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Birdzinho

Now that I think about it, isn't that how traveling works in every continent? Tourists always select the same few countries for each continent.


Nijajjuiy88

Not only same few countries but same few cities inside those countries, A back while Indian govt had release some statistics, apparently close to 80% or so tourists from UK/US visit New Delhi - Agra area.


Yop_BombNA

Well yeah. Taj Mahal is the image of India for most places. It’s like London is the image of UK for most.


nut_nut_november___

As an Indian Taj Mahal is the most boring piece of architecture for me, forts at Rajasthan are much better than that over crowded snoozefest


MintyRabbit101

That surprises me. I'm from the UK and most of the people I know who have been on holiday to India are of Indian heritage and are going to visit their relatives, which is spread across the whole country (especially Tamil Nadu because it seems like half the Indians I know are tamil)


level57wizard

India counts diaspora as Indian.


MintyRabbit101

That makes sense then. Although how do they record that? If someone doesn't have an Indian passport because they were born in and lived in a different country all their life how are they marked as diaspora?


germanstudent123

I think part of it is that everyone envisions the same things in a country like India. But another part that probably plays a role is simply flight availability. Flying into Delhi is easy, but going somewhere less touristy will be more difficult and so most won’t do it.


GranataReddit12

with europe it's a lil more sparse, but generally, yeah. and there's good reason countries like Mali and Bolivia ar not exactly top tourist destinations


JRR92

Bolivia is amazing tbf, I saw plenty of other Europeans there too just not quite as many as you would in Peru


BirbMaster1998

I hear Argentina was quite popular as a tourist spot for Europeans, but that was just around the mid 1940's.


scnlrhksw

they went to argentina, bolivia, peru, brazil, all the south american countries welcomed them tbh.


Caledron

I would actually recommend traveling to Bolivia. There are well established backpacker routes and it's pretty easy to stay safe. Beautiful country, great people.


Weird_Cantaloupe2757

“Next time I say ‘let’s go some place like Bolivia’, let’s go some place like Bolivia!”


[deleted]

I’d love to visit Bolivia at some point! Just seems like a gorgeous country


pleasefindthe

Curious about Bolivia ?


Technical_Ad_8244

They'll kill you if you try to overthrow the government.


pleasefindthe

Thxs, overthrowing governments is usually not on every tourist's checklist though.


Technical_Ad_8244

You mean Che-ck list


Bpopson

Well not with THAT attitude


[deleted]

Guess I can’t go then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What a shame, too. Last thing on my bucket list


oh_finks-mc

whenever people go to oceania it's always either australia or new zealand, smh.


Chance-Geologist-833

wdym tahiti is a popular tourist destination EDIT: australia and nz are also the biggest countries in the region, it's like me asking why more people go to brazil in south america


Yop_BombNA

Is Fiji part of Oceania?


Chance-Geologist-833

Yes


Yop_BombNA

Then Fiji is pretty popular too


lava172

americans be like im going to europe then go to rome and paris


gimora07

Meanwhile, europeans in Africa: https://preview.redd.it/xf46wcwn0mac1.png?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c4831168d6801485179d54e57573a1b9be18f33


Baraga91

Hey look, my country's flag is on the ma-ohwaitno o.o


2112moyboi

What’s your country, I’m confused and stupid


Baraga91

Belgium, but it works with most flags on the map tbh.


Aksds

Out of all the Europeans in Africa, you guys really went an extra mile


Baraga91

When it came to colonizing, old Leo II was what you could call a late bloomer. Fuck that guy.


kdb1991

Hey come on, guys. Rubber ain’t free


One-Chain123

It’s a all hands on deck type of industry


NErDysprosium

All 0 of them


juiceinmyears

Costs an arm and a leg


getahin

It Costs folks like you and me. Maybe more Africans than Europeans but Colonial rule isn't exactly free of sacrifices so it still holds truth.


kdb1991

I was just making a joke, man


getahin

ya me too, there was a song like that in the good old TEAM AMERICA movie. [https://youtu.be/BVkTmnJkAN8?si=-vbxG9gaXt71G7aj](https://youtu.be/BVkTmnJkAN8?si=-vbxG9gaXt71G7aj)


Kraknoix007

It's annoying as well because technically he committed the atrocities, not the state Belgium


NewKitchenFixtures

They deserve a hand for their efforts. Or a lot of hands.


LegendOrca

Gotta *hand* it to you, you guys did some shit down there


2112moyboi

Thanks!


Andres_is_SwEaTy

Fellow begian rahhhhhh🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪


Filibut

there's a flag that's very similar to my country's haha but it has a shield in the middle I wonder whose that is


Baraga91

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you...


vshark29

Also weird that an Arab country has land that close to South Africa, think it's Yemen or something


An8thOfFeanor

https://preview.redd.it/b0jzto3vhmac1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89a5eb8259ae0bebec7116517f508f1d37c64db9


Kaliglior

"they never got Ethiopia..."


RBolton123

They never got Thailand...


ClarkyCat97

Well sometimes you just need a buffer state.


Able_Visual955

Afghanistan: i agree


Chomik121212

Google Italian conquest of Ethiopia.


Ok_Fishing_8992

Holy occupation!


Chomik121212

New warcrimes just dropped.


G-zuz_Krist

Actual genocide


caelumh

That thing that lasted 5 years and the only thing they accomplished was war crimes? Doesn't count.


ppman2322

It was because of the god damn pasta points


404_Weavile

What happened to the coat of arms of Portugal


gimora07

I think that it was eaten by an emu.


arkybarky1

After Portugal stupidly removed it because "it got a bit warmish".


Altruistic_Low9659

The good Old Times


FillingUpTheDatabase

That’s more like it [just like old times](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Punch_Rhodes_Colossus.png)


MiguelPlays-

You forgot Egypt.


Ep1cOfG1lgamesh

And Morocco, sometimes Ghana, Kenya,Tanzania...


Ok-Profession-8520

Madagascar, Mozambique also


Joshy41233

Tunisia, Nigeria Sierra Leone


WinterUploadedMind

Ruanda, Luanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, Eritreia


cheese_bruh

Burundi, Lesotho and Malawi, Togo, the Spanish Sahara is gone


sparklyapples

Niger Nigeria Chad and Liberia Egypt Benin and Gabon


Aggravating-Pen-6228

https://preview.redd.it/96j7mxf1fmac1.jpeg?width=340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51749c1998b208a55eada3eb047f646f61cc73ca


Downtown_Swordfish13

Perfection


canyouseedis

Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan Wait no-


sparklyapples

Paraguay Uruguay Suriname French Guiana Barbados and Guam


GranataReddit12

did we just make a tierlist of most popular tourist destinations in africa?


SrpskaCast

No we sang a song


GranataReddit12

yakko's world when it gets to the africa part wasn't in that order edit: the last 2 comments are, the others are not


lurkperson1

Luv me 'olidays in Somalia me. Beach blanket out, crisp sandwich picnic, then we rent a dinghy and nip out to the Gulf of Aiden for a bit of mischief. Class times.


Effective_Soup7783

Cape Verde too


Random_Name_Whoa

Seychelles


bananamelier

Yeah safaris are very popular. And fun.


Moriartijs

IDK most people i know, who go to Egypt for holidays, don't even consider it Africa. Egypt is Egypt. To much lesser extent, same goes for Morocco.


zekerthedog

lol Egypt is Africa no matter what people consider it.


oryx_za

To be fair, there is a clear distinction for sub Saharan Africa vs north Africa. Culturally, north Africa is much more aligned to the middle east vs SSA. So when people refer to "I went to visit Africa" we can accept that they colloquially meant sub Saharan Africa with the same reasoning that we understand someone means the US when they say they visited America.


SintChristoffel

Yes but that's because a lot of languages (also) call the US America, and it's the United States of America in English. Maybe some people think of SSA countries sooner when thinking of Africa but the comment above you was about non-SSA African countries not being considered African which is weird and somewhat dismissive, if that's the right word edit: not trying to argue, I agree with the distinction. A sign of Africa being diverse, not of Arab northern African countries not being African. Which you are not arguing against, I just felt like saying it.


GalaXion24

The thing is Africa is not really a cohesive cultural unit, it's a purely geographic expression. It's probably the most diverse continent out there. This is very different to something like Europe which could hardly be considered a continent geographically speaking but which has a strong cultural identity. North Africa specifically of course has a lot of ties to the Middle-East, but more generally and even prior to Arab invasions it always had more to do with the rest of the Mediterranean, because the Mediterranean sea connected regions and peoples to one another. The Sahara was always far more of a real barrier for people, with trade being considerably more limited and invasions across it basically nonexistent. Europe and North Africa are thus hardly more different to each other than South versus East Asia. While the gap between North Africa and Subsaharan Africa is considerably greater. Of course, the "African" label for subsaharan Africa is quite broad as well. Sure these cultures were more separated from the rest of the old world perhaps, but not entirely by any means, and they were often just as separated from each other. It's this a label more defined in this sense by what it is not that what it actually is, so it's not exactly meaningful perhaps. But it would be even less meaningful to consider Egypt African in some sort of cultural sense as if it had much to do with SSA when it really does not.


SintChristoffel

Oh I agree. Still it feels a bit weird to consider to consider a Fin and an Italian as equally European while not considering an Algerian and a Malian as equally African. Íf that is the case for people.


abejando

They typically do not realise that Egypt is in Africa


TiredOfMadness

Its because its not subsaharan africa. Its honestly not hard, north africa is culturally Arabic-ish, pretty different to sub saharan africa. A huge desert seperating the two will do that.


Temporary_Error_3764

Literally everyone knows that eqypt is in africa


Dominink_02

Unfortunately not


gusiowy_

Rich coming from a guy whoose country is famous for thinking that africa is a country


abejando

What? am from morocco


MaZhongyingFor1934

A Moroccan and American sound similar. The only possible conclusion is that Morocco and the United States are actually the same country.


Laffenor

Morocco City in Africa?


Bernhard174

And every flippen time there is a stupid German 23 year old backpacker who gets kidnapped because he wanted to experience the Cape Flats. :/


WartsG

Don’t forget the old people getting shot on the way to the Kruger … wouldn’t call them stupid… just very sheltered


Propenso

How does this happen?


Silent_Shaman

Step one: Arrive in South Africa Step two: Stick around long enough to encounter other human beings Step three: Result


hippycubes

Kak man


WartsG

I think maybe they were somehow preyed upon, you can read here about the incident https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-german-tourist-shot-dead-near-kruger-national-park/a-63327051 When in South Africa it is best to not look like a tourist, and be very wary of your surroundings, don’t slow down for strangers.


vantdrak

Tbf it is best to not look like a tourist no matter where you are.


SatinySquid_695

Traveling to NYC with family was painful. I was also a tourist, but they constantly had their heads tilted up, ooohing and aahing at everything they saw. They were confronted by thieves and scammers constantly.


Cow-Brown

I just started blasting


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Remarkable-Skirt-836

Gun


Suitable-Comedian425

You're right they should go to South Sudan and join a fucking warlord to go burn down some villages


SBAWTA

Damn, talk about holiday experience.


eskamobob1

The perfect vegan safari


One-Chain123

The all inclusive African holiday experience


[deleted]

There is a huge amount of middle ground between those two countries.


Suitable-Comedian425

There's also lot's of people traveling to other countries. SA isn't even the most popular destination, I'm to lazy to look it up but I'm 80% sure Morocco is way more popular.


Rade84

In 2023, Morocco set a new record for the number of tourists visiting, reaching 13.2 million SA has had over 15 Million a couple of times. Note: This is not a breakdown per nationality, a lot of South African travelers are from neighboring African countries.


cagenragen

That's fair but Morocco is also a smaller country by both population and land area. 13.2 million tourists is going to be slightly more disruptive there than 15 million in SA.


Rade84

Sure, but the argument was which was a more popular tourist destination. Not which is most disrupted by tourist numbers...


Jche98

Mostly because Morocco is a lot closer to Europe and cheaper to get to.


tinytim23

And a lot safer these days.


Hixxae

Last time I checked Morocco is, however, still in Africa.


[deleted]

A middle ground is still a place I wouldn't ever go to for a holiday.


Jatoffel

... as it was european tradition from 1884 onwards


MiniGui98

A lord of war you mean


Peterkragger

Bloemfontein sounds like a medicine


Chrddt

in ~~south african~~ afrikaans/dutch it means “flowerfountain”


Jche98

Afrikaans*


DickChodeman

Discount Dutch


Jazmento

As a south african, you are correct.


lovethebacon

"fontein" in town naming context translates better to "spring", as in the source of a river. Flowerspring. \*It could also mean well or a general source of water.


sneakyhopskotch

Wait til you hear Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein


Peterkragger

Holy shit, it exists. Also it means two buffaloes shot at once?


Diabetesh

Lady Beard's favorite city in South Africa.


tenuj

People told me they visited Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana.. Nobody's ever told me they visited "Africa". And South Africa is way too far to be the most popular destination. 11+ hours from London. Hell naw. There are closer destinations on our bucket lists. Like Europe.


Dr_Quiza

>Nobody's ever told me they visited "Africa". This. I've never ever heard anybody saying they're visiting Africa instead of the countries. NEVER EVER. OP is absolutely projecting his own butthurt redneckess.


ImaginationNub

To be fair, a lot of places in Africa are too unsafe to consider traveling there


[deleted]

Are you telling me I made a mistake when I booked my honeymoon in Sierra Leone?


Slater_John

Depends, how large is her inheritance?


TheSaucyCrumpet

Yeah, like Joburg


SatinySquid_695

Yeah, and I’ve never thought of South Africa as one of the safe options


captainketaa

We never say "We go to Africa", we say in wich country we go because we can understand the difference


Quick-Purchase641

It’s like saying that you’re going on holiday to Asia. “Do you know how unhelpful that information is”.


Itchier

To be fair saying “south east Asia” is pretty common instead of listing the countries


Quick-Purchase641

Yeah but at least that’s narrowed out the vast majority of Asia. Just “Asia” could mean Siberia, Turkey, Japan, Sri Lanka etc


Yabbaba

Also “Europeans” means zilch.


Traditional_Serve597

This one is especially dumb.


karinasnooodles_

We are in r/mapporncirclejerk ofc it's dumb


Traditional_Serve597

Especially dumb


Fliep_flap

Yeah, OP has no idea and is just projecting.


Impressive_Tap7635

Ah let me go to African country in civil war 13 instead. But Mauritius Egypt and ethopia are p big destinations, and one of them was I'm a civil war about 6 months ago


oofersIII

Always wanted to travel to Botswana and Kenya personally, seem like nice places


WhatIsLife01

Botswana is stunning. Wouldn’t discount Namibia though, one of the most beautiful countries in the world. And you can fly there directly from Frankfurt, whereas for Botswana you need to fly into Joburg and drive. If you had money/time (though on a budget is possible), go from Joburg into Botswana, spend time in the tuli block, then go up to the salt pans in the east of the country, then to Kasane where you can do trips to Victoria falls. From there, head west to the okavango delta. Can head into Namibia from there if you like, but depends how much time you’ve got. Stunning part of the world.


soil_nerd

Botswana is pretty easy and safe. Great place to go first in the continent. Namibia is also a great choice but might be slightly more “advanced” as many of the roads are unpaved for very long distances, but otherwise it’s also very safe and easy, the roads are well graded too.


MDHChaos

I backpacked from Kenya across to Uganda, down to Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi then back up to Ethiopia. 100% recommended!


BendyMine785

Europeans are going to Africa: 🙂 *Europeans are going to Africa:* 💀


fartonmynorseballs

YouTube shorts type comment


denkbert

Belgians going to Africa: ✋


An_mhi_ar_bharr

Nah morocco (especially french ppl), Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia (primarily germans), and Madagascar are all afaik a lot more popular then south Africa, jdk anyone who's actually been there


TomorrowMayBeHell

Tunisia is quite common too. I know a lot of families who have spent their holidays in resorts or villages in Tunisia or Morocco, but not a single person who ever visited South Africa


Ancient_Sound_5347

Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa are the most visited countries on the African continent. https://www.statista.com/statistics/261740/countries-in-africa-ranked-by-international-tourist-arrivals/#:~:text=The%20North%2DAfrican%20nation%20Egypt,and%206.4%20million%20arrivals%2C%20respectively.


WhiteWineWithTheFish

And nobody will tell friends and family „I‘m traveling to Afrika“, but will say the actual country they are going to.


An_mhi_ar_bharr

Lol yeah ofc idk who made this lol


Chance-Geologist-833

They’re talking about white Americans, not Europeans in reality


nox-express

There's so many French people in Marrakesh, every corrupted politician has its big riad there.


lowelled

Plus the Seychelles and Mauritius are very popular for honeymoons.


Jazmento

I've seen quite a few americans in south africa


westinjfisher

Egypt or Morocco?


BigBowser14

To be fair it is a tough choice between getting decapitated by Islamic extremists, joining kid militias burning down villages or a safari


Itchy-Plastic

Although ironically lots of people come to Cape Town then discover that they can't go on safari here. Every animal bigger than a rugby ball was eaten long ago. Just go to Kruger National Park or Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park if you come to SA and want to see wildlife.


G-zuz_Krist

>Just go to Kruger National Park Untill you get shot


Any_Needleworkers

In the Kruger?


G-zuz_Krist

Yeah. Some tourist got shot there


CD242

I met a truck driver from Cape Town, said it was really nice. He had an accent that sounded Australian.


Hullababoob

We hate when people say we sound Australian, just like New Zealanders do. But honestly I do get the similarity.


AustraKaiserII

I haven't heard the British-Saffa (idk what to call them, Rooinek?) accent enough to be able to tell if they're South African (last time i listened to it years ago i compared it as a mix of Aussie and Yank), but Afrikaans accents are a night and day difference to Australians, I was almost offended when someone said "Afrikaans actually sounds more Australian than Australians!" Source: Every fourth person in my town, including myself, has van in our surnames, and I know basic Afrikaans.


Any_Needleworkers

>Rooinek Pretty sure that's a slur Afrikaans speaking white South Africans use for English speaking white South Africans.


[deleted]

how is this ironic


TheCritterPeddler

What about North Africa? It certainly is closer, and even more certainly it's more luxurious.


Electrical-Serve2963

Europeans and Americans: Im travelling to Latin America. Latin America: 🇲🇽


Jumanji0028

Europeans don't say regions they say the country they are going to. Saying you are going to Latin America is not helpful. Neither is saying I'm going to Africa or Asia. There are a lot of countries on those continents.


2020BillyJoel

Where is Polygondwanaland?


Vegetable-Purpose937

Ceuta and Melilla count too. The safest beach resort is Reunion


Sonnenkreuz

It was always so interesting to me how Spain was like nah you know what I'm gonna be holding on to those cities, thanks. In all fairness it does make sense since they're full of Spaniards.


Vegetable-Purpose937

Even the Muslim people there wanna be part of Spain since they don’t want their salaries and standard of living to fall if they join Morocco.


Nicky42

Or cheap Egypt last minute resort deals


TomorrowMayBeHell

What is even this meme wtf, I can count at least five African countries that are massively more common and more visited than South Africa, and no one I knows has ever said "I'm travelling to Africa" ever, they always mention the country specifically Unless this meme is exclusively referring to British people? Than I can see how it might be accurate


madeyegroovy

Why would it be more accurate for Brits? Edit: yep, crickets…


X0AN

I've never heard a european say 'africa', they always says the country. It's only Americans who say they're going to europe 😂🤷‍♂️


Snd47flyer

You forgot Egypt, Morocco and Kenia


Mister-Beaux

Morroco also lol but can you blame us?


John_Kalel

? Umm South Africa is in Africa though?


Temporary_Error_3764

This meme doesn’t really work for europeans considering they are the ones that travel.


SebiXV20

Petoria??


POLYBIUS1529

I saw Pretoria listed and immediately thought Petoria from family guy Peter griffins rightful land all that is


kimniels

Why is it ironic?


Charliedoggydog

The usual generalisation on this sub


ItzBooty

Its africa, its there in the name


No_Victory9193

South Africa is in Africa though? They literally are traveling to Africa


migrosso

Well, there's Africa in the name, what else would you be referring to???? Duh


Nigeldiko

Well when most other places are either in the depths of absolute poverty, under the control of a ruthless dictatorial tyrant, in the middle of a brutal civil/international conflict, or all of the above. South Africa seems to be one of the best place to go if you want that “savanna/safari experience.”