6 Worst "Vacations" People Actually Pay For

[kandrathe]

Imagine a city where every street is covered in knockoff shops, where everyone is trying to sell you something or another. Where every store is defended with a shotgun, not just under the counter somewhere, but by someone at the door. A place where everyone is carting large opaque bags of who-knows-what on their backs, and no questions are ever asked. A place where the oppressive sense of deterioration and poverty is broken only by the immaculate tourist mall, the luxury store that revels in its tax-free status to sell all sorts of branded expensive stuff, but is obviously inaccessible to the throng outside.

The fact that they're running large quantities of drugs, and possibly even terrorist groups, out of there, is just icing on the cake.

I've got hope for Paraguay for the future. And maybe the rest of the country is nicer than its free-trade zone. But ... ugh. Terrible experience.

-Jester

Sounds like Baghdad, and the green zone.