The Little Mermaid | The Diarist Wanders

Definitely among the top tourist attractions in Copenhagen, The Little Mermaid (aka Den Lille Havfrue) is named/advertised correctly since it is, indeed, little.

Despite not being a gigantic, larger-than-life statue, The Little Mermaid draws crowds by the hundreds, if not thousands everyday. More actually, if we include tourists on the canal boat tours that capture her image from the water.

While some may think Edvard Eriksen‘s sculpture is “just sitting pretty” out in the water, The Little Mermaid actually lives a dangerous life—lost her head twice, arm was sawed off, and was bathed in paint. Kudos to those who fix her up, and for The Little Mermaid of Copenhagen for always take everything in stride, ready to leave in awe her new visitors every day.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic has affected lives all over the globe, including ours and millions of people wishing to travel and visit iconic travel locations and wonderful destinations.

While the pandemic definitely had the most devastating impact on informal economies (particularly “no work, no pay” jobs and hand-to-mouth income brackets), the global aviation and tourism industry has also taken the economic brunt.

To get us through our collective travel deprivation despair, here’s some iconic travel locations (some quite obvious and some less known) you might want to add to your post-pandemic “revenge travel” bucket list (or even “religious places to visit”, as it turns out) once we take to the skies as borders reopen and the world is safe again.