Thread: Good "dangerous" (but not really) cities?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (vulindlela @ Feb 10 2009, 11:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

One of my favorite cities is Beirut.
You should check that place out. We did not have any problems there and I would love to go back![/b]

I certainly second that and third that !!
In addition I would add Syria. Syrians are so misunderstood because of the media. They are actually very hospitable and really enjoy
meeting foreigners, very friendly.

On a 3rd note, Libya. My only qualm is that it&#39;s &#39; dry &#39;. But that small inconvenience is fast outpaced by the Leptis Magna .... wow, wow and wow !
I found it relatively friendly, but tourism is again, in it&#39;s infancy again. A lot of foreign workers there now, so they don&#39;t feel a isolated as they previously did.

I went to Lima in November and did not find it intimidating. I was lead to believe in something quite different ..... any big city needs some common sense I think.

My next &#39; adventure &#39; country will be Ethiopia ....

Nicaragua left a bad taste for alot of Americans during the Sandanista regime of the 1980&#39;s, They were virtually communist. Ask most Americans about visiting Nicaragua, they tend to look back in those years. I have never seen beggars in Nicaragua in comparison to alot of countries, including the United States. They have a certain code of survival down there that includes DIGNITY and HARD WORK. Most people down there seem to be honest and warm hearted. They have had a turbulent history with nature such as floodings, volcanos eruptions and earthquakes. Politically, they have had civil unrest and exploitation. The Marines spend a large part of the early 1900&#39;s meddling in its affairs down there. A true Banana Republic. Now that ORTEGA is back in power but its supposedly a different "SANDANISTA" regime as before. You make the judgement.