.… oh well, in my previous comments I was saying that it is amazing how much ground you’ve covered, how many countries you’ve been to, etc.

“Salchi-papas”…hell no!!!

“The smell of bloody cow heads…” HELL NO!!!

“Guys who pee everywhere…sorry, that’s gross” — disgusting…hell no!

““para shevar o para tomar asha” (”para llevar o para tomar allá” — to go or to drink here), and I thought she was speaking Portuguese! I wasn’t used to the sound.” — LOL LOL LOL in Portuguese we would’ve said “para levar ou para tomar já?” [Brazil] or “para levar ou para beber já?” [Portugal]…but you are right, the Argentinian accent is slightly different.

“The hostel in La Paloma: overpriced for a very crowded 10-beds dorm.” — say what?

LOL Ah, Zhu…this was funny!

Cheers

@bumanguesa — Not quite, I’m afraid… my Spanish isn’t that great! I’m lucky it’s fairly close to French.

@Linguist-in-Waiting — Yes, it’s exactly that. I can never tell which place I liked best… there is a best for everything!

@Seraphine — Canada is amazingly safe, so it can be quite a shock I guess. Panama city is definitely the worse for me in terms of safety. In Brazil, you just don’t go to some district, they are easy to spot.

@shionge — Thank you Shionge, and thanks for your email! I went back to work today, and I haven’t had a chance to reply yet…!

@Scarlet — Well, only some places are best avoided, most of these countries are really cool and locals are always welcoming.

@Khengsiong — Oh, I wish… if only I could make money while traveling!

@Saskboy — I always like reading “bad experiences” too

@zunnur — Well, everything is quite slow and inefficient by North American standards. But you get used to it, and it doesn’t matter too much at the end

@barbara — I hope we can meet in Paris by the way!

@Tulsa Gentleman — Thank you very much for your support and nice words!

I loved these lists ! I’m sure that you will be of a lot of help to more than obne potential traveler to thisese areas.
For myself, I think that I’ll never make it over, but it is informative stuff.

Looking good up there, Zhu & Feng with their tropical look !!

Grosses bises de Paris (sous le soleil en + )

I guess that you must be missing all those great moments you had throughout the trip. That was really a great holiday trip and it was greater that you blogged them as you went along.

That was a bad experience you had in the restaurant in Panama City. I wonder how their business was still running despite the bad service.

Latin America is so faaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from here. I just cannot imagine I would go there one day…