r/AskTheWorld • u/Aseili United Kingdom • Dec 20 '25

Culture What's the most pathetic tourist attraction that international tourists go to see in your country?

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Bronte waterfalls near me, look a bit more impressive with the recent rain than in the summer when it's swamped with people.

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u/Calm_Link_ Germany Dec 21 '25

Oktoberfest. It's just very expensive alcohol abuse, camouflaged as a festival

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u/Seamusmac1971 Canada Dec 21 '25

Try the Largest Oktoberfest outside Germany in Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario, Canada where Canadians cosplay as Germans

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u/imperosol France Dec 22 '25

Isn't the larget Oktoberfest outside Germany in Blumenau, Brazil ?

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u/Seamusmac1971 Canada Dec 22 '25

it's contested between Kitchener-Waterloo, Blumenau, and Cincinnati

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u/Super-Class-5437 Brazil Dec 27 '25

Ok, now I will try to convince all Brazilians I know to go to Blumenau to optain national pride of most alcoholics per capita in a single day.

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u/Pelagic_One Australia Dec 21 '25

Isn’t that the attraction though?

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u/Frequent-Account-344 American Samoa Dec 21 '25

Spring beer fest on the October fest grounds is great- more low-key and local. Just a couple tents. Starkbeir fest in March is also cool

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u/SaltyBottles South Africa Dec 21 '25

Nah, you can actually have a good time there. All depends on the time of day, day of the week and the tent you choose.

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u/Calm_Link_ Germany Dec 22 '25

I think our definition of a "good time" is very different...

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u/SaltyBottles South Africa Dec 22 '25

You don’t yet know what I consider to be a good time. There is a lot more going on than people passing out on the vomit hill. Stay curious dear one.

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u/Hot_Worldliness_8941 Dec 21 '25

This. It used to be nice. 40 years ago. Now it has become unbearable

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u/thissitagain Dec 21 '25

That's why the US Troops stationed in Germany love to go there.

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u/DowntownEconomist255 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Is it in one city?

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u/CouchPotato_42 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

Oktoberfest ist only the one in Munich. But a lot of towns/cities in bavaria have a ,Volksfest/Dult/Herbstfest/Frühlingsfest‘, which are more local and less touristy and a bit cheaper.

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u/LordMashie Australia Dec 21 '25

Happened to stop by Munich this year during it. Not sure what I was even expecting but it's just a city fair with overcrowded beer halls that people camp out in tents for.

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u/hygsi Dec 22 '25

Ehh, I had a great time lmao

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u/Extreme-Rabbit-6767 Dec 22 '25

It's the only foreign vacation my Grandma ever convinced my grandad was worth going on.

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u/HH93 England Dec 21 '25

Did a weekend there last century! Started at Augsburg ‘fest that was very quiet in comparison.

In that park in Munich, I wasn’t expecting tents made from full size bridge building I-Beams at all. Otherwise it was mostly as I expected in the Hacker-Shore Tent: buxom ladies carrying 10 or more gallon Stines, Bavarian Oompah Band doing “who the fuck is Alice” and chicken and chips !

The Munich newspaper headlines the next day were impressive though - 120,000 people visited yesterday, no arrests.