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Latin America

More Partying In Quito, Papallacta Again, Partying in Quito…Again

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I joined my buddies Nadith and Michael from Bangladesh and Holland to a dance club on friday. Before going, we built a fire and relaxed for bit . At about 9:30 or so we walked across the street to where the club is located and were immediately shown to the VIP section :) Once upstairs, we just hung out for a bit until I decided to take advantage of our situation and invited a … [Read more...] about More Partying In Quito, Papallacta Again, Partying in Quito…Again

Bad Start to Colombia

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I have arrived in Bogota and everything is fine so far. I got in around 5, and attempted to take a taxi to my hotel (a simple process I thought), but the driver repeatedly tried to rip me off. At first, he claimed that my hostel did not exist because of a recent fire. After making him take me there anyways, he ended up letting me out about 15 city blocks away from it. I would … [Read more...] about Bad Start to Colombia

Rio Nightlife

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Street parties, favela parties, train station party´s, and July party´s. Lately, I have been going to some pretty unique party´s. Every friday night in Rio, most of the young people will bus it to Lapa. Lapa can be described as the cheap ($1 beers) bohemian part of Rio. Thousands of people go and the streets are near impossible to navigate. Some people go into discotheque's … [Read more...] about Rio Nightlife

Prison

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I found this blog entry that someone else wrote online. I am going to paste excerpts of the entry here, because it pretty much describes my experience visiting the women's prison. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Kathsmee/?p=74 ______________________________________________________________________________ "So, clutching our plastic bags full of tampons and soap off we trundled to … [Read more...] about Prison