34 Travelers Say These Are The Most Overrated And Underrated Places They Have Been To

Cows, goats, dogs, beggars, street urchins, vendors, cars, trucks, auto rickshaws and human rickshaws, hand carts, bicycles, motor cycles, scooters, buses, more vendors....and people. PEOPLE, PEOPLE and more PEOPLE. That's true for all Indian cities

Why would anyone go to see street shitters?

Totally agree, felt exactly the same being in India. I guess it is just not my cup of tea.

Calcutta is great and bad.. Indian here. Have had some weird experiences there.. just a suggestion.. you want to know where to go - ask someone who knows the place

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Fortunately the traffic was so bad, it slowed everything down, so the only part of my bus ride there that was hairy was having to have a police escort to cross the desert because of bandits.

Worse, try crossing the street. Absolutely terrifying. It's a face off between you and the traffic, they won't stop until you step right in front of them.

Cairo is amazing, but YES you will feel like you are going to get killed in taxis....

I have to agree with the taxi comment. Scariest ride of my life. But don't let that prevent you from visiting. Also Luxor.

Being a Delhiite, I wish I could disagree and defend. But its true.

JHB inner city- like many cities all over the world, is not great. However there are some great places in the city itself and surrounding areas. There are many old, historic buildings there and some really interesting things to do. Also, there are parts of JHB inner city that are being revitalised and gentrified

Doesn't that describe pretty much the entire country?

Amsterdam is lovely and well worth a visit. Nothing particularly seedy unless you visit the red light district at night. I was staying in Den Haag and visited for the day. I've visited a number of other places in the Netherlands and one thing that stands out is how nice the people are.

As a Dutchman I would say it's spot on. Being in Amsterdam for me feels like being abroad in my own capital. It has nice architecture, but places like Utrecht and Leiden are very similar in architecture and way less crowded and feel more Dutch because of less tourists and no need to talk English

The last time I went to Amsterdam there were no stoned students or Chinese tourist groups. We had a lovely time.

I am Dütch, it goid to have seen it, but thats about all. Where i feel free in crowded New Felhi, i only feel cramped in Amsterdam. Pergaps the lack of space.

Go in the winter. See the museums, Ann Frank's House, go to the restaurants and walk thru the red light area - very safe..

I've been to Cairo, underrated is not the word I would use to describe it.

Ljubljana and Tallin! ❤️

Been to Cairo once with my best friend, and only because she and her girlfriend didn't want to fly alone there (They got the trip as present) - Can't recommend that experience

Just go watch the Letterkenny clip where they talk about LA.

Los Ángeles is dirty, dangerous and fairly ugly. Huge dissapointment. San Francisco while beautiful is full of d**g addicts as well, felt unsafe and NY stores looked run down compared to Europe. US cities in general are on decline with the exception of Miami and maybe Boston.

It’s hard to gauge a city based on pickpockets (that’s literally every metropolitan area) & safety for women traveling alone (that’s everywhere). The latter issue is much bigger than just with tourism & travel. The former could happen anywhere and it does. I’m a 50yo skinny white guy who has been to hundreds of cities and travelled extensively. Yet the only time I’ve been pickpocketed/mugged was in my own city.

Sorry to hear that. My wife and I visited friends there, also I did run the Marathon in Milano. It was just a normal, big city to us, with beautiful sites and museums. Then again, I am 6'5 and people usually do not follow me around...

Sure. If I'd a 21 old woman or even a 21 year old me, I wouldn't travel alone abroad, as I had some senses even at that age.

Awww thanks! We are not widely known about so Estonians generally like tourists and are actually happy that you came to visit us. I recommend visiting places outside of Tallinn too - we do not have nothing spectacular but we have gentle hills and bogs and forests that grow free to pick berries and mushrooms and sandy beaches with like a total of 3 people per kilometer, quaint little towns overgrown with flowers and apple trees and the occasional soviet weirdness mixed in.

I'm confused, isn't this article about the *worst* travel destinations?

I’m so surprised reading this. I loved Athens! The graffiti part is correct, I was surprised by the amount of graffiti but other than that it was quite a clean city. I flew over from Rome where I had spent the week and there was a stark contrast in the traffic and demeanour of people. Taxi drivers (all but one) were lovely, the traffic is great, no yelling and shouting, much more consideration than in Rome. The city is not smelly, it has quite nice and fresh air. Every single greek person we spoke to or had to converse with were happy, incredibly nice and so considerate. Some went out of their way to make us feel welcome. I never once felt unsafe in any of the areas I went to and noticed from day one that women were walking their dogs alone in the middle of the night (talking 1am - 4am) as the heat during the day was too much for the pooches. Now that can’t be an unsafe area if the local women are walking alone at night. Not sure what Athens op went to 😂

Greek citizen here. Anywhere but Athens is good. Even the Godforsaken goat villages in the rural parts are 1000x better than Athens. God I hate that place...

My daughter had a great time in Corfu. Perhaps the islands are better.

I can second this. We went on a cruise of there years ago, and while the Parthenon is awesome to see, Athens in general is a dump. People are not friendly. City itself is dirty. Don't go near a bus or train with anything in your pockets. I would have hated to have been there for a whole week or something. The day trip was plenty. Korfu or Dubrovnik would be way higher on my list of places to go back to than Athens.

Agree about Taiwan. I hope it stays underrated. I've been 8 or 9 times and I can start to see the changes in the food and the people in later years, not always for the better.

Vienna is great..we took the Ringbahn for sight seeing, walked the Prater at Christmas in the snow, rode the ferris wheel, visited the anatomic exhibit, the (I kid you not) torture exhibit, the castle,... we walked 10km a day easily and found some great little restaurants/cafes and I miss the vintage stores greatly

I absolutely LOVED Bratislava!!!

Vienna is fantastic , spend a midweek there enjoying myself and walking at least 10 to 15 km every day.

Bratislava has so little tourists attractions, you can do whole city in single day, two days max of you stretch it. National museum and gallery, castle, cathedrals, Jewish museum and mausoleum. The rest is just walking around old town. UFO bridge and Devin castle, boat trip to Gabčíkovo dam and gallery and you are done. In Vienna I spent whole day just at Albertina and National Gallery.

I think both places are excellent choices to visit.

I'd that a yurt on Windows XP?

Yeah, sometimes it's hard to understand those southern accents. Joke!

My brother loved it there too. His least favorite was Kazakhstan

"lots of Russian tourists"... Yeah, count me out.