'...there I was in the middle of Bogota coked up to my eyeballs in a hallway holding two machetes while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann & his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments mountains & rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad funny & shocking The Gringo Trail" is an On the Road for the Lonely Planet generation
- a darkly comic road-trip & a revealing journey through South America's turbulent history. Drama & discovery. Culture & cocaine. Fact is stranger than fiction..."