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Bribe Right in the Developing World
It's an oldie, but the Tom Zoellner's tips on traveling in the third through fifth worlds are worth a (re)read, especially with many people thinking about their ambitious trips for 2006 right now. A good rule of thumbs is his bribe index: set your initial offer for cops and minor functionaries around 1000th of the per capita income: "Offer more and you're setting yourself up for a real shakedown."
I wish he hadn't said that my employer's guides are "pretty much worthless unless you're a graying foodie,"--but to each his own. (For the record, it's Let's Go that really turns his crank, "Lonely Planet can be tin-eared and inaccurate, [and] Time Out is good only for bars.)
Related Stories:
· Really Lonely Planet: 16 Travel Tips for the Developing World [Black Table]
· Resolved for 2006: Finding New Ways to Travel [NYT]
· Edges of the world [USA Today]

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