Female tourist sparks fury and is pelted with water bottles after goading crowd of angry locals when she scaled an ancient Mayan temple in Mexico
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Daily mail ^
| 22 November 22 | James Callery
...The unnamed woman could be seen near the top of El Castillo – or Pyramid of Kukulcán – in the Mexican state of Yucatán dancing while an enraged group of people shouted abuse at her from down below. Ascending
the 82-ft pyramid at the Chichen Itza archaeological site – formerly one of the most important centres of the Mayan civilisation – has been prohibited since 2008. ...The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a statement a few hours after the video was released on social media, noting that the monument had not been damaged. Fines for climbing the...
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Overcrowded Louvre struggles to cope with rising tourist tide
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AFP ^
| August 7, 2019 | Staff
Like a human wave every few minutes, two hundred or so tourists surge towards the "Mona Lisa," mobile phones in hand to make the best of every second of their time in front of the world's most famous painting. Hundreds
of other hearts sink as museum attendants swiftly draw the rope across to hold back the next wave of the queue that snakes round the vast gallery in the Louvre in Paris.
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Las Ramblas attack: van hits crowd in tourist area of Barcelona
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Guardian ^
| 17 August 2017
Las Ramblas attack: van hits crowd in tourist area of Barcelona Police say several people injured in ‘massive crash’ on Las Ramblas in Spanish city A van has crashed into a crowd of people in central Barcelona, causing an unknown number of injuries, with local media reporting at least one armed man
had subsequently entered a restaurant in the area. Spanish police, who said they were treating the incident as a terrorist attack, said several people were injured in the “massive crash” on Las Ramblas, a wide boulevard in an area of the city popular with tourists.
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