As summer approaches, many will be looking forward to heading abroad to discover exotic beaches, sprawling cities or expansive countryside.
Most of these trips will be enjoyable, incident-free visits to foreign countries, where the majority of tourists are respectful of local cultures and traditions.
However, not every traveller knows how to act appropriately abroad. Increasingly, tourists hit headlines for all the wrong reasons, with behaviour that’s scarcely believable.
Such incidents often happen at historic monuments or sacred religious sites – places where you don’t need an in-depth knowledge of local customs to know that, for example, you really shouldn’t be stripping off and posing naked.
Last week, a tourist was arrested in Indonesia for doing exactly this, with a local telling them to “go back to your country if you can’t respect our tradition and culture”.
In light of this, The Independent has compiled a list of the most mindless things tourists have done while abroad in recent years.
Posing naked by a sacred tree
The photo caused controversy both in Indonesia and online
(Ni Luh Djelantik / Instagram)
A woman was arrested in April 2023 after posing naked by the Bayan Ancient Tree, a sacred tree in Bali, Indonesia.
Having been detained by immigration officers, the woman reportedly faces being deported from Bali for the photo in front of the 700-year-old tree.
Calling out the woman’s behaviour, Instagram user Ni Luh Djelantik posted the tourist’s picture, writing: “All foreigners who disrespect our land, Bali is our home, not yours!”
They added: “Do you think you’ll look cool taking naked picture on our holy trees? Go back to your country if you can’t respect our tradition and culture.”
Posing naked by a sacred tree… again
Ni Luh Djelantik, a social media activist in Indonesia posted a photo of the Russian tourist [pictured above] who posed nude in front of the sacred, ancient tree in Bali
(Ni Luh Djelantik /Instagram)
A story from 2022 makes the above event appear even more foolish; last year a Russian influencer was reported to the authorities for a similar naked pose in front of a similar sacred tree.
Alina Fazleeva posted the provocative images to her 27,000 followers, but the photos were found and reported by an angry local.
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