Your stay on the island may be a dream, but the high price for accommodations and other services is a bit of a nightmare. Driving on the island may allow you the freedom to have adventures but try not to be too free.
The island roads are notoriously narrow, and driving on them, especially at night during tourist season, can be dangerous.
Reality: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Sadly, you are not the first person who wanted to help “hold up” the tower. You will be sharing that privilege with a lawn full of tourists who came to Pisa just to see the Leaning Tower. Also, despite a lot of hard work and money, the tower’s lean is continuing to deepen, which may cause its eventual collapse.
When you take into account the almost 300 uneven stairs to reach the top, the visit may be more than you bargained for.
Fantasy: Santorini Island, Greece
When people think of Greece, they are really thinking about the island of Santorini, with its iconic white buildings, lovely black sand beaches and crystal-clear waters. The island offers first class accommodations and gourmet restaurants and the chance to hike up a volcano on the Fira trail and capture the spectacular sunset.
The island is rapidly becoming a destination for weddings and families, and travelers from all over the world.
Fantasy: Great Wall of China, China
The Great Wall of C hina has been named one of the traditional “seven wonders of the world” and is roughly 13,000 miles long, although different surveys have come back with different lengths. The wall stretches in an east-to-west direction across the original borders of China and is known for its great length and fortifications.
Although the myth that it can be seen from space has been disproved, it is still an architectural marvel and an amazing place for any adventurous tourist to visit.
Reality: Great Wall of China, China
However, if you decide to visit, you will not be the only one who knows that the wall is great. You will have to share the narrow walkways with many other tourists, some of which litter or even deface the wall with graffiti.
This is an especially big problem in the most frequently visited section in Badaling. The wall there may not be as clean or impressive as you’ve been led to expect.