{"id":1271,"date":"2011-05-02T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2020-06-13T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T18:11:16","slug":"bad-travel-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/bad-travel-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Travel Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel clich\u00e9s abound everywhere, but some are worse than others. And I\u2019m not talking about clich\u00e9 places to visit, either. The Eiffel Tower, in all sincerity, is definitely worth a visit. Instead, here\u2019s a list of travel clich\u00e9s that, in my opinion, have come to the end of their journey.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Durians<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are two kinds of people in the world, those who already know about Durians, and those who still find them completely new, amazing, and fascinating. This smelly and spikey Asian fruit is always featured on travel shows as some sort of exotic and new discovery, as if Christopher Columbus had just brought one back from his latest expedition.\u00a0 In reality, every traveler who has remotely heard of the continent of Asia has seen one, and perhaps even eaten one. In fact, they are so prevalent in some Asian countries that they have been legally outlawed in public places due to their smell (in much the same way that smoking in public restaurants is forbidden).<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wq-Urai-nX4?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"right img-right\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1273\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1273\" title=\"Holding the Pyramid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_8525-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Holding the Pyramid\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just because I am doing this does not mean that you should, too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cHolding Up The Building\u201d Photos<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019re all guilty of this crime. The sooner you confess, the sooner you can move on with your life. Whether it\u2019s the Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal, or the Pyramids, it\u2019s been done before. Just don\u2019t do it any more, please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting High<\/strong><br \/>\nSo you planned your trip for months, paid a lot of money for a plane ticket, and journey to a strange land across the sea to learn about different cultures and meet new people. And what\u2019s the first thing you do? You find some \u201cgood stuff\u201d and smoke up? Well, you could have done that at home for a lot less trouble. Seriously, you\u2019re not actually experiencing the culture. If you take a few minutes and look around, you\u2019ll realize that most people actually aren\u2019t doing this, even in Amsterdam, Morocco, Colombia, and Thailand. This \u201cexperience\u201d you\u2019re looking for is not where the real travel adventures are to be found, so if this is what you want to do, then do the rest of us a favor and stay home.<\/p>\n<p>Got any others? Let\u2019s hear your biggest clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel clich\u00e9s abound everywhere, but some are worse than others. And I\u2019m not talking about clich\u00e9 places to visit, either. The Eiffel Tower, in all sincerity, is definitely worth a visit. Instead, here\u2019s a list of travel clich\u00e9s that, in my opinion, have come to the end of their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,75],"tags":[500,89,627,290,636,368,632,637,629,630,631,306,307,73,174,625,581,622,633,634,626,94,628,635,15,431],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news","category-travel-stories","tag-amsterdam","tag-asia","tag-christopher-columbus","tag-colombia","tag-continent","tag-culture","tag-discovery","tag-durians","tag-eiffel","tag-expedition","tag-fruit","tag-journey","tag-money","tag-morocco","tag-photos","tag-pisa","tag-plane","tag-pyramids","tag-smell","tag-smoking","tag-taj-mahal","tag-thailand","tag-ticket","tag-tower","tag-travel","tag-traveler","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 00:37:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}