Over the last few decades the area has been rediscovered. As they reclaim it from the drug smugglers and blissed-out backpackers who made it notorious in the 1970s, travelers today find a bracing climate — it can be 25 degrees cooler at night here than in the coastal cities — along with natural beauty, verdant courtyard lodgings, riverfront restaurants and street markets where a handful of fat, juicy grilled cicadas can cost just a dollar.
by Donald Frazier
Travel writers talk about the bugs they like to eat
when in distant countries where the food is not discreet.
I betcha that they make it up -- for only the insane
would chow down on some beetles when there's lots of sugar cane.
Traveling five thousand miles to sample centipede
is not the way a writer ought to live, or even feed.
The next time that one writes he's having crickets with cold beer,
I'm gonna put a flea or two inside his doggone ear!
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