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Meet up with a RECOMMENDED
1 Global Greeter. Reading

This is an ideal way for solo travelers to
get acclimated to a new city, and make The Motorcycle Diaries
a new friend while you are at it. Global by Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Memoir)
Greeters is an international network of
volunteers who love their home towns The Tango Singer
so much, they want to show it o and by Tomás Eloy Martínez (Fiction,

Argentina)
will meet you for a free walking tour.
They have been around for more than In Patagonia
25 years, get rave reviews, and operate by Bruce Chatwin (Travel Narrative,
in many major Latin American Argentina)
cities. You can learn about it at Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon
www.globalgreeternetwork.info by Jorge Amado (Fiction, Brazil)
and then be connected to local chapters,
which usually have their own sites. The House of the Spirits, Daughter of
Fortune, or Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende (Fiction, Chile)
What our travelers say:
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey
For book-loving Through Chile
2 people watchers by Sara Wheeler (Travel Narrative, Chile)
in Buenos Aires. Monkeys Are Made Of Chocolate:

Do not miss El Ateneo (Av. Santa Fe Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica
1860, 1123 CABA) in Buenos Aires. by Jack Ewing (Essays, Costa Rica)
It is a 100-year-old theater that has The Beak of the Finch: A Story of
been turned into a bookstore. The Evolution in Our Time
stage has been transformed into a by Jonathan Weiner (Natural History,
café so you can sit there, eat a pastry Galápagos)

and drink co ee while watching The Path Between the Seas
others browse for books around you. by David McCullough (History, Panama)
The café prices are very reasonable.
Lost City of the Incas
— Barbara Lagrotteria, by Hiram Bingham (Nonfiction, Peru)
7-time traveler, Quincy MA

3 Bring a travel towel to Costa Rica.

Most hotels will give you a towel, but they are not always allowed on beaches
or o the hotel grounds. A microfiber towel will come in handy if you are out hiking

and have the chance to duck under a waterfall, or if there’s an unexpected rain
shower. Plus, they’re quick-drying and light.
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