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If Grand Canyon and Pyramids at Giza couldn’t impress you then I am really intrigued to know what were a few of your best tourist locations? Some fishing trip or beach ?
It's been said before, but I'll say it again Mount Rushmore was a let down. If you're going to visit the Black Hills anyway, then I guess it's worth a stop, but it just wasn't worth all the hype. I've seen it once, I never need to see it again.
Disneyland isn't worth the cost of admission to fight with the hundreds of people in lines, and the rides are o.k., but not all that thrilling, and not worth the wait. I'll never forget waiting for over an hour to ride the Peter Pan ride and when it was over even my four year old was unimpressed and said "That's it?"
Taos Pueblo. The Indians are noticeably resentful and contemptuous of the tourists, who pay to come in and look at their 500 year old mud homes and buy their silver jewelry made in North Carolina. Seriously, a racket, and the natives don't like you.
Funny to see some of the people who come in with good attitudes, ooh and ah at everything there, which really isn't much. A couple of friendly tour guides will regale you with the historic reasons they don't like you.
The Alps is amazing with beautiful jagged peaks. Nowhere in N America can compare
I haven't really seen the Alps, but if I did, I would be disappointed for sure. Why? When you've seen the Andes and Himalayan mountains, those Alps will look like hills to me, just like the Catalina Mountains here in Tucson.
I don't think Nn2036 is talking about elevation when they say nothing in North America compares to the Alps, the Alps aren't that tall compared to many other mountain ranges and Denali is certainly much higher.
I assume they mean the appearance, which is subjective of course.
I guess I'm a Pollyanna or perhaps travel to tourist sites with different expectations but I've been trying real hard to come up with a disappointment on location. The best I can do is Hollywood, 30+ years ago... ho hum, nothing much there really.
But I think I'm so jazzed up whenever I travel to a new place, especially when taking a break in my working years, that I get by on just novelty & change of scene pretty well. But I simply don't wait on long lines anymore, period. Haven't missed anything although the Sistine Chapel would've been nice to see, but not for hours in a crowd after paying a hefty price.
I'm with you. Very few natural places have disappointed me. Even loved the Alamo because I understood the point. But then I can find the beauty in a single leaf or a mountain range; in the architecture or the history. Wonder what so many people are expecting at these tourist locations?
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