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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
The Dark Hedges. Not our number one tourist destination, but probably the most overrated one. It's some trees that appeared in Game of Thrones and the over-tourism + the increase in stormy weather thanks to climate change is killing them.
We've more popular places like the Giant's Causeway and the Derry walls, but those places are worth visiting at least.
The Bob Ross caliber view of the Rocky Mountains should be the answer, but tourists always go for the big stupid churches that just look like every other big stupid church.
My area isn't too tourist heavy until you go to the mountains, but I once saw a bunch of tourists crowd around a rattler and one of the dumb fucks got bit. Closest thing I can think of, actually correction I've seen some tourists amazed by a sand storm coming off a dry lakebed on a turnout along the 15.
The sea. Fr I grew up here and it's a'ight, but like... People freak out. I feel sad for people who live inland.
Also if you want to see an actual nice beach then get to know some locals and find out where they go. Tourist beaches are always ruined by tourists and tourism businesses.
Hot air balloons. I see them in the sky most mornings when I go for a walk, weather permitting.
Where are you located? I thought hot air balloons are really rare these days, like less than 200 in the world
Or am I thinking of blimps?
So I do Uber in a small town tourist trap in a very red state. Convention center has a gun show what seems like every other month. I picked up some people from another country at the hotel next to the convention center on one of these all too common days. A dude was in the cross walk with some kinda hunting rifle on his back, and they immediately started trying to take pictures. Granted I have never seen the dude at McDonald's/Baskin Robbins with an AR strap to himself and two other pistols on his hip, so this city is at least that civilized.
In Sydney most trains...
(a) Are double decker
(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.
Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish's brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.
I live in the middle of a very sparsely populated forest. Tourists want to see the black bears, wolves, eagles, loons, and deer. You will see the deer, eagles, and loons if you are on a lake. But you probably need to spend serious time in the forest on foot to bump a bear or wolf. If you want to see those, we have a bear and then a wolf center where biologists study their behavior and keep a small number in captivity. And evidently, both centers are pretty famous for the work they do with other wildlife biologists around the world.
And oddly enough come fall, they drive around to see the leaves on the trees turn pretty colors. It's popular enough that news stations in the one large metropolitan area we have in this state, actually tracks and includes the rate and areas where the leaves are turning color so tourists can drive and see them.
When winter arrives, we get a fair number that drive here to go ice fishing when the ice gets safe enough to drive on.
Montreal. I don't understand the people that excitedly wait for the metro to arrive and take pictures. It's a subway.
People that take panoramic shots of downtown of people walking on the sidewalk.
I guess some tourists come from places with no rail or sidewalks.
I live near the Rocky Mountain line so I've seen it many times. People I've met in other cities I've lived in always say they're jealous that I'm close to such a place but live there long enough and they just become another mountain
I've only ever lived in Northern Ohio and Florida, two very flat places. So when I visited Denver, it was so weird to see the mountains always looming RIGHT THERE. You always know which way is West.
Lately it's been the waymos (driverless cars) in San Francisco, assume it's the same in the other couple cities there going. They've been going a couple years now so they've been normalized for locals but every so often I see people taking pictures of them or waving there hands in front of them trying to fuck with them.
