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| Above, the Grand Canyon made the list. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Back in the 1970s (for those of you old enough to remember), Peggy Lee had a hit song, "Is That All There Is?" Her song would be a great theme/anthem for an article RocketNews24 posted. The article is on America's wonders (natural, man made, you name it) that Japanese women, who visited the place(s), were profoundly disappointed in.
They begin the article with:
Ah, the joys of international travel. You shell out the majority of your paycheck for a ticket and spend sleepless nights counting down the days to your adventure of a lifetime. Then the day of departure finally comes and you board the plane, arriving hours later at your destination and trembling with anticipation. Camera in hand, you journey to the first famous place on your list that you’ve been dreaming about for weeks on end. Finally there, you take a quick look around, eyes widening in surprise, and blurt out, “…that’s it?!”
Everyone has probably experienced that underwhelming sense of disappointment at some point while traveling. Whether it’s a world-famous monument, a natural wonder, or the coolest little restaurant your coworker swears by, when you actually go and check it out for yourself, you fail to see what all the hype is about.
The folks behind Japanese website My Navi Woman were curious to find out what top North American destinations chronically failed to live up to their readers’ expectations, so they created a web survey geared towards working women aged 22 through 34, and received a total of 276 responses. We now present the results of that survey to you, appropriately titled “The world’s most disappointing tourist locations according to Japanese women, North American edition.”I can think of one place that I thought was a disappointment: Grand Canyon Caverns off of Historic Route 66 in Arizona. I disagree with the Japanese ladies who were disappointed with the Grand Canyon.
To read the full article, go here.
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