Posts Tagged ‘Latin America’
How to Bargain Around the World
There’s some weird shit for sale out there and making it yours for a good price takes some courage and finesse. Luckily, haggling is a part of every culture and only those afraid to bargain get gypped. OTP is here to beat the sissy shopper out of you so you can bring that beautiful frog [...]
OTP’s Free Travel: São Paulo
São Paulo is a butterface: What she lacks in looks, she compensates for with charm, spunk, and readiness to put out at no cost. With its buildings and jammed traffic, São Paulo isn’t aesthetically pleasing, but it’s got a ton of character, quirks, and free shit to do. OTP’s got the lowdown for getting the most [...]
OTP’s Guide to Latin American Music Festivals
For their muddy fields, massive crowds, and many stages, mega-events like Lollapalooza, Coachella and Glastonbury get most of the cred in the festival circuit. But if you blow by Austin City Limits and keep heading south, you’ll reach the motherland for music lovers. Latin America’s funky fests are actually about the music; tripping balls and [...]
Top 10 Things to Do in Colombia on a Backpacker’s Budget
The comeback kid of Latin America, Colombia has come a long way from its blood and coke-ridden days. With its winning combination of beautiful beaches, exotic jungles, crazy nightlife, and sexy locals, Colombia had a prominent spot on our list of Top 10 Backpacking Destinations of 2010. In a country where you can trek across [...]
The 10 Best Drinking Games from Around the World
People love games. No matter where you’re from, mixing games with booze creates the ultimate wingman, capable of erasing any language barrier. After a few rounds, you’ll be making the same pervy jokes and friending each other on Facebook. To take this international camaraderie up a notch, get trained in OTP’s Top 10 Drinking Games [...]
OTP’s Guide to the Best Coffee In The World
Americans guzzle 122.6 trillion cups of coffee a year and we’re not alone in loving our liquid-crack. Trade imperialism (a.k.a. screwing poor people royally) sucks. We’re here to break down some bean essentials and help you fight the power and get your cup o’ joe straight from the source. Use OTP’s Guide to the Best Coffee [...]
Travel Dork: Lillie, AroundTheWorldL.com
Travel Dork: Lillie Some travel dorks are born with the nomadic instinct woven in their veins. Others discover the awesomeness of flight later and find themselves with a bug they can’t shake. 29-year-old Lillie, a self-described “6-foot-tall Boston native” and English teacher, has been suffused with the travel bug for years, spending every summer teaching [...]
5 Obscure TV Shows from Around the World
If you have ever flipped through the Spanish channel to see balloon-breasted women dancing the Meringue for no apparent reason, you know that people around the world are entertained by wildly different things. A country’s popular television show is a unique (but limited) glimpse into the culture of its viewership. Mexico’s got a creepy political [...]
Obsession with the Devil: How Latin America Celebrates Death
If any of you missed Halloween this year, let us break down what likely happened: the girls walked around in no more than a bra and panties and pretended they were cops, sailors, nurses or some sort of pre-packaged ho-in-a-bag (maybe the origin of the expression “ho-bag”). Now the guys, well they thought they were [...]
