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Latin America Travel Myths

What Americans get completely wrong — and why it’s costing them the trip of a lifetime.

Jim Woodman IV · Co-Founder

LatinTravel.com’s editor and publisher, Jim Woodman IV, has traveled in every country in Central and South America — not on packaged tours with handlers, but the way his father Jim Woodman III did it: on the ground, in local restaurants, on local roads, with real conversations with real people. After every trip he encountered the same thing when he got home: Americans who simply couldn’t believe where he’d been. The gap between what Latin America actually is and what most Americans imagine it to be is one of the great misconceptions in modern travel. This article is his attempt to close that gap.

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