Sunday 8 November 2009

"So, is this "Drug Lord" Tourism?"


Despite the fact that it has been sixteen years since the world famous "Drug Lord" Pablo Escobar's demise, his ranch with it's menagerie of replica dinosaurs is still a big tourist destination....

Tourists that enter this 5,000-acre estate near Medellin, Columbia, are treated to memories of the man that was the world's most famous drug dealer and gangster through the late 1980's and early 1990's. From plastic dinosaurs to replica guns and even his famous moustache..

So, is this "Drug Lord" tourism, or just another side of the ever growing niche that we call "Dark" tourism? Follow the link and you decide...

http://www.eturbonews.com/12663/pablo-escobar-s-ranch-still-tourist-magnet

Barticus.

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