Iraqi Tourist Minister

Vice meets Iraqi Tourist Minister

Hey! We were just partying down in Cartagena, Colombia, and guess who we bumped into? Bahaa Mayah. You don’t know Bahaa? He’s the Iraqi Minister of Tourism. Yep, Iraq has a Ministry of Tourism. A country in which a good 50,000 people were blown up or shot last year and whose name is more or less synonymous with “hell on earth” has an entire department of the government solely dedicated to managing the affairs of people who’ve travelled there for fun. How’s that for optimism?C

Museum of The Man

More bizarre stuff from Colombia.

Of course, leave it to somewhere like Colombia to take a premise like the Hunterian, divest it of every last shred of good taste, then throw in a healthy dollop of self-righteousness and plop the thing down in the middle of a hooker slum for good measure. This yawny little guy is one of the marquee features at Exposición El Hombre (Exposition of the Guy), a museum of pre-natal oopsies conveniently located next to a pediatric clinic in the heart of Bogota's bustling red-light district.