What Popular Attractions Really Look Like

While surfing social media, you may want to see many famous touristic places or cities and visit them. However, it is useful to know that most of the images and videos we see in the media are misleading. Otherwise, your abroad holiday plan may end in frustration.

For example, let’s say you want to see the Eiffel Tower and go to France. What will greet you will be a crowd that constantly takes pictures. Or let’s say you want to see the Mona Lisa. You’ll most likely have to line up, which has turned into a heap. Let’s look at other examples together.

Let’s start with the Great Wall of China, which has an impressive story and image.

It would of course be better if the impressive part did not remain in the photographs

Another stunning view comes from Mount Fuji in Japan

But The view you will see when you go, will most likely be similar to this

The Eiffel Tower also looks fascinating from the outside

But there will be a stampede waiting for you here

Grand Bazaar, one of the most prominent tourist attractions of Istanbul

But it is not easy to get around there either (98007 02)

Let’s say you saw this photo and wanted to go to Paris to visit the Mona Lisa

When you get there, the view you will encounter at the Louvre Museum will be similar to this:

Did you say we will push the Leaning Tower of Pisa and leave?

You won’t be alone there

• Photo: Martin Parr

​You may be planning a romantic gondola ride in Venice with your partner or lover.

You’ll need to take traffic into account when planning

Taj Mahal

But you won’t be alone here

A walk in Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes National Park can take all your stress away…

But collectively

You may be enchanted by seeing the waterfalls named Cascate del Mulino in Italy on Instagram

But if you do decide to go, know that you won’t be alone there

(98 00701) The Brooklyn Bridge, which was finally put into service in 1883, is also very famous, you can choose it

Instagram of course not to regret it consider real images instead of photos

All this is not just so you know that there will be other people wherever you go:

Especially on Instagram, pictures of many touristic places that look perfect are displayed, and for this reason, people can be disappointed when they go to these places. After that, we see that those places are mentioned in bad ways.

Every place on our list has a different story and beauty. For this reason, we recommend that you take realistic thoughts with you, not what you see on Instagram, and aim for a pleasant experience first, even if you want to collect photos as memories. Otherwise, for the sake of a few photos, your entire experience, that is, the most important part, may go to waste.