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Planking: An Aussie Photo Tradition

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I do not normally post this many times in a week, but I had to share these fun photos from my Patagonian Trails tour with Adventure Center.

One of the benefits of a guided tour is getting to know the people in your group.

I have discovered in my travels that Aussies are a lot of fun, and this group of Aussies certainly made this an even more enjoyable and memorable trip for me.

One thing I will always remember is getting to the top of the hill where we had a gorgeous view of the laguna, the glacier, and the mountains and hearing:

This is a great planking photo!

What is Planking?

Planking is an Aussie thing.  I read an article online that it started as a “weird thing to do in a public place,” and it seems to have evolved into a travel photo tradition.

David Planking

 

Me Planking

So it’s kind of like O-H-I-O

I made the group indulge me for an O-H-I-O photo.  That’s what we alumni from THE Ohio State University do when we travel.

They had no clue what I was making them do but were happy to humor me.

 

What photo traditions do you have?

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This post is part of a series about my experience on the Patagonian Trails Tour with Adventure Center.  I was very impressed by their range of tour options from light to extreme adventure all over Latin America and the rest of the world.  There really is something for everyone.  Adventure Center handles all bookings with Peregrine for North American clients.  


 

 

Comments

  3. Planking got so famous in Asia that some areas actually prohibits it because people went overboard and tried doing that in dangerous zones XD (like on train tracks, edge of the roof….etc)

    Though I don’t have a photo tradition, my cousins like to do “jump” photos where ever they go.
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  4. I met a backpacker once who took photos of her feet all the time. She reckoned the photos proved that she’d been to a place. I thought it was completely whacky at the time but now and then I find myself taking photos of my own feet. My photos are “art” though… you know.
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  11. I don’t know what to say about the whole planking thing. Being an Aussie, I kind of cringed when I read the word planking in your email. It was a craze that hit the headlines last year here because people were doing all these stupid and crazy things when like planking on the balcony of a high rise building so that they could post their pics on the internet and get a whole bunch of followers.

    Honestly, I had thought the whole thing had died down got replaced by something else but it appears it’s still alive and well.

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