The practice of going out looking at things and places.
Questions tagged [sightseeing]
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Computer geek tourist attractions in the San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley?
We're planning a family vacation to the San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley, and one of the highlights I don't want to miss is the Computer History Museum. However, I didn't find that listed in the free guides we got from our auto club. …
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Is it culturally acceptable for an American to visit the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The title says it all. Is it culturally acceptable (to the Japanese) for an American to visit the memorials to the victims of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I realize that a Japanese person probably wouldn't tell me to leave, but…
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Is a 13-hour layover in the middle of the night enough time to go see Buckingham Palace?
My plane lands at Heathrow at 8:30 pm on December 10 and leaves Gatwick the next morning, December 11, at 9:15 am. Do I have the time to see Buckingham Palace?
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When and where do I have the highest chance of seeing auroras?
I'm wondering what time of year is best, and what locations might be best, for catching the aurora.
I'm currently thinking of February up at Sweden's ice hotel, but since the whole point of the trip is so that my wife can see the Aurora, I want to…
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Where can I visit Anthony Howe's amazing wind-powered kinetic sculptures?
Mesmerized by Anthony Howe's incredible kinetic sculptures, I wish to see them in real life to appreciate their 3D structure:
Besides Washington's Orcas Island, where can I see them?
What are the visiting hours, admission fees, etc, including…
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Am I allowed to leave airport in the USA during a 23-hour layover?
We will be traveling from Germany to USA and have 23 hour layover in Atlanta. I have an American Passport. The other travelers have German passports.
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How can one visit the Door To Hell?
I have stumbled across this photo while surfing the net:
Turkmenistan's Door To Hell in Wikipedia does not say much about the how to visit it, it only says that there were 50,000 visitors in the past five years.
My question: How can I visit it? are…
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Where can someone see flowing lava at roughly Easter time?
A trip is being planned at roughly Easter 2012 (to match school schedules) that can go anywhere in the world as long it meets these two criteria:
there is flowing lava you can see (not just cooled flows, not just smoke/steam)
it is not…
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Are there other tram bistros like the cancelled U76 in Düsseldorf?
Until 2014, you could have coffee and light breakfast on one of the tram lines in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Unfortunately they have discontinued this long tradition since, for the last two years, no new business partner could be found.
Are there any…
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Where can I find a global heat map of travel spots?
For example, if I were to plan a trip between Munich and Berlin by car, it'd be great to have a quick glance at a map that would give me a quick idea on where the interesting spots are. That way there's no need to stumble over dozens of pages on…
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How to track my travels nicely?
They are online services for everything and anything. I can track my health, the distances I'd run, even for my banking account are cloud services avaible.
While I don't need any cloud service per se, I'm wondering if there is any (online possible)…
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Are there caves and tunnels under Tallinn, Estonia?
This spring I was in Tallinn, and I heard about some caves under the Old City, as well as under all of Tallinn. Is it true or just rumors? If it is true, can anyone provide some info about them?
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What are some good ways to find things to explore on-site in an unfamiliar place?
When traveling, one of my favorite things to do is simply explore the local area and see what's going on. I do enjoy guided tours on some occassions, but I'm more interested in finding cool local markets/restaurants/historical sites, photography…
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Why do some groups of tourists include someone carrying a banner?
While traveling in Thailand I have seen a lot of groups of Chinese tourists. But one thing is very confusing to me, every group has someone who was carrying a some sort of banner, and those banners were not unique. What does those banners mean? Why…
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What happened to the Prime Meridian sculpture in Greenwich?
This weekend I visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Surprisingly the sculpture by the end of the line was not there, so I wonder what happened to it.
Here's a picture of what it used to be like. Now there's only a line on the ground.
I asked…
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