30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group

Traveling is an incredibly vital aspect of human life – and although we occupy the same planet, we each live in a separate world that everyone must explore at least once.

Visiting places allows us to experience different cultures and become closer to each other; on top of that, it also does wonders for our mental health and gets our batteries recharged.

However, before heading off on your new adventure, it's important to keep a couple of things in mind:

“What should tourists NEVER do in your country?” – this online user took to one of the most informative and thought-provoking subreddits to ask locals about the things visitors should never do in their country. The thread has managed to receive nearly 8K upvotes and 20.4K worth of comments discussing the unspoken rules of folks’ home countries.

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Canada here. Please don't litter in our wildlife preserves. Please.

Drifty_Canadian , VLADIMIR NAUMOFF Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Don't talk so damn much. Don't sit next to us. Keep at least one meter of personal space. Don't tip. Don't haggle. Shut up. Drink more.

Finland, in case you were wondering.

Anomuumitar , violablom Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Don't just walk up to a kangaroo and pat it in the wild. Those f**kers will kick the s**t out of you. I'm looking at you Japanese

Tronspecial15 , Ted Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group South Africa

Wearing khakis And hiking boots screams tourist. It makes you a target for criminals and that sweet camera you bought for your trip is going to find a new home. And besides, if your trip is going to involve hiking of any kind S&R would prefer you wore bright clothes so it makes your a*s easier to find if you get lost.

If you are going on a game drive (no one here calls it a safari) keep your doors locked and windows rolled up. Otherwise, enjoy being Simbas lunch. Respect the wildlife, they are wild animals and have no qualms about making you unalive.

[deleted] , Brian Burger Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Britain - Do not antagonise the Queen's Guard. They are well within their rights to lay hands on you if you provoke them.

Snuggleproof , Alex Guibord Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group In America, don't get out of your car and approach the cop when being stopped by a cop unless told to.

TheBassMeister · , My Photo Journeys Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Iceland: Just because you watched Top Gear, don't think you can drive all over nature. Actually, this probably applies to most countries Top Gear has visited.

vadlaheidi , Tony Harrison Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Australia: Don't go to our beaches without first applying sunscreen. Wear clothes and POLARISED sunglasses. We have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world due to extreme UV during summer. Also don't go swimming in your clothes at a beach, you'll drown.

halfcastaussie , osseous Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Quebec here, well Canada. Don't buy maple syrup from the first stall you see, it will be way overpriced. Just go to a grocery store you'll do great economy

OneManYordleGang , Ed and Eddie Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group America: Plan too much. If you wanna see the Statue of Liberty, the Smithsonian, the Alamo, and the Grand Canyon, you're going to spend all of your time driving. Pick a specific area, and do everything you can in there.

BlueBackedRobin , WorldIslandInfo.com Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Go on a hike unarmed when visiting the Svalbard archipelago here in Norway. You are required to aways have a firearm with you to protect against polar bears when traveling outside the populated areas.

Lick_my_balloon-knot , Gary Bembridge Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Denmark:

Don't f**king walk out of the bus without looking both ways. There is an actual bike path between the pavement and the road at almost all bus stops. This means that if you just walk out of the bus once you reach your stop, you will get hit by a person on a steel contraption, moving at a very dangerous speed. It can get bloody, expensive and very embarrassing. This same thing applies when you need to get onto a bus. Don't just walk up to it and hop it: Look both ways before you cross the bike path

[deleted] , Alper Çuğun Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group UK: Don't ever - ever - criticise the BBC or the NHS.

It's ours; we can complain all we like because we pay for it. And we like to complain too. It's our unofficial national sport.

You are merely a guest - if you ever need to use the BBC or NHS, you do not get to complain about it!

StuHardy , Gordon Joly Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group USA: Tell anyone your political opinions they will never treat you the same whether they agree or disagree

CarrieDune , Michael Vadon Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group the Netherlands.

Please don't say we are like Germans in any way. We do not sound like them, we do not look like them, in fact, just don't mention anything German.

Also; Don't walk in the bicycle lane, don't feed the doves and don't be a cool with the weed. Yeah it's fine to smoke in public but don't do it in crowded places or when kids are around.

Maklo_Never_Forget , anokarina Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group UK: Don't sit at a table in the pub and wait for someone to come and take your order.

Reason why? They won't.

Brickie78 , WordRidden Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Japan: stop with the stereotypes, don't mention the war, don't try to hug people/hand shaking, keep tidy.

[deleted] , Gabriel Garcia Marengo Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group INDIA-

Do not kiss in public.

In India it is okay to pee in public but not okay to kiss in public.

Kamalnathan , Adam Jones Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group In S. Korea tipping is acceptable is some places, but is mostly considered rude and belittling

Shinters , amanderson2 Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Barbados.

Dont wear camo/military style clothing.

When the lifeguard tells you "dont swim near the rocks", DONT. F**KING. SWIM. NEAR. THE . ROCKS. You will either pass away, or break every bone in your body.

apophis-pegasus , Randy Robertson Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Brazil. Don't go to the favelas (slums), it's usually not save for people that don't live there. Even worst don't go without someone that knows or lives there. I honestly don't get why so many tourists want to go to the worst part of the country.

theChaos77 , Pēteris Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Hawaii:

Decide you don't need sunscreen because you're from California and it's pretty much the same. Yes, I know your hotel is only ten miles from the airport and you paid extra for a convertible. You're toast. Literal toast.

Figure it's a tropical theme park, not a place where people live and work. Yes, folks, that's a road. For cars. Don't walk right down the middle. And no, I am not a cast member.

fusepark , Pedro Szekely Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group In France : don't ever sign a young deaf girl's petition (she's actually not deaf at all) she's just doing this to make money. And no, don't buy this amazing gold ring this old lady found on the floor right behind you..

atchoum013 , Dan Moyle Report

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78points

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Poland:

Maybe not never, but be cautious while getting a cab at the airport/train stations. Most of the guys will try to rip foreigners off.

Also, never leave our country without trying traditional polish cuisine, because it's awesome. I recommend some pierogi, bigos, żurek and zapiekanka.

Wu-TangLAN , Pawel Kabanski Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group USA here. Whistling at a waiter.

orose24 , Kate Ter Haar Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Dublin, Ireland(didn't realise there was so many dublin's): don't go to Temple bar, tourists always stop to ask directions, i try and tell them there are nicer, much less expensive places, but because all the guide books tell them it's the place to be they don't want to listen.

Gwendilater , Heather R Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Venezuela : Show $ in cash on the sreets or any kind of smartphone.

DropItToTheFloor , Amanda Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Singapore: Act like we cannot speak English, insult the elderly, or criticise the working class (meaning stuff like the public transport and things working class people use), or do crimes and expect the law to be lenient to you because you're a foreigner.

We may not react to you irl but the passive aggressiveness will turn into a s**tstorm online as swarms of wrathful keyboard warriors descend upon your sins.

letdown-inlife , missbossy Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Have [your] windows rolled down. In Tijuana especially. You'll be guilted into buying so many f**king churros.

S**tlord_EddardStark , Sami Keinänen Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Don't get a traditional tattoo and then go get it covered up when you leave... I'm not Maori so I don't have much of an understanding of the beliefs of it all, but I'm pretty darn sure that's not something you should do. They aren't going to welcome you back and look at you in the same light very easily. Looking at you Rihanna

Country: New Zealand

SureShaw , Micael Faccio Report

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45points

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Canada: Put ketchup on your poutine.

BluBabe1981 , waferboard Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Singapore : Don't ever go to Sim Lim Square OR Lucky Plaza to buy electronics, no matter how good the prices seem! You will get screwed!

oonikly , Matt Kieffer Report

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24points

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Jamaica: Take a public taxi. Unless you wanna know what NFS Most Wanted feels like irl

[deleted] , Marco Verch Professional Photographer Report

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Nicaragua: Do not drink tap water. Beware of hitchhikers. Beware of street vendors in the city, even if they're children. Do not drive. But if you do, watch out for random animals and people. Do not cross busy intersections in the capital and don't stand too close to the road. Beware of cops. DO NOT let Mosquitos bite you.

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Hungary: Never ever talk about the peace treaties closing the first world war. They are called Trianon treaties here, if you do not want to get into a heated argument with locals simply agree that it was an unjust treaty. Never ask why anyone has a map of Hungary showing a completely different country, it is Great-Hungary, as it was before 1541. Explanation: We hungarians somehow have the psychosys that we have every right to expand our country to the borders of the long dissolved Kingdom of Hungary at an arbitrarily chosen time point four hundred years ago. This is insane, but eve our politicians nurture this delusion.

An anecdote: On of my relatives has a small hotel, and have befriended one of the guests, a frenchman. They were drinking late into the night, when somehow the topic of Trianon arose, and the frenchman made the mistake of telling him that it was a pretty fine peace treaty. My relative simply took the guy, threw his baggage out and promptly told him to look for another hotel well past midnight.

[deleted] , J Dimas Report

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21points

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Philippines here. It's rude to refuse food here. As a Filipino, I never understood that. I refuse food all the time (cos it ruins my diet) when I visit friends, and they always give me bad looks whenever I do.

[deleted] , Rob Nguyen Report

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Sweden, sit next to a local on the bus.

WhiteCarbonara , Gill King Report

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17points

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If you're ever visiting Denmark and specifically Copenhagen, you might have been told to go see the little mermaid. Don't. That tiny sculpture is the biggest disappointment ever and Copenhagen has so much else to offer!

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30 Of The Biggest No-Nos When Visiting These Countries, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group In Germany anything goes, really. As long it's in Ordnung. Pay your train tickets, drive according to the Straßenverkehrsordnung and keep away from the Ordnungsamt.

Shrubberer , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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9points

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Nikole 2 years ago

Apparently women's health doesn't matter anymore in a large portion of America, so I'd avoiding asking for that.

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

Women are now second class to assault rifles in the US so I agree that it would be best to stay the heck away.

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censor 2 years ago

I wonder if Cali and NY should seceed and call themselves "actual america" - that would be ok.

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Scott Symonds 2 years ago

It is disgusting to see the passion that some people have about killing a human life.

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Gigantor the Bog Monster 2 years ago

Our Prime Minister here in Canada has pushed through legislation that allows Americans that need an abortion to come to Canada to receive it.

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RK Barbo 2 years ago

It still amazes me how people disrespect wildlife in the west. (US) No matter how many times they're told to stay in their cars, or keep their distance, they don't listen. (But truth be told, we enjoy those videos of animals attacking the tourons!)

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BadCat 2 years ago

Canada. Particularly Winnipeg. Unlike New York, our cities sleep. Small shops and coffee places start closing by 6 and nearly everything is closed by 9pm, unless it's a bar or night club. Winnipeg seems like a super safe city. It is for the most part. But we're very high on car/bike thefts and violence, and it's been getting worse. Don't walk around alone downtown at any time. Don't stick around downtown. It's like a ghost town with a lot of aggressive panhandlers. Locals tend to just either work there or pass through. The surrounding communities have a lot more to offer. Book a hotel in another part of the city than downtown. You'll feel safer and have a better time. Just watch for the seedier ones. Do ask the locals recommendations of where to go and they may know some of the hidden gems and where to avoid. Also, some of the bad neighbourhoods are not necessarily that bad. Be careful taking the bus. If you go looking for trouble, you'll find trouble.

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