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

Riding Amtrak’s California Zephyr route, it turns out, is equal parts sightseeing extravaganza and endurance test.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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

My mom was no doubt referring to all the tapas bars we’d visited, all the Gaudí-inspired sightseeing we’d done, which had been cool.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx