Iceland was on my list of countries for about a year before all this Instagram influencers crap started. At this point I'll probably hold off on visiting for a bit until the "hype" dies down.
Iceland was on my list of countries for about a year before all this Instagram influencers crap started. At this point I'll probably hold off on visiting for a bit until the "hype" dies down.
They ruin any tourist spot. I was in Thailand for my honeymoon and it was hard to actually take a normal ass photo with my wife without an amateur photo-shoot happening behind us complete with...
They ruin any tourist spot. I was in Thailand for my honeymoon and it was hard to actually take a normal ass photo with my wife without an amateur photo-shoot happening behind us complete with bounce sheets and wardrobe changes and makeup.
Even in restaurants. Anything nicely decorated and you have groups of people recording themselves doing things. Walking, being in line, reading the menus. People are walking around street-food streets talking to camcorders. Every goddamn person is a documentarian. It's insane.
I'd say go if you want to, but stick to more out of the way places. That's what I did and I had a lovely time, I stayed in a village in the rural northwest and hiked, hit up hot springs, etc.
I'd say go if you want to, but stick to more out of the way places. That's what I did and I had a lovely time, I stayed in a village in the rural northwest and hiked, hit up hot springs, etc.
I live in Hawaii and I understand exactly how they feel, we have a problem with it too. People trampling our endangered species and littering all over the place. In an odd way, even though Iceland...
I live in Hawaii and I understand exactly how they feel, we have a problem with it too. People trampling our endangered species and littering all over the place. In an odd way, even though Iceland and Hawaii are on opposite ends of the earth, I feel like we have a lot in common.
Iceland was on my list of countries for about a year before all this Instagram influencers crap started. At this point I'll probably hold off on visiting for a bit until the "hype" dies down.
They ruin any tourist spot. I was in Thailand for my honeymoon and it was hard to actually take a normal ass photo with my wife without an amateur photo-shoot happening behind us complete with bounce sheets and wardrobe changes and makeup.
Even in restaurants. Anything nicely decorated and you have groups of people recording themselves doing things. Walking, being in line, reading the menus. People are walking around street-food streets talking to camcorders. Every goddamn person is a documentarian. It's insane.
I'd say go if you want to, but stick to more out of the way places. That's what I did and I had a lovely time, I stayed in a village in the rural northwest and hiked, hit up hot springs, etc.
I'd go as soon as you are able. Unless the government put up quotas, tourism to Iceland isn't dying down any time soon regardless of "instagram hype".
I live in Hawaii and I understand exactly how they feel, we have a problem with it too. People trampling our endangered species and littering all over the place. In an odd way, even though Iceland and Hawaii are on opposite ends of the earth, I feel like we have a lot in common.