sightseeing

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Someone estimated costs at $1,000 per day per person — staying at 4- or 5-star hotels, using private transportation and avoiding lines for sightseeing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

In 2024, a Takumi Enterprise sightseeing helicopter flying over Mount Aso made an emergency landing, injuring the three people on board.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

He found himself sightseeing on Jeju Island, a resort island famous for sweet mandarins and volcanic rock statues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

There were fewer people to hop onto sightseeing buses, stop inside Madame Tussauds wax museum and snap impromptu photos with patrolling characters such as Spiderman and Mickey Mouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

Dad had to go to work but Mum had the day off from being a nurse and it was half term so the five of us could go sightseeing, she said.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd