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Trip Report: Back to Bogota, March 2019.
I seized an opportunity to return to Bogota this month. I had spent the second leg of my two-week Colombia trip last year in Bogota (see my September 2018 posts). My experiences in the Santa Fe red light district exceeded my expectations and left me with the desire to return there and explore it more extensively. I got a good deal on flights that gave me a window of three days in Bogota, which I think is just enough time to devote entirely to Santa Fe. I had already covered the sightseeing and other non-mongering activities in Bogota that interested me last year, and I had already explored the city's other mongering options in Chapinero and the far north and concluded that they were not worthwhile.
A mongering trip to Bogota can be dirt cheap if you play your cards right. The big variable is airfare, so I jumped on a good deal for non-stop Avianca flights between JFK and Bogota. Avianca remains the only airline with which I have not had any major problems so far. The inbound flight arrived an hour early. Avianca credited my LifeMiles account within 24 hours of both flights. I stayed again at the Ibis Bogota Museo, which has reasonable rates of 120,000 to 135,000 COP per night (I have been using Accor's loyalty program). The rooms are small and basic but of good quality and adequate for my purposes. The early check-in time of 12:00 is helpful if you are arriving in the morning, as I was, and they had my room ready even earlier than that, as I had requested during my online check-in the day before. Breakfast is available for an extra 21,000 COP, and lunch and dinner are also available at the on-site Peruvian restaurant. There are also many banks and restaurants nearby. Taxi rides between the Ibis and Santa Fe may be as short as five minutes and typically cost between 5,000 and 7,000 COP. The Ibis provides transport to the airport for 25,000 COP; the taxi from the airport may cost a bit more.
I decided to shift my focus within Santa Fe during this trip. On my previous trip, I went mostly at night and focused on Santa Fe's top nighttime clubs, such as Paisas, Troya, and Fiebre. It was only toward the end of that week that I discovered the advantages of the daytime scene and the street scene; I told myself that I would focus on those scenes whenever I returned. Some guys go to Santa Fe during the day because they think it is safer then, but another reason to go during the day is that attracts different types of girls. The daytime girls struck me as less hardened and artificial and more likely to give good service. The daytime scene may also be better for "girl next door" or MILF types. The top daytime venue is the club Atunes, where I had one of my best sessions on my last trip and on this trip as well. The advantages of Atunes include the lack of overcrowding and noise that one finds at the nighttime clubs, better lighting to inspect the merchandise, better session rooms, and towels upon request.
The street scene can be almost as active in the afternoon as at night, and it seems to shut down at night earlier than the main clubs. On my last trip, the surprisingly high visual quality of some of the street meat exceeded my expectations and tempted me to try it. I overcame my reluctance to try street meat for security reasons once I realized that the club girls were not necessarily any safer in that regard. I thus discovered the advantages of street meat, including lower prices, better session rooms, and a more consistent quality of service. Accordingly, most of my sessions on this trip were with street girls, rather than club girls. I found even lower prices among the street girls this time as low as 30,000 COP, but 40-50,000 COP was more typical (club girls start at 60,000 COP). Much to my surprise, I found on this trip that BBBJ was more widely available among street girls than it was among the supposedly "higher-end" club girls (definitely a relative term in the context of Santa Fe). The majority of street girls that I asked were open to BBBJ, whereas only a minority of club girls were open to it. I was even more surprised to find two street girls that did not charge extra for BBBJ at all, which I had thought was universal among those that do offer BBBJ. I was even more surprised to find two street girls that offered anal at no extra charge (I did not partake, as anal is not my cup of tea). One of them said that offering anal reduced the wear and tear on her pussy; the other one just seemed to be a genuine freak.
Overall, I would say that shifting from club girls to street girls eliminated the extreme fluctuations in the quality of the service that I experienced on my last trip, which had some definite highs and lows. Most of the street girls on this trip were at least satisfactory, but none of them knocked it out of the park like the better club girls, both on this trip and on my last trip. My best sessions on this trip were both with club girls: a daytime session at Atunes and a nighttime session at Troya with the black-haired, lighter-skinned girl in the below photo. That session at Troya would have been even better if the room had not smelled like weed. Troya continues to have the worst session rooms of the main clubs, and it did seem a bit less active than it did on my last trip, but it nonetheless still puts on the best stage show. Paisas has done some remodeling since my last trip and now seems to attract a larger and better crowd of girls than before. Fiebre remains more or less the same as I remember it from my last trip.
The amount of turnover in the talent pool in the six months since my last visit initially surprised me. Then I realized that a place like Santa Fe must be a meat grinder, and I would imagine those girls that can move on to greener pastures probably do so at the first opportunity. I recognized only a handful of faces from my last trip and only one with whom I had a session on my last trip. Many of the few girls that I did recognize from my last trip were girls that I had either interviewed and rejected or had decided to avoid entirely. I would guess that the ones that stick around a place like Santa Fe longer than others must be more hardened, which might have been why I had previously avoided them in the first place. In any event, perhaps this high rate of turnover in the talent pool is advantageous for mongers in that it provides a steady stream of fresh meat. I would note that most of the few faces that I recognized from my last trip were club girls; I only recognized one or two of the street girls. I suspect that many of the club girls are more seasoned and hardened, whereas the street meat may also be fresher meat.
One advantage of Bogota over Medellin, and perhaps of Santa Fe over the other venues in Bogota, is the greater diversity of the talent pool, with girls catering to a wide (r) range of tastes. I also found that the Santa Fe street scene may appeal to a wider range of tastes and have a wider variety of types than the Santa Fe clubs. I continued to develop my taste for girls from Cali, whom I have found to be among the most consistently good performers. This trip further increased my desire to visit Cali, even though what I have heard and read about that city and its mongering scene does not inspire much confidence. Much to my surprise, I found only two girls from Medellin, and they were both among the weaker performers on this trip. Venezuelans remain numerous both in the clubs and on the streets, but, as on my last trip, I did not find them any better or worse in terms of appearance, service, or pricing.
I learned on my last trip that most Santa Fe girls are not photo-friendly, and that even just asking for a photo can irritate them. I only asked some of them for photos on this trip; most of them refused, but here are photos of two girls that allowed me to photograph them. The one with the black hair and the light skin is a regular at Troya and a solid performer that I would highly recommend.
I would return to Bogota if and when a good deal on airfare makes it possible to arrange a dirt cheap trip of a few days. With that said, I think that Medellin offers greater and more consistent quality, so it remains a higher priority for me, especially for longer trips. My experiences in Santa Fe have nonetheless fueled my growing interest in Tijuana, which sounds similar and is one of a few major mongering spots that I have not visited yet. The women from Cali have continued to impress me, but what I have heard and read about their city suggests that I would find it rather less impressive.