After the pandemic has put our lives on a hold, we have started realizing the importance of small things in our lives. And one thing that most of us desperately miss is traveling. We can bet if given a chance, so many thirsty travelers would want to explore the world again.
But before you start planning your post-pandemic tour, there is one thing you should know. It’s that some travel destinations are totally overrated. So, if you don’t want to go to some famous tourist place that looks nothing like pictures, check out this list.
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The Mona Lisa in Louvre in Paris. It’s just a small painting hanging quite far away in a really crowded room full of tourists. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful, iconic painting, but it’s not worth visiting the Louvre only for the Mona Lisa. The majority of the other artworks in that museum are more impressive than the Mona Lisa.
2.
Dubai.
Unless you’re really into spending all day in an air-conditioned building, then going to the air-conditioned basement to get in an air-conditioned car to travel to the air-conditioned basement of another air-conditioned building in which case, do I have a city for you!
3.
Hollywood. The most disappointing garbage and pee-covered place on earth.
4.
The peak of Mount Everest. People just pay sherpas to carry all their gear and navigate the dangerous areas. Many have heated tents. The line to wait to get a picture at the top can be extremely long, and dangerous because people aren’t used to the altitude.
5.
Pisa.
Besides the small square with the tower where everyone is taking the same stupid joke pic. And guys tryna sell you toys.
The rest of the town is pretty lame. You’re in Tuscany, go to ANY small town and you’ll enjoy it far more.
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Hollywood walk of fame. Haven’t seen a dirtier road.
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Egypt, all the beauty and awe of the ancient civilization is completely outshone by how absolutely horrible the modern civilization is. Think of all the worst parts of India and then add sand to it.
8.
Japan has such a romanticized view of France that they actually have a term, “Paris Syndrome”, for the sudden shock suffered by Japanese tourists when they see that France isn’t how they imagined.
9.
I didn’t get anything out of Las Vegas. It was cool to see the themed hotels but besides that, it was just an overpriced cultureless soulless city designed to entertain you.
10.
Times Square on New Year. If you know, you know
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Bali. It was beautiful 10 years ago but now it’s been ruined by influencers.
12.
Stonehenge. They don’t let you get very close to it to help preserve it. Either way, you get just about as good a view of it from the Highway going by it as you do by waiting in line and paying to go see it. I appreciate what it represents, but if you put on a youtube video of it you will get a more personal and close experience of it than if you actually go there.
13.
Oktoberfest
You can get the same brand and amount of beer for a third of the price literally anywhere else in Munich. The carnival rides are also overcrowded and overpriced, the food is decent but also overpriced… I could go on. Oktoberfest is over-everything.
14.
UAE, it’s the most culturally deficient place you will ever see in your life!!
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If you’re in Dublin, stay away from the Temple Bar area, it’s ridiculously overpriced and is not at all what a real Irish bar is like at all
16.
That wing mural in Nashville.. there is literally a line that takes an hour to go take a picture with a pair of wings on a wall.
17.
definitely Mallorca – I’m German enough, I don’t want to hear 90% German on holiday in Spain as well. The quieter, less central parts of Mallorca are gorgeous, especially for snorkeling and diving, but the Playa de Palma, or at least that part, is horrendously German lol
18.
Brussels. If you’re in Belgium, visit Ghent and Bruges.
19.
The Taj Mahal. Yes, it’s beautiful but it’s also overcrowded which ruins any serenity and everything that there’s to see is visible on the pictures you’ve seen a thousand times before. The inside is dark, surprisingly small and you’re rushed through. Agra Fort, overlooking the Taj Mahal, by contrast, is equally gorgeous, vibrant, and teeming with history. I enjoyed it much more.
20.
South Beach/Miami
Over-priced bars and clubs, if you’re a dude and you don’t have a fine group of women with you, be ready to drop serious cash for a night out if you’re there. There are better beaches up and down the coast, that won’t force you into the terrible traffic and parking SB has.
21.
Romeo & Juliet balcony & house in Verona, Italy. Pure tourism BS
22.
Disneyland. It’s just a lot of waiting for bad rides.
23.
Mount Rushmore. It faces on a rock basically and smaller than you think.
24.
Whatever expectation you have of Roswell, New Mexico- it’s worse
25.
Bourbon Street, New Orleans. It’s really just the same as any other bar district in any other large city around the world. Same old cover bands playing the same old songs that you’d hear anywhere. You can experience all you need just by walking down the street for an hour and not going in anywhere.
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Bondi Beach in Sydney. Overcrowded, everything there is way overpriced
28.
Mall of America. It just a Mall with a lot of stuff in it. My opinion would’ve probably be different if I didn’t live in Minnesota.
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Toyosu Fish Market. The one that replaced Tsukiji as the fish auction central of Tokyo in 2018. You get to watch the auction process, but only if you go early in the morning. And even then, only through small glass windows two stories above the auction block. If there are more than a couple dozen other visitors, you will not be able to see anything.
