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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Cambodia
- on 2010.08.31
When beggars say what they think
When selling bootleg books didn’t work, the boy turned to begging for food. He looked 12 and was still perfecting his pity pitch.
After four days in Siem Reap (and another week in Sihanoukville), I got used to saying no to child sellers and beggars. I read enough articles to know giving them money does more harm than good:
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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Colombia
- on 2009.09.16
Haggling in Colombia is easy: they do it for you
It’s something of a privilege seeing a country start to flex its tourism muscles. Like a baby’s first steps, it’s at once endearing and clumsy, and it only happens once.
Years of robbery and kidnapping by paramilitary thugs made travelling within Colombia a fool’s venture, but improved security over the past few years has sparked a [...]
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