One of the things we tend to look for when we travel is somewhere ‘exotic’. The word first came into wide spread use into 19th century, and it was used to refer to places like Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, it was about markets and harems, man with small mustaches, camels, mint tea and dunes. There tend to be some pretty random associations around the word ‘exotic’, in fact you could find almost anything exotic, depending on where you come from and what your tastes are. If you came from a land of sand and pyramids, a typical English summer’s day would be reliable to be extremely exotic.
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
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