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By: Forget the Guidebook—This is the VICE Guide to Travel « Lonely Girl Travels

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:10:08 +0000

[...] in a post blog and subsequent Matador article. Later, I came across an article titled “5 Totally Bad-Ass Travel Experiences” that made me want to vomit. The article listed 5 “daring” travel experiences, two of [...]

By: brian | No Debt World Travel

brian | No Debt World Travel — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:59:29 +0000

This is a great list! Who would think there would be tours of coke labs?

I was in Cambodia and totally forgot about the weapons. I remember seeing it but it completely slipped my mind.

By: Lauren Quinn

Lauren Quinn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:14:59 +0000

Wow, turning some of the most f-ed up aspects of a country’s history into tourism. That’s impressive.

I met a fair number of people into the cocaine tourism in Medellin (taking pictures next to Pablo Escobar’s grave), and I had the chance to visit a cocaine factory in the mountains near Santa Marta. It just seemed wrong, you know? And I guess when you know people that survived Pol Pot, the glamour of shooting semi-automatic weapons in Cambodia is kinda spoiled…

BTW, it’s “yayo.” As in, “I represent the Yay Area.”