It’s really the very worst vacation advice.
In all my years of travel, from twisting off bits of pastry in gold-tinged Vienna coffee houses to stumbling around the jungle-wrapped temple ruins in Cambodia, I have relied on the condensed wisdom of those who knew those places well to find my way through abbreviated stays. I plan my trips like a cultural interloper, making sure to hit the “only-here” greatest hits like the tourist that I very much am. This is not the going wisdom these days.
For one thing, locals aren’t traveling. They are working. Or folding laundry or cleaning their bathrooms or packing lunches or any of the eight zillion other inane chores that somehow take up every minute of your free time when you are NOT on vacation. Locals are not spending leisurely days strolling on stunning promenades or gawking at the crank-your-neck-tall Art Deco buildings or sparkly turquoise waters lapping on fine white-sand beaches.
Getting the most out of your visit to a place requires acknowledging both ignorance and vulnerability and that you don’t know much and need some help. There’s nothing wrong with that: remedial cultural lessons are both fun and necessary. I love taking cooking classes, typically chock full of naïve tourists in dorky aprons, and market tours in different cities.
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