Scams: Part I

Anyway, first things first... I got here on the 4th of October to discover that the scams the Lonely Planet talked about were true. I got a prepaid taxi, innocently thinking the taxi driver would let me at my desired hostel. Well fellows, it turned out the guy got me to one of the never ending false tourist offices where I had to argue with two guys, that I just wanted to go to my hostel and rest. After getting out of the cab and getting my stuff, ready to walk around looking for my hostel, they decided that they would let me next to the street that would direct me there, which it did.