kalavinka
Los Angeles
clarifications
I’m posting a modified version of a comment I left on the NYC list as it’s relevant—it concerns the theme of this list.
This list is not really so much about tourist traps and cliches but everyone is welcome to add the traps and cliches. My personal take is that traps tend to be more on the activity side than the destination side, (like taking guided tour bus rides).
I tried to start off with the city/burroughs/county of the place, then the airport, and work from there. I did it this way, especially with huge metro places like LA and NYC, because it was plotting the point of entry for a tourist and because someone may go to one section of the city and that would count as a visit to the larger city as a metro area, for the purpose of this list. Next, I figure major amusement parks, museums, and other points of interest are places tourists are likely to go to. Not to say that locals never go to such places, but it’s not part of one’s normal routine to do so, unless one works there. I especially tried to focus on places mentioned in tourist web sites as “top places to see”.
Does that make sense? I started off making the LA one because I have long since realized that no one I know that is from LA has ever been to the Hollywood sign nor knows how to get there! From there, other major cities also deserve such a list. I mean, if you ask a tourist who went to one of these cities, and they told you where they went, it’d probably be nothing but places on the list. Maybe I simply should’ve put a better description for this list theme! I just wanted it short and sweet. Henceforth, the description of this list has been modified.
