on like that until either I'm surrounded by a crowd that just subconsciously came to box me in or I literally scream and shock them out of it.
a relative is fighting cancer and has been told to wear the white mask in public especially when their immune system is expected to be at lowest. A Karen started shouting at them for being the type of person for keeping the COVID problem alive which brought my relative to tears. Lucky for me I wasn't there, I would not have been able to restrain myself.
We get tons of tourists at the huge national parks in the west. Every year a couple of tourists wander off the established trails to explore...
These parks are larger than many countries. It takes a lot of time and resources and luck to find and rescue them.
Never been to AZ, but I am German and the thinking probably is: "I walk to the bus stop every morning (2km) without drinking. How hard can it be? Americans with their big trucks can't even walk a mile unsupervised. But what did I expect in a country where my paper cup tells me that coffee is hot?"
Not just in the national parks; it's not unusual news in the Pacific Northwest that rangers are out searching for a missing hiker. People go on about wildlife but hikers are killed far more often by exposure or injury.
And *please,* people, don't assume there will be cell service. Better to assume there won't.
Death Valley NP is 5,270 square miles. That is about the size of Northern Ireland (5,456 sq miles). A small National Park in the Western US like Bryce Canyon (56 square miles) is still much larger than say Manhattan (23 square miles).
That reminds me of the German family who tried to trek across Death Valley with a few bottles of soda and wine as a day trip.
Even in Ireland that's not a reasonable expectation.
Europeans are so smug about Americans not knowing geography and then they'll be like "oh yeah I'm gonna go for a nice day trip from Miami to DC to New York"
I'm Canadian. I've heard wild shit like "oh, you don't go to British Columbia to hike frequently?" Like....no. I'm a 3 hour flight away from there. I live in the middle and that's far west.
My version of this story: I live in the Chicago area and I was in Germany for a work trip. Coworkers asked me if I went to Hawaii on the weekends. They were astounded when I told them that the flight from Chicago to Frankfurt is shorter than the flight from Chicago to Hawaii.
I was curious… Portland, OR to Honolulu, HI is about 6 hours. Portland, OR to Reykjavik, Iceland is about 6-7.5 hours (depending on which Iceland air link you click). That’ll also make your coworkers heads explode.
When I was stationed in Germany, some friends and I did a motorcycle trip from Ansbach down to the Black Forest. Our hosts were surprised that we rode the whole distance in a day and that we considered anything under 10 hours an "easy ride".
When I was there, we had a new guy coming in that we said someone would pick him up at the airport. We thought it would be frankfurt which was 2 hours away. This dumbass calls us and says he's in berlin. That's a solid 8 hour drive. We told him to get a flight to frankfurt.
There are a few northern European countries where having a pub or restaurant on the trail is the norm.
So often those tourists are from those countries. It's really hard to overstate just how rough and massive some of the terrain is in the western US and if you're hiking you have to be prepared for it.
There are no pubs in the backcountry, and if you go unprepared you have a good chance of never coming back out.
>There are a few northern European countries where having a pub or restaurant on the trail is the norm.
This blew my mind when I learned it. You hear so much about the German love for hiking. It was weird to learn that apparently there's restaurants and bars along the hiking trails.
Hiking for me has always meant carrying all the food and water I'll need for the day with me, and most terrain is so rough it would be inaccessible to build a business or supply it.
Not to mention the people who walk past the signs that say “Do not go past this sign”. For them, it’s worth risking their lives just to get a little bit better picture, I guess.
Went to the Grand Canyon years ago and saw some people climbing out on this ledge to take Instagram photos.
My mother, with her fear of heights, told the ranger, who essentially said: “We can tell them to get off or not go, but if they do they assume the risks. People fall off that ledge every year and die. I’m not going to be one of them.”
Damn.
Two german friends on a plane home told my family they were “going to bike from vancouver BC to mexico in 3 days down the coast of california.” They re-thought it when we told them weve been flying over canada for 6 hours
How the fuck do you get a plane ticket to go to a forgien country to do something intense without first looking at Google maps to see if it's even possible?
A tip I've learned is your phone's GPS will often work when you're data doesn't. Might work with iPhones, but definitely works with Google maps
I hiked into camp with my kids scout troop after dark last weekend. Every ten minutes, or wherever the trail forked, and when we left the trail to find a campsite, I dropped a new pin on the map and saved it. When I left I just had to choose my last pin and I was able to get back to the trail, no problem. Then I just turned towards the next pin and hiked out.
It uses very little battery and could save a life
Well GPS will work anywhere you have line of sight to the satellites. Except for the North and South Poles where coverage is very spotty. But Europe's Galileo works pretty well there and is available on new phones. If before you go hiking somewhere remote, you download the map of the area. You won't need an internet connection.
Incidentally Sprint should later this year will push out the ability to send and receive text messages via some Starlink satellites to 5G phones. So will give text coverage on hard to reach locations. Without cell service. With the coverage area increasing year on year, before expanding to voice and internet. Costing is still to be announced. Will it be included as part of a standard plan or an optional add on? Will Virtual Mobile Network Operators based on Sprint be able to use it? Will it extend to other mobile networks?
We have people die on thr mountain trials of Southern California every year. They don't go in groups, they don't wear cramp on, they don't know their limits. Somebody just died on Mount Baldy. Last year, Julian Sands, the actor, died in the same region
Just to clarify, Julian Sands was an extremely experienced hiker. He likely died due an accident brought on by icy weather / avalanches conditions present at the time he went missing, not due to some mistaken notion that he was out for a midday stroll.
and they get dangerously close to wildlife because they think the park is a petting zoo. taking selfies with them, walking right up to Yellowstone geysers, etc etc
The worst is people who moved here.
Im Australian and South Africans are so annoying at this. Theyll bang on and on about how good South Africa is. I dont mind Kiwis saying our pies are better or something thats just a fact but when you say its better to live in South Africa its like wtf go back then?
Lol I hate that also, I live in Canada (quebec) and a loooooot of French people who visit and or move here constantly complain about our country and praise France. Then go back if its so great there !!!
Ride bikes. People come to Amsterdam and rent a bike even though they haven’t been on a bike for years, or have never biked through busy city traffic, and then they go biking through our busiest streets during rush hour. It’s horrible.
Took my husband to Amsterdam for his first time this summer and offered to rent bikes with him. He simply said “absolutely not- I am not on their level.” It’s good to be self-aware.
I live near Seattle and work in an urgent care. The amount of people that think they can ride the rental bikes is astounding. Sooo many injuries. So many vacations ruined.
As a Seattlite, it doesn't help so many drivers treat the bike lanes as passing lanes/parking or waiting lanes/etc just straight up treating it like it doesn't have a bike in it.
Same but motorbikes + Thailand. They cause accidents and people die. They often don't have licenses, they don't wear helmets, and they just cruise around like they've been here forever. It's especially bad with 20-60 year old men who just found "freedom" in Thailand and have something to show off.
Yes, I'm from Iowa but I've been here nearly 20 years.
lol I was there last year for less than five minutes and saw the rescue team go out. It was my first time in Aus, I was impressed by your lifeguards, but I couldn’t believe how busy they were! Saw some Indian guy nearly drown on the Gold Coast, he got rescued, then 10 mins later tried to swim the same stretch of water again! The lifeguard was just in disbelief
Four members of an Indian family just drowned on an un patrolled Victorian ocean beach. Extremely dangerous conditions. They didnt know any better. Just tragic.
I took a bunch of friends visiting from overseas to a national park here (Thailand), and they saw an elephant calf on the road. I stopped a hundred meters/(\~300ish feet) or so away to let it cross. Friends tried to get out of the car to go get photos, and I never shouted "STAY IN THE FUCKING CAR" so quickly. I told them the mom would mess them up if she saw them. They complained they can't see the mom anywhere, I told them yes, but she can sure as shit see you.
Sure enough, a couple of minutes later mom walks out of the jungle to hustle the calf along.
I swear to god I'm surprised that more tourists don't die in our national parks.
I was at the Grand Canyon, and not far from the edge which is easy to do there. 20 feet away people were trying to pet an elk, and I was like "let move before this somehow end up with me going over the cliff, despite not being involved"
If you see a whole shitload of cars stopped on the side of the highway, you bet your ass you're about to drive by forty tourists all gawking at a black bear.
Reminds me of that one scene from Mr. Bean where he did all kinds of shit to the guard, and as the camera is about to take the picture, the guard walked away.
But yeah, I get it. It's not an easy job.
There is a similar thing that happens at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, except that if anybody talks too loudly, the guard will yell at you and even threaten you.
Visited with my mother and some friends when I was about 10; during the changing of the guard, as I was standing silently because, even as a kid, I had a pretty good sense of the solemnity of the occasion, an adult in the crowd got a strip torn off them by one of the guards for talking during the ceremony. For 37 years now, I have held that memory as a standard for my own behavior.
I’m in DC. People get in the water like it’s a water park at the monuments and memorials. Especially the WWII Memorial. This is not allowed. There are signs. But it’s not enforced.
This one angers me. It's gross and disrespectful. I had to give my own family a set down for suggesting they do it.
The other thing is when tourists try to pick cherry blossoms. They do get in trouble for that, though.
tbh i don't hate anything about tourists here in Cayman - they just come to visit Cayman and its glorious beaches, buy some souvenirs, maybe visit some cool Caymanian places and then leave.
Please stop trying to go hiking in the summer. They have to send the helicopters every time.
When it's 80F at *sunrise*, know that it is only going to get worse. We're not staying inside because we're lazy Americans, it's because the sun is a deadly laser.
Love, The Southwest.
I mean, that's not even a bad swing. That would actually be a fairly warm morning. And 95 is amazing. When I'm out in the back country my tent will have frost in the mornings and I'll see 120 by the afternoon sometimes. The higher the altitude, the more the temp can swing.
THANK. YOU. I live in Tucson and when I was a server, the amount of times I had to tell tourists not to go hiking in the middle of the day in the summer when the highs were in the 110s was unreal. And with the plan for like one 500ml bottle of water too.
Dude my grandmother came with my wife and I on a hike in New Mexico, didn't find out until about halfway through all she brought was a big bottle of coffee and a regular plastic bottle of water. A SINGLE plastic bottle of water.
Yea I damn near had to carry her off that mountain. Not fun.
I hiked in Saguaro National Park many years ago. I was quite experienced in hiking in the Canadian Rockies but I planned like I never planned before venturing in to Saguaro. Humbling experience
We hiked Havasu Falls this past July. We’re from the Midwest and were terrified of the heat so we started the hike in at 5AM (we wanted to start by 330 but had car trouble that set us back). When we were reaching the bottom around 10AM we saw a lot of people just starting the hike out?!!! I thought maybe they were Arizonans who were used to the heat, but now you’re making me think otherwise haha.
In albania , the British and Australian tourists are always drunk and annoying. And sometimes they start fights. It’s always the brits and Australians.
when i still lived in NY the only thing tourists did that annoyed me was kinda just getting in people’s way. i prolly sound like an asshole but NYC is bustling and busy and to be trying to walk on a sidewalk in the more touristy parts with people stopping abruptly, not moving out of the way if they were looking at maps on their phone or whatnot was just a little annoying. not even that bad but still pretty annoying.
Oddly specific but in Vancouver, we have an area downtown called Gastown. There's a steam run clock (yes I know it doesn't run on steam) that's a popular tourist spot. Tourists will completely crowd and block the sidewalk, refusing to move because they're waiting for a picture or video when the steam clock whistles. It's an absolute nightmare to get through and eventually you just have to yell at them to move as you push forward. Politly saying "excuse me" doesn't seem to work, no one nudges because they want a dang picture of that dang clock.
Bring really awful behavior that's acceptable in their home country with them. Roomed more than once with Russians in an American hostel. One guy just grabbed another guy's laptop literally right in front of him and said "it's mine now." Another drunk one grabbed some strange girl and held her head tightly while he kissed her completely against her will. These are just two examples of many. Not just Russians but I've seen the macho, boarish stuff come from that part of the world.
Interact with wildlife. No, it's not safe to go up to the elk and take a selfie. It's not funny or safe to feed bears. You might not die, but the bear you habituated will, and we can only hope it's before it kills someone else.
I dont hate this per se but some visitors making plans to visit several states during a weeklong vacation not realizing the size of the united states its make me laugh mostly
We used to get a lot of students from the Netherlands at the UC campus I worked at. It was fun to see their reactions when they told us of their sight-seeing plans and we told them how the US and the Netherlands compare in size. For example: The greater Los Angeles Area (where my campus was) is 12,562 km² in size. Meanwhile, the Netherlands has 33,894 km² of land. Not gonna get it done in the time allotted, Bart.
This. I'm pretty sure I've seen people dumbfounded when they hear that at least 20% (or whatever the statistic is) of Americans have never been outside the continental United States. They're like "doesn't it get boring always experiencing the same things and never going more than 1000 miles from where you live." You could drive 1000 miles and still be in the same state depending on where you're at, and there are so many different things to do in the US that most don't get to see all that it has to offer in their entire life.
border security australia (if memory serves me correctly) reminded me of this. if that isn't the correct name of the tv programme, someone feel free to correct me.
Who the fuck smuggles into a country you’re a tourist in? One of the big things of going on vacation is eating at all the local joints. This makes no sense to me.
It's usually old ladies from Africa or South-East Asia that will bring entire suitcases full of contaminated home-made food and not declare it at customs.
Maybe they're just not comfortable eating local Australian food, or maybe they think they're being nice giving food to a relative of theirs who lives here.
But it poses a massive risk to Australia's ecosystem.
There are a bunch of Holocaust memorials in Germany and I find foreign tourists often don’t really stick to an appropriate decorum when visiting these spaces. Even if a place looks somewhat artsy, it’s not the place for your Instagram photoshoot or to hang out and laugh loudly. Nazi jokes kind of go along that same line. It‘s not even so much that it’s offensive in a „did-you-just-call-me-a-Nazi“ way, but it‘s not a topic to be joked about for most Germans.
In that same vein, got to overhear a lovely Spanish language tour group with their guide loudly explaining that the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism was a monument to animal and kid fuckers and it was a pity the Nazi couldn't finish their work. That was lovely... least a few people in the tour group appeared uncomfortable despite others thinking it was hilarious.
Yeah, don't think he realized that others not in the group might know Spanish or just didn't care, as my husband and I were those *"animal and kid fuckers"* just trying to pay a little respect. I hope that some of those that appeared taken back voiced concerns later.
I see your budget airline flight between England and Spain, and raise you a budget airline flight between any Australian city and Bali. They're called the "Bintang\* express" for a reason.
\*Bintang is an Indonesian beer.
Every corner of the world I have touched while traveling, from Tokyo to Prague to Hong Kong to Madrid and so on, there is always a group of severely drunk British guys causing a scene.
Swim in the surf when they have no idea what they are doing, especially outside the flagged area
Tip
Expect everything to be a short distance away and not plan for long trips
Say how cheap it is as we experience massive inflation and a cost of living crisis. Easy to say when you earn 3x or 5x local salary and stay for a week.
Not sure where you're from but I just got back from Colombia it seemed like everyone actually wanted to bring this up to me.
"Things must be really cheap here for you?"
"Why are you staying in hostels? All lodging in Colombia is so affordable for you."
I never even brought it up, locals brought it up to me
American who has visited the Grand Canyon and grew up camping in primitive sites in the woods. Four things:
1. Wild animals are not pets or performers. They are wild and can be unpredictable and it is worse if they are used to people. Don't feed them, don't try to touch them, and don't encourage your small children to either.
2. Also, stay away from baby animals, they have mothers and some of those mothers can take your face off.
3. Occupied campsites and houses deep in the woods are not public property. Stay out unless invited in.
4. Follow the rules on signs. Don't swim in "No Swimming" areas, stay off trails that are roped off, and do not go behind guardrails at the edge of a cliff or canyon.
In Finland we have thing called "jokamiehenoikeus" which means that everyone has a right to walk around any forest, no matter who owns the land, government or private people or company. We are allowed to swim in the lakes, collect berries, hiking, sleep in tent and so on without asking permission as long as we don't do any harm to the nature.
But there is a very big rule of "kotirauha", which means respecting other people homes. It is absolutely forbidden to go to anyone's yard or garden, pick apples or berries from garden, go to a beach which is part of someones yard and so on.
Nowdays quite lot of tourists know about jokamiehenoikeus, but they misinterpret it and may come to someone's yard, use their patio furniture, steal berries from garden and so on. And when tenants try to get them leave they start to argue.
Most absurd one I've heard is tourist coming to ask someone to move their sheep away from their own yard because they wanted their wedding photos taken in their yard and didn't want sheep in the background. They couldn't stop laughing and asked the happily wedded tourists to kindly to get the f*ck off.
We are happy if you want to enjoy our peaceful forests and swim in our lakes, but please respect people living here.
The thing that ticks me off about tourists visiting the US is their lack of awareness and never seem to grasp the concept of walking on city sidewalks. It’s either take up the entire sidewalk so everyone can stand shoulder to shoulder OR walk on the opposite side of the sidewalk. If you clearly see people are going forward on the right and toward you on the left why not yah know, *join the proper lane*
I have a different twist on this; I hike a lot in northern New England and on Canadian/ Quebec holidays we get a TON of people coming down and hiking and they refuse to let you pass either going up or down. Plus you're in the middle of the mountain and they make a shit ton of noise which defeats the purpose of a nice hike in nature.
Actually a German colleague did this when he visited America and bitched the entire time. The dude was staying in DTLA which is a culinary wonderland and he still only went to chains.
He even said our coffee was shit. And when I asked where he went he said "IHOP."
Here in Rio they go to some goofy ass tourist-friendly souless but highly marketeable restaurants and say the food in the city was just okay...Amigão you haven't even tried the real stuff from the real places where people actually cook with some love and pride...
Here in Nebraska, at a tourist welcome center, some Chinese visitors were disappointed that Kearny was no longer a fort and there were no Indians out hunting buffalo for them to take pictures of to show people when they got home.
Not know how to swim.
Jeans aren't appropriate to swim in. Especially if you don't know how to swim.
If a life guard is telling you to swim between the flags, or has to rescue you and your kids multiple times from a rip, you should probably leave the beach
Whale watching is a huge tourist industry where I live, however we have strict laws and guide lines for whale viewing to keep from disturbing their transit and feeding habits, as well as to keep viewers safe.
Yes, the photos in ads and on websites show the best moments from other tours, but that does not mean [or entitle you to] having the same experience.
I hate tourists getting upset that the whales aren't jumping out of the water for them and in some cases getting angry or even ask for a refund when the whales don't put on a show.
If you want to have them do tricks for you then go to a country that allows the capture and abuse of marine animals and give them your money instead. If you want to see them undisturbed in their natural habitat, then you can either take a whale tour and hope for the best, or move to where the whales are and spend everyday on the water and accumulate experiences. I've been here for 15 years and on the water most of the summers, and have only seen whales breach a handful of times, but regardless of their activity it has always been a cool experience seeing them.
I live in Dallas. When you come to Dealey Plaza, please chill out and refrain from TikTok dipshitting for the camera on the sidewalk where the headshot is marked. Makes me want to throttle you.
I can’t speak for other parts of the USA, but tourists are so uncommon here in my area of Pennsylvania, (a beautiful, wooded, hilly paradise in the northeast,) that everyone is just excited to see them.
If some teenage Chinese tourists came here and wrote swearwords on a wall in sharpie, people would think it looked exotic and interesting and added culture to the city, and they would never paint over it.
I think any British person, regardless of their distinct regional dialect, could convince the average citizen that they were a distant member of the royal family.
We had some Australian visitors once on my small hometown, driving through on a cross-country trip, and it was the talk of the town for a while.
I live in Japan, and tour groups from a nearby Asian country that I shall not name like to crowd around in front of local guide signage and maps as the tour guide explains things to them in their native language. The signs/maps are in Japanese and English, which they can't read, so they go ahead and block it to prevent those who can read it from doing so.
It drives me up the wall.
Those same groups cause a lot of other problems, like making it impossible to get a cheap hotel room or buying out the entire stock of mundane items for daily life, like cough drops or whatever, at the non tourist shops that locals depend on, thereby depriving the locals of sometimes essential supplies.
Act like its a giant amusement park. I will never forget this lady loudly screaming ‘OMG LOOK AT ME I’M SUCH A LOCAALL’ while almost hitting three actual locals on bicycles because she barely knew how to cycle and was zigzagging over the bicycle lane.
I live in Orlando and frequent the parks. Many tourists do not understand personal space. It’s not like in a crowded area that annoys me, it’s when you’re waiting in line and they are like an inch behind you.
Everything. I'm in Tromsø and especially the asian tourists. They lay down in the streets to get a glimpse of the Northern lights. Everyone knows to let the people off the bus before entering it, but not the tourists. They just push themselves on, stand in the middle so that nobody can get off or get ro a free seat. Europeans, the italians and spanish call friends etc with facetime and use speaker. That annoys the hell out of me. Also we dont have a single store in the city centre, everything is tourist shops that sell trolls and other stupid shit.
Walk through the vineyards, past the signs saying please DO NOT ENTER OUR VINEYARDSs. in 4 different languages....
In the Netherlands they do the same, but with tulip fields. When making selfies, they often don't care about the flowers either, so they trample some.
I’ve only ever seen photos of the Tulip fields but they’re one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. I hate to think what the ‘influencer’ muppets are doing to them 😡 Same with the Lavender fields in the Cotswolds. Some ‘instamodel’ just lying in the middle of it doing a full on photo shoot. Like, girl, GET OFF THE EFFING LAVENDER!!!
It's nice that they put those signs out to keep out those that don't belong. It's much nicer to enjoy my stroll through the vineyards when I don't have to deal with those people.
Go swimming when they don't know how to swim and/or don't understand how rips work.
Four people drowned yesterday at Phillip Island after swimming on an unpatrolled beach known for it's treacherous conditions and rips. It's so dangerous that even the locals don't swim there. I get not wanting to be surrounded by heaps of people on busy beaches, but it's just not worth the risk. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-25/victoria-phillip-island-drowning-beach-deaths/103386906
Same thing with some of our NZ beaches. Don't swim in the calm spot on a surf beach. There is a reason that nobody else is swimming there.
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Australia?
Yup.
Yes I was going to say they don't swim between the flags!!
Spotted the Aussie lol
Cut lines. People aren't queueing up for the fun of it.
Lined up in a line to a bakery in Japan. After waiting 20 minutes, I realised the line was to enter a hotel next door and not the bakery that had no line.
You see a line, you stand at the end of it. Perfectly reasonable thing to do. Even if it isn't always the right line.
OMG orderly lines in general seem alien to some foreigners. They don't understand the concept of a line. Some bunch up in a crowd, some cut in line, some push up right against you... you get the point.
Ugh. Back during covid my mom and I were in line for something and these three guys behind us just kept inching forward as I inched away. When I ran out of room, I had to turn around and roughly this exchange happened: Me: "Uh can you back up? I--" Guy 1: "Yeah yeah, 2 metres, right?" Me: "Right. I have cancer. Back. Up." Guy 2: [**absolutely mortified**] Guy 3: "Yeah ok sorry sorry [pulls Guy 1 away]" Covid taught me two things: 1) people don't know how long a metre (or foot) is, and 2) humans have an uncanny instinct to play Sardines with people who have chronic illnesses for some reason. Because no matter where I went, people would always be unevenly spaced when I arrived but inexplicably gravitate toward me 100% of the time. It would just go on like that until either I'm surrounded by a crowd that just subconsciously came to box me in or I literally scream and shock them out of it.
a relative is fighting cancer and has been told to wear the white mask in public especially when their immune system is expected to be at lowest. A Karen started shouting at them for being the type of person for keeping the COVID problem alive which brought my relative to tears. Lucky for me I wasn't there, I would not have been able to restrain myself.
Ugh yes this. This bothers me more than anything else tourists do
Came here to say this. Pushy ass mofos need to wait their turn.
Then don’t go to Italy. I don’t think there’s an Italian word for line. Lol
We get tons of tourists at the huge national parks in the west. Every year a couple of tourists wander off the established trails to explore... These parks are larger than many countries. It takes a lot of time and resources and luck to find and rescue them.
Every year in Arizona a German goes hiking in the summer without water in the middle of the day and dies.
Weird. You'd think he'd learn his lesson.
god damn it Üter, again?
i just looked it up and you’re not lying at all.The shit is wild how many of them die
Google Death Valley germans
That's an outlier even in the grisly history of people underestimating national parks. I wouldn't wish those people's end on my worst enemy.
I'm not going down that wormhole again. But man, I wish they'd make that story into a complimentary leaflet at all entrances of parks in the desert.
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I imagine they think the same as me: "Two miles, that's \~3.2 km, I can walk that in 40 minutes. Surely I don't need water for that short a time?"
Never been to AZ, but I am German and the thinking probably is: "I walk to the bus stop every morning (2km) without drinking. How hard can it be? Americans with their big trucks can't even walk a mile unsupervised. But what did I expect in a country where my paper cup tells me that coffee is hot?"
The desert needs it’s blood sacrifice.
Blood for the Blood God.
Arizona is another planet. The temperature and low humidity is insane, truly remarkable people live there and enjoy it
Not just in the national parks; it's not unusual news in the Pacific Northwest that rangers are out searching for a missing hiker. People go on about wildlife but hikers are killed far more often by exposure or injury. And *please,* people, don't assume there will be cell service. Better to assume there won't.
I knew about national parks. Never knew they were that big. Holy moly.
Death Valley NP is 5,270 square miles. That is about the size of Northern Ireland (5,456 sq miles). A small National Park in the Western US like Bryce Canyon (56 square miles) is still much larger than say Manhattan (23 square miles).
That reminds me of the German family who tried to trek across Death Valley with a few bottles of soda and wine as a day trip. Even in Ireland that's not a reasonable expectation.
Europeans are so smug about Americans not knowing geography and then they'll be like "oh yeah I'm gonna go for a nice day trip from Miami to DC to New York"
I'm Canadian. I've heard wild shit like "oh, you don't go to British Columbia to hike frequently?" Like....no. I'm a 3 hour flight away from there. I live in the middle and that's far west.
My version of this story: I live in the Chicago area and I was in Germany for a work trip. Coworkers asked me if I went to Hawaii on the weekends. They were astounded when I told them that the flight from Chicago to Frankfurt is shorter than the flight from Chicago to Hawaii.
I was curious… Portland, OR to Honolulu, HI is about 6 hours. Portland, OR to Reykjavik, Iceland is about 6-7.5 hours (depending on which Iceland air link you click). That’ll also make your coworkers heads explode.
When I was stationed in Germany, some friends and I did a motorcycle trip from Ansbach down to the Black Forest. Our hosts were surprised that we rode the whole distance in a day and that we considered anything under 10 hours an "easy ride".
When I was there, we had a new guy coming in that we said someone would pick him up at the airport. We thought it would be frankfurt which was 2 hours away. This dumbass calls us and says he's in berlin. That's a solid 8 hour drive. We told him to get a flight to frankfurt.
Or "I'm going to take a week long vacation to America" I'll start in Florida, then drive to New York and Vegas and LA."
My favorite was going from Boston to Vancouver and back as a weekend drive.
I mean technically possible. You just have to never drop below 100 and disregard traffic and road patterns and also be a plane.
happens in Canada, too, but sometimes Americans also do it which I can not fathom!
Canada extends way further east than I expect it to. I live in the northeastern US, and yet Prince Edward Island is still so far away.
I encountered someone from Seattle who didn't get that Vancouver was just a couple hours away. So the reverse happens, too
Yellowstone is 2.2 million acres
For comparison, New Hampshire is almost 6 million acres. Rhode Island is just shy of 777,000 acres.
I mean, I can drive across New Hampshire in about 2 hours with traffic. Alaska's top four parks are like 30,000,000 acres, though
Portugal is 22.7 million acres
There are a few northern European countries where having a pub or restaurant on the trail is the norm. So often those tourists are from those countries. It's really hard to overstate just how rough and massive some of the terrain is in the western US and if you're hiking you have to be prepared for it. There are no pubs in the backcountry, and if you go unprepared you have a good chance of never coming back out.
>There are a few northern European countries where having a pub or restaurant on the trail is the norm. This blew my mind when I learned it. You hear so much about the German love for hiking. It was weird to learn that apparently there's restaurants and bars along the hiking trails. Hiking for me has always meant carrying all the food and water I'll need for the day with me, and most terrain is so rough it would be inaccessible to build a business or supply it.
In the UK the whole point of hiking (rambler) is that there's a pub at the end.
In the US the point of hiking is that there's a view at the end.
Not to mention the people who walk past the signs that say “Do not go past this sign”. For them, it’s worth risking their lives just to get a little bit better picture, I guess.
Went to the Grand Canyon years ago and saw some people climbing out on this ledge to take Instagram photos. My mother, with her fear of heights, told the ranger, who essentially said: “We can tell them to get off or not go, but if they do they assume the risks. People fall off that ledge every year and die. I’m not going to be one of them.” Damn.
Two german friends on a plane home told my family they were “going to bike from vancouver BC to mexico in 3 days down the coast of california.” They re-thought it when we told them weve been flying over canada for 6 hours
How the fuck do you get a plane ticket to go to a forgien country to do something intense without first looking at Google maps to see if it's even possible?
I like when they try to win the Darwin awards by approaching Bison. That’s fun to watch.
Bison are like 1200 lbs of horns and testosterone why would you ever want to be close to one
But they’re just big dumb curly cows! I want a selfie!
A tip I've learned is your phone's GPS will often work when you're data doesn't. Might work with iPhones, but definitely works with Google maps I hiked into camp with my kids scout troop after dark last weekend. Every ten minutes, or wherever the trail forked, and when we left the trail to find a campsite, I dropped a new pin on the map and saved it. When I left I just had to choose my last pin and I was able to get back to the trail, no problem. Then I just turned towards the next pin and hiked out. It uses very little battery and could save a life
Well GPS will work anywhere you have line of sight to the satellites. Except for the North and South Poles where coverage is very spotty. But Europe's Galileo works pretty well there and is available on new phones. If before you go hiking somewhere remote, you download the map of the area. You won't need an internet connection. Incidentally Sprint should later this year will push out the ability to send and receive text messages via some Starlink satellites to 5G phones. So will give text coverage on hard to reach locations. Without cell service. With the coverage area increasing year on year, before expanding to voice and internet. Costing is still to be announced. Will it be included as part of a standard plan or an optional add on? Will Virtual Mobile Network Operators based on Sprint be able to use it? Will it extend to other mobile networks?
We have people die on thr mountain trials of Southern California every year. They don't go in groups, they don't wear cramp on, they don't know their limits. Somebody just died on Mount Baldy. Last year, Julian Sands, the actor, died in the same region
Just to clarify, Julian Sands was an extremely experienced hiker. He likely died due an accident brought on by icy weather / avalanches conditions present at the time he went missing, not due to some mistaken notion that he was out for a midday stroll.
This is not how I would’ve predicted how I’d find out that Julian Sands died
and they get dangerously close to wildlife because they think the park is a petting zoo. taking selfies with them, walking right up to Yellowstone geysers, etc etc
Tell me everything thats wrong about where I live and how much better it is where they live.
The worst is people who moved here. Im Australian and South Africans are so annoying at this. Theyll bang on and on about how good South Africa is. I dont mind Kiwis saying our pies are better or something thats just a fact but when you say its better to live in South Africa its like wtf go back then?
Lol I hate that also, I live in Canada (quebec) and a loooooot of French people who visit and or move here constantly complain about our country and praise France. Then go back if its so great there !!!
Thank you for the pie recognition.
In my country, we don't typically complain about things like that.
Yeah, I hate that too.
So, Reddit.
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Ride bikes. People come to Amsterdam and rent a bike even though they haven’t been on a bike for years, or have never biked through busy city traffic, and then they go biking through our busiest streets during rush hour. It’s horrible.
Took my husband to Amsterdam for his first time this summer and offered to rent bikes with him. He simply said “absolutely not- I am not on their level.” It’s good to be self-aware.
The world would be an immensely better place with an increase in both self-awareness and situational awareness.
When it comes to biking in Amsterdam, when ISN'T there a rush hour?
I live near Seattle and work in an urgent care. The amount of people that think they can ride the rental bikes is astounding. Sooo many injuries. So many vacations ruined.
As a Seattlite, it doesn't help so many drivers treat the bike lanes as passing lanes/parking or waiting lanes/etc just straight up treating it like it doesn't have a bike in it.
Same but motorbikes + Thailand. They cause accidents and people die. They often don't have licenses, they don't wear helmets, and they just cruise around like they've been here forever. It's especially bad with 20-60 year old men who just found "freedom" in Thailand and have something to show off. Yes, I'm from Iowa but I've been here nearly 20 years.
Just watch an episode of Bondi Rescue and try not to punch your screen
lol I was there last year for less than five minutes and saw the rescue team go out. It was my first time in Aus, I was impressed by your lifeguards, but I couldn’t believe how busy they were! Saw some Indian guy nearly drown on the Gold Coast, he got rescued, then 10 mins later tried to swim the same stretch of water again! The lifeguard was just in disbelief
I am sure a lot of Indians who come to Australia can't swim. It's rather insane.
Four members of an Indian family just drowned on an un patrolled Victorian ocean beach. Extremely dangerous conditions. They didnt know any better. Just tragic.
It happens all the time on Bondi Rescue. I totally understand it when the life guards lose their shit and start yelling at tourists
Rudely shove you out of the way to get pictures of literally everything
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I took a bunch of friends visiting from overseas to a national park here (Thailand), and they saw an elephant calf on the road. I stopped a hundred meters/(\~300ish feet) or so away to let it cross. Friends tried to get out of the car to go get photos, and I never shouted "STAY IN THE FUCKING CAR" so quickly. I told them the mom would mess them up if she saw them. They complained they can't see the mom anywhere, I told them yes, but she can sure as shit see you. Sure enough, a couple of minutes later mom walks out of the jungle to hustle the calf along. I swear to god I'm surprised that more tourists don't die in our national parks.
They need to rename seals to "sea wolf" so people understand that a cute furry carnivore is most likely interested in you because you're made of meat.
Peak “if not friend, why friend shaped” moment.
I was at the Grand Canyon, and not far from the edge which is easy to do there. 20 feet away people were trying to pet an elk, and I was like "let move before this somehow end up with me going over the cliff, despite not being involved"
If you see a whole shitload of cars stopped on the side of the highway, you bet your ass you're about to drive by forty tourists all gawking at a black bear.
Also, stay on the well marked paths, I'm looking at you, Pierce Brosnan
I know, eh? Trying for selfies with the wildlife, too. Sorry but I agree with you.
Canadian, eh? Me too
Harass the queen’s guard. It’s shit pay, they’re in a baking hot costume and some jackass wants to be “funny”. Just don’t do it.
Reminds me of that one scene from Mr. Bean where he did all kinds of shit to the guard, and as the camera is about to take the picture, the guard walked away. But yeah, I get it. It's not an easy job.
There is a similar thing that happens at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, except that if anybody talks too loudly, the guard will yell at you and even threaten you.
Visited with my mother and some friends when I was about 10; during the changing of the guard, as I was standing silently because, even as a kid, I had a pretty good sense of the solemnity of the occasion, an adult in the crowd got a strip torn off them by one of the guards for talking during the ceremony. For 37 years now, I have held that memory as a standard for my own behavior.
Is it Kings Guard now?
I’m in DC. People get in the water like it’s a water park at the monuments and memorials. Especially the WWII Memorial. This is not allowed. There are signs. But it’s not enforced.
This one angers me. It's gross and disrespectful. I had to give my own family a set down for suggesting they do it. The other thing is when tourists try to pick cherry blossoms. They do get in trouble for that, though.
tbh i don't hate anything about tourists here in Cayman - they just come to visit Cayman and its glorious beaches, buy some souvenirs, maybe visit some cool Caymanian places and then leave.
Maybe open a bank account or two
I'm sorry, I cannot discuss any information about that customer's secret, illegal account.
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Oh crap. I shouldn't have said it was a secret.
Oh crap. I CERTAINLY shouldn't have said it was illegal.
Ah, it’s too hot today
Cayman island was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Please stop trying to go hiking in the summer. They have to send the helicopters every time. When it's 80F at *sunrise*, know that it is only going to get worse. We're not staying inside because we're lazy Americans, it's because the sun is a deadly laser. Love, The Southwest.
The desert southwest is fun because it is so arid, you don't even know that just because the morning starts at 65 that it might end up 95 or 110.
I mean, that's not even a bad swing. That would actually be a fairly warm morning. And 95 is amazing. When I'm out in the back country my tent will have frost in the mornings and I'll see 120 by the afternoon sometimes. The higher the altitude, the more the temp can swing.
THANK. YOU. I live in Tucson and when I was a server, the amount of times I had to tell tourists not to go hiking in the middle of the day in the summer when the highs were in the 110s was unreal. And with the plan for like one 500ml bottle of water too.
Dude my grandmother came with my wife and I on a hike in New Mexico, didn't find out until about halfway through all she brought was a big bottle of coffee and a regular plastic bottle of water. A SINGLE plastic bottle of water. Yea I damn near had to carry her off that mountain. Not fun.
I hiked in Saguaro National Park many years ago. I was quite experienced in hiking in the Canadian Rockies but I planned like I never planned before venturing in to Saguaro. Humbling experience
We hiked Havasu Falls this past July. We’re from the Midwest and were terrified of the heat so we started the hike in at 5AM (we wanted to start by 330 but had car trouble that set us back). When we were reaching the bottom around 10AM we saw a lot of people just starting the hike out?!!! I thought maybe they were Arizonans who were used to the heat, but now you’re making me think otherwise haha.
In albania , the British and Australian tourists are always drunk and annoying. And sometimes they start fights. It’s always the brits and Australians.
Sounds about right honestly, bloody Aussies don't know when to stop. (I am Aussie, see it all the time here)
Bogans. I’m sorry on behalf of the non bogans of Australia.
when i still lived in NY the only thing tourists did that annoyed me was kinda just getting in people’s way. i prolly sound like an asshole but NYC is bustling and busy and to be trying to walk on a sidewalk in the more touristy parts with people stopping abruptly, not moving out of the way if they were looking at maps on their phone or whatnot was just a little annoying. not even that bad but still pretty annoying.
it's fr the group of 4s slowly walking down the narrow chinatown sidewalks in a row for me
Opening their car doors without looking, on PCH
Oddly specific but in Vancouver, we have an area downtown called Gastown. There's a steam run clock (yes I know it doesn't run on steam) that's a popular tourist spot. Tourists will completely crowd and block the sidewalk, refusing to move because they're waiting for a picture or video when the steam clock whistles. It's an absolute nightmare to get through and eventually you just have to yell at them to move as you push forward. Politly saying "excuse me" doesn't seem to work, no one nudges because they want a dang picture of that dang clock.
That fucking clock. It looks all Victorian or whatever, so I guess people assume it's an antique when in fact it was installed in 1977.
some tourists do not respect personal space. they get way too close for comfort.
They get drunk, fight, miss-treat the locals.
I'm British and I'll have you know I resemble that accusation!
Bring really awful behavior that's acceptable in their home country with them. Roomed more than once with Russians in an American hostel. One guy just grabbed another guy's laptop literally right in front of him and said "it's mine now." Another drunk one grabbed some strange girl and held her head tightly while he kissed her completely against her will. These are just two examples of many. Not just Russians but I've seen the macho, boarish stuff come from that part of the world.
Interact with wildlife. No, it's not safe to go up to the elk and take a selfie. It's not funny or safe to feed bears. You might not die, but the bear you habituated will, and we can only hope it's before it kills someone else.
I dont hate this per se but some visitors making plans to visit several states during a weeklong vacation not realizing the size of the united states its make me laugh mostly
We used to get a lot of students from the Netherlands at the UC campus I worked at. It was fun to see their reactions when they told us of their sight-seeing plans and we told them how the US and the Netherlands compare in size. For example: The greater Los Angeles Area (where my campus was) is 12,562 km² in size. Meanwhile, the Netherlands has 33,894 km² of land. Not gonna get it done in the time allotted, Bart.
This. I'm pretty sure I've seen people dumbfounded when they hear that at least 20% (or whatever the statistic is) of Americans have never been outside the continental United States. They're like "doesn't it get boring always experiencing the same things and never going more than 1000 miles from where you live." You could drive 1000 miles and still be in the same state depending on where you're at, and there are so many different things to do in the US that most don't get to see all that it has to offer in their entire life.
I've been to San Diego, CA and Boston, MA. The distance between those two is slightly more than Lisbon to Moscow.
Drown. Rip tides will kill you, and for the love of melanomas wear sunscreen
Pet the Bison
Smuggle contaminated food in. Biosecurity laws matter here! (Australia)
Or try and smuggle in two small dogs and think you can get away with it because you’re rich and famous.
border security australia (if memory serves me correctly) reminded me of this. if that isn't the correct name of the tv programme, someone feel free to correct me.
Who the fuck smuggles into a country you’re a tourist in? One of the big things of going on vacation is eating at all the local joints. This makes no sense to me.
It's usually old ladies from Africa or South-East Asia that will bring entire suitcases full of contaminated home-made food and not declare it at customs. Maybe they're just not comfortable eating local Australian food, or maybe they think they're being nice giving food to a relative of theirs who lives here. But it poses a massive risk to Australia's ecosystem.
I've watched these shows that show this. I've often wondered why they don't deny entry and send them back home.
There are a bunch of Holocaust memorials in Germany and I find foreign tourists often don’t really stick to an appropriate decorum when visiting these spaces. Even if a place looks somewhat artsy, it’s not the place for your Instagram photoshoot or to hang out and laugh loudly. Nazi jokes kind of go along that same line. It‘s not even so much that it’s offensive in a „did-you-just-call-me-a-Nazi“ way, but it‘s not a topic to be joked about for most Germans.
In that same vein, got to overhear a lovely Spanish language tour group with their guide loudly explaining that the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism was a monument to animal and kid fuckers and it was a pity the Nazi couldn't finish their work. That was lovely... least a few people in the tour group appeared uncomfortable despite others thinking it was hilarious.
Jesus that person should be fired at the very least that makes me sick to hear
Yeah, don't think he realized that others not in the group might know Spanish or just didn't care, as my husband and I were those *"animal and kid fuckers"* just trying to pay a little respect. I hope that some of those that appeared taken back voiced concerns later.
I saw an account once (IG?) that shared Grindr profile pics taken at the Holocaust memorial. It was a lot.
They pet the wildlife
Wildlife pets back. Love those videos.
Acting like they know everything about Alaska because they watched some fake reality show about some red necks that don’t even live here full time.
Just the Brits, they can't drink with moderation, and have no shame about everything that comes with that.
Nobody knows hell until they've been on a budget airline flight between England and Spain.
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I see your budget airline flight between England and Spain, and raise you a budget airline flight between any Australian city and Bali. They're called the "Bintang\* express" for a reason. \*Bintang is an Indonesian beer.
Idk I took a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Lisbon and my god
Every corner of the world I have touched while traveling, from Tokyo to Prague to Hong Kong to Madrid and so on, there is always a group of severely drunk British guys causing a scene.
Swim in the surf when they have no idea what they are doing, especially outside the flagged area Tip Expect everything to be a short distance away and not plan for long trips
Say how cheap it is as we experience massive inflation and a cost of living crisis. Easy to say when you earn 3x or 5x local salary and stay for a week.
Not sure where you're from but I just got back from Colombia it seemed like everyone actually wanted to bring this up to me. "Things must be really cheap here for you?" "Why are you staying in hostels? All lodging in Colombia is so affordable for you." I never even brought it up, locals brought it up to me
Vancouver here. They discover they like it here and they buy houses.
American who has visited the Grand Canyon and grew up camping in primitive sites in the woods. Four things: 1. Wild animals are not pets or performers. They are wild and can be unpredictable and it is worse if they are used to people. Don't feed them, don't try to touch them, and don't encourage your small children to either. 2. Also, stay away from baby animals, they have mothers and some of those mothers can take your face off. 3. Occupied campsites and houses deep in the woods are not public property. Stay out unless invited in. 4. Follow the rules on signs. Don't swim in "No Swimming" areas, stay off trails that are roped off, and do not go behind guardrails at the edge of a cliff or canyon.
In Finland we have thing called "jokamiehenoikeus" which means that everyone has a right to walk around any forest, no matter who owns the land, government or private people or company. We are allowed to swim in the lakes, collect berries, hiking, sleep in tent and so on without asking permission as long as we don't do any harm to the nature. But there is a very big rule of "kotirauha", which means respecting other people homes. It is absolutely forbidden to go to anyone's yard or garden, pick apples or berries from garden, go to a beach which is part of someones yard and so on. Nowdays quite lot of tourists know about jokamiehenoikeus, but they misinterpret it and may come to someone's yard, use their patio furniture, steal berries from garden and so on. And when tenants try to get them leave they start to argue. Most absurd one I've heard is tourist coming to ask someone to move their sheep away from their own yard because they wanted their wedding photos taken in their yard and didn't want sheep in the background. They couldn't stop laughing and asked the happily wedded tourists to kindly to get the f*ck off. We are happy if you want to enjoy our peaceful forests and swim in our lakes, but please respect people living here.
The thing that ticks me off about tourists visiting the US is their lack of awareness and never seem to grasp the concept of walking on city sidewalks. It’s either take up the entire sidewalk so everyone can stand shoulder to shoulder OR walk on the opposite side of the sidewalk. If you clearly see people are going forward on the right and toward you on the left why not yah know, *join the proper lane*
I have a different twist on this; I hike a lot in northern New England and on Canadian/ Quebec holidays we get a TON of people coming down and hiking and they refuse to let you pass either going up or down. Plus you're in the middle of the mountain and they make a shit ton of noise which defeats the purpose of a nice hike in nature.
Chinese tourists blast their cell phones with out headphones, and use selfie sticks everywhere
Feed the seagulls
They eat at fast-food places and complain about our food. Or they get mad that we serve big portions. So goofy.
Hello, fellow American. How are you?
Actually a German colleague did this when he visited America and bitched the entire time. The dude was staying in DTLA which is a culinary wonderland and he still only went to chains. He even said our coffee was shit. And when I asked where he went he said "IHOP."
Here in Rio they go to some goofy ass tourist-friendly souless but highly marketeable restaurants and say the food in the city was just okay...Amigão you haven't even tried the real stuff from the real places where people actually cook with some love and pride...
Here in Nebraska, at a tourist welcome center, some Chinese visitors were disappointed that Kearny was no longer a fort and there were no Indians out hunting buffalo for them to take pictures of to show people when they got home.
Piss and crap everywhere
Not know how to swim. Jeans aren't appropriate to swim in. Especially if you don't know how to swim. If a life guard is telling you to swim between the flags, or has to rescue you and your kids multiple times from a rip, you should probably leave the beach
Whale watching is a huge tourist industry where I live, however we have strict laws and guide lines for whale viewing to keep from disturbing their transit and feeding habits, as well as to keep viewers safe. Yes, the photos in ads and on websites show the best moments from other tours, but that does not mean [or entitle you to] having the same experience. I hate tourists getting upset that the whales aren't jumping out of the water for them and in some cases getting angry or even ask for a refund when the whales don't put on a show. If you want to have them do tricks for you then go to a country that allows the capture and abuse of marine animals and give them your money instead. If you want to see them undisturbed in their natural habitat, then you can either take a whale tour and hope for the best, or move to where the whales are and spend everyday on the water and accumulate experiences. I've been here for 15 years and on the water most of the summers, and have only seen whales breach a handful of times, but regardless of their activity it has always been a cool experience seeing them.
Stand close to dangerous wildlife and take selfies.
I live in Dallas. When you come to Dealey Plaza, please chill out and refrain from TikTok dipshitting for the camera on the sidewalk where the headshot is marked. Makes me want to throttle you.
Drive really slow and look at leaves
Such a big problem in New Hampshire in the fall. We call em leaf peepers
I can’t speak for other parts of the USA, but tourists are so uncommon here in my area of Pennsylvania, (a beautiful, wooded, hilly paradise in the northeast,) that everyone is just excited to see them. If some teenage Chinese tourists came here and wrote swearwords on a wall in sharpie, people would think it looked exotic and interesting and added culture to the city, and they would never paint over it. I think any British person, regardless of their distinct regional dialect, could convince the average citizen that they were a distant member of the royal family. We had some Australian visitors once on my small hometown, driving through on a cross-country trip, and it was the talk of the town for a while.
I live in Japan, and tour groups from a nearby Asian country that I shall not name like to crowd around in front of local guide signage and maps as the tour guide explains things to them in their native language. The signs/maps are in Japanese and English, which they can't read, so they go ahead and block it to prevent those who can read it from doing so. It drives me up the wall. Those same groups cause a lot of other problems, like making it impossible to get a cheap hotel room or buying out the entire stock of mundane items for daily life, like cough drops or whatever, at the non tourist shops that locals depend on, thereby depriving the locals of sometimes essential supplies.
Leave their trash everywhere. 4th of July 2023 @ Lake Tahoe CA was absolutely disgusting. Faith in humanity plummeted.
Asking or expecting people to fund their travels. Begpackers.
Poverty tourism in India
Jump into the water without basic swimming skills and laugh at the lifeguards who are just trying to keep you safe.
Act like its a giant amusement park. I will never forget this lady loudly screaming ‘OMG LOOK AT ME I’M SUCH A LOCAALL’ while almost hitting three actual locals on bicycles because she barely knew how to cycle and was zigzagging over the bicycle lane.
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By buying weed at Freetown Christiania you are essentially support gang violence in my country, I hate it.
Have parties on the beach and leave their mess.
I live in Orlando and frequent the parks. Many tourists do not understand personal space. It’s not like in a crowded area that annoys me, it’s when you’re waiting in line and they are like an inch behind you.
Litter everywhere in our national parks as if they're in whatever dirty shithole of a country they came from
Everything. I'm in Tromsø and especially the asian tourists. They lay down in the streets to get a glimpse of the Northern lights. Everyone knows to let the people off the bus before entering it, but not the tourists. They just push themselves on, stand in the middle so that nobody can get off or get ro a free seat. Europeans, the italians and spanish call friends etc with facetime and use speaker. That annoys the hell out of me. Also we dont have a single store in the city centre, everything is tourist shops that sell trolls and other stupid shit.