The recommendation of Korney Ivanych Chukovsky to children not to go to Africa to walk is quite relevant today, in 2021: the lion's share of the figures in the list of the least popular in the tourist dimension of states among foreign tourists is African countries.
According to the above-mentioned statistics, only every twenty-fifth ticket out of a hundred falls on African countries like Uganda, Mauritania, Guinea and other African states. Let's say a few words about the reasons.
- Tourists have never pampered Uganda with attention - all because there is nothing in the country why it would be worth going to such a wilderness: the roads resemble ours (or even worse), there are no special sights, it is better to look at elephants in Kenya,but there are no fewer AIDS patients and malaria mosquitoes than in any other country of the Black Continent;
- In Guinea, just the other day, in early September, there was a coup d'état: the people rebelled against the attempt of the half-dead President Alpha Condé, in violation of constitutional requirements, to go for a third term. That's where the constitutional fidelity comes in!
- The eponymous country with the prefix"Equatorial"does not suffer from political instability, but it also has nothing to boast of - except for oil and Spanish as the state language. Half of the locals live on a dollar a week, and tourists have nowhere to stay and eat. Although there is a cool national park Monte Alain.
- The West African state of Mali opened to tourists quite recently, but the proximity of states with active military conflicts and the neighborhood with Mauritania make the country not the best place for a white person to relax.
- Speaking of Mauritania. Slavery in this country was abolished only 40 years ago, so it is actively practiced informally to this day. If you do not want to be sold, it is better not to fly there. In addition, there is a criminal penalty for buying and drinking alcoholic beverages, there are no car rentals and restaurants (although there is an interesting national cuisine). But there is the "Eye of the Desert" - a geological artifact visible from space and representing seven rings one in the other, the estimated age of which exceeds 600 million years.
- Nigeria is one of the poorest African countries - in cities 20% of the population live below the poverty line, and in rural areas - 53% of the population. Electricity even in the capital's Lagos is supplied intermittently from several hours to several days.
- For sweets – Zimbabwe, thepoorest country in the world. Despite the fact that the rulers of this impoverished country are associated with Putin by an irrational relationship between friendship and union, foreigners are in no hurry to go to local resorts. Obviously, because they're not there. But there is poverty, AIDS and coups d'état. Although there are enough national parks. In short, a risky investment.
Latin America and Lebanon
Among the countries where foreigners are in no hurry to fly are also El Salvador, Paraguay and Middle Eastern Lebanon. If everything is clear with the latter, the proximity of Syria, engulfed in horrors of the civil war and periodically expressing a desire to shoot missiles at live targets of Israel will scare off any traveler, then the other two positions require explanations.
El Salvador is located in Central America, bearing the informal nickname of the land of lakes and volcanoes - both here to hell. Among the most popular points for travelers is not, there are several reasons for this: a high level of criminalization, a low standard of living + the activities of terrorist groups, which are full of local forests. One of the travel bloggers called the capital of the country, San Salvador,a huge garbage heap, although it is necessary to pay tribute to him – there are several outstanding examples of colonial architecture.
With Paraguay, it is a little more difficult: here you can look at the Iguasus waterfalls and the dam on the Paana River,the largest in the region and one of the most powerful on the planet. And then there is the outstanding level of poverty, comparable only to the worst African examples, and devastation. Both are the legacy of the Latin American dictator of the middle of the XIX century, Francisco Solano López, who dragged his country into a war of destruction against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay: as a result, 90% of the male population of the country over 15 years old died, and the once prosperous region turned into ruins.
