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How do you explore a new city as a tourist? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by not_awake to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone!

I recently started to travel a lot for tourism and I always don't know how to properly get the info about the place I'm visiting.

I don't like guided tours so I thought to use Wikivoyage but the articles are so reductive in comparison to what you can find on Wikipedia that unfortunately doesn't have a TTS option.

What do you use then? How do you organize yourself?

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[–] TenderfootGungi 3 points 1 year ago

Reading comments here to find a better way, but we just walk or take a train or subway and get off and walk and see what we find. Talking to locals helps too, as they will tell us about places they are proud of and think we should see. We have stumbled on really cool places most tourist do not find or ended up riding paddle boats in a park. We do research ahead of time and have a list of places we do not want to miss.

This does not always work. Some places are too big and lack public transportation. We have had to return to a train station a get a cab to a local attraction (Dover, UK).