Essay 2
If someone describes themselves as an “anti-tourist” one may think that means they are against all tourism. In fact that’s not always the case. Certainly there are those who are opposed to tourism in their country, but when listening to Daniel Kalder, a self-described “anit-tourist” it can mean something entirely different. He in fact is a tourist, but not in a traditional sense. He would rather visit places people don’t talk about instead of the usual cliché destinations. Why? Well in his own words, “after a couple of years I started to find that a lot of the places we’re supposed to find interesting, or supposed to be at the top of the list, I found a strange boredom creeping in when I visited them” (Kalder). He goes on to explain why he thought that was, saying they’ve been covered and discussed too much and he’d rather experience places that people don’t seem to care about. He acknowledges that events that happened in popular places a...