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The cost to eat at restaurants in Los Cabos and La Paz, differs depending on where you go. We have a very definite tourist area in Cabo San Lucas and we have one road that’s called Restaurant Row that features all kinds of different restaurants.
 
If you’re in a tourist area there are a lot of specials that are geared towards tourists so you could get your dollar shot of tequila or you could go into a little bit pricier place and pay $10 for a top shelf tequila....

The cost to eat at restaurants in Los Cabos and La Paz, differs depending on where you go. We have a very definite tourist area in Cabo San Lucas and we have one road that’s called Restaurant Row that features all kinds of different restaurants.
 
If you’re in a tourist area there are a lot of specials that are geared towards tourists so you could get your dollar shot of tequila or you could go into a little bit pricier place and pay $10 for a top shelf tequila. You can buy street tacos for about 75 cents per taco or you could go into a TexMex southwest type place that is geared more towards the tourists and pay $5 for a taco.
 
That are some very nice upscale restaurants here that I would compare to a Chicago or a New York cuisine that are truly 4-star high-end places but they are not that expensive. If you had drinks,and dinner, it would cost you about $40 to $50 per person. You could also go in to a local place and have the same amount of food at a local Mexican restaurant and pay $15 per person. So how much restaurants cost really depends on where you go in Mexico.
 
In Cabo, we’re very different from the rest of Baja and Mexico. We are very much geared towards having a vacation kind of resort experience, but once you go several blocks out of the main area, and you are up again to the neighborhoods where there are these fabulous places that many people don’t get a chance to discover, not because they don’t like to but simply because of the time factor. There is just so much to do and see here.

 

(Pictured: Terraza restaurant, Melia Cabo Real restaurant, Los Cabos, Mexico.)

Panama has a beautiful dance that is done by women while wearing their polleras (national clothing) called the punto. This is a traditional dance that represents how a man tells a woman that he loves her.

 

We also have many different folkloric dances here in region of Azuero. Young people in Panama still take part in these dances, as Panamanians are very cultural. So even the young people here still know how to dance cultural dances and they even know how to put on...

Panama has a beautiful dance that is done by women while wearing their polleras (national clothing) called the punto. This is a traditional dance that represents how a man tells a woman that he loves her.

 

We also have many different folkloric dances here in region of Azuero. Young people in Panama still take part in these dances, as Panamanians are very cultural. So even the young people here still know how to dance cultural dances and they even know how to put on the dresses, as they are not the same in every dance. Each region in Panama has a different cultural dance but they are all beautiful.

 

Young people here in Panama still go to discos and movies, though. They also go to ferias (fairs). Panamanians like having fun, so you will see a lot of people go to the beach, the rivers, or even just to the movies, and fairs.  

 

(Folk dancing at Cubita Villas and Condos, Chitre,Panama, pictured.)

I have been living in the Lisbon area countryside since 1983, the first ten years as a single woman living alone, and up to now have never felt unsafe. What exists in this area is mostly petty crimes of opportunity, eg. bags or cameras left in a parked car, or houses obviously unoccupied.

 

(House outside of Lisbon, Portugal, pictured.)

I have been living in the Lisbon area countryside since 1983, the first ten years as a single woman living alone, and up to now have never felt unsafe. What exists in this area is mostly petty crimes of opportunity, eg. bags or cameras left in a parked car, or houses obviously unoccupied.

 

(House outside of Lisbon, Portugal, pictured.)