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As much as I love Germany and Austria as a destination to travel to, Munich just wasn't a city that I was a fan of.
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I hated Rome the first day. Hordes of tourists everywhere congesting the road, many of which being the sort of tourists with no real respect for the local people. We were getting ripped off everywhere and struggling to find decent foods, paying £12 each for an orange juice and focaccia.Bali, Phuket are cesspit shitholes. The pure desperation of the poor people, the exploitation, the waves of plastic at the beach and the rubbish everywhere - its hard to take and relax. Hate those places and will never go back. I found Mauritius very boring, and thought Rome was a hole outside the city centre.
Where in Bali?Bali, Phuket are cesspit shitholes. The pure desperation of the poor people, the exploitation, the waves of plastic at the beach and the rubbish everywhere - its hard to take and relax. Hate those places and will never go back. I found Mauritius very boring, and thought Rome was a hole outside the city centre.
Where in Bali?
Unfortunately most people don’t venture outside Kuta which I agree is a dump. Lots of beautiful places on the Island if you get away from Kuta.
Have you ever traveled to a place that is generally a popular destination, that you were looking forward to visiting but when you arrived you found you didn't like it for one reason or another?
Istanbul- felt it was dirty and rather unappealing. The only nice thing I liked there was the Grand Bazaar
Hollywood- Is real dumpy and trashy. Once you see a few Hollywood stars they are all the same
Thailand- Once again pretty dumpy an unclean away from the resorts. The beaches are pretty dirty too
Berlin- I found Berling quite over rated and boring however it pissed down rain for 4 straights days so being able to walk and fully explore was a little limited so this may be why I found it a bot boring. Will give this place a second try at some stage
Grand Canyon- I flew by chopper over it and landed down in the canyon. Don't get me wrong it was nice and all but it is just really a big hole in the ground.
Paris- Over rated. I like the buildings and what not but **** me the people were rude and I don't see every bodies love affair with this city
Cape Town for me - this is going to turn into a rant, cos I was so affected by it.
CT is marketed as this little European city on the Western Cape... and unfortunately that's kind of what they've made it. Especially around the city and the waterfront (which is the gateway to Robben Island) it's this horribly soulless, ugly place that gentrified away all of its history. It kind of reminds me a little of the Circular Quay if it didn't have the Opera House.
I was there for 5 days, and it was also windy as ****, so the Table Mountain cable car wasn't in operation. So on day 4 I hiked my fat arse up the mountain on foot and could barely walk for 3 days... all for a slightly better view than you get from the car park!
My biggest problem with it though is culturally. I started out my trip in Jo'burg, including going to the cricket. Despite the dangerous reputation, I ******* loved Josi. Sure, as a middle class white guy from Australia there are things that are confronting. But I loved the culture, I loved how well it's preserved its history, and I loved it's people. It's the beautiful little microcosm of the rainbow nation, especially if you meet the locals and see how happy and cheerful they are while hustling there arses off to afford food to eat.
Cape Town though? You could be a tourist there, doing touristy things, and in a nation where something like 5 out of 6 people are non-white, the only non-white people you see are the people serving you, running tours etc. It's gentrification has deliberately driven black communities away from the city (with the exception of BoKaap, which is traditionally people of Asian descent anyway, as opposed to black people.) You go to the cricket there, and the non-white people are crammed into decrepit little stands that look like they're going to fall down, while the white people sit in these horrifically grandiose stands that are more private boxes than anything else. And if you see the outskirts of Cape Town? There are still thousands of poor black people living in corrugated iron shanty towns. Which is horrific enough in the 21st century - but even moreso when you consider that these ******* things were still being built to get poor black people out of sight and out of mind in the lead up to the 2010 World Cup. Which was over 15 years after Mandela became president.
Go to Africa, sure. Go to Josi, go to Durban, go to Kruger - but if I can stop one person from going to Cape Town and think that it's any sort of representation of what South Africa is (and should be), then I'll feel like I've achieved something for the non-white friends that I made there.
Heard CT is a beautiful looking city but very unsafe feeling.My sister just got back from CT and said the same thing. She loved Pretoria but.
You've been to some fairly different cities and I went to a similar mix and had the same experience.I'll make a big generalisation here and I've only been to new York, Atlanta, San Francisco and Hawaii, but I don't get the love for America. Don't like the culture, it's expensive, manhattan is just a big concrete jungle and it just didn't do it for me the month I spent there.
Malta - Dirty, expensive, horrible food (could not find a single restaurant that served palatable food). People are friendly enough but would not go back.
Thailand - Great people, food was pretty good, cheap, but its pretty dirty and unappealing. Not a very good family destination or place to just relax and enjoy the surroundings.
Libya - Despotic place, racked with corruption. Plenty of horrible looks from the locals, had to travel with an armed escort when travelling through parts of Tripoli.
California - Never again, the place has lost its freaken mind. LA is disgusting and the people are loathsome. Seattle is ok, reminds me of Melbourne but even further down the progressive rabbit hole. Mid West and Northern states, however, are geographically beautiful and diverse. The people are very friendly and are always happy to take you in.
California is an amazing place. LA and Disneyland are shitstains, but the rest of the state is beautiful.California - Never again, the place has lost its freaken mind. LA is disgusting and the people are loathsome. Seattle is ok, reminds me of Melbourne but even further down the progressive rabbit hole. Mid West and Northern states, however, are geographically beautiful and diverse. The people are very friendly and are always happy to take you in.