Friday, October 05, 2012

Time spent outside tourist spot






These are some photos I clicked in London. This was near a famous tourist place and the persons who drew these had a good idea on how to get people give some money to them. Instead of just asking for money, I found people doing a lot of innovative stuff.

These guys drew flags of various countries and hoped that various tourists belonging to different countries will put money on their respective flags.

The first thing that tourists did when they came close to these flags was they started looking for the flag of their contry. If their flag is not present, they ask the concerned people to draw the flag, e.g. I saw some Taiwanese people asking for the same. The tourists then placed some money on their contry's flags and click pictures while doing that. There seem to be some competition brewing as people saw coins / money on their country's flag vs. all others.

The people who drew the flags had found a good way of making the tourists part from the chnage they had. China / Chinese were leading the way here as well. It was the only country whose flag had some currency notes, in addition to the coins.



I saw a Tibetan asking the concerned guys to draw a separate Tibetan flag, and making it a point to place a currency note on the same.

It was amazing how a simple setup like this helps identify people and their countries in the otherwise homogeneous setup. I was outside a famous tourist spot, but I finally ended up spending more time outside the tourist spot than inside the it.