{"id":9417,"date":"2009-04-24T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-smugglers-gulch-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T05:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T05:57:00","slug":"struth-smugglers-gulch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/04\/struth-smugglers-gulch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Smugglers Gulch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SfFUssZJ5OI\/AAAAAAAAGUg\/OYWEdA3NojQ\/s1600-h\/Mexico+Smugglers-Gulch+(Mexico+Institute)-726766.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SfFUssZJ5OI\/AAAAAAAAGUg\/OYWEdA3NojQ\/s320\/Mexico+Smugglers-Gulch+(Mexico+Institute)-726766.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says that if you&#8217;ve ever wondered what its like to be a Mexican making a bolt across\u00a0No Man&#8217;s Land on the border with the USA, you can now experience it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find yourself being chased by (fake) police firing blanks,\u00a0scrambling under viaducts, crossing rickety makeshift bridges, wading through rivers, sludging through\u00a0cornfields, and finally scrambling under a barbed wire fence similar to that into the US&#8230; all in complete night-time pitch blackness.<\/p>\n<p>Local Hnanhnus Indians who own the Parque Eco Alberto three hours out of Mexico City put on regular &#8220;alien running&#8221; tours to help tourists understand the trauma of running the border with gun-wielding police in pursuit; it costs US$18 for the four hour experience \u2013 and your guides can include women with babies and children who play out the role of illegal immigrant with you.<\/p>\n<p>Over three thousands tourists have taken part in the tours to date.<\/p>\n<p>Look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parqueecoalberto.com.mx\/\">www.parqueecoalberto.com.mx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says that if you&#8217;ve ever wondered what its like to be a Mexican making a bolt across\u00a0No Man&#8217;s Land on the border with the USA, you can now experience it for yourself. You&#8217;ll find yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-ellis","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}