Vacation in Nassau reveals paradise, poverty

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Audience: Anyone who is interested in travel, has been to Nassau, Bahamas or is interested in going there.

The blaring of car horns fills the air above dangerously congested streets while a mother yanks her child to relative safety out of the path of a car running a red light. The sidewalk is a pulsing throng of sunburned faces, shopping bags, camcorders, fanny packs, straw hats and white sneakers. Drunken laughter flows out of bars and restaurants, and the smells of cigarette smoke, fried food and delicious desserts linger in the sun’s baking heat. This could be almost any tourist town in any country in the world, but in my case most recently it was Nassau, Bahamas.

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