>Let them all flock to the same place, sparing other places.
Wish NZ will stop being flavour of the month - too many tourists and most of the money doesnt go to local community but foreign owners of hotels, tourist ventures, hell even most of our supermarkets are owned by foreign corporates.
if you look carefully you can see a lot of hills in the background with not a single tourist on top of them
Because its private land/ not tracked. This is Roy's Peak in Wanaka. Peter Thiel owns most of the land next to it.....
>The worst is food. Some places are overhyped to death and nobody really knows why, they only mention about seeing it on Tiktok. Hilariously sad.
It's one thing if the food was mediocre, but they can be confidently wrong about it, too. There are a lot of Prague tourists who think trdelnik (those stupid spit-roasted cakes you can find on every corner) and deep-fried pizza are authentic Czech creations.
>INSTAGRAM RUINED TRAVEL!
Yeah man, literally no boomer in the world has a selfie holding up the leaning tower of pisa. That sort of behavior clearly only came into existence the second instagram became popular. There is no way that behavior did not exist prior to instagram and it surely cannot be that instagram just made it easier for you to see people doing the same exact shit boomers have been doing for decades now.
Tour groups have always existed, you're a tourist exactly like the millions of others you complain about, you should not give a single solitary frick about waiting in line and just cut it and tell the homosexuals to frick off if they make a shitshow about you living life rather than living for an online profile.
Also, if you hate tourists so much just go off the beaten path and make your own adventure. It's literally never been easier to plan and make happen, nothing but you is stopping you, but oh no, god forbid you actually have to step outside of the major tourism center and stops on your vacation, every other tourist should just upend their vacation to accomodate you instead. Quit b***hing you spineless gay.
This is actually a good thing though, because it means that gullible morons will actually queue up for the fake trash and leave the authentic things to you who knows better than to listen to instatards and tiktrash.
>This is actually a good thing though, because it means that gullible morons will actually queue up for the fake trash and leave the authentic things to you who knows better than to listen to instatards and tiktrash.
I hate that you're right about this. I'm not happy about it, but it makes perfect sense.
It was unironically my experience in Prague. Despite looking up tons of "locals only" spots on a publicly available youtube video (honest guide) with tens to millions of views, I was still the only foreigner in many spots I went to. Widely disseminated information, completely ignored by almost all its viewers. I went to the bookshop balcony on wenceslas sq the guy recommended, and saw across the street how tourists were waiting and desperate to hit up the hotel rooftop across the street. People severely overestimate how much "damage" instagram and social media does to places, when outside of the big name tourist landmarks there really isn't much harm done as most places that get "discovered" end up being made, designed and marketed for tourists instead of locals in the first place, or are overhyped garbage relying on a gimmick that sounds good on social media but isn't actually good as its all just gimmick trash.
I don't get why you'd be sad about this being the case either. You can't lament that tourists are flocking to your favorite spots and have ruined travel while at the same time bemoan that they're avoiding your favorite spots as they get scammed for not doing the bare minimum research. The whole "social media ruined travel" is ironically, the most social media take possible. It is self absorbed nonsense ready to go viral as people jump in on the same message without a second thought. The reality behind "travel" on social media is >most viewers will not ever actually go >most viewers don't even have a passport >most viewers are unable to afford the vacation itself (reminder that half of burgers live paycheck to paycheck and have no savings)
You at most have a handful of people, who would have gone anyway, and are now steered into tourist traps to leave you free to explore the actual gems of the country. I fail to see the "harm" of this.
One of my family members showed me a tiktok of a local resturaunt nearby. They asked to check it out because the tiktok made the food look good. We went (despite the fairly mediocre reviews). Dear me that place was awful. Literally microwaved frozen food for a high price and one of the worst decors I have ever seen (that wasn't shown in the tiktok). They must be staying in business off that tiktok clout.
lol even neuschwanstein castle you just have to hike 2 minutes up the hill beyond the Marienbrucke bridge and you are virtually completely alone with a better view than from the bridge
Who gives a frick what happens on Instagram.
Seeing pretty girls put on fake faces for pictures is amusing to watch. It doesn't get me bent out of shape.
If you have a phobia of vain pretty girls, don't go to the most popular tourist hotspots.
Walking off trail and trampling vegetation to create a new Instagram spot is the absolute worst. Just fricking wait in line for your stupid selfie.
>I would just take a pic of all the morons queueing up
i did something like this when i went to the louvre and saw everyone queuing up to take selfies with the mona lisa. i stood to the side and took pictures of the crowd around the painting.
i thought by doing this i was being somehow ironic and cool. afterwards i realised that i was just being a twat. i let my cynicism get in the way of enjoying a moment with the world's most famous painting. now i try to live and let live a bit more
still not taking any selfies though
also, quick story:
once i was walking with my girlfriend around greenwich (london) near the observatory.
we were so totally absorbed in each other and our conversation that we weren't really paying attention to our surroundings
suddenly we hear yelling and eventually realised there were people yelling at us
we had inadvertently strolled onto the meridian line which is embedded into the ground
there were people queuing up to take selfies there too (see pic related) and without noticing we had just cut in front of about a hundred chinese tourists and ruined someone's picture
my girlfriend just glares back at them, pulls her phone out, takes a quick selfie of us and walks off with two hundred slanty eyes burning holes into our back
she was crazy. i miss her
tldr : we accidentally cut a queue, photobombed some tourists and pissed off 100 chinks
I didn't take a photo but did something similar at Cloud Gate in Chicago. At least 50 people spread out trying to command as much space as possible for their stupid fricking selfie. Walked straight through and under the bean with headphones on as nu-males said 'DO YOU MIND?' with their ugly girlfriends
>no chinks >no indians (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-stop-issuing-visas-to-indian-tour-groups/48698856) >i already have a flight to switzerland next week
I'm in Switzerland now and it's full of Indians and Chinese. Loads of Arabs too. And way too many reddit tier Americans
Shame what happened to my favourite country. Used to be Japs and Europeans only.
>I'm in Switzerland now
no, you are in lauterbrunner or some trap like that >and it's full of Indians and Chinese. Loads of Arabs too. And way too many reddit tier Americans
no, it's just you that you are moronic. kys
9 months ago
Anonymous
I visited Switzerland last year and he's completely right.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't see a single asian or arab in Zermatt when I was there for a week in the winter last year.
9 months ago
sage
>I visited Switzerland
no, you visited a tourist trap in Switzerland.
you have no idea how a normal place in Switzerland looks loke
[...] > muh but if you go to this secret spot 300 km from anywhere you will find zero chinks and browns ergo your post is not valid
come on guys. sure if you visit out of season (i.e. not July/August) and go to remote hiking areas you will only see white people, but there is definitely an Arab/pajeet problem in switzerland. Grindewald felt a bit like Mogadishu or Mumbai. Even the trains were full of pajeets - not even tourists I think, just pajeets working the low end jobs. and then you had the odd chink girl disappointed that there were no whites, only limp-wristed saudis with their 4 wives and brown people
>Grindewald
you see? you are moronic
Same. At least every other year I visit. It's going downhill in rapid pace.
[...]
Literally in Wengen today kek.
But yeah, luckily only white people hike so its easy to get away from it all.
But visiting Jungfraujoch without smelly people before social media and dirty people travelling was so much better than it would be now.
literally in Campo Blenio right now. there's only local tourism (Ticinese and Swiss German) and it's peak tourist season.
I wonder how the places i go are deserted and wild but the places the average SighSeetard goes are built-up and full of chinks
9 months ago
Anonymous
I've been going to the same region all my life and it's turning to shit.
The same will happen to where you are.
9 months ago
sage
kys
9 months ago
Anonymous
Based, city slickers crying like always meanwhile I just go off the path through some tall grass or whatever for a few minutes and I end up at OP's pic but with 99.9% less people.
9 months ago
sage
it's not even off-trail, it's on a side of the lake and the trail is on the other side. it was a late august weekend, with excellend weather (yesterday), yet i had the whole place for me the whole time basically
>most beautiful place has been taken over >I will meekly move over to the next best spot >t-this is a-also beautiful >this continues multiple times
Loser behaviour tbh
that place won't get popular on instagram because it's a 4 hours steep hike from the closest road, and it's actually nothing special for Switzerland. there are thousands of places like that in Switzerland. they show up only in hiking reports in dedicated websites
and that's well documented, let's leave alone anything off-trail
9 months ago
Anonymous
Best spots have cable cars reaching them
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Best spots have cable cars reaching them
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah that's what it's like on the top.
No place to put your tent down. You can go to the next best view.
Oh wait there is a cable car there too.
Oh well maybe the one after that, oh no it has a train station.
9 months ago
Anonymous
?
9 months ago
Anonymous
I'm another anon based in Switzerland. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Oh yeah the dried out, shriveled limp dick Oberaarglacier looks just as good as the Aletschglacier viewed from the train accessible Jungfraujoch anon.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Best spots have cable cars reaching them
9 months ago
Anonymous
Would be perfect with the Fujifilm logo on the camera
9 months ago
Anonymous
>most beautiful place has been taken over >I will meekly move over to the next best spot >t-this is a-also beautiful >this continues multiple times
Loser behaviour tbh
9 months ago
Anonymous
The actual nicest places are generally too hard to reach for the general public and as far as I'm concerned the lack of crowds only enhances their beauty. The easy to reach and beautiful places just get all the hype these days due to social media.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't see a single asian or arab in Zermatt when I was there for a week in the winter last year.
> muh but if you go to this secret spot 300 km from anywhere you will find zero chinks and browns ergo your post is not valid
come on guys. sure if you visit out of season (i.e. not July/August) and go to remote hiking areas you will only see white people, but there is definitely an Arab/pajeet problem in switzerland. Grindewald felt a bit like Mogadishu or Mumbai. Even the trains were full of pajeets - not even tourists I think, just pajeets working the low end jobs. and then you had the odd chink girl disappointed that there were no whites, only limp-wristed saudis with their 4 wives and brown people
I went to Switzerland in 2009, summer season, and there was hardly anyone there. Compared to other countries it felt so empty and serene.
9 months ago
Anonymous
The world was completely different 15 years ago.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Same. At least every other year I visit. It's going downhill in rapid pace.
>I'm in Switzerland now
no, you are in lauterbrunner or some trap like that >and it's full of Indians and Chinese. Loads of Arabs too. And way too many reddit tier Americans
no, it's just you that you are moronic. kys
Literally in Wengen today kek.
But yeah, luckily only white people hike so its easy to get away from it all.
But visiting Jungfraujoch without smelly people before social media and dirty people travelling was so much better than it would be now.
Canada is no longer an officially approved travel destination for China because they're mad we started looking into corruption or something, idk I don't follow politics ever since trudeu abandoned electoral reform after campaigning on it and nobody cared, but all the tourism industry places are crying about lost profits and I'm really looking forward to a chinkless year
>they're mad we started looking into corruption or something, idk I don't follow politics
What's funny is that I do follow Canadian politics to an extent, and even I have trouble narrowing it down. It could be one or more of these:
A) Illegal Chinese police stations operating in Canada
B) The shipment of fentanyl that came from China, with more than enough to kill the whole country
C) The arrest of Huawei's CEO, Meng Wanzhou (and China's retaliation by arresting two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor)
D) Chinese people laundering their money through casinos
E) Chinese people laundering their money through real estate and driving up property values, making it more difficult for local Canadians to afford housing
F) China interfering with Canadian elections
>I'm really looking forward to a chinkless year
Same. I actually might travel in Canada for a change.
My parents took me there when i was about 8 years old, there was basically nobody there. That’s so depressing theres a fricking line of tourists now, its not even a great place for a photo unless your a history/geography nerd, OPs picture I can understand the appeal to normies.
Whenever I see a line of people waiting to take a selfie, I just ignore them all. I'll walk up, enjoy the scenery, putz around for a bit pretending to not see them, then walk away. Nobody has ever tried to stop me.
Even if people are lining up for selfies with something I don't care about, I'll waddle into the background. Oftentimes there'll be some person managing the queue and they're operating on a strict time limit and have no choice but to wave people through, take the picture, and move to the next while I'm tarding it up in the background.
Instagram is certainly a major contributor, but it's bigger than that.
I'm in my late 30s now and when I first travelled on my own you'd go to countries like Thailand and Sri Lanka and barely anyone had the internet, phone and a lot of them didn't even have a TV, they'd go to snooker halls and other social meeting points to watch TV. People were fascinated to hear about where you were from because they barely knew anything about it, they'd get a kick out of just seeing what our currency looked like.
Fast forward to now and the internet's changed everything, hence why we have mass migration happening. We're just as guilty, how many of us go somewhere without being inspired to go and researching on the internet?
When I was a kid most people just went to places that were sold by travel agents - it was pretty rare to book a flight and hotel separately. I used to read loads of travel books and make crude itineraries annotating paper maps of places I wanted to visit. First time I went to Japan I just had a ticket phrase book and a paper map of Tokyo with lots of markings and notes on it.
Instagram and travel-bragging has certainly created hotspots, especially these view points. Horseshoe Bend is a nightmare now. You used to be able to go there for sunrise and it'd just be a few people chilling, appreciating the view. Now you've got people doing tik toks and jumping around, who are there and gone in 10 minutes.
Hopefully these spots will become memes like people posing with tigers did and they'll move on to the next thing.
the problem is that social life in ALL countries got fricked by the internet. people dont go outside and they dont know how to interact socially, and there are no sanctioned social activities that they feel comfortable doing. so nothing happens
this got worse post covid because of the lockdowns. so it's bigger than instagram.
that said, there are cool opportunities. SighSeeners dont exactly seem like the type to capitalize on most of them though
parks in the U.S. now are starting to require reservations. tbh it's a basic market failure. If parks are free (both in the sense of costing time or money), people are going to overconsume it
Most popular parks were never free - admission is about $35 these days. The most popular parks could easily charge $135 for admission, but they don't want to. Reservations are the only way to limit the number of visitors to the park capacity without discriminating against poorgays.
>tfw when dad would break out the huge atlas at gas stops during 10 hour drive for vacations
people actually used to stop their cars and ask random passersby for directions, imagine that
now most people wouldn't have a clue what the next street is called, never mind direct someone to a street half a mile away
I asked for directions in Paris and people just told me to look it up on my phone.
Battery was dead though, never actually got directions. Used city maps to figure it out.
It would be fun to go there, wait in line exchanging pleasantries like a normie, then once its your turn, drop your drawers and go full goatse with your phitographer catching multiple angles. Not only would you be the most dominant male in the vicinity but all of these instathots would do your bidding and make you go viral. Not sure how you'd monetize that but it would be fun
You know it's coming. I'm 31 and taking a couple of years off working to travel because I'm convinced within like 5 years time everything is going to have a 200% carbon tax on it and whatever else nonsense they can come up with
it absolutely burned back in 2021 thinking my window on being able to travel and see the world outside of canada was shut forever. How moronic I was to show up to work everyday like a good goy.
The sweetest part is the seething & kvetching from my booomers when they find out I wont be within 5000 miles of their geriatric asses after this year. They really thought nuking my life to the ground while literally pointing and laughing was going to get them a free PSW/tax cow.
Trying to just get my degree and leave before they pull out climate lockdowns. Wondering if that's even the right decision tbh, there's not even any shit labour jobs anymore because the economy is failing and they are importing 290183102 Indians a day
it absolutely burned back in 2021 thinking my window on being able to travel and see the world outside of canada was shut forever. How moronic I was to show up to work everyday like a good goy.
The sweetest part is the seething & kvetching from my booomers when they find out I wont be within 5000 miles of their geriatric asses after this year. They really thought nuking my life to the ground while literally pointing and laughing was going to get them a free PSW/tax cow.
You guys just opened up a new train of possibility's in my mind. Oh no.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/france-eu-cheap-air-tickets-flights-environment-emissions/
Right on cue guys. This is your advanced notice that it's coming sooner or later (the wef puppet saying '10 euro' is politicial talk to give a ridiculous example to not alienate the suckers who will then find out what they voted for got implemented as something like a 200 euro floor, or so it never works out cheaper than a train or something along those lines
Why are they being such homosexuals and waiting in a line to a public spot? Frick them. If I want to go see the view I'm going up there with or without you in the way.
Hot take: if you’re going to go somewhere that everyone knows about and that isn’t that hard to get to, you have no right to expect to have it to yourself.
Go somewhere that isn’t one of the top ten most popular tourist attractions in the country you’re visiting. Go on hikes that are actually hard.
Before instagram everyone complained that Lonely Planet guide books ruined travelling. Because as soon as great little spot or off the beaten track destination was published in one of those guides it would be inundated with npc normies. This is basically what happened to Phuket. I guess the real annoying difference with Instagram though is that it is driven by narcissism and so these destinations now become a magnet for really shit people.
>goes to a touristy place >waaaaaa why is there so many tourists
Go to the Andes, you can do amazing hikes with nobody in site.
This pic is also probably just one group going to a lookout point. If you hike alone it might not even be crowded
rec me the Andean spots with amazing hikes and no one around, pls. I'm going soon, already planning to visit: >tierra del fuego >pucon >el calafate >el chalten
If you know any in Bolivia or northern Argentina then I'd be interested. Peru as well but I've already visited a few years back
If you don’t support pricing out the middle and working class from international travel, you have zero right to complain about tourists.
Even with the terrible economy and rising prices, tourists are everywhere because it’s still affordable for them. Make a visit to Japan cost at minimum 200 USD a day for Spartan accommodations and you might see an improvement.
taking photos of yourself on vacation is fricking lame.
>wow look at this picture of something that there's a million better picture of BUT THIS ONE HAS MEEE IN IT!
I did once feel bad about this because I overheard my gf on the phone with her mom saying "yeah...he doesn't like to take photos..." when we were on vacation but frick it I stand by my original thoughts.
If taking photos of themselves makes people happy, what's the problem? You're not cool for being contrarian. Just take photos with your gf. She'll appreciate it.
Not really related but I don't feel like it deserves it's own thread:
Is just me or is there an increase in *insert race here* goes to country x and shocks local people by speaking their language or other similar actions? Maybe I'm the weirdo but who actually watches stuff like that?
Exploit it m8. Tourists have taken over dean village in edinburgh, even though there is nothing there, because they all want the same shot of the water that is all over instagram. It's my usual after work dog walking route so what I've started doing is dressing my westie up in tartan and a tam o shanter and charging a fiver for pictures as I kept getting asked by tourists.
It's just a picture sharing website that's owned by Zucc and used by normies. People try to post pictures on it that get lots of imaginary internet points and they end up going to the dance places and doing the same things.
Portable EMP device when
Let them all flock to the same place, sparing other places.
The worst is food. Some places are overhyped to death and nobody really knows why, they only mention about seeing it on Tiktok. Hilariously sad.
>Let them all flock to the same place, sparing other places.
Wish NZ will stop being flavour of the month - too many tourists and most of the money doesnt go to local community but foreign owners of hotels, tourist ventures, hell even most of our supermarkets are owned by foreign corporates.
Because its private land/ not tracked. This is Roy's Peak in Wanaka. Peter Thiel owns most of the land next to it.....
>The worst is food. Some places are overhyped to death and nobody really knows why, they only mention about seeing it on Tiktok. Hilariously sad.
It's one thing if the food was mediocre, but they can be confidently wrong about it, too. There are a lot of Prague tourists who think trdelnik (those stupid spit-roasted cakes you can find on every corner) and deep-fried pizza are authentic Czech creations.
>INSTAGRAM RUINED TRAVEL!
Yeah man, literally no boomer in the world has a selfie holding up the leaning tower of pisa. That sort of behavior clearly only came into existence the second instagram became popular. There is no way that behavior did not exist prior to instagram and it surely cannot be that instagram just made it easier for you to see people doing the same exact shit boomers have been doing for decades now.
Tour groups have always existed, you're a tourist exactly like the millions of others you complain about, you should not give a single solitary frick about waiting in line and just cut it and tell the homosexuals to frick off if they make a shitshow about you living life rather than living for an online profile.
Also, if you hate tourists so much just go off the beaten path and make your own adventure. It's literally never been easier to plan and make happen, nothing but you is stopping you, but oh no, god forbid you actually have to step outside of the major tourism center and stops on your vacation, every other tourist should just upend their vacation to accomodate you instead. Quit b***hing you spineless gay.
This is actually a good thing though, because it means that gullible morons will actually queue up for the fake trash and leave the authentic things to you who knows better than to listen to instatards and tiktrash.
>This is actually a good thing though, because it means that gullible morons will actually queue up for the fake trash and leave the authentic things to you who knows better than to listen to instatards and tiktrash.
I hate that you're right about this. I'm not happy about it, but it makes perfect sense.
It was unironically my experience in Prague. Despite looking up tons of "locals only" spots on a publicly available youtube video (honest guide) with tens to millions of views, I was still the only foreigner in many spots I went to. Widely disseminated information, completely ignored by almost all its viewers. I went to the bookshop balcony on wenceslas sq the guy recommended, and saw across the street how tourists were waiting and desperate to hit up the hotel rooftop across the street. People severely overestimate how much "damage" instagram and social media does to places, when outside of the big name tourist landmarks there really isn't much harm done as most places that get "discovered" end up being made, designed and marketed for tourists instead of locals in the first place, or are overhyped garbage relying on a gimmick that sounds good on social media but isn't actually good as its all just gimmick trash.
I don't get why you'd be sad about this being the case either. You can't lament that tourists are flocking to your favorite spots and have ruined travel while at the same time bemoan that they're avoiding your favorite spots as they get scammed for not doing the bare minimum research. The whole "social media ruined travel" is ironically, the most social media take possible. It is self absorbed nonsense ready to go viral as people jump in on the same message without a second thought. The reality behind "travel" on social media is
>most viewers will not ever actually go
>most viewers don't even have a passport
>most viewers are unable to afford the vacation itself (reminder that half of burgers live paycheck to paycheck and have no savings)
You at most have a handful of people, who would have gone anyway, and are now steered into tourist traps to leave you free to explore the actual gems of the country. I fail to see the "harm" of this.
If anything Instagram just funnels all the narcissistic morons into one spot.
>Oh and one final thing, Timesplitters 4
I'm still waiting 15 years later
it's true, I watched a quite a bit of youtube to prep for japan. it was mostly bullshit.
One of my family members showed me a tiktok of a local resturaunt nearby. They asked to check it out because the tiktok made the food look good. We went (despite the fairly mediocre reviews). Dear me that place was awful. Literally microwaved frozen food for a high price and one of the worst decors I have ever seen (that wasn't shown in the tiktok). They must be staying in business off that tiktok clout.
wow that's a pretty radical opinion anon
so brave of you to say it
if you look carefully you can see a lot of hills in the background with not a single tourist on top of them
that's literally me
lol even neuschwanstein castle you just have to hike 2 minutes up the hill beyond the Marienbrucke bridge and you are virtually completely alone with a better view than from the bridge
as long as some incel doesn't push you off the mountain
Who gives a frick what happens on Instagram.
Seeing pretty girls put on fake faces for pictures is amusing to watch. It doesn't get me bent out of shape.
If you have a phobia of vain pretty girls, don't go to the most popular tourist hotspots.
Walking off trail and trampling vegetation to create a new Instagram spot is the absolute worst. Just fricking wait in line for your stupid selfie.
I hate being in pics so I would just take a pic of all the morons queueing up like on the left and move on with my life
feels good to be a loser
Me too. I'd probably enjoy it if I was handsome though.
>I would just take a pic of all the morons queueing up
i did something like this when i went to the louvre and saw everyone queuing up to take selfies with the mona lisa. i stood to the side and took pictures of the crowd around the painting.
i thought by doing this i was being somehow ironic and cool. afterwards i realised that i was just being a twat. i let my cynicism get in the way of enjoying a moment with the world's most famous painting. now i try to live and let live a bit more
still not taking any selfies though
That walk gets even worse, when I did it there was a helicopter flying up a couple to take wedding photos.
>my gf at the time made me wait in that fricken line to take the OP pic
Props to you for keeping your temper. I'd give myself a proper 50% chance of throwing myself into a childish tantrum.
Based helichad BTFO’ing poorgay tourists
also, quick story:
once i was walking with my girlfriend around greenwich (london) near the observatory.
we were so totally absorbed in each other and our conversation that we weren't really paying attention to our surroundings
suddenly we hear yelling and eventually realised there were people yelling at us
we had inadvertently strolled onto the meridian line which is embedded into the ground
there were people queuing up to take selfies there too (see pic related) and without noticing we had just cut in front of about a hundred chinese tourists and ruined someone's picture
my girlfriend just glares back at them, pulls her phone out, takes a quick selfie of us and walks off with two hundred slanty eyes burning holes into our back
she was crazy. i miss her
tldr : we accidentally cut a queue, photobombed some tourists and pissed off 100 chinks
I didn't take a photo but did something similar at Cloud Gate in Chicago. At least 50 people spread out trying to command as much space as possible for their stupid fricking selfie. Walked straight through and under the bean with headphones on as nu-males said 'DO YOU MIND?' with their ugly girlfriends
Are there any places in the Western world to travel without stumbling upon any chunks?
They disappeared after covid here in Luzern.
>no chinks
>no indians (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-stop-issuing-visas-to-indian-tour-groups/48698856)
>i already have a flight to switzerland next week
I'm in Switzerland now and it's full of Indians and Chinese. Loads of Arabs too. And way too many reddit tier Americans
Shame what happened to my favourite country. Used to be Japs and Europeans only.
frick
>I'm in Switzerland now
no, you are in lauterbrunner or some trap like that
>and it's full of Indians and Chinese. Loads of Arabs too. And way too many reddit tier Americans
no, it's just you that you are moronic. kys
I visited Switzerland last year and he's completely right.
I didn't see a single asian or arab in Zermatt when I was there for a week in the winter last year.
>I visited Switzerland
no, you visited a tourist trap in Switzerland.
you have no idea how a normal place in Switzerland looks loke
>Grindewald
you see? you are moronic
literally in Campo Blenio right now. there's only local tourism (Ticinese and Swiss German) and it's peak tourist season.
I wonder how the places i go are deserted and wild but the places the average SighSeetard goes are built-up and full of chinks
I've been going to the same region all my life and it's turning to shit.
The same will happen to where you are.
kys
Based, city slickers crying like always meanwhile I just go off the path through some tall grass or whatever for a few minutes and I end up at OP's pic but with 99.9% less people.
it's not even off-trail, it's on a side of the lake and the trail is on the other side. it was a late august weekend, with excellend weather (yesterday), yet i had the whole place for me the whole time basically
that place won't get popular on instagram because it's a 4 hours steep hike from the closest road, and it's actually nothing special for Switzerland. there are thousands of places like that in Switzerland. they show up only in hiking reports in dedicated websites
and that's well documented, let's leave alone anything off-trail
Best spots have cable cars reaching them
>Best spots have cable cars reaching them
Yeah that's what it's like on the top.
No place to put your tent down. You can go to the next best view.
Oh wait there is a cable car there too.
Oh well maybe the one after that, oh no it has a train station.
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I'm another anon based in Switzerland. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Oh yeah the dried out, shriveled limp dick Oberaarglacier looks just as good as the Aletschglacier viewed from the train accessible Jungfraujoch anon.
>Best spots have cable cars reaching them
Would be perfect with the Fujifilm logo on the camera
>most beautiful place has been taken over
>I will meekly move over to the next best spot
>t-this is a-also beautiful
>this continues multiple times
Loser behaviour tbh
The actual nicest places are generally too hard to reach for the general public and as far as I'm concerned the lack of crowds only enhances their beauty. The easy to reach and beautiful places just get all the hype these days due to social media.
> muh but if you go to this secret spot 300 km from anywhere you will find zero chinks and browns ergo your post is not valid
come on guys. sure if you visit out of season (i.e. not July/August) and go to remote hiking areas you will only see white people, but there is definitely an Arab/pajeet problem in switzerland. Grindewald felt a bit like Mogadishu or Mumbai. Even the trains were full of pajeets - not even tourists I think, just pajeets working the low end jobs. and then you had the odd chink girl disappointed that there were no whites, only limp-wristed saudis with their 4 wives and brown people
I went to Switzerland in 2009, summer season, and there was hardly anyone there. Compared to other countries it felt so empty and serene.
The world was completely different 15 years ago.
Same. At least every other year I visit. It's going downhill in rapid pace.
Literally in Wengen today kek.
But yeah, luckily only white people hike so its easy to get away from it all.
But visiting Jungfraujoch without smelly people before social media and dirty people travelling was so much better than it would be now.
Lots of places. Don't be moronic anon.
Canada is no longer an officially approved travel destination for China because they're mad we started looking into corruption or something, idk I don't follow politics ever since trudeu abandoned electoral reform after campaigning on it and nobody cared, but all the tourism industry places are crying about lost profits and I'm really looking forward to a chinkless year
>they're mad we started looking into corruption or something, idk I don't follow politics
What's funny is that I do follow Canadian politics to an extent, and even I have trouble narrowing it down. It could be one or more of these:
A) Illegal Chinese police stations operating in Canada
B) The shipment of fentanyl that came from China, with more than enough to kill the whole country
C) The arrest of Huawei's CEO, Meng Wanzhou (and China's retaliation by arresting two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor)
D) Chinese people laundering their money through casinos
E) Chinese people laundering their money through real estate and driving up property values, making it more difficult for local Canadians to afford housing
F) China interfering with Canadian elections
>I'm really looking forward to a chinkless year
Same. I actually might travel in Canada for a change.
My parents took me there when i was about 8 years old, there was basically nobody there. That’s so depressing theres a fricking line of tourists now, its not even a great place for a photo unless your a history/geography nerd, OPs picture I can understand the appeal to normies.
>Chinks actually queueing for anything.
Should have taken a photo of that. It's something few will ever see.
Should have married her, anon
Whenever I see a line of people waiting to take a selfie, I just ignore them all. I'll walk up, enjoy the scenery, putz around for a bit pretending to not see them, then walk away. Nobody has ever tried to stop me.
Even if people are lining up for selfies with something I don't care about, I'll waddle into the background. Oftentimes there'll be some person managing the queue and they're operating on a strict time limit and have no choice but to wave people through, take the picture, and move to the next while I'm tarding it up in the background.
Instagram is certainly a major contributor, but it's bigger than that.
I'm in my late 30s now and when I first travelled on my own you'd go to countries like Thailand and Sri Lanka and barely anyone had the internet, phone and a lot of them didn't even have a TV, they'd go to snooker halls and other social meeting points to watch TV. People were fascinated to hear about where you were from because they barely knew anything about it, they'd get a kick out of just seeing what our currency looked like.
Fast forward to now and the internet's changed everything, hence why we have mass migration happening. We're just as guilty, how many of us go somewhere without being inspired to go and researching on the internet?
When I was a kid most people just went to places that were sold by travel agents - it was pretty rare to book a flight and hotel separately. I used to read loads of travel books and make crude itineraries annotating paper maps of places I wanted to visit. First time I went to Japan I just had a ticket phrase book and a paper map of Tokyo with lots of markings and notes on it.
Instagram and travel-bragging has certainly created hotspots, especially these view points. Horseshoe Bend is a nightmare now. You used to be able to go there for sunrise and it'd just be a few people chilling, appreciating the view. Now you've got people doing tik toks and jumping around, who are there and gone in 10 minutes.
Hopefully these spots will become memes like people posing with tigers did and they'll move on to the next thing.
I think this is more accurate
the problem is that social life in ALL countries got fricked by the internet. people dont go outside and they dont know how to interact socially, and there are no sanctioned social activities that they feel comfortable doing. so nothing happens
this got worse post covid because of the lockdowns. so it's bigger than instagram.
that said, there are cool opportunities. SighSeeners dont exactly seem like the type to capitalize on most of them though
there is nothing stopping people from not queueing and ruining photos.
parks in the U.S. now are starting to require reservations. tbh it's a basic market failure. If parks are free (both in the sense of costing time or money), people are going to overconsume it
Most popular parks were never free - admission is about $35 these days. The most popular parks could easily charge $135 for admission, but they don't want to. Reservations are the only way to limit the number of visitors to the park capacity without discriminating against poorgays.
> ywn be a 1960s travel writer using only paper maps and local knowledge
>tfw when dad would break out the huge atlas at gas stops during 10 hour drive for vacations
people actually used to stop their cars and ask random passersby for directions, imagine that
now most people wouldn't have a clue what the next street is called, never mind direct someone to a street half a mile away
I asked for directions in Paris and people just told me to look it up on my phone.
Battery was dead though, never actually got directions. Used city maps to figure it out.
Funnily enough I found Italians were the exact opposite. They also gave me pretty good tips for good priced restaurants and cool religious monuments.
It would be fun to go there, wait in line exchanging pleasantries like a normie, then once its your turn, drop your drawers and go full goatse with your phitographer catching multiple angles. Not only would you be the most dominant male in the vicinity but all of these instathots would do your bidding and make you go viral. Not sure how you'd monetize that but it would be fun
Travel is far cheaper, far easier with the internet, and there are far more people (India and China) traveling than ever before.
Everything's extremely expensive and unaffordable now after covid. Give it until the WEF bans all travel with the climate lockdowns/
You know it's coming. I'm 31 and taking a couple of years off working to travel because I'm convinced within like 5 years time everything is going to have a 200% carbon tax on it and whatever else nonsense they can come up with
god, same
it absolutely burned back in 2021 thinking my window on being able to travel and see the world outside of canada was shut forever. How moronic I was to show up to work everyday like a good goy.
The sweetest part is the seething & kvetching from my booomers when they find out I wont be within 5000 miles of their geriatric asses after this year. They really thought nuking my life to the ground while literally pointing and laughing was going to get them a free PSW/tax cow.
Trying to just get my degree and leave before they pull out climate lockdowns. Wondering if that's even the right decision tbh, there's not even any shit labour jobs anymore because the economy is failing and they are importing 290183102 Indians a day
You guys just opened up a new train of possibility's in my mind. Oh no.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/france-eu-cheap-air-tickets-flights-environment-emissions/
Right on cue guys. This is your advanced notice that it's coming sooner or later (the wef puppet saying '10 euro' is politicial talk to give a ridiculous example to not alienate the suckers who will then find out what they voted for got implemented as something like a 200 euro floor, or so it never works out cheaper than a train or something along those lines
Why are they being such homosexuals and waiting in a line to a public spot? Frick them. If I want to go see the view I'm going up there with or without you in the way.
>proceeds to get his ass beaten
typical third world darkie behavior
That's not even a hot take bro.
Here's a hot take though: Airplanes and internet ruined travel.
I see your planes and internet and raise. Quinine ruined travel.
I'll do you one better: Wheels ruined travel. What ever happened to just traveling by foot? Such laziness.
I uninstalled Instagram and all social media except messenger for catching up with friends, family. Best decision ever made
Hot take: if you’re going to go somewhere that everyone knows about and that isn’t that hard to get to, you have no right to expect to have it to yourself.
Go somewhere that isn’t one of the top ten most popular tourist attractions in the country you’re visiting. Go on hikes that are actually hard.
what annoys me is that chicks always do the same dumb poses; they have no originality
i like "the pose"
Before instagram everyone complained that Lonely Planet guide books ruined travelling. Because as soon as great little spot or off the beaten track destination was published in one of those guides it would be inundated with npc normies. This is basically what happened to Phuket. I guess the real annoying difference with Instagram though is that it is driven by narcissism and so these destinations now become a magnet for really shit people.
>goes to a touristy place
>waaaaaa why is there so many tourists
Go to the Andes, you can do amazing hikes with nobody in site.
This pic is also probably just one group going to a lookout point. If you hike alone it might not even be crowded
rec me the Andean spots with amazing hikes and no one around, pls. I'm going soon, already planning to visit:
>tierra del fuego
>pucon
>el calafate
>el chalten
If you know any in Bolivia or northern Argentina then I'd be interested. Peru as well but I've already visited a few years back
>where can i find a mountain in the andes
imagine being this moronic
i hate women
If you don’t support pricing out the middle and working class from international travel, you have zero right to complain about tourists.
Even with the terrible economy and rising prices, tourists are everywhere because it’s still affordable for them. Make a visit to Japan cost at minimum 200 USD a day for Spartan accommodations and you might see an improvement.
taking photos of yourself on vacation is fricking lame.
>wow look at this picture of something that there's a million better picture of BUT THIS ONE HAS MEEE IN IT!
I did once feel bad about this because I overheard my gf on the phone with her mom saying "yeah...he doesn't like to take photos..." when we were on vacation but frick it I stand by my original thoughts.
If taking photos of themselves makes people happy, what's the problem? You're not cool for being contrarian. Just take photos with your gf. She'll appreciate it.
Not really related but I don't feel like it deserves it's own thread:
Is just me or is there an increase in *insert race here* goes to country x and shocks local people by speaking their language or other similar actions? Maybe I'm the weirdo but who actually watches stuff like that?
Exploit it m8. Tourists have taken over dean village in edinburgh, even though there is nothing there, because they all want the same shot of the water that is all over instagram. It's my usual after work dog walking route so what I've started doing is dressing my westie up in tartan and a tam o shanter and charging a fiver for pictures as I kept getting asked by tourists.
it's just normie culture filtering autists
I have never seen instagram in my life and have no idea what it actually is
It's just a picture sharing website that's owned by Zucc and used by normies. People try to post pictures on it that get lots of imaginary internet points and they end up going to the dance places and doing the same things.