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30 People Who Traveled Great Distances To Take Disappointing Travel Photos

One of the most important things when traveling is taking as many pictures as you can. Not only will you have something to show your friends and parents, it’s always fun to look back on them as the years go by. But what if you travel hundreds of miles to an exotic location only to find out the beautiful panorama you were hoping to see is completely covered by fog?

None of us like it when it happens but sometimes taking a picture in your dream location is simply impossible. But instead of being sad you should look at the situation from the humorous side – as did these unlucky travelers. From fog-covered mountain tops to renovations on iconic buildings, people are sharing their most unsuccessful travel photos and they’re hilariously disappointing. Check them out in the gallery below!

#1 I Finally Got To See The Golden Gate Bridge Today

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#2 Traveled Thousands Of Miles To See The Big Ben

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#3 Not Mount Rushmore, But I Woke Up At 3am And Hiked Up Machu Picchu To Be There At Sunrise…

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#4 After Our 9 Hour Car Ride, This Is The Picture My Mom Took Of Us At Mt. Rushmore

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#5 Took A 6 Hour Coach Journey To See The View From Hitler’s Eagles Nest (Bavaria, Germany)

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#6 Planned A Dream Trip To China. This Is What The Great Wall Looked Like

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#7 4 Days Of Trekking Through Mud To Machu Picchu Resulted In This Glorious View

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#8 I Saved Up My Entire Life For A Dream Trip To Mt Fuji. Here’s The Best Photo From It

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#9 Mt. Everest View At A Peak In Nepal

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#10 This Is Me Experiencing The Grand Canyon

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#11 Drove All The Way From Southern California To See The Golden Gate Bridge

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#13 Drove 1 1/2 Hours Out Of Our Way To See Mount Rushmore. It Was Foggy When We Got There

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#14 I Flew 10+ Hours To See Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany

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#15 My Parents Got To Visit Mt. Rushmore Today For The First Time. The View Is Spectacular!

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#16 I Drove 21 Hours To Mount Rainier, And It Was Cloaked In Fog For Days

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#17 Climbed To The Top Of Mt Fuji To See Sunrise At 04.30, But It Was Foggy And Wet And Cold

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#18 8 Hour Flight, 5 Weeks Of Anticipation, And An Hour Long Bus Ride To See The Cliffs Of Moher. Fog Had Other Plans

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#19 I Went On A Three Week Trek Around Mt. Manaslu In The Himalayas. Part Of It Peeked Through The Clouds One Time…

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#20 Hiked 4 Days To See Machu Picchu

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#21 The Time I Flew 13 Hours To See The Great Wall

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#22 Went To Visit Casa Batlló In Barcelona

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#23 Traveled​ To Wittenberg, Germany In 2011. The Door Martin Luther Nailed The 95 Thesis To Was Being Restored

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#24 Traveled All The Down To See The Golden Gate Bridge And This Is What I Got

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#25 My Trip To Mount Rushmore Last Year

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#26 This Is Why Selfie Sticks Were Invented

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#27 Flew To Another Continent To Watch The Glacier 3000, Cant Say Worth It

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#28 When You Go To London To See Big Ben

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#29 The Spectacle That Is Mount Rushmore

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#30 Went Out Of My Way To Visit Crater Lake

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