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TTP celebrates the goofy pictures we pose for when we let our guard down as tourists – because photos of sunsets and statues can get pretty damn boring.
We love to connect with fellow travelers who don't take themselves too seriously -- and especially seek contributions from childhood vacation albums!
Hey, the Nicaraguan military is available for reality TV shows, so why wouldn’t the Russian Army stop what it’s doing for an Avon perfume press conference? Fergie, whose passion for Tacky Tourist poses was just demonstrated by her waxual self-harassment at the Las Vegas Madame Tussauds, used the ex-Soviet soldiers to promote her new fragrance, [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Barrie Mirman LOCATION: Moscow State University, Russia Thumbs up for Russian socialism! Woo Hoo! This is perhaps the most enthusiastic tourist response to Russian novelist Nikolai Chernyshevsky, whose call-to-arms book “What is to Be Done?” wound up on the coffee tables of a lot of Soviet revolutionaries. (Barrie Mirman is a globetrotting photographer [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman LOCATION: St. Petersburg, Russia (2006) This poor muzzled bear cub sits in the sewer in front of the Winter Palace – residence of the Russian tsars, home of the world-famous Hermitage museum, and used as Russian military headquarters during the Nazi siege of World War II. Yes, there are unfortunately malnourished [...]
