When it comes to tours, what the average person may not find enjoyable, there are others that find the same off-the-wall activities fascinating.
Jason Moore tells us that there are six strange tours that people actually pay for, although he calls them “worst.”
The following are three of them.
Paris Sewer Tour. For $3.00 per day, visitors will be taken through 500 yards of actual Paris sewer lines. You’ll also see the tools and equipment along with the history of the Paris Sewer Management System. The sewer pipes are numbered, corresponding to the house numbers and buildings above you.
Illegal Border Crossing Experience. Travelers to Parque EcoAlberto, Mexico can spend $18 and find out what it’s like to illegally cross into the United States. The typical adventure will put tourists out in the desert with a group of other tourists; complete with a guide, the stars above and angry border patrols threatening to send the “interlopers” back to Mexico.
Ghetto Tours. In Rio de Janeiro take a Ghetto tour. For $50, “you can take a walk on the wild side and experience a world not your own.” Shop at local markets and take a sample of the food and wares. Armed guards who are actually drug traffickers that run the neighborhood protect tourists during this unusual and questionable tour.
The next time you’re hankering to go on the wild side, take one of these off-the-beaten path tours and return home with different stories to tell.
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There are also “Homeless” tours in NYC where you are given a cardboard box, a can to beg, and you really see how it is.
Travel is moving away from the “where I have been” mentality and moving swiftly to the “what I have done”!
New York has some of the most interesting tours:
Here’s a few:
PIZZA TOUR:
http://www.asliceofbrooklyn.com/
CHOCOLATE TOUR
http://www.sweetwalks.com/
SOPRANOS TOUR
http://www.allnewyorktours.com/body.asp?tour=NYC-TV006&page=TourDetails
SEX IN THE CITY TOUR
http://www.screentours.com/tour.php/satc/
On December 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am John F said There are also “Homeless” tours in NYC where you are given a cardboard box, a can to beg, and you really see how it is.
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Was that YOU?
I was walking near Times Square when the Elliot Spitzer scandal broke. I walked by a homeless man sitting on the cold pavement and read his sign:
“I NEED $4,300 DOLLARS, SO I CAN GET ME A GIRLFRIEND, JUST LIKE GOV. SPITZER”
His donation cap was full.
I had a good laugh.
Now you tell me! I was in Rio last month.
So how come you didn’t print the Ice Hotel story?)