Just for the fun of it, I have come up a few descriptive terms for some of the many cities and places that I have visited during my travels around the world. You may agree or disagree with my characterizations, as it is strictly subjective. Feel free to add your own characterizations of popular travel destinations/places to this list.

SOUTHEAST ASIA
Thailand
Bangkok - Exotic, intriguing, fascinating, a human zoo
Chiang Mai – provincial, cluttered, jigsaw puzzle
Pattaya – trashy, noisy, ugly, fun

Laos
Vientiane - lazy, slow, every day is Sunday
Luang Prabang - ambiance, quaint, delightful, colonial

CARIBBEAN
Jamaica
Kingston - It’s a jungle, funky, intimidating, rough around the edges
Montego Bay - Honky tonk, untidy, fun
Ocho Rios - bland, antiseptic
Port Antonio - Colorful, ambiance, picturesque, mysterious
Negril - rustic, hedonistic, anything goes, relaxing

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) – Exciting, very lively, fun
Havana (Cuba) - beautiful, clean, romantic
Castries (St. Lucia) – shabby, unappealing, could use a facelift
Bridgetown (Barbados) - mellow, picturesque, pleasant

MEXICO
Mexico City - Cosmopolitan, monstrous, exciting, lively
Guadalajara - Green, green, green, the real Mexico, colonial but modern
Cancun - fabricated, plastic
Oaxaca - Colorful, ambiance, colonial, fascinating, laid back

SOUTH AMERICA
Bogota (Colombia)– fascinating, grand, handsome
Cartagena (Colombia) – very romantic, beautiful, sensual, ambiance
Lima (Peru)– sprawling
Quito (Ecuador) – romantic, colonial, beautiful, wonderful vistas

CENTRAL AMERICA
Guatemala City (Guatemala) – pretentious, hollow, false sense of grandeur
San Jose (Costa Rica) - blue-collar, humble, down to earth

AFRICA
Accra (Ghana) - smelly, humble, unkempt, friendly
Abidjan (Ivory Coast) – Cosmopolitan, attractive, Paris of Africa
Lome (Togo)– moped city, strange
Bamako (Mali)– sensuous, puzzling, exotic

UNITED KINGDOM
London – Stiff, proper, stately

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