Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6209322-20130703004852

Well, my experience was that there were almost two different cultures, two different civilizations. In the mountains, there were nice villias and slums with some in between... kind of like the Mexico along the US Border... it's not as nice as there, but it's not "3rd World" all over. In the valley, there were mostly slums, with jungle everywhere. In the mountains,  it wasn't uncommmon to wear a fleece in the morning (and I'm from Michigan!!!), and though it did get hot, it usually wasn't overbearing. But there was no cool time of day or night in the valley... even at night I sweat bucketts. As I'm sure your research has shown, they have something called a Plantaine, and it's basically a cross between a sweet potato and a bananna. They can make anything out of Plantaine: Veggieburgers, Soup, Fries, Baked Plantaine, Boiled Plaintaine, and so on... There were also mangos there, lots of them, and they were pretty good too. Meat was rather expensive if I remember correctly, as was almost everything else. Coke(-a-cola... come on guys) was cheaper though, and it was better (at least, as far as my brother... I don't drink carbonated drinks). Anything else I can answer?