17 Tourist Poses You Need To Stop Making On Vacation
(Photo: Vincent Lock/Flickr)
Put a tourist in front of a camera instead of behind one, and you usually get some awesomely predictable results. From jumping in the air and posing with animals, to peeking out of a phone booth and pinching the Eiffel Tower, could we please — as a species — come up with just a little creativity? Is that too much to ask?
(Photo: Pedro Ribeiro Simões/Flickr)
The jump
Nothing screams American abroad more than a good celebratory leap in a random piazza.
(Photo: Vin7474/Wikimedia Commons)
The hold-up
It’s impossible not to equate humans to lemmings after witnessing hundreds of tourists all trying to capture this oh-so-clever shot at the same time. Although, how sick is that Italian Red Sox shirt?
(Photo: Jerk Alert Productions/Flickr)
Peeking out of a telephone booth
“Wait, wait, I’ve got a crazy idea. Why don’t you get a shot of me peeking out of this phone booth, as if I JUST made a phone call, or, you know, am hiding. Trust me, it’ll be hilarious.”
(Photo: Hildgrim/Flickr)
Standing on top of things
Especially when what you’re standing on top of says “terd”.
(Photo: Another Sergio/Flickr)
The “I’ve arrived”
In a churchyard… Bam!
(Photo: Monika Bota/Flickr)
With one of the Queen’s guards
Actually, go for it. Those guys don’t have anything better to do. You know, other than protect the Queen.
(Photo: William Cho/Flickr)
With an animal
Could somebody please explain why anyone would pay a guy with a drugged iguana (or python, or cockatoo) any amount of money to pose with it? “Dude, my vacation to South Beach got so messed up that I took a picture with an iguana!!! Seriously, it was THAT crazy”.
(Photo: oddwick/Flickr)
The peace sign
Obviously nobody’s against peace, per say, but do we have to throw up deuces in every picture? Also, can we agree to stop saying “throw up deuces” — it sounds disgusting.
(Photo: mendhak/Flickr)
The celebrity wave
When you’re not even famous. Although, to be honest, this dude does look pretty distinguished. Like an Asian Paul Newman.
(Photo: Skift)
The Beatles
If you ever drive down Abbey Road in London, add some extra time into your schedule. Inevitably, you’ll have to wait for groups of tourists queued up to take this exact photo. Thanks for nothing, Yoko.
(Photo: Francisco Osorio/Flickr)
The get-a-room couple
“Dad, I think he’s going to pork her!”
"He’s not going to pork her, Rusty, just eat, okay?”
“I think he is, Dad.”
“… He may pork her, Russ, just eat, okay?”
(Photo: Frankie Victoria/Flickr)
The hot dog legs
And speaking of eating, don’t be surprised when a fellow beachgoer smothers you in French’s. And we’re not talking about kisses.
(Photo: conicuri/Instagram)
The Machu Picchu
Seriously, if you have a picture of yourself in front of Machu Picchu taken from another angle (literally, any other direction), please pat yourself on the back. And do so twice if you hiked to the top of the mountain in the background and shot it looking down.
(Photo: Vincent Desjardins/Flickr)
With a policeman/soldier
Perhaps there’s an episode of Blue Bloods on that you could be watching instead of keeping the nice officer from doing his job.Also, again with the deuces?
(Photo: David van der Mark/Flickr)
The yogi
We get it. You do yoga. Save it for the studio.
(Photo: maddogwwfc/Instagram)
The coin toss
If we had a coin for every time a tourist lobbed one into Rome’s Trevi Fountain, we’d obviously have a lot of coins.
(Photo: Vincent Lock/Flickr)
The pincher
Pinching the Eiffel Tower is possibly the most cliche of all tourist poses, and yet apparently no one has tired of it. We find this incredibly difficult to understand.
More from Thrillist:
The 15 most annoying travelers in the world
