In ancient times, tourists and travelers in Greece have gotten into
some pretty intense situations. An adventure-seeking traveler
would bathe in the river Herkyna, then consume sacrificial
meat, wander through a dark cave of Livadeia to seek out the oracle, and
emerge “paralyzed with terror and unconscious both of himself and of
his surroundings.” And that's just a one-day itinerary.
So wrote Greek geographer Pausanias, one of the very first travel writers, in his second-century book Hellados Periegesis, or Description of Greece.
As the oldest and most detailed travel guidebook uncovered from ancient
times, it is often considered the guidebook that started the genre of
travel literature we know today. ... [mehr] http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-worlds-first-travel-writer-was-a-guy-from-ancient-greece
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