One of my (Julie) crankiest times traveling was in Singapore at the Raffles Hotel. I haaaaated it. It was the worst kind of tourist trap IMO: full of white people indulging in their
colonial wet dreams. It was just...wrong. š£
We never go to tourist stops when weāre on the road, but we did make a Vic Falls, or Mosi-oa-Tunya in the local Zambian language, stop. If you can get past the gift shops and tourists, itās a lovely walk. The falls are beautiful and it felt so good to be out of the car. But thereās a definite reason we usually bypass touristy areas. š
After thousands of miles through seven countries, it felt strange to be in such a big tourist center. It is super hard to square the tour busses that say āExplorer Club, Africaā and tourists in safari gear with the daily life (and hustle and grind) weāve been seeing, and that exists juuust outside the city. No shade, but itās a tiny bit jarring. š¤·āāļø Itās not as bad as the Raffles by a long shot. Nature does her thing, thankfully, and that can redeem just about anything. Still, we couldnāt help wondering what the place would look like without all the souvenir shops. š§
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