Vicky Baker has spent four months in Latin America putting travel networking websites to the test. In her final dispatch she says adios at a party for 100 strangers she met online

Vicky Baker has put travel networking sites to the ultimate test travelling solo across Central and South America. Here she recommends the best of the bunch

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Salvador, Brazil

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in north-east Brazil

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Belém, Brazil

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Cayenne, French Guiana

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week she is in French Guiana

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Suriname

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week she's in Guyana

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Georgetown, Guyana

Vicky Baker is travelling guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Venezuela

Vicky Baker is travelling guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Caracas, Venezuela

Vicky Baker is travelling guided by local people she meets on social networking websites. This week she is in Medellín and Cartagena, Colombia

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in Bogotá, Colombia

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking websites. This week, she is in San Blas, Panama

Vicky Baker is travelling around Central and South America guided by the local people she meets on social networking sites. This week: Panama City

Since the launch of couchsurfing.com in 2004, dozens more travel networking sites have sprung up. Over the next three months Vicky Baker will put them to the test in South America. In the first of her weekly dispatches, she sets off to meet José in a bar in Quito