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We love taking a few snaps while on holiday, keeping memories alive, and sharing our experiences in the world's most beautiful and fascinating places to visit with our friends. Good travel photographs capture the very essence of a destination, whether it be a famous landmark, colorful culture, architecture, history, or local cuisine.
We celebrate amazing travel photography and rightly so, but what about the times when it all goes wrong? Those hilarious occasions when people have traveled across the world and completely failed to share its beauty in a photograph. Times when they would've found more culture in their local supermarket than that blurry pic of the pyramids. This list of disappointing travel photos is funny for its self-awareness. These people understand the irony of traveling thousands of miles to see a tourist attraction that just happens to be cloaked in fog or undergoing repairs.
Scroll down below to see a collection of the very worst travel images of gorgeous places to see ever taken, and share your own in the comments!
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#1
I Finally Got To See The Golden Gate Bridge Today
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#2
Not Mount Rushmore, But I Woke Up At 3am And Hiked Up Machu Picchu To Be There At Sunrise...
#3
Traveled Thousands Of Miles To See The Big Ben
Marcus Morgan 7 years ago
Look on the bright side. Big Ben is actually the name of the bell hidden inside the clocktower, so very few Other people have seen it either!
#4
After Our 9 Hour Car Ride, This Is The Picture My Mom Took Of Us At Mt. Rushmore
#5
Took A 6 Hour Coach Journey To See The View From Hitler’s Eagles Nest (Bavaria, Germany)
#6
Planned A Dream Trip To China. This Is What The Great Wall Looked Like
#7
4 Days Of Trekking Through Mud To Machu Picchu Resulted In This Glorious View
#8
I Saved Up My Entire Life For A Dream Trip To Mt Fuji. Here's The Best Photo From It
#9
This Is Me Experiencing The Grand Canyon
#10
Mt. Everest View At A Peak In Nepal
ADHORTATOR 7 years ago
Happened to me for Mont Blanc....always foggy wehen I was there...four times
#11
Drove All The Way From Southern California To See The Golden Gate Bridge
#12
Flew To The National Gallery In London To See Van Gogh's Sunflowers (Free Entrance) Only To Learn It's Been Loaned To Another Exhibition With $25 Entrance Fee....
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Lisa Chambers 7 years ago
We were pumped up to go see Monet at the Albertina in Austria, to learn that most of them had been loaned to tour America. We are Americans.
#13
I Flew 10+ Hours To See Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
Edgar Rops 7 years ago
Actually, this is perversely fortunate: it usually looks like Cinderella's Castle. With all that fog it looks like count Dracula's. Creepy...
#14
Drove 1 1/2 Hours Out Of Our Way To See Mount Rushmore. It Was Foggy When We Got There
#15
My Parents Got To Visit Mt. Rushmore Today For The First Time. The View Is Spectacular!
#16
I Drove 21 Hours To Mount Rainier, And It Was Cloaked In Fog For Days
#17
Climbed To The Top Of Mt Fuji To See Sunrise At 04.30, But It Was Foggy And Wet And Cold
#18
8 Hour Flight, 5 Weeks Of Anticipation, And An Hour Long Bus Ride To See The Cliffs Of Moher. Fog Had Other Plans
#19
I Went On A Three Week Trek Around Mt. Manaslu In The Himalayas. Part Of It Peeked Through The Clouds One Time...
#20
Hiked 4 Days To See Machu Picchu
C Hypercube 7 years ago
It's 1AM and I read it as "hiked 4 days to see Pikachu". I should go get some sleep.
#21
The Time I Flew 13 Hours To See The Great Wall
#22
Went To Visit Casa Batlló In Barcelona
Aunt Messy 7 years ago
There are many, many buildings in this style al over Barcelona. Missing one is not a tragedy.
#23
Traveled All The Down To See The Golden Gate Bridge And This Is What I Got
#24
Traveled To Wittenberg, Germany In 2011. The Door Martin Luther Nailed The 95 Thesis To Was Being Restored
#25
My Trip To Mount Rushmore Last Year
#26
Flew To Another Continent To Watch The Glacier 3000, Cant Say Worth It
#27
This Is Why Selfie Sticks Were Invented
#28
When You Go To London To See Big Ben
SirPatTheCat 7 years ago
But isn't it fairly common news that it was going to be under construction for 4 years? I don't even live in the UK
#29
The Spectacle That Is Mount Rushmore
#30
Went Out Of My Way To Visit Crater Lake
#31
Went To The Top Of Mt Pilatus In Lucerne, It Was Cloudy...
#32
Flew 6,000 Km's To See The Night Watch ...
vita ariztegui 7 years ago
saw it last year and it was IMPRESSIVE. wish you could go back and finally have the experience yourself!
#34
My Trip To The Grand Canyon
#35
It’s Not Mount Rushmore Or Machu Picchu, But This Was Our View Of The Grand Canyon After Coming Down From Canada
CbusResident 7 years ago
This is why sometimes you do want to do things exactly when all the tourists do; I got to the GC in early August, it was packed with tourists, but in the bright, blazing sunshine it looked like a storybook image of a romantic Old West drama.
#36
I Raise You “Traveled 10 Hours To The Grand Canyon”
#38
Mt Fuji In Tokyo Was On My Bucket List Unfortunately It Was Foggy... Left The Next Day Disappointed In Life
#39
I Flew Into Colorado Today Then The First Thing I Did Was Climb Mount Quandary, This Was The View From The Top
#41
I Live In Texas Where I Do Not Get To See The Ocean A Lot. I Was Excited To Go On A Business Trip To Santa Barbara And See Sunny California. I Supposedly Came The One Week Out Of The Year It Rains
#42
4 And A Half Hour Hike, The Smoke Came When We Got To The Top
#43
My Trip To The Edge Of The Grand Canyon A Few Years Ago. Once In A Lifetime Event
Zelda Blue 7 years ago
I was at this spot as well to see the Grand Canyon. I got to see a line of tourists that had just unloaded from a bus all standing in line with their cell phones and selfie sticks waiting for their chance to stand on that rock and take a picture. When they were done they all lined up against the railing. We had to drive to another spot to view the canyon.
#44
Mnt Fuji Everyone. Took A Two Hour Train To The Wrong Stop. Missed A Train And Wade It To Mnt Fuji. Was Not Disappointed
#45
I Was Finally Able To Take Some Paid Leave, Worth Every Penny!
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Randy Dhuyvetter 7 years ago
If you going specifically to see a certain landmark, you may want to check for renovations ahead of time. Else, you have only yourself to blame.
Carol Emory 7 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Most attractions on tourists guides will publicly list on their websites when certain landmarks will be unavailable. As far as not being able to see the mountains, bridges, or high elevation sites, that takes some studying of weather in the area to find out the best time to visit...but not all is guaranteed.
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Joley Hidaka 7 years ago
And yet, although you didn't get to see the one thing, were you not able to say "OMG I was able to travel to [England; China; South America; etc.] and it was AMAZING?!?!?! #worldssmallestviolin
Randy Dhuyvetter 7 years ago
If you going specifically to see a certain landmark, you may want to check for renovations ahead of time. Else, you have only yourself to blame.
Carol Emory 7 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Most attractions on tourists guides will publicly list on their websites when certain landmarks will be unavailable. As far as not being able to see the mountains, bridges, or high elevation sites, that takes some studying of weather in the area to find out the best time to visit...but not all is guaranteed.
Load More Replies... Joley Hidaka 7 years ago
And yet, although you didn't get to see the one thing, were you not able to say "OMG I was able to travel to [England; China; South America; etc.] and it was AMAZING?!?!?! #worldssmallestviolin
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