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20+ Best Quotes About Guided Tours and Sightseeing

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Introduction

I (Paul Heller) love collecting the Best Quotes about Guided & Escorted Tours and Sightseeing for my Fifty Plus Nomad blog. I spend hours searching to find quotes that:

  • Reflect how I feel about a place or a travel-related issue
  • Add a new or exciting perspective to a discussion about a place or issue, even if I disagree with the author’s viewpoint.
  • Make me laugh, cry, or smile.
  • Perfectly capture a place, emotion, or issue.

I don’t include quotes about unknown places or travel experiences.

All my blog posts lead with a quote relevant to the post’s subject. I frequently post quotes on my Facebook group: Long Term Traveling and Living Abroad Over 50.

In addition, I have added several previously unseen quotes I discovered while putting together this page.

I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I enjoyed putting them together.

Let me know if you have any additional quotes about guided tours to add to this page.

12 Guided Tour and Vacation Package Quotes

“I’ve been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I’ve often had a guide who’s been able to show me things that you wouldn’t see with a tour group.”
Michael Palin

“I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel brochure.”
Anonymous

“It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I’m one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.”-
Jane Birkin

“Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.”
Larry King

“I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I’m convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.”
Greg Wise

“Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.”
Jacob M. Appel

“You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart.
– Adieu”
Kate Chisman

“Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.”
Chuck Klosterman

“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice “
Pico Iyer

 “When will you desist playing tour guide?” he asked. “I should think never. It is the greatest aspiration of my life to give historic tours,” Cinderella lied
K.M. Shea

“My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It’s our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That’s a weird responsibility, especially in a world that feels as good as it feels bad.”
Maggie Smith

“He who has led you so far will guide you further.”
Rumi

6 Sightseeing Quotes

“Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries, and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.”
Ashley Jensen

¨Life is a tour; we are all tourists.” 
Dr. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.”
Bill Bryson

“Sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.”
Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar

“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location – that you don’t travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don’t do – we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it’s too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.”
Arthur Frommer

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Paul Heller has been a lifelong avid traveler and language learner and teacher, Even as a child, he told Santa Claus that he wanted to visit all the children worldwide. At seven years old, Paul wanted to retire to Mexico. At eight, he memorized the name, capital, location, and some facts about every country worldwide. At twelve, he found a book "Lonely Planet: Southeast Asia on a Shoestring" and started developing his own itinerary for a future round-the-world trip. He remained obsessed with travel; after getting a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and working as an administrator, He spent his vacations going to different countries around the globe studying language, touring, and volunteering. In 1994, he quit his job and lived in Russia as a volunteer English instructor. He discovered that he loved teaching languages. In 2004, he decided to make a living out of his travels and founded a community of people who love to travel just like him. He developed 5 three-hour classes about living and traveling long-term worldwide which he taught in over 50 adult education programs throughout the US. After his parents passed, he realized his dream of traveling around the world; cruising and touring some of the most remote places like the North Atlantic, Patagonia, and Oceania; and learning new languages (he knows Spanish, Italian, French, and Russian). Paul encourages everyone to learn foreign languages. He knows that it can be frustrating and slow but that anyone can learn a language if they put in the work and, most importantly, learning a language is well worth the time and effort because it opens up a whole new set of people, ideas, and cultures. He is currently spending the next chapter of his life in Mérida, México. He is excited about using this blog and his classes and workshops to inspire and equip fellow Fifty Plus Nomads with the language, cultural, and psychological skills necessary to be successful and happy long-term travelers and expats over 50.

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