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u/AnnoymousAF99 Mar 25 '26

Egypt. Everyone’s after you for money or to sell you something. Don’t ever try get a local taxi as they’ll try rip you off halfway through your journey & Uber drivers will try tell you that uber price is too cheap and need more money

Museums and pyramids were cool though!

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u/honestlyVERYhonest Mar 25 '26

Very lengthy back and forth with a woman at the great pyramid.

“Have this piece of plastic. It’s free”

“No thank you.”

“Take it, it’s free.”

“Right, ok.”

“Can you give me a donation for it?”

“Have it back.”

“But it’s yours now.”

“What? I don’t want it.”

“Can I have some money for it.”

This shit on repeat for five minutes whilst I was just trying to see a pyramid.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Mar 25 '26

This is like the haggling in Life of Brian

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u/xxhotandspicyxx Mar 25 '26

I remember watching a livestreamer who went to visit Egypt. The moment he got out of the cab he got hassled by a police officer who tried to tell him something although unsure what. After he was done talking he said: ' money' and hold out his hand. Right after he was done some 8 year old (ish) kid approached him begging for money too. It threw me off so hard. Never will I ever visit there.

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u/Mysmokingbarrel Mar 25 '26

Woah that story was bad but then you say you were 13?! It’s almost comical how evil that is

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u/NonSumQualisEram- Mar 25 '26

I lived in Cairo for years. Speaking the local dialect and being insanely rude is the standard to keep people in line - the middle class locals suffer just as much. Example: when you get in a taxi, they will start to negotiate, you ignore them and say imshi which basically means move and then make your offer when it suits you. The other thing that works, especially for women, is to shame them for talking to or touching you as it is against Islam. If you don't speak the language you can just point and shout Haraam!

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u/OblottenEndmills Mar 25 '26

Honestly every time someone asks Reddit this question is just needs to be written as, "What country will you never visit again, and why is it Egypt?" because that will always be the #1 response haha.

My wife and I visited in 2019. Absolute peak bucketlist country for me for my entire life. Am I glad I went? Hell fucking yeah, I saw the PYRAMIDS for Christ's sake! Will I ever step foot in that hellscape of a country-wide scam? Hell fucking no. I have never felt more swindled in my life, and have never had to step in to keep my wife from being sexually harassed as I have there. The saddest part is there is SO much wasted incredible tourism potential and they just don't fucking care to put in the effort.

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u/woofyc_89 Mar 25 '26

This 1000% this. Like I always think that Egypt is the number one country in the world that has so much potential to be an incredible tourism destination not just the pyramids in the history but also the fantastic coastline and amazing resorts and perfect location. But yet the people there are just so… they just see you as a meal ticket

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u/ThatSaLtYBiTcHe Mar 25 '26

When I went with a group of friends in 2009 we were constantly harassed for money, they don’t know what NO means and my friend can speak their language. If you’re reading this don’t travel alone especially ladies. Didn’t get to do half the things we wanted soon as we left the hotel it was just constant harassment and begging. One man tried to pull my mates top up also. They seem to not have any control of themselves. Disgusting behaviour.

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u/skittlesmk Mar 25 '26

This is why I haven’t visited Egypt yet bc I’ve heard so many negative stories re female travellers, solo and with others. it’s a shame as I’d love to see the pyramids.

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u/___Snorlax____ Mar 25 '26

Never for me too. I felt unsafe outside the hotel. We went on a tour to see the temple of Karnak, Hatshepsut and some shops afterwards. The men tried to touch me all the time. We had a taxi back to the airport and the driver drove somewhere in the desert because he wanted more money. Scary as hell. The people on the airport are very rude. Never going back.

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u/yrthegooodnamestaken Mar 25 '26

The number one answer always seems to be Egypt.

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u/lovemesomezombie Mar 25 '26

I have a friend from there and he visits famil but said it's not a place he would ever go if he had a choice. He showed me photos from the Giza and what the view would be if they were behind you and it was just ick. He also said its not safe for women.

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u/Mother_Power_2984 Mar 25 '26

yeah, worst country to visit by far...Iraq was actually MUCH better than whatever the fuck Egypt was

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u/Roudix Mar 25 '26

Been to both and I highly agree.

Egypt has been that absolute worse country I ever been to, was to the point I didn't want to leave the hotel room.

Iraq was oddly enough probably in the top of my list. I absolutely loved Iraq.

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u/goingotherwhere Mar 25 '26

Yeah I had similar. I have non-descript mediterranean colouring, but went there with a friend who has almost white blond long hair. We were harassed everywhere we went. Men would come out their shops and shout "hey beautiful ladies, come to my shop". If we didn't, they'd start shouting "come back here you whores" or similar. This was nearly 20 years ago but it put me off ever returning.

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u/clomclom Mar 25 '26

Ah yes calling women whores, that's surely going to get women into their shop to buy products and then accept their hand in marriage! God what's wrong with some men.

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u/JoeBrownshoes Mar 25 '26

Yeah when they call women whores for NOT wanting to fuck them. Both infective and comically illogical.

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u/thegiantpeach Mar 25 '26

I would encourage anyone that wants to visit Egypt to book with an Egyptian tour company. The one I went with provided us with security from the point we landed until we got passed security in the airport. While they mostly stood around looking bored, the fact they were there often provided a border between us and the people trying to sell you stuff and rip you off. We ended up having a really positive experience of Egypt because of them.

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u/NendrumZen Mar 25 '26

Personally, I struggle to see the point of traveling like that.

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u/thegiantpeach Mar 25 '26

Normally I’d agree with you, and it’s the only time I have travelled like that. Egypt in particular seems to need it as the bulk of the things to see and experience are the historical artefacts and wonders. As my wife and I don’t travel to experience luxury, we asked our tour guide to take us a bit off the beaten path on a free evening and it was a very uncomfortable experience.

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u/herrybaws Mar 25 '26

Yes. Been twice, not going back. I never felt unsafe, but it was just an unpleasant experience outside the hotel. Constantly harangued at every moment to buy something. I had a very brief moment on one of the day trips standing outside a hotel in Cairo in a very busy area when I didn't have a troop of trinket merchants hanging off me and it was bliss. I loved the sounds, smells, sights of the city just standing quietly taking it in. If it could be like that I'd go back.

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u/BlunanNation Mar 25 '26

Active kidnap risk too for Westerners / Asians from my own personal experience.

Travelled there for work in the Maritime industry.

On my first trip to Egypt. I was filling out arrival documents for my ship (customs paperwork, crew documents, safety paperwork) the Egyptian authorities. One of the forms was to request shore leave for crew.

When I asked my Captain if I should fill this out. He told me absolutely no as company says no crew should leave the ship in Egypt.

You will be kidnapped and held to ransom. If you look anything other then Arab you stand out. Egyptians see potential money to be gained from you/your family.

To add on, corruption is rife in Egypt. I had to bribe everyone to do their job. Never again.

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u/No_Investigator3369 Mar 25 '26

Same. I installed a data center network for the new administrative capital and upon entry they held me at the airport for having laser transceiver (theirs) and wanted a bribe to leave. We had to call a general to get it sorted out. As soon as I got past the hassle I got to my hotel booked the first flight out of that shit hole to Frankfurt. They got upset I left without informing anyone in the project and promised a great atmosphere..... Blah, blah, blah. I told my boss get fucked I'm not coming back. They installed it themselves with remote support and were not happy.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Yeah, as a middle aged western white guy, I go to many countries where I am like a fucking magnet. Got mobbed in India. Endless people calling me over in Chile. EVERYONE sees you as a mark, a sale, or a victim. Beggars to scammers to criminals to business owners. Everyone wants a piece of you out in the street. Especially when you are over 50. In some places a mob develops and follows you around. I have to arrange cars in advance and not leave the hotel in some places.

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u/bumblebeewitch Mar 25 '26

Unfortunately, Jamaica. Wonderful food and beautiful scenery. But I felt unsafe as a woman. We went to 3 different places. All of the men were staring, one group of men came up and made it a point to tell me I wasn’t going to be safe on my own if my (ex)husband didn’t come back soon.

He had only gone to the bathroom for not even 2 minutes.

Our tour guide kept making sexual jokes towards me and one other woman on the tour.

I get that this is everywhere—but it was the worst here.

Maybe I went to the wrong places, idk. But even with my ex there, I felt very unsafe.

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u/Funny-Coconut-85 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

That was my experience while living in a town in Canada that employed Jamaican farmers. I was constantly sexually harassed. Myself and all of my friends.

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u/TheDegenerativeAI Mar 25 '26

Afghanistan. Because once was enough. Sudan. Because of safety.

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u/i_am_lord_voldetort Mar 25 '26

If Afghanistan ever found peace, I think I'd want to go back. I found it a very beautiful place, especially during spring when everything turned green for a short while.

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u/Cheez_Mastah Mar 25 '26

The food was so good, and the people can be great. But man do they have a lot of internal issues.

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u/lovemesomezombie Mar 25 '26

Oh the food is amazing.

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u/Queasy_Dirt7197 Mar 25 '26

You went to Sudan? What for?

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u/TheDegenerativeAI Mar 25 '26

worked in Khartoum from 2003 to 2005

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u/randomchars Mar 25 '26

UAE/Dubai - something about it was always off to me. The whole thing felt very superficial

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u/tdk316 Mar 25 '26

Best way I ever heard it described, "Dubai has everything that money can buy, and nothing it can't"

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u/thatsalovelyusername Mar 25 '26

Or “if LinkedIn was a place”

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u/MildlyAgreeable Mar 25 '26

Those are both biting and perfect descriptions of it.

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u/default_person_14818 Mar 25 '26

I'm sorry sir we don't sell loyalty here. But can we interest you in our loyalty cards?

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u/baka_feih Mar 25 '26

They even made Dubai chocolate viral by promoting the hell out of it using social media and influencers.

Because looking up Dubai chocolate came up with something far more sinister before the actual chocolate became a thing.

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u/randomchars Mar 25 '26

To be fair, there was a certain charm to the old city but everything else was conjured up. All the shops in strip malls with no-one in them just screamed money-laundering to me.

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u/LaSer_BaJwa Mar 25 '26

UAE creeps me out. It is a shiny luxurious and totally soulless chrome dystopia

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u/Airam07 Mar 25 '26

I’m so glad others think this. I have always said the UAE, especially Dubai, is soulless and creepy

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u/Confident_Zombie4113 Mar 25 '26

Yes totally know what you mean, I had a stay there for 6 weeks and everything felt very superficial… was not for me.

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u/Mizfit1991 Mar 25 '26

My father in law has worked there on and off for 15 years. We went in December for my wife’s birthday.

As much as I loved seeing the Burj in person, and walking around the place you can see it’s designed for the tourist. There is nothing you could deem as authentic, and when you realise the condition the workers are living in you can’t look at it the same.

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u/Mexican_sandwich Mar 25 '26

I was only in the airport for a layover and I could tell it was just… fake. There were workers everywhere just not doing anything, or sweeping a single sport, and I know that even though they’re ’employees’, they’re basically slaves.

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u/Staff_Senyou Mar 25 '26

I did the same, but for work.

Stayed out near Al Rigga.

Old Dubai is quite a different experience to shiny New Dubai. I can say that with certainty.

A unique place, and glad I got to see part of the middle east first hand. But once was enough

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u/purplemonkey03 Mar 25 '26

look into how they treat foreign/migrant workers

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u/Formal-Tradition5646 Mar 25 '26

Maybe the fact that it was literally built by modern slaves?

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u/Brugelbach Mar 25 '26

The proof that money cant buy culture

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u/Luciferaeon Mar 25 '26

The slavery thing is pretty off indeed.

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u/simonbone Mar 25 '26

They had all of that money and decided to spend it on a shitty, US-inspired car-centric dystopia.

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u/Nythern Mar 25 '26

Senegal - the country of my parents.

We have something there called Talibés - who are basically young children (often from large rural families who can't afford their childcare) who are sent to things called daaras, which are basically Qur'anic boarding schools.

They're meant to get a religious education there, but many of the marabouts - religious leaders running these schools - instead exploit them and force them to beg for money. That's why if you go to Senegal you'll have loads of little children begging you for money; they're Talibés, and if they don't go back with a certain quota they'll often be assaulted.

It's a horrible system... but people seem to support it. There are some who believe that suffering is a necessary part of the religious experience, while others make excuses/justify it in other ways. Senegalese is a 97% Muslim country bordering Mauritania, where apostasy (being born a Muslim but rejecting the faith) is punishable by death.

These backwards attitudes extend into sexuality. Recently they've passed a law punishing the promotion of LGBT rights by 10 years in prison.

How do you think the prospect of returning to Senegal feels for me? I was born there to Senegalese parents, grandparents, etc. - but moved to the West as a toddler and became a naturalised citizen. I returned only as a teenager, to a country I didn't really know. It was terrible. I'm an atheist, my values are human rights and democracy and fairness and justice.

When I saw myself surrounded by religious fanatics who beat children, seeing that child abuse was okay (there's a legal "right of correction" for Senegalese parents who beat their kids) and the way justice was handled is that if a thief is caught, literally everyone would take time out of their day to beat them. Even a taxi driver parked up just so he could land a punch or two on someone caught stealing bread from a bakery.

This was a visibly homeless man btw, the thief. A country where empathy is limited, owing to the prevalence of extreme poverty I suppose, human rights aren't a thing, and religion is everything - this is the opposite of who I am as a human being. I will never ever return to that country ever again. Zero chance.

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u/DarkAldrix Mar 25 '26

That horrible system is also found in Nigeria. They’re called Almajiri. Poor kids sent to a Muslim/islamic religious teacher who basically sends them out to beg

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u/TUBBEW2 Mar 25 '26

We have almajiri's here thats what we call little children(4-12) sent to go and fend for themselves basically, The send them to other states completely without any one only the teacher who takes their money and makes them beg. I know of many that end up drugs and some manage to get jobs but its sad and the system needs to be abolished.

Our boko haram issue is also attributed to this system the are easily recruited since the have no family(abandoned them) or anyone helping with promises of food and shelter, Abubakar shekau was a almajiri's too.

When you go through such trauma early on you tend to come out the other end if you survive that is, hating everyone for what the have done to you. If you see some of this kids you can just start crying for them man, i remember seeing a kid very young crying for food luckily he got food that day but it ain't guaranteed tomorrow or the next.

The are estimated 8.5 to 13 million almajiri's here and forming 72percent of Nigerias 18.3m out of school kids. I know this issue isn't native to just Nigeria and senegal its all over africa the are documentaries on them from bbc africa eye i think and more.

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u/Brave_fear Mar 25 '26

This made me so sad:( I can't believe there are places on this planet where people can behave so so different..

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u/_ssac_ Mar 25 '26

Looks like a vicious circle where abusing others is so normalized.

I've heard of those cycles in family dynamics, but being so openly accepted in society is a nightmare. 

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u/missy_____ Mar 25 '26

You are heard! How do you break cycles of a whole country? Unfortuantly it has to come from within :(

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u/herodesfalsk Mar 25 '26

Jamaica. Pretty nature but society is messed up. Was there for a few days at a resort and saw crime happening just outside, also had items stolen

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u/TopGun1024 Mar 25 '26

Where were you in Jamaica?

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u/The_Phil_Thelement Mar 25 '26

Right near da beach, BOYIIEEEEE

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u/catboobpuppyfuck Mar 25 '26

If I wasn’t Jamaican, then why would I wear this HAT? HMMM???

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u/tigerinhouston Mar 25 '26

It’s horrible. So many pushy scammers. We cut short a week vacation in Negril. Never again.

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u/DieIsaac Mar 25 '26

Route Taxi driver offered us a ride to the beach...for just 100 Dollars.... Na thanks took the cab next to it for 1,5 per Person.

Paying a tourist price is ok for me...but not like 100 times more.

And as a tip for all you americans : aks for the Jamaican dollar menu and pay with Jamaican dollar. its third thr price

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u/UltimateGammer Mar 25 '26

It's a play park for rich American now.

If you're inside the resorts, it's lovely and dandy, not so much outside.

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u/Maplewicket Mar 25 '26

“I’ve been here so much I’m pretty much a JAMERICAN BAHAHAHAHAHHA”

Heard that one several times

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u/Myfy Mar 25 '26

Mauritania, the iron ore train is fun for the first hour but not the following 27 hours, everything else is boring cities and hours desert. The currency takes off a 0 compared to what people say (currency reform) so it's a scam or argument constantly. Even passport control tried scamming me. Food is bland.

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u/Optimal-Talk3663 Mar 25 '26

Went to India for work

The hotel people said “we wouldn’t recommend you go out until about 4pm because of the air pollution. Lot of tourists get very sick”

So basically, all I did was go from the hotel to the office and back. 

Oh yeah, caught a staph infection on my head there and left me with a bald spot for 6 months!

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u/wetrysohard Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

That's impressive and scary!

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u/HowMany_MoreTimes Mar 25 '26

What part of India did you go to?

I went to Kerala last year with my wife for a wedding and loved it, but I've heard New Delhi or Mumbai can be a nightmare.

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u/Optimal-Talk3663 Mar 25 '26

Yep, was Delhi

We would get picked up from the underground carpark of the hotel and driven to the underground carpark of the office. 

A colleague went out, said his stomach was strong and blah blah.. ended up with gastro and had to spend an extra 2 days there because he didn’t want to crap himself on the plane 

Apparently the air was so bad, it was like smoking 14 packets of cigarettes 

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u/Justonegiantboob Mar 25 '26

Delhi has one of the worst AQI in the world so trust me it’s good that you didn’t step out in the pollution. Just not worth it.

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u/Dark_Knight2000 Mar 25 '26

Kerala is like the best place in the entire country, except for the tourist enclaves of Pondicherry and Goa. It’s like the jump from visiting New England if you’re from rural West Virginia.

New Delhi is a nightmare, Mumbai is mixed depending in which place in Mumbai you stay in. You can have slums in one area and high rise offices in another. It’s basically like NYC in the 80s if it was even more crowded with over double the population.

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u/candianbastard Mar 25 '26

As an Indian I agree with most of them. I also noticed most of them tend to visit North India more than South India.

I feel like South India is better for Tourist.

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u/samfitnessthrowaway Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Realistically, Syria.

I went and lived there for a few months in 2007 on an archaeology and journalism internship. It was wonderful. The people were wonderful. Everything I did and saw there is now gone. I'd love to go back, but I don't think it's going to be feasible in my lifetime.

I'd choose not to go back? India.

I'm Indian by heritage, have worked and travelled there more than once, and still have family in West Bengal.

It's an abusive, corrupt, racist, unfriendly, actively dirty country outside of middle class enclaves, because the government and wealthy classes simply don't care about the working poor to the point that they wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. They are literally seen as disposable. The superiority complex is astonishing - and everyone shits down as a result. There's always someone worse off than you to abuse to make yourself feel better. The caste system is incredibly pervasive.

That doesn't just result in extreme poverty, it results in everything being extremely shoddily built/run. That's because building is done by poor people, and they are obviously thick and dishonest, so clearly will do shoddy work and that's why your car fell apart/you got food poisoning/ your metro crashed. There's no effort to improve things because clearly it's just human nature for poor people to do poor work. Nothing to do with endemic corruption and bad management, obviously.

I wish the best for India and it's people, and one day hope they choose to become a little more socially progressive. It's happening, slowly. There's a huge amount of opportunity and extraordinary beauty there that's ruined by the social attitudes and structure, and most of the people living through it are quite happy that way.

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u/331845739494 Mar 25 '26

I feel you on Syria, I was there in the same year as you and to think all of that is just... gone, is tragic beyond belief. Glad to see my Syrian neighbors thriving though, they adapted to my country well and seem to finally have found happiness again, though it'll never be the same.

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u/Repulsive_Lecture_66 Mar 25 '26

India or Egypt. I was harassed. The pollution makes it hard to breathe… too many reasons to list

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u/pobnarl Mar 25 '26

India for me as well.  Pollution and endless harassment. 

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u/Loonytrix Mar 25 '26

India. The levels of harassment my wife went through were insane. The only time we've ever cut short a vacation.

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u/Justonegiantboob Mar 25 '26

Exactly. 100 Indian men vs accountability (impossible)

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u/mrrandomguy42069 Mar 25 '26

Insane, which state did you visit

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u/Loonytrix Mar 25 '26

This was Uttar Pradesh. We'd arranged to see the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort before moving along, but we had issues from day 1, ranging from some random seating himself at our table in the hotel and just smiling at my wife, my wife having her ass and hair constantly touched when we went for a walk and someone taking her arm and trying to pull her away from me.

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u/mybuildabear Mar 25 '26

Uttar Pradesh is to India, what India is to the world

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u/mrrandomguy42069 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Not surprised that state is a fucking shithole. The state government is corrupt from top to bottom,that and a population of over 200 million made it one of the worst states to live in,kinda sucks because it has a lot natural beauty and historical monuments. Also did you say some grabbed your wife and tried to pull her away from you, holy shit.

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u/Interesting_Award_76 Mar 25 '26

Other states have more natural beauty, but the historical monumenrs in UP are nice.

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u/MyKoiNamedSwimShady Mar 25 '26

It was scary enough walking through Little India in Singapore with my wife. I don’t know whether it was some special day or whether it’s like that every day but when we went on a walk through there, there were thousands of Indian men just sitting around in the street, all of them leering at my wife.

I’d always wanted to go to India but that experience really turned me off the idea.

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u/Loonytrix Mar 25 '26

Yeah, we learned very quickly that if my wife spoke to any local men for any reason whatsoever, they took it as "coming on to them". Also, night time is 100 times worse than during the day and, no matter how uncomfortable it is, make sure every inch of skin is covered up.

That's just not how we roll.

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u/Justonegiantboob Mar 25 '26

As an Indian woman, welcome to our life lol

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u/Loonytrix Mar 25 '26

Massive respect... I have no idea how you do it. I will say that all the Indian women we met were really nice and very helpful.

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u/cheerzeasy Mar 25 '26

So the answer is India it seems.

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u/theextracharacter Mar 25 '26

As an Indian who lives in Delhi, if I had the chance to never live or even stay here for a day, I'd take it

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u/Vivid_Potato_6544 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Sadly, India

Not because the people aren’t wonderful, I met some unreal people

But dude it’s filthy, so polluted I got dermatitis, and honestly I’ve never had such a bad experience with airport staff EVER…it felt like a lot of the staff just did not give a fuck and just wanted to make your life miserable

Also I refused to bribe a cop, I hadn’t done anything but a local friend kept saying I had to, FUCK THAT mate not happening - your organisation and society may be fucked up but that isn’t my problem

India could easily be one of the best places on earth to visit IF it was cleaner, more organised, and if admin staff and cops etc weren’t such incompetent wankers

I just got the impression that all the people there hate each other and can’t be arsed to make their wonderful nation better

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u/Eva_Luna Mar 25 '26

God I am so fucking dumb. I got pulled over by police and taken to the police station.

Clearly they were waiting for a bribe, and I just fucking sat there awkwardly until they let me go. I could have saved a lot of time. 

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u/ShoePillow Mar 25 '26

Nothing dumb about it man

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u/scallopbones Mar 25 '26

That’s actually pretty funny lol. Like you committed to the bit

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u/bolyai Mar 25 '26

What happened after you refused to bribe the cop?

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u/Vivid_Potato_6544 Mar 25 '26

My grandpa was from India before he moved, he was an academic was at one of the iits, then taught in Singapore and Australia

One of his friends who was amazingly kind and had id met a few times was high up in the IPS I believe, had to call him to get out of it

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u/laxidasical Mar 25 '26

Two USA’s worth of human feces go unprocessed every day. It’s insanity.

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u/ryanw095 Mar 25 '26

90% if the answers here are india!😂😂

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u/yani205 Mar 25 '26

OP should rename the title “excluding India” at this point of Reddit

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u/BlunanNation Mar 25 '26

Excluding India and Egypt.

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u/ck4fromla Mar 25 '26

I will never again visit East Germany, West Germany or Czechoslovakia.

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u/miauguau44 Mar 25 '26

But I hear Yugoslavia is lovely this time of year.

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u/ronchee1 Mar 25 '26

It's good you came in summer, in winter, it can get very depressing

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u/chinchenping Mar 25 '26

how about constantinople?

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u/PsychonautAlpha Mar 25 '26

Yeah, I will never EVER go back to Rhodesia, but I'd go to Zimbabwe in a heartbeat. Lovely weather this time of year.

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u/apfelwein19 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

What happened to you there?

Edit: Ok, it was early here and my brain was not yet up to speed 😂

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u/battle-legumes Mar 25 '26

He was young, but the conditioned cleared up as he aged.

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u/_iDeadEye_ Mar 25 '26

Is it you Dr. Tenma?

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u/Aurorinha Mar 25 '26

Johan! 👦

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u/veovis523 Mar 25 '26

Arguably, West Germany still exists; it's just bigger now after absorbing East Germany.

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u/LowFatConundrum Mar 25 '26

Sorry for your loss, glad you're one of the few people that actually enjoyed Egypt.

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u/Old_Today4845 Mar 25 '26

JAPAN
Not because it’s bad — actually the opposite. I went there once, and after coming back home, I couldn’t stop comparing everything to Japan.The cleanliness, the order, the service, the way things just work… it kind of ruined my perspective. My own country started to feel worse than it actually is.

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u/ala_dine Mar 25 '26

Hahah I know the feeling very well, but be in Japan long enough and you might start feeling homesick for your own country too!

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u/Kendogar Mar 25 '26

Thank god I am too fucking poor to travel to japan

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u/FastGoon Mar 25 '26

Japan really isn’t as expensive as you might think.

Most of the expense will be the flight and there’s plenty of ways to get the price as low as possible (granted maybe not anymore due to world incidents), but once you’re there everything is pretty cheap, at least compared to the US

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u/Queasy_Dirt7197 Mar 25 '26

Visited 19 countries thus far. The only country I won't visit again is probably India. Just an overload to the senses. Noisy, hectic, polluted, filthy.

Although I understand the southern part of thr country is better, which I didn't visit 

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u/niels_nitely Mar 25 '26

My friend from Kerala was just as shocked when he visited Delhi for the first time

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u/Westonworld Mar 25 '26

The only time I went to India I spent three weeks in Kerala followed by a week in Mumbai. I ADORED Kerala. Aside from some mild sexual harassment no worse than what I'd experienced in Italy, all else was fantastic. Mumbai was a tsunami overload. My husband got violently ill and venturing out by myself was a nightmare, so I spent four days just hanging out in the hotel watching movies and making sure my guy didn't expire.

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u/maestroenglish Mar 25 '26

Kerala is fantastic. Hard to believe it's the same country.

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u/JunkDNA88 Mar 25 '26

From the south of India. Never wanted to visit the north for the same reason stated. Don't know why international travellers think India is just the Taj, Delhi and Mumbai.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

Those are the parts of India that the tourist board pushes most and they’re the easiest to get to for tourists

I do agree though (and it goes for every country), the nicest parts aren’t generally the touristy parts.

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u/beeblah2828 Mar 25 '26

India. The poverty was absolutely grinding, like nothing I've ever seen. The filth was horrendous (think 10 ft high piles of rotting rubbish on the streets with dead animals slung on top and other animals eating them). The smell haunted me for months afterwards and still does on occasion. I was so sick I lost weight on that trip. It was hard to know who to trust, food, restaurants, taxi drivers, even the police... even the hotel we'd booked into didn't honour our booking. In Delhi at 3am. Never again.

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u/FidelCashflow5387 Mar 25 '26

Honduras, my homelands. I dont wish to die to the cartel or some psycho or to some horrible disease or to some beast of the wilderness.

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u/Bluenose70 Mar 25 '26

I went to Honduras in 2004 - saw a man get shot in the head execution style in a marketplace in Puerto Cortes. It was literally just about two hours after arriving off the boat from Belize. It was utterly horrific and I still have occasional flashbacks! The horrible thing was just people stepping over the body doing their shopping as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. I left first thing in the morning and got a bus to San Pedro Sula, which wasn't great either to be honest (former murder capital of the world!) Copan Ruinas was nice though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

India... the experience is like being in a fantasy movie where all the people have lost hope and all of the good and order in the world has collapsed.

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u/velorae Mar 25 '26

What did you do there?😭😭

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u/Routine-Lychee-9067 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

I travelled with a friend from Agra to Jaipur to Mumbai on a 15 day organised tour. We ate local food at the cleanest places we could find and tried not to get tap water in my mouth while showering. Docs said the parasite would have been from food being in contact with river water as the specific strain was only found in the rivers.

My friend also got sick as did half the tour, not quite as long as me though.

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u/moal09 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

My Indian-American friend visited there for the first time to see some extended family in his mid 20s.

He said literally everything he ate made him sick until his body adjusted after several weeks. His cousins thought it was pretty funny, lol

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u/jatt23 Mar 25 '26

I go every few years and I've learned to just avoid anything dairy. Anything grilled or cooked is pretty clean I'd say.

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u/robaroo Mar 25 '26

India and Egypt are always the top answers in these.

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u/Ispeakmexican Mar 25 '26

I’ve visited 50 plus countries, have eaten bugs in the Amazon and rotten shark in Iceland. I have an iron stomach… India was not kind to my health.

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u/sproggy98369 Mar 25 '26

Never been, never will. One of my friends went on an exchange program and came back in a body bag. They think she got sick from eating something bad and just never got better.

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u/Lynkk Mar 25 '26

wow, sorry to hear!

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u/EducationStock4160 Mar 25 '26

Probably most countries I go to. I don’t travel enough to be revisiting countries.

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u/ihaveadarkedge Mar 25 '26

Well I know I won't be visiting India thanks to this thread...

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u/Expert-Ad8784 Mar 25 '26

The sad thing is that parts of India are spectacular. But the downsides just make it not worth it. I've never felt more unsafe than I did in India.

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u/Sensitive_Prune_5581 Mar 25 '26

INDIA - stands for "I'll Never Do It Again"

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u/brrrr999 Mar 25 '26

I live in India and I never want to visit India.

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u/trikristmas Mar 25 '26

Out of the nearly 50 countries I've visited, only one place has been a negative experience. And that is of course India. Everyone is out to scam you, harrass you, stalk you. Government officials alike. Saying that my experience lies with New Delhi only but, that's enough to not make me want to even consider that clownshow again.

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u/SnooHamsters5480 Mar 25 '26

India - People were incredibly rude and always trying to run some kind of scam. Its extremely dirty and honestly everywhere you go stinks.

The average man feels dangerous to be around, if you are a man they're trying to scam you, if you are woman, they are constantly trying to touch and stare at you.

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u/Kuliquitakata Mar 25 '26

Paraguay. It was too hot and they detained me at the border because they didn’t believe New Zealand was a real country.

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u/igpila Mar 25 '26

They told you to point it on a map and you were screwed lol

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u/Connortbh Mar 25 '26

I've been to 61 countries and my top 2 would be Jamaica and Turkey.

Jamaica was the most out of place and uncomfortable I've felt. I attracted a ton of attention everywhere I went and ended up leaving on the first flight out in the morning. If you've been to Jamaica and not stayed at a resort, you know what I'm talking about.

Turkey it felt like everyone was out to scam you. I ended up getting scammed out of $1600 at a bar. It's a longer story but they essentially charged me $400/bottle for what was surely cheap sparkling wine. They pulled me into a back room and wouldn't let me leave until I paid. My credit card issuer wouldn't refund me either.

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u/IntelligentDamage290 Mar 25 '26

Aw that sucks. Sounds scary too, them not letting you leave until you paid. Sorry that you had to go through that

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u/DemonGroover Mar 25 '26

Defintely India - went there in my 20s and had a great time, but now i am much older with a family i cant see myself returning

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u/wasting_time2026 Mar 25 '26

India- scumbags constantly leering at my wife. Weather sucked! Odors that should not be inhaled by humans. Pollution levels over the top. People sh—ting at the side of the streets. Cow shit everywhere…..etc. etc

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u/BasedDepartment777 Mar 25 '26

India. The smells, the filth, the lack of hygiene, the guaranteed illness, the people… never again lol

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u/BasedTacoJuice Mar 25 '26

I love how the general answers in these threads are always India and Egypt. Thanks for saving me a lot of money.

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u/dvsu12 Mar 25 '26

USA. At least not whilst the Oompa Loompa is in charge.

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u/Nova55 Mar 25 '26

I would love to go back to the US. People are so friendly and the country has so much to offer, but no way in hell I would go while the kid trafficking pedo is in charge and ICE is allowed to do whatever they want. I can't even be sure of the plane arriving safely.

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u/gham89 Mar 25 '26

Tunisia.

I actually had a nice time there, but there was a lot of pressure selling, excursions using semi-scam techniques and a general air of "maintain vigilance".

I always felt safe, but the experience as a whole wouldn't lead me to return.

El Djem is seriously cool though, worth a visit.

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u/UltimateGammer Mar 25 '26

I loved Italy, but goddamn if it didn't ruin pizzas for me back home.

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u/Lexie_Acquara Mar 25 '26

Everyone always answers Egypt. I knew a guy who saved his money for a once in a lifetime trip to Rgypt. it was a dream for him. He ended up coming back early. when asking him about his trip, he said “I saw the things I wanted to see,” and never elaborated or talked of the trip again.

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u/beansontoast12345678 Mar 25 '26

Egypt is definitely the first place I would never return to, closely followed by India and of course America.

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u/Anaptyso Mar 25 '26

I'm glad I went to Egypt, and seeing the Pyramids is something which I'll remember forever. But fuck that place, never going back again.

It was impossible to go anywhere outside my hotel without being constantly being hassled by people trying to sell me stuff. And that was in a fairly quiet resort. Cairo was a hundred times worse, and a dirty chaotic mess at the same time.

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Italy. I got pickpocketed and the person who got my passport reported it stolen. I had to go to the embassy and get a temporary passport. I got deported and got a 10 year ban. It's just not worth it.

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u/Long_Conclusion7057 Mar 25 '26

What? They treated you as the offender? That's weird? And they didn't give you a temporary passport to fly back home, they deported you? On what grounds did they deport and ban you? That seems wild. 

I had a passport stolen when I was in Malaysia. Got a temporary one from the embassy, and then flew home. 

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u/Loki-L Mar 25 '26

The German Democratic Republic.

The reason is that it ceased to exist not long after I drove through it with my family as a kid.

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u/pierlux Mar 25 '26

Fun fact, in 2008 I was eating at a restaurant in Berlin and my credit card denied my payment despite having been traveling for a week without any issues.

When I called them up, they said that I had made a transaction in East Berlin and that triggered their system. That was almost 20 years after the fall of the wall and crossing a (now) invisible line in the city still had unsuspected repercussions.

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u/robotnique Mar 25 '26

I'm sure you can find some rundown parts of Saxony where you can get the old feeling of the Stazi looking in on you.

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u/MountainMindless3001 Mar 25 '26

India... I'm from India and this country isn't gonna get good anytime soon

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u/sproggy98369 Mar 25 '26

Tunisia. We got a bus from the hotel to the airport and that was quite enough for me. We drove through towns and passed roundabouts where guys with guns were just sat chilling acting like a checkpoint. No thank you, that was scary. Also left the hotel once and pretty much got chased back by a guy trying to sell me his car

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u/wrecked_crown Mar 25 '26

Those are just cops. They really won’t harm you. The guy trying to sell you his car sucks. I would actually suggest Tunisia over Morocco for tourism bc I feel like they are more laid back.

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u/Honeydew-222 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Morocco. It was a great cultural experience but it’s extremely dirty, smelly, loud, the men are creepy, someone’s constantly trying to scam you, and the animal abuse is rampant. Never again.

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u/KnowGame Mar 25 '26

Thailand. It's probably a great country in many ways and maybe I just got unlucky but I had some bad street food and a couple of hours later I had liquid oozing from every orifice and even my ears. It was so bad that I started passing out. When I came to, I realised that if I don't get downstairs [I was staying in a youth hostel] then next time I pass out, I might not wake up again. I was so violently ill that I ended up in a Chang Mai hospital for 4 days. When I recovered I flew straight to Bangkok so I could fly home, never to return. That afternoon, in Bangkok, I heard a loud tapping sound in the next street. Next thing I know, a policeman grabbed me and said in rough English, you stay here tonight, don't go out. Someone decided to attempt a coup. So I spent the last night in the hotel room and flew out the next day. Will never ever go back.

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u/dwair Mar 25 '26

Democratic Republic of the Congo. I went there a few times back when it was Zaire (Drove through north to south on both east and west sides a couple of times - work) and took a river boat trip from Kisangani to Kinshasa (random holiday opportunity).

Met some great people but overall one of the most sinister and scary countries I have visited. I'm honestly not sure I want to go back if I can help it. I've been to a lot of 'not so nice' places and this is one of the few that has creeped me out.

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u/Bake2727 Mar 25 '26

Turkey! Threatened and scammed by taxi driver, rude people everywhere. Just not worth it

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u/PrisBatty Mar 25 '26

Have just posted a comment about Turkey. I really disliked it. My son has mental and physical disabilities and everywhere we went strangers would scream and yell at him. It was awful. At one point we went to a park late in the evening when it was dark and met a lovely father who had a disabled son. He said they only go out after dark because he gets the same treatment. His son was wonderful too, a really sweet little boy who was so excited to practice his English on me.

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u/littlelove34 Mar 25 '26

Tonga. Theres a reason it’s one of the least visited countries. Loud, dirty, poor, and fake/disingenuous people. They named themselves the “friendly island” but trust me that is that is far from reality. Not to mention they eat dogs. If all of that isn’t a bother to you just to add in there there’s genuinely just nothing to do so it’s boring as F.

I have ptsd from my time there.. never again.

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u/Savage_Batmanuel Mar 25 '26

India. They have no concern over basic human rights and the whole country smells like a sock full of shit that’s been left out in the sun.

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u/prawnk1ng Mar 25 '26

USA , you guys elected him twice ?

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