Traveled 5 South America countries: Argentina/Chile/ Colombia/Ecuador/Peru in 3 months

My solo-travel world adventures began in Fall 2011, when I took a three-month leave from work and traveling Argentina/Chile/ Colombia/Ecuador/Peru to experience Latin American life style.

I got back to Washington DC on 11/20/2012 from my 2.5 month trip to Taiwan/China/Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand/Nepal/India during September to November 2012. My trip highlights include (1) hiking for 7 days in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal, (2) visiting the Halong Bay near Hanoi and a virgin cave in central Vietnam; (3) experiencing cultural shocks in Delhi, India; (4) being victimized by a gem scam in Bangkok, Thailand, and (5) attending 23-yr college classmate reunion in Taipei, Taiwan. Here is my updated blog for your casual reading. http://asiajt.blogspot.com/

You can browse my venture blogs:
   Fall 2011 Argentina/Chile/ Colombia/Ecuador/Peru http://southamericajt.blogspot.com/
   Fall 2012 Taiwan/China/Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand/Nepal/India. http://asiajt.blogspot.com/  
   Fall 2013 Middle East (Greece/Turkey/Georgia/Armenia/Iran/Spain) http://jtmiddleeast.blogspot.com/
   Summer 2014 Cuba/Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/Nicaragua/Costa Rica http://centralamericajt.blogspot.com/
   Spring 2015 to Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. http://jtseasia.blogspot.com/
   Summer 2015 cycling with a group across Virginia along the Transamerica trail in 10 days http://cyclex-us-jt.blogspot.com/
   Fall 2015 to UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Netherlands. http://easteuropejt.blogspot.com/
   Summer 2016 to Italy, Vatican City State, Greece, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Germany. http://italyeasteuropejt.blogspot.com/ 
   Summer 2017 to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Chinese Silk Road, Taiwan. https://jtsilkroadcentralasia.blogspot.com/

   Spring 2018 to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Taiwan. https://nz-aujt.blogspot.com/ 

   Winter 2019 to Sri Lanka, South India, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Brunei, Korea, and Taiwan. https://jtasiaiii.blogspot.com/

   Early Spring 2020 to Taiwan - Egypt – Jordan https://mediterraneanjt.blogspot.com/

   Fall 2021 to Portugal - Monaco - France - Luxembourg  -  Belgium - Netherlands - UK - Morocco  https://jtwesteurope.blogspot.com/

   Summer 2022 to Iceland – Norway – Sweden - Estonia - Finland - Latvia – Lithuania – Sicily – Naples – Taiwan https://jtnortheurope.blogspot.com/

  Summer  2023 to Israel – Palestine - Cyprus - Kenya – Tanzania – Malawi – Zambia – Zimbabwe – Botswana – Namibia - South Africa https://africajt.blogspot.com/

  Summer 2024 to Russia - China - Taiwan https://russiachinajt.blogspot.com/

  Fall 2025 to Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia (layover Panama and El Salvador) https://jtsouthamerica2.blogspot.com/

 

Last day of my 3-month trip

I visited a famous book store in Buenos Aires and touted the congressional building.

The El Ateneo book store was originally a theater (Teatro Grand Splendid), and it becomes in one of the top 5 most beautiful bookstores in the world.

No show of the "ladies" in Palermo park, Argentina

Buenos Aires’ main lush greenery park transforms into an outdoor brothel for transsexual prostitutes. The “ladyboy park” is a bizarre phenomenon, the result of a government legislation passed in 2005 that forbade prostitutes from offering their services within 200 metres of any school, church or residential building. This cancelled out pretty much everywhere in the city such that the prostitutes, most of them transsexual, moved to Bosques de Palermo and shown up after midnight.

I missed the opportunity to see transsexual prostitutes in San Rafael with my two girlfriends from San Francisco who told me about the transsexual prostitutes. I was looking forwards to see them last night in the park. We took two buses to there and almost lost our way back yet did not see even one of them. Did they take Sunday's off?! Very disappointed, since the Argentina ones are prettier because the plastic surgery is more affordable here.

I found an interesting link about a man had sex with the a transsexual prostitute twice and his emotional struggle.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080313234920AAaRX99