Of course there will be places who can be described as overpopulated and for that reason it didnt appeal to me. I personally didnt ride into Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Jakarta, Guatemala City and a few others for such reasons. However I did ride into Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, Bishkek etc with my own norwegian plated bike - and it was awesome, ubercool, fantastic!

Each to their own I guess, even though others have written this and that about a place I dont really trust it nor do I always agree about it. I rode the Transfargasan road in Romania on a sunday in early August. What a shitty experience! First of all it rained and it was quite foggy a bit up into the mountains. Secondly the whole road was absolutely littered with vehicles of all kinds all along the way! Just a gigantic chaotic traffic mess the whole bloody road, and I couldnt see a damn thing due to fog, rain and vehicles!
Of course if I had ridden that same road on a weekday in clear sunny weather I suppose the experience would have become quite different….

Also I went to see the Foz de Iguazu in Brasil. It was also overpopulated to say the least and I was at one stage so tired and frustrated of waiting in lines for buying a ticket, for finding parking, locating transport etc etc that I almost returned. But when I finally reached the falls I was very exited and glad I made it all the way because the falls was really something out of this world!

Again - each to their own, whatever floats your boat.

In Mexico a lot of the country is covered by two different set of roads, the toll roads and the free roads. The toll roads is wide and well maintained and bypasses most villages and small towns. The free roads goes through most villages and towns and is full of speedbumps and live stock, stray dogs etc etc. So what do you want? To ride at a high speed and cover big distances easily or do you want to see the villages and village hustle and bustle and ride over 500 speed bumps pr day? Personally I rode mostly on the free roads, I could encounter people and life much easier, maybe some would say it was «overpopulated» but I still liked it that way.

Visiting a place is also about timing, when to get there, especially such «overpopulated» places.

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