Appendix of Stupid Facts

Appendix of Stupid Facts

Country with weirdest sayings on t-shirts: Japan
Best children's parks above the tree line: Switzerland
Most ubiquitous fast food restaurant: KFC. Second place: McDonalds
Most ubiquitous food product: Pringles
Most ubiquitous product advertisement: Coke
Most counterfeited food product: Oreos (Okeos, Oleos… the list is endless)
Worst food: England
Best hot dogs: France (Surprised?)
Worst hot dogs: England

Best ice cream: Italy
Worst ice cream: Turkey
Place where you are least likely to get a restaurant bill: Poland - you essentially have to beg
Most ubiquitous product: Microsoft Windows
Best postal system: China
Most mystifying postal service: Sweden; there are no post offices
Worst postal system: Czech Republic
Most illiterate taxi drivers: China

Country with the friendliest stray cats: Turkey

Country with the best ice-cream: Italy
(You'll have to search hard for the Gelato shop in Venice, but it's worth it!)

Most repulsive toilets: China (notable exception is the "hotel" in Laguna Colorado, Bolivia)
Most elaborate toilets: Japan
Best roller coaster: Thunder Dolphin, Tokyo
Most shoe shine boys per square km: La Paz, Bolivia
Most internet cafés per square km: tie, Thailand and Bolivia
Fewest internet cafés per square km: England
Best internet cafés: Japan - wicked fast upload speeds!
Most littered plastic bags per square foot: Tanzania
Most Rolex dealers per square km: Zermatt, Switzerland
Most aggressive beggars and touts: Arusha, Tanzania
Most bang for buck: Thailand
Most stunning scenery: Switzerland; Although Machu Pichu and the Lake District near San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina are also fabulous

Best chocolate: Forget Switzerland. San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. Go for the chocolate and stay for the scenery.
Most appalling gutters: Dar es Salaam
Most colorful hair on old ladies: Japan
Most aggressive carpet salesmen: Turkey
Worst named travel agency: Mauritius (Dodo Travel)
Coolest over-the-counter fireworks: Mauritius
Most helpful people: England
Most friendly people: France (Surprised?) Of course we found friendly people everywhere we went.

Best roller-coaster:
"Thunder Dolphin" in Tokyo

Best public swimming facilities: Germany
Best climbing tree in the world: Plaza Brasil, downtown Santiago, Chile
Most on-time trains: tie, Switzerland and Japan
Least on-time trains: Thailand
Prettiest big city: Stockholm
Most dazzling big city: Hong Kong
Most unusually-decorated church: Church of Bones, Kunta Hora, Czech Republic
Hardest place to lunch: Dubai during Ramadan
Most complicated bathing ritual: Japan

Coolest over-the-counter fireworks: Mauritius (you buy them at the grocery store)

Most difficult place to do laundry: Europe (two hours to wash, one to dry)
Easiest place to do laundry: Tanzania; teenaged girls follow you to the shower and are ready to take them from you the moment you step out. Of course, this can be a bit of a shock when you are wearing nothing but a towel
Hardest to travel in: China; the language barrier is huge
Most pickpockets per square meter: Rome
Best water park: Wild Wadi in Dubai
Most obnoxious coins: Sweden and Costa Rica (tie); Forget stuffing them in your pocket. You need a wheelbarrow to cart them around they are so huge.
Most obnoxious paper money: China; there are no coins to speak of so you end up with a wad of bills so thick you can't stuff it in your wallet.
Most blatant product counterfeiting: China, although Bolivia is a very close second

Best climbing tree in the world: Plaza Brazil, downtown Santiago,Chile

Best water-park in the world: Wild Wadi (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). It's right next to the famous Burj al Arab Hotel (background). We tried to sneak onto the hotel grounds but we were quickly identified as riff-raff and booted out!

Noisiest country overall: Tie, United Arab Emirates and China
Noisiest city: Panama City with their freaking buses
Country with friendliest stray cats: Turkey
Country with friendliest stray dogs: Thailand
Most frustrating "thing" you can't do while traveling: make a phone call
Nicest subway: Hong Kong
Most confusing subway: Paris
Most elaborate subway: London
Mean time for solicitation in Bangkok: 20 minutes

Best children's parks above the tree-line: Switzerland

Worst traffic: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Worst drivers: Istanbul
Most perplexing economy: Thailand. How can things be so cheap?
Strangest question asked at a restaurant: "Do you want gas or no gas?"
Most fun mountain biking route on the planet: "World's Most Dangerous Road," Bolivia
Worst pencils: Tanzania - the lead breaks if you dare write anything
Most dangerous thing we did the whole trip: Cross the street

Most traveled citizens: the Dutch. They are everywhere. Twenty-year-old Israelis are a close second.
Most "Gilligan's Island-ish" place we visited: Boca del Drago, Panama
Worst Fanta flavor: Belize. We think it is aspirin flavor
The most famous U.S. personalities worldwide: Michael Jordan and Monica Lewinsky
Most bizarre law: Kids under 18 can't use the internet in China

Most fun mountain biking route on the planet:
"World's Most Dangerous Road," Bolivia

Most "Gilligan's Island-ish" place in the world: We don't think we've found it yet. However, Boca del Drago, on the tip of an island off the coast of Panama, is a close contender.

Got a favorite fact? Know where the most
Gilligan's Island-ish place in the world is?