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Archive for September 18th, 2016

Travellers: Cairo Is Full Of Rude People And Dubai Is Soulless

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on September 18, 2016

 Travellers Reveal The Worst Places They’ve Visited

  • Dubai, UAE, was blasted as being ‘soulless, cultureless and artificial’

  • Venice in Italy was branded overrated and extortionately overpriced

  • Sihanoukville in Cambodia was labelled a ‘hole’ by several commenters

hamtaxiIt’s easy to rave about the most amazing places we’ve been in the world, but you hear less about the worst.

Reddit users have taken to the online community to reveal their destination clangers, whether it’s because the cities were uninspiring, filthy, or overcrowded.

Some of them were surprising – Paris and Venice for example – and were declared overrated ‘tourist traps’; while others were locations more off the radar, with places like Little Rock Arkansas simply blasted for being dull.

Cairo – Egypt’s ancient capital – was panned by several Reddit users, with two labelling the people there ‘rude’.

‘The city is filthy and the people were just awful,’ one remarked. ‘Crooked taxi drivers that won’t run the meter and won’t take non-Muslims,’ another wrote.

Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur and Italy’s famed Venice were both mentioned as being extortionately overpriced.

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