2010_08_25_12_44_18_TepitoMan is always hungry for new challenges and things, as well as by some travelers who choose the dark side to tour Mexico.

“Foreign tourists mostly from Europe have signed up for tours disguised in Tepito, a large market area in Mexico City is known for drug transactions, prostitution is a minor and pirated goods,” said Cesar Estrada, head of Universal Travel,

Increasing violence in Mexican drug war can actually trigger some prospective travelers to think twice about Mexico, but travel agents actually offer an alternative tour. Innovative travel agent offering trips to remote mountain areas which is a left-wing Zapatista rebel headquarters and into an environment full of crime in Mexico City. Other community centers to run what they call a ’safari’ in the historical district, where many Mexicans refused to set foot for fear of being robbed at gunpoint.

Tourists can also follow the tour in Hidalgo, where a travel agent who managed the local population simulate dangerous trip Mexico and Central America as they crossed the U.S. border illegally. As if the pleasure to drink margaritas on the beach white sand no longer an interesting thing, the tourists are in fact choosing the lesser-known tourist sites where they have pursued an immigration officer or to take risks in dangerous slums.

A tourist from Germany, Donata Von Salviati, said tourism would prefer this way because they provide a more real Mexican experience that can not be found in beach resorts like Cancun. For the night journey through the state park where they struggle to compete with the guide disguised as polleros, ruthless traffickers usually take a poor immigrant candidates across the border, the tourists have to pay about 200 pesos (about Rp142 thousand).

In order to better understand the suffering of immigrants, tourists are prohibited from bringing food and water when crossing through a river in the darkness and hid in the bushes to avoid the United States immigration authorities.

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