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Pat's Van said:
no, never!

hollywood would ruin the memory of the man, they'd have Steven Segal playing him or something
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I'm pretty sure Leo could play the part very well
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Pat's Van said:
I'd love to do that, how are you planning to do it ???

I did not spend very long there at all, just passing through from El Salvador on route to Nica.

The border towns are horrendous, very shady characters knocking about, terribly underage brasses, hellish and horrible, I'm sure there are nice parts obviously, I never got to see them though
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i just saw some you tube videos. I was going to go down there for a bit and see if i could find someone to take us through. I reckon its relatively common. How was el salvador and nica? I havent really got a plan at the moment. Just got one way ticket to mexico in December and at least 12months career break.
 
witchdoc187 said:
i just saw some you tube videos. I was going to go down there for a bit and see if i could find someone to take us through. I reckon its relatively common. How was el salvador and nica? I havent really got a plan at the moment. Just got one way ticket to mexico in December and at least 12months career break.
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sounds good mate

El Salvador wasn't much to shout about, nice beaches and stuff but predominantly catering for surfers so if that ain't your bag I wouldn't bother, they've got a bit of jungle (not much) and a few volcanoes but theirs are dwarves in comparison to Nicaragua and Guatemala. Good infrastructure though so easy to get about.

Nica was amazing.
 
South America has been wasted on a load of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian immigrants. The whole place is going bankrupt as each new government tries to buy off the populace while skimming millions off the top...........
 

Pat's Van said:
sounds good mate

El Salvador wasn't much to shout about, nice beaches and stuff but predominantly catering for surfers so if that ain't your bag I wouldn't bother, they've got a bit of jungle (not much) and a few volcanoes but theirs are dwarves in comparison to Nicaragua and Guatemala. Good infrastructure though so easy to get about.

Nica was amazing.
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cool, will see what occurs :)
 
verreauxi said:
Spent a summer in Costa Rica. One of the friendliest places I've ever been too. One of the most amazing times I had was at these hotsprings; they had these gardens with little streams that all flowed into this central pool. The pool had a swim up bar and I was there at night with my then girlfriend. In the background, while we sipped on our beers, there was an active volcano (Arenal) which was dripping with bright orange lava against the dark sky...very surreal. The beaches are nice, the food is good, but the jungle is one of the harshest I've ever been to: everything is slippery, wet, full of spines/thorns, or capable of a injurious bite. Very exhilarating.

I also went to Paraguay. Fun place but didn't do much exploring. Instead I spent the month with The Ache, a hunter-gathering group of people (several tribes) that were first contacted in the 50's through 70's. We mostly ran around the southern Amazon while the men hunted monkeys/peccaries/birds (anything with protein on it) and the women gathered grubs/manioc (anything with more protein or carbs), and I tried to look useful, pasty westerner that I was. At nights we'd sometimes sleep on the jungle floor and they'd tell me how one source (not their first source though) of mortality for them used to be predation from jaguars. That blew me away, given our number one source of mortality is cancer/heart disease. Getting eaten by a big-ass cat...what a way to go. But I did spend some time in the capital city of Paraguay and we also made it to Ciudad del Este in Brazil. Both cities have a real bustle about them. I much preferred the country.

I'm planning to go back to South America at some point once I can scrape up the cash. At the top of my list is Chile and specifically a visit to Everton de Vina del Mar, the Chilean football club that was founded by a bunch of Everton fans back in 1909. Other places I'd like to check out is the Old City of Cartegena in Colombia and the Tapui's in southern Venezuela.
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hello mate i went to vina del mar- not much there but i went to watch a match and ran around the stadium taking pics of me in the dug outs and next to anything that said 'Everton' on it. Cartegena is meant to be amazing too.
 
films? Paraguay has a great one to toss in the mix. Siete Cajas. Aka Seven Boxes. Filmed here, mostly at the chaotic Mercado 4.

Asuncion is a decent place to live, lots of stuff is cheap, but wouldn't call it much of a destination for a trip.

Really like the tiny bit of Argentina I've been to - Puerto Iguazu, by Iguazu Falls. Foz de Iguaca, Brazil looked cool as well, but since our van of Norteamericanos didn't have anyone who could speak Portuguese, no local currency, and none of the required documentation to enter the country, we just cruised through on our way to Argentina.

Looking forward to exploring more next year. Buenos Aireas, Montevideo, Patagonia, Vina-Valpo-Santiago, Rio and probably Machu Picchu on the list.
 

Evo Morales re-elected in Bolivia. No education, peasant background, still managed to turn Bolivia's economy around, reduce poverty (significantly) and eliminate illiteracy. Not bad like.
 
since my prior post have added Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile (with a day trip to Vina del Mar & Valparaiso) to the list.

will be headed to Buenos Aires and Mendoza for Easter break. Most likely Rio for (your) summer.
 

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