Found her! The tourist was on a voyage of self discovery. Photo / Getty Images
Found her! The tourist was on a voyage of self discovery. Photo / Getty Images
The internet is in hysterics over the story of a tourist who joined a search party to find a missing member of a tour group — without realising she was the missing tourist they were looking for.
A newspaper snippet of the story, which has gone viral on Twitter, describesthe incident near Eldgja Canyon in southern Iceland.
It said the group of tourists, travelling on a tour bus through Iceland, became concerned about a missing member of their group during a stop near the volcanic canyon.
"The woman, who had changed her clothes, didn't recognise the description of herself and joined in the search," the article read.
"But the search was called off at about 3am, when it became clear the missing woman was, in fact, accounted for and searching for herself."
The near tragedy quickly became a farce. Photo / Supplied, Twitter.com
The incident appears to have happened back in 2012, according to a Time report from that year, but only recently has the story taken off on social media.
**HAPPY FRIDAY: "A group of tourists spent hours Saturday night looking for a missing woman in Iceland, only to find her among the search party. The search was called off at 3am when it became clear the missing woman was, in fact, accounted for & searching for herself." @OANNpic.twitter.com/3uluRJOemu
