11 moments when tourists regretted their clumsy gesture

Discover in eleven stories the worst maladdresses of tourists in total disrespect!

The very principle of travel is to discover a country, a culture, a people and many other things... But some tourists have forgotten that they were not home, and that it should be done with the utmost respect for traditions, monuments, animals and premises.

Arriving in a foreign country is not always easy. We don't know every custom, and it can easily make mistakes. On the other hand, there are customs and customs to be respected which are common to the world, the word respect having the same definition everywhere. Here are some examples of particularly disrespectful and malpolis tourists.

He marks his name on an Egyptian temple

A 15-year-old Chinese teenager found nothing more stupid to do than sign his name on the wall of a temple in Luxor, Egypt . The young tourist wrote "Ding Jinhao visited this place" in Chinese. Another tourist photographed the scene and published it on a blog and the reactions were vivid until the child’s father publicly apologized.

A group paints the statue of an Egyptian queen

However, it is quite clear when you enter a museum: it is forbidden to touch the works. But a group of school students who came to visit the British Museum made moves to a statue of a 3500-year-old Egyptian queen.

She embraces a Buddha in Sri Lanka

This photo was taken in a temple in Sri Lanka But the person who tries to kiss the Buddha is then far from doubting that she will run out of six months of suspended prison for her and two of her French friends. The latter decided to develop it in the photo shop near the temple, and the manager denounced the three French tourists.

A couple serious his initials on the Colosseum

When you are in love, you want to say it and write it wherever you go. But a couple of Californians had the wrong idea of engraving the initials of their first names on the old walls of the amphitheatre of the Colosseum in Rome . If the city of Rome is romantic, the Colosseum, a place where people and animals were killed every day, it is a little less...

A tourist sounds the bells of a Buddhist temple

In the Buddhist religion, respect for the deities is important. Respect, a word that should not tell this tourist who has ringed the prayer bells of the temple Wat Phra That Doi Suthep de Chiang Mai in Thailand, dating from the 14th century.

It breaks the finger of a statue in Florence

Being clumsy, it happens from time to time, and we can forgive it. But when you visit a museum, the least thing is not to touch anything. An American tourist has still not understood it, after accidentally breaking the finger of a statue of the 14th century, preserved in the museum dell’Opera del Duomo de Florence (Italy). Shortly before the drama, a guard saw him touching the work. The time to intervene was too late. The tourist then melted into the crowd before being caught.

A Finnish breaks and steals an ear from a statue of Easter Island

In 2008, a Finnish tourist vandalized a statue of Easter Island, a moai. The 26-year-old tourist was denounced by an inhabitant of this Pacific island, “the most isolated in the world,” and acknowledged having broken one of the ears of a moai to bring back songs to his home. For his defence, he simply stated that the statue seemed majestic to him, and that is why he wanted to bring back a souvenir when he returned to Finland.

Too loud and disrespectful

In Washington, the grave of an unknown soldier lies to remember all the victims of war that have not been identified. In 2011, a guard silenced a crowd of tourists too noisy in an impressive way and the video toured the web.

Smile. Memorial of September 11

Led in honour of the victims of September 11, 2001, some tourists showed the greatest by watering with the fountains, stinging on the place and spreading coffee on the names of the victims. No decency.

A safari guide frightens an elephant

In addition to discovering a region and explaining the history of a place, the tourist guides also have the role of encouraging travellers to be respectful of wild animals. But a safari guide in a South African park has found a lot more fun to excite an elephant and have fun for his colleagues by taking stupid risks. Fortunately, the elephant was not injured, and the guide lost his job as a result of the video upload.

The very expensive swim in the Trevi Fountain

It's expensive the entrance ticket to the pool! An improvised midnight bath in the Trevi fountain in Rome earned a fine salted to two American tourists. On a visit to the Italian capital, the two young Californians have won a fine of 450 euros each after having been caught in flagrante de dive in the huge vasque of the fountain famous for the custom that people throw coins in the water.