Moments when you realize that you're in a third world country.

For me it was Puerto Vallarta. We're at a nice resort and someone in our group stepped on a sea urchin and got a bunch of spikes in her foot. We help her in to the shore and ask the hotel for the first aid kit because we need tweezers. They bring back a nasty dusty box, inside the box is a used alcohol pad, an empty bag of skittles, 1 random white pill and some toenail clippers.

The next day, we go up to do a zipline on the top of a mountain. The rain starts coming down like a Hurricane on the way up.
"Surely, the bus will stop" I say after we're pushing through a literal 3 foot deep river of water and mud coming down the road. We slid all over the road. We almost went over the side of the mountain at least 6 times. Those Mexicans wanted our $30 so badly that they would kill everyone on that bus to get it.

The next day my friends wanted to do a boat trip. I told them "I'm not going out on a boat with these Mexicans. If you guys go, make sure to check for life jackets." They came back and said that when they asked to see the life jackets, the captain opened a compartment in the seat to show them, and the only thing in the life jacket compartment was an empty bottle of Sprite. They were going miles out to sea and the crew didn't know what had happened to the life jackets. They only knew because my friends had asked. It could have been years since anyone thought to look.

>>2789717 (OP)
>Moments when you realize that you're in a third world country.
There's shitty toilet paper in the wastebasket

>>2789720
The shower drain is a chimney for the building's entire sewer system. You can guess what the rest of the hotel guests ate the day before by the odors which rise up after they flush their morning bowel slurries.

>>2789717 (OP)
When I stepped into a Tim Horton's and everyone was brown.

>>2789717 (OP)
Mexico is by far the most disorganized country in the world. Try to explain mcdonald's menu choices open sooner than 12pm but they stick to the rules of the owners put. Another example is shopping for bottled water, none have it, just a huge bottle that weighs a lot. You have to go into another store like 7/11 or Oxxo to get bottled water. The biggest problem is finding gallon of milk, they don’t understand the concept of having more milk like bottled water, they know it exists but no effort put into storing it on stores.

>>2791718
I haven't been to any other country in the world where the water supply had so many goddamn leaks that nobody ever bothered fixing. Water bubbling out of holes in the pavement and running down the street everywhere you look in residential neighborhoods, even in a prosperous modern city like Hermosillo.

>>2789717 (OP)
>in vietnam
being greeted by aggressive dark short men outside the Hanoi airport all wanting me to get into their indiscrete "taxis". They all looked like murderers.

the motorcycle I rented not having functioning brakes or signal lights

roosters waking me up at 6am

struggling to find anything good to eat in urban wastelands (rural areas and cities were easy enough)

>in China
hotel washroom plumbing using accordion plastic pipes

not being allowed to use some hotels because I have a foreign passport

>in Canada
when black and brown folks overwhelm the beach, and all the whites are fat and gross

>>2789717 (OP)
comfy

>>2794430
That's Mismaloya down the road from Puerto Vallarta.

>>2789717 (OP)
what's third world about this you sound like a fucking narc, go wear a helmet when you bike you fucking nerd

>>2791774
>not being allowed to use some hotels because I have a foreign passport
technically that's not a thing any more (even illegal)
the government forbid this a few years ago
some hotels are still just too lazy / don't want to deal with sending the note that you stay there to the government

I actually argued my way into a hotel last year that tried to do that (because it was late and there was literally nothing else around)
question is, do you really want to stay in a hotel that doesn't want you...?

>>2789717 (OP)
>can't drink the tap water