Tijuana, Mexico

Tijuana is just at the other side of the border but you can certainly tell when you've crossed the border, there's a world of difference between san diego and tijuana, as you cross the border you see hundreds of crosses for all the mexicans that died trying to sneak into USA... it is a very poor country with people living in shanty buildings and just absolutely anywher they can, in fact there was this statue of a woman just outside tijuana and there were people living inside the statue (wonder where the front door was)!
and theres a lot of drug trafficking there as well so they check you pretty thoroughly on your way back into the USA, but people go to tijuana for shopping, leather and silver, they sell high grade silver very cheaply, we bort a fair amount of silver coz the shop keeper gave us good deal bcoz i had that "spannish look" about me he said.. and i was also given a spannish name- roseta... ther so friendly there, trying to sell you things, lol one of the mexicans even tried to sell my 16 yrs old brother viagra!
and then there were the Zonkeys (donkey with zebra stripes) round every corner, which we all took a picture with wearing sombreros...but unfortunately we didnt go much further than tijuana, as we only spent a day there