The Villas: The Sheratoncita

Slum tourism is a really buzz topic right now, as the favelas of Brazil welcome in busloads of visitors each day and the movie, Slum Dog Millionaire, suddenly made the shantytowns of Mumbai a tourist must-see. There are so many facets of the industry and so many faces involved:

Carlos Adrien outside The Sheratoncita

Carlos Adrien lives in Villa 31, the biggest shanty town in Buenos Aires. As Villa 31 is organizing itself into an established community with it's own governing system and an explosion of wrought iron houses instead of cardboard, he has decided to convert his own house into a hotel. Cleverly named the Sheratoncita, he certainly doesn't promise anything less... To read, A Weekend at the Villa: The Sheratoncita Hotel, click here.

(Photo: Shooresh Fezoni for The Argentina Independent)