30 Times People Took The Most Unfortunate Photos While On Vacation

With an abundance of travel photos on Instagram, we expect our pictures to turn out as good, if not better, if we go to the exact location. Yet, as the old Yiddish proverb says, “We plan, God laughs.” You can have all the steps meticulously thought out, all bases covered, but fortune will likely hold a different agenda for you. The attraction might be closed, tourists will likely photobomb your every pic, or it will start pouring out of the blue.

It’s even worse when you travel long distances to get to the site, and it looks nothing like the pictures. Then all your hopes to take an insta-worthy pic go out the window. Eh, maybe that’s the horoscope at fault? Nah, that’s just one of the few lemons that life occasionally throws at people. That’s a bummer, but what can we mortals do?

Don’t get upset if you didn’t luck out with your recent trip and had nothing to post on Instagram. You are far from being the only one who lucked out. Some hiked miles to get to the mountain’s highest point just to see the fog blocking all the beautiful landscape. Others had their phone die at a picturesque location. Enough babbling, scroll below to check out the most unfortunate photos taken on vacations!

#1 Trying To Explain To The 70-Year-Old Swiss Man Who Offered To Take Our Pic That His Finger Was Covering The Lens

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#2 Visited The Grand Canyon. Pictures Don’t Do It Justice

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#3 Expectation vs. Reality. London Edition

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#4 Go To The Taj Mahal At Sunrise, They Said. It’ll Be Beautiful, They Said

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#5 Waited Forever For The Crowd To Dissipate To Take A Picture, Then This Happened

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#6 Thanks Tour Guide For Taking Such A Great Photo Of Everyone

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#7 The “Waterfall” My Family Drove Two Hours To See

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#8 Told My Girlfriend To Use The Last Piece Of Film We Had With Us To Get A Picture Of Me In Front Of Some Mountains

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#9 Flew 13 Hours To Hawaii To See Volcanoes National Park

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#10 It Was Always A Personal Dream To Be Able To Go And Visit This Remarkable Oak Tree In The Shawshank Redemption

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Turns out that people after the film released took away all those stones from the little wall that led to the tree away to their homes and lately in 2016 the tree fell in a thunderstorm.

#11 This Guy Having A Selfie With Mona Lisa

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

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#13 I Traveled From UK All The Way To Germany To Take Photos Of The Devil’s Eye, But When I Got There

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#14 Expectation vs. Reality. At Least It Was Just A Four-Hour Hike

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#15 The Only Photo I Have Of Myself On My Camera From My Only Overseas Trip

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#16 It’s All About The Journey Though Right?

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#17 Me, Outside The Duomo In Milan, Getting Photobombed. By A Pigeon

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#18 Guy Took Week Off Of Work To Climb Mountain Kilimanjaro And Raise Money For Charity. This Is The Picture His Guide Took At The Summit Before The Phone Died

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#19 I’ve Noticed This Guy Just Now, A Few Days After I Took The Photo And This Photo Will Be In My Tourist Association Book

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#20 We Hiked 3 Hours To Get A Good Picture Of Our Hometown. Our City Is On The Left

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#21 Finally Able To Travel To Paris And The Arch De Triumph Looks Like This. It’s An “Art” Project

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#22 Climbed North Europa’s Tallest Mountain At 8100 Feet, And Got This Picture

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#23 Going To Cristo And Taking A 3D Photo Is Priceless

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#24 Smile

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#25 On Our Honeymoon In Hallstatt Austria