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What's the difference between a tourist and a traveller? Holidify, a company catering to people wishing to visit India, just released a series of simple images illustrating their interpretation of this question. Spoiler alert! If you like to stay in hotels and own a selfie stick, you're probably a tourist!

What do you think of this comparison? Do you agree? Vote on the best image below, or add your opinion in the comments section!

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ZsófiaPáll
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10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

one doesn't necessarily exclude the other :)

GhilesToubal
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10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But a traveller do it with an apn not with a smart phone ;)

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PandasAreMyFav
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10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like how the traveller respects and captures non,/important moments in history with a camera. The traveler shows the world in a different perspective that would not exist without him/her.! :DD “Amazing Work!"

Bumble Boom
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow Wow Wow This is what i felt after reading post and seeing pictures. Its seems to engaging and one can have great family time. I am so looking forward for one visit here.Thanks for sharing info https://www.bumbleboom.in

ChrisHill
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10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Over-simplification/generalization fail

RadeMartinović
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10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The photo on the right will end up meaningless. If it is good, it won't be any different than photos already on shutter sites. Photo on the left would be unique.

Optima Travels
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best ever depiction justifying the content and its distinction ....... https://indiagoldentriangletours.org/

John Son
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most Popular & Affordable Tour Packages As Per Your Budget Check now - https://tourisp.com/

Saiprashnavali
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree with the points you mentioned about the difference between tourists and travelers. https://www.saiprashnavali.com/

Telugu Tech Real
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

fantastic article thanks for sharing, I appereciate your work

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    PromiseCadet
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i like to visit rare and unreachable places

    RichardScouse
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would say number 2 should be....if you call yourself a Traveller...then you are a tourist. Seen thousand of 'travellers' in Van Vieng all watching episodes of Friends waering the same smelly clothes and drinking Beer Lao...such adventurers. Meanwhile down the street a well dressed Korean 'tourist' was using his recently learnt Lao. I would call the Korean a traveller not the mass backpackers.

    GinoArduini
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    get off the road! you'll never get back to the beaten path! =D

    AbuzarSuhaib
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tourist always keeps moving forward, no matter the circumstances/consequences

    Triund Trek India
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Appreciating the time and energy you put into your blog and detailed information you present. It’s great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same outdated rehashed information. Wonderful read! https://www.triund-trek.com

    Shahzad Ashiq
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my wish is to see whole world, but my great wish to see taj mahal. because taj mahal is very beautiful place. for know more vist this site https://www.blogshistory.com/2018/11/tajmahal.html

    Air View Services
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    http://www.airviewservices.in/kasol-himachal-pradesh-india1.html

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    EdSheeranIsBae
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pfft I'm a Traveller and I always hang out with other people :L

    ThomasBorja
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But are you stuck with those other people or can you just move from group to group, that's what I think this signifies

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    Atharv Agarwal
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no it implies that people are tourists more often than travellers and that tourists outnumber travellers enormously

    Caïus-cassius Clay
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a traveller will travel alone, then meet people in the country they travel, a tourist bring his s**t with him, and his F... culture, can't open an eye to another culture

    SandraLuz
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well... it depends the place you go.

    SusanBertke
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tourists are guided around in a group, like sheep. The tour guide (shepherd) decides what they will see, where they will shop, etc. Travellers are more likely to head off on their own, talk to the locals, find the places the tours don't go to... So this one gets my vote. But Travellers don't necessarily have to sleep in tents, climb mountains, lug around a tripod and expensive camera, etc. So I think the rest are bogus distinctions.

    LindaHeath
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How so IvanaDuric? We love cruising but not at the expense of ruining a town.

    IvanaĐurić
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is nothing worse then crowd from cruis ships. Please boycott them, they are destroying life in my town!

    TrudeHansen
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or.. They keep your town alive by buying stuff from your town..

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    KellyHuang
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually I would probably do both

    KenriBasar
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is the dotted one? Pavement?

    saynogo
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's supposed to represent a well worn route vs the path less traveled.

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    PromiseCadet
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    10 years ago

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    i'd prefer village roads

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    ColinBarstow
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How is the traveler charging his phone and camera? Or are they powered by the mystical kinetic energy of a hippie?

    LesleyOHara
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too easy to put people in boxes! Each person is an individual and therefore not one or the other.

    Bob Skiba
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So Ray-Bans and an expensive camera make you a traveller?

    DáliaGé
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why the f**k does traveler need a pro camera?!

    SeyitArdaSert
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think a dslr is a must if you just want to keep a memory, any modern mobile phone and (prefereably) a powerbank would be more durable and easier to carry around.

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    ChristineMcQuery
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the difference between cheap generic c**p that's pushed onto out of towners versus buying a momento that captures the essence of the memory.

    AlejandroGuzman
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it depend on where you go... i mean... would you buy Praying Flags in NY? don't think so

    GlynisLailann
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it is the torn entrance ticket to some park, show, etc. or sweet wrapper.

    ToddRainer
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get this one... you can't TRAVEL to NYC?

    LauraKnox
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's talking about what souvenir you'd buy.

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    AutumnBomb
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can be a traveler and do both of these things. Taking a cab in a foreign place is an adventure too!

    Bob Skiba
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. This implies you can't be a traveller in a city.

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    15Micki
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am disabled, which can limit my ability to walk long distances so I use public transport whenever I travel because I offers me the same opportunity to actually see the places I want to go to :)

    ElizabethKnight
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are just different ways of experiencing the world

    LorraineShakespeare
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes see the sights but then get off the beaten track to xplore a whole lot more.

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    MelissaG
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of these assume that travellers are outdoorsy.

    BonniPoch
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know! Just because I don't climb mountains doesn't mean I'm not a traveler.

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    DianaCrunChewyWatson
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Travelers must only go to tropical places, because you wouldn't dare sleep in a hammock in Siberia.

    OrCarmon
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as a traveler i sleep in a bed, but in a place that captures the culture

    AutumnBomb
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this bed in a hotel or a hostel?

    Bob Skiba
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, this assumes you can't be a traveller in an urban environment. (Unless you sleep in a hammock in Paris.)

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    JanelleVeres
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is dumb. So to be a traveler I have to sleep in a tent and only wear 1 shirt and never see any major symbols of the place I'm seeing? I love to travel to experiance the local flair but I don't sleep in a tent and I don't miss out on seeing what I want to see and I bring more then one shirt. I'm not going to sleep outside in Iceland in November .

    ArtoJohannesLappalainen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is such a pointless and misleading, misinformed piece of cr*p it makes me sick.

    Anna-ElisePrice
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So because I have physical limitations that preclude me from camping I'm not a real traveler?

    ShawnSchmid
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, as all comments point out, this is just stupid generalizations signifying nothing. I like to say "I'm a great tourist" because I explore where I live. I also lived in Asia for three years, during my forties with my wife (so not because of that not-uncommon "Asian women" fetish some Americans demonstrate. So, visiting 20 countries, I'm a traveler, but no cartoon shows how one's zeal to learn about unfamiliar peoples & customs, and smiling at every person one meets on the globe makes traveling more fulfilling!

    ToddRainer
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh hells no... if it doesn't have a solid roof, I'm not in it.

    Oana Muresan
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh well let's see where you gonna set your tent in Tokyo for example

    Bob Skiba
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is pretty much the same generalization as predicated above; urban vs rural. This makes no sense.

    ArtoJohannesLappalainen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is such a s**t article it makes me feel sick.

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    MelissaG
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's illegal in America.

    BronwenScott
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. Hitchhiking is illegal in America? I always considered hitching an informal method of carpooling . . .

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    LucianaAguzzoli
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Silly, very silly post... After visiting over 35 countries and living abroad for over 4 years in 3 different countries I've learned one thing: travellers don't judge people, they don't categorise or patronize them. Very silly post!

    fredericeeckman
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amen to that... It feels like this article was just written to "glorify" the traveller who wrote it. It reminds me of hipsters, keeping on listening to music nobody EVER heard, spraying their science about everything (especially when nobody asked them), and pretending so hard that they are so not mainstream (when hipsters WAS a fashion thing). Tanks god, people like you show what a real traveller is.

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    CindyPiper
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot the image of the hitchhiker getting kidnapped.

    JessicaTichy
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My boyfriend and I hitched from Ny to Cali. All good experiences. But instead of sticking our thumbs out on the side of the road we would chat with people at gas stations, then ask for a ride if the vibe was right.

    MariaJose
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are all travellers penniless?

    DanielStrange
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .... that can get you killed in Australia, anyone hear of wolf creek?

    MelissaG
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, yes, I apologize, I meant USA - it's a habit for those of us from the U.S. to just say "American". I didn't mean any offense. It's illegal in almost all states, probably because it's potentially so dangerous. http://www.hitchhiker.50megs.com/custom.html

    SaschaWalton
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for correcting that usa/america confusion. 'Potentially so dangerous..' All my hitchhiking experiences were good ones. I think states/ countries should let people decide what they want to do.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    deep rana
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this article. Thanks for sharing the content and such nice information. I hope you will share some more content and inform us. Best time to visit Jim Corbett National Park

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    ToddRainer
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, nope, nope... Bed. Then Restaurants.

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    RyanPhung
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually #2 is a tourist. Who would come to India to do parachuting? :-/

    AídaMendoza
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol RyanPhung, your comment just made me laugh so loud I'm sure I woke up my entire building

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    BiancaIsabela
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It means tourists visit well known objectives while travellers take time to explore lesser mainstream activities that a place can offer. The Taj Mahal is there as a famous building people go to see, could just aswell be The Eiffel Tower or The Pisa tower, etc

    jindal mishra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excellent information you have shared, thanks for taking the time to share with us such a great article. I really appreciate your work. https://www.iiad.edu.in/programmes/fashion-design-course/

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    Minh Khôi Đặng
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    can anyone explain to me why Tourists prefer GOA than GOkarnA? Why do traveller prefer GOkarnA?

    JessicaGrogan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm travelling in Goa right now...

    JoydeepChoudhury
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As of today, it is more or less the same. Gokarna has also become very commercial. Not as bad as Goa, but it's getting there!!!

    JoOuwejan
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    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is my favorite!!! Go, Gokarna!

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