Hey Dan,
It's nice to be reading great things about you here. How long will you be in Cusco? I am making plans to be there soon. It will be nice to see you again.
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Hey Dan,
It's nice to be reading great things about you here. How long will you be in Cusco? I am making plans to be there soon. It will be nice to see you again.
Cusco Rules!
For those of you that have been living under a rock, Cusco beat Brazil last night in the Quarter Finals of the South American Cup. The town went ballistic and everyone had a blast in the Plaza de Armas until dawn. Everyone let loose and I never met so many wild cholitas.
JWadd where are you? DDM got me some tickets to the game (scalpers were asking outrageous prices) and he had a few extra for fellow mongers. We are all going to get together for an american-style Halloween party tomorrow. Are you game? Give me a shout if you are up to it. You will be able to meet dozens of willing cholitas there.
Rocky
Rocky Rocco's Guide to High Mountain Medicine
Believe it or not, I am a physician (a surgeon to be exact) volunteering here in Cusco. I've met a lot of fellow mongers here and unfortunately, many have been taken ill and have seeked my medical advice. So I've taken the time to put together a little guide that addresses some of the most common medical complaints that occur here.
Soroche (altitude sickness):
Cusco is situated at about 3500 meters (over 11,000 feet) and the altitude must be respected. Most mongers come here and are sick for their first four days. Why suffer? A simple solution is to take Diamox. Take a conservative dose of 125 mg (one-half pill) twice a day for five days beginning two days before you arrive.
Traveller's Diarrhea and Food Poisoning:
Unfortunately, at high elevations water boils at a lower temperature and consequently, it is more difficult to kill bacterial and parasitic contaminants. Most mongers suffer from some sort of food-related illness and it can really inhibit your cholita-chasing activities. Simple solution is to take Paldix Forte (Sulfametoxazol + Trimethoprima 800/160 mg) twice a day for 10 days.
Parasites:
I suffered for years from parasites I picked up in the Caribbean. It took me years to get an accurate laboratory diagnosis as very few labs have the expertise to deal with tropical parasites. Additionally, the medicine available in the United States was completely ineffective. Luckily, there is a new generation of anti-parasitics that are available in South America. I would recommend taking Colufase (Nitazoxanida) 500 mg twice a day for three days. It will clean up just about any parasite (giardia, roundworms, tapeworms, etc.) you encounter during your mongering forays or on the Camino Inka to MacchuPicchu.
Rocky Rocco, M.D.
DanDaMan's Guide to Essential Quechua - Part I
Spanish is not the primary language here in Cuzco; most cholitas speak the language of the Inkas (Quechua) and some don't know any Spanish. Therefore, I put together a few essential phrases to help fellow mongers with their cholita pussy-chasing abilities.
Imaynan kasianqui? (How are you?)
Alli llanchu (Very well)
Iman suti'nki? (What's your name?)
Noqqa munakuku illariyta tutantin (I want to sleep with you)
Noqqa chomqqayta munani ñuñuyquita (I want to suck your tits)
More essential phrases later...
DDM
Hey Larry,
Good to hear you are considering coming to Cuzco. You'll love Cuzco!
It was good to meet you in Barranco and I enjoyed our latina-chasing activities in Miraflores.
I'll be here for a few more weeks, as it is hard to leave. Hope to see you soon.
DDM
Heya gents,
Back in Lima. If any of you make it this way anytime soon, please contact me via the WSG Forum's Private Messaging system.
Veni-vidi-vici,
JW
Hey Rocky, thanks for the good advice.
Can you get any of the medication you describe at any Pharmacist in Cuzco by name?
Ciao
Spidy
DanDaMan's report of 10/13 is the premier reference for Cusco. I want to start out by thanking him for the time he took to write it.
Maybe it was weather, the smog, or the aggressive tourist touts around Plaza de Armas, but my experience in Cusco wasn't quite as jolly. I do, however, have a little new information to add.
Firstly, there was a serious "beauty drought" in all of the professional venues in Cusco; Santutis, Mama Africa, La Rumba, etc. -- very few girls above a 6 (IMO). Ironically, the higher end the club seemed to get, the less pretty the girls seemed to be.
Let's take an individual look:
Mama Africa is a semi-pro joint with movies, music and tourists of both genders. On any given night you might find 20 or so free-lancers who show up for a little action. The place, however, had a bit of a feeling of a rip-off joint. Some of the girls seemed unnaturally hard-core. Most, though, were just chubby late-teens. The place is fun and friendly, though -- I had a great time there (drinking) and heartily recommend it as a place to pick up tourist chicks.
Santutis (or La Curva, Sol de Oro) is an outdoor brothel a little past El Condor. While cheap (about 20 soles for sex), the quality of women was abysmal. Fucking abysmal. Most of the 30-40 women present were about 30-50 pounds overweight -- many had 10-foot-identifiable body odor. Uh-huh. There was one cute girl there one night, but she would not perform BBBJ. Also, many of the girls fuck a new guy about every 15 minutes. Caveat emptor.
The two high-end clubs, La Rumba and Decameron, disappointed as well.
Decameron has not been mentioned by Dan -- it's just around the corner above the hill from the El Condor clubs (which I'll desribe a little later). It's supposedly the highest-end venue in Cusco.
I went there on a Thurs. and found about 15 girls to choose from. There is no entrance fee and no beds on site. Drinks are expensive and the girls get half (in cash) of whatever drinks you buy them. You can imagine how constantly harrassed you'll be to buy alcohol here.
The place is a perfect copy of a E. European club a la Prague, Budapest or Warsaw. The problem is, those clubs have good looking women -- women worth spending drink money on -- while this place lacked that quality of high-end beauty that these prices demand in a reasonable sportsman. Prices ranged in the 100-150 soles range, with negotiation expected. I do not know what the exit bar-fine is. I'm sure it's high.
La Rumba is a little higher up on the same line from El Condor. I wasn't there on a busy night, but it's about the same thing as Decameron. I must say I saw a few lovelies here. Give it a try.
"El Condor" signifies a large, pillored-statue of a condor around which cluster about 5 low-end clubs. Dan had some reservations about personal safety there, but I had absolutely no problems there 3 nights in a row. It's certainly nowhere near as rough as some of the joints I've explored in Lima and Brasil.
There's not much to see here, though. None of the clubs have an entrance fee, facilities or pretty girls. You can't even really live out some low-ball fantasy here. Beer's expensive, the girls are a little moochy, the Peruanos here get too drunk -- but again the place is fun in a wild-west kind of way. Check it out for the experience.
There's also a cluster of clubs sort of on the way to the airport on Alameda Pachacutec -- with names like "Noika," "Manhattan," etc. Most of these places seemed to be dance-halls, wherein the guy is expected to buy drinks for the girl of his choice and have a dance or two. Most of the women in all of these clubs were not there (surprisingly) for sex. These clubs certainly looked like pick-up joints. Anyway (to use a refrain), beer's expensive and the girls weren't attractive.
Well, that's about it. I was talked-up by Peruanas in Plaza de Armas quite frequently. That whole scene, though, seemed a little like a tourist lottery -- and too much work (with dinner-dates, shopping, courting, 6.5 looks, etc.) to be very intersting to me. I don't know, maybe Brasil has just spoiled me.
I hate to be such a nay-sayer, especially considering the rave reviews Cusco has received from the experienced sex-travelers below (and I want to say that I certainly respect their opinion) -- maybe I just had a bad run.
Happy Hunting,
JWadd, B.A.
Hi All,
I'm a new member, and a new - full of anticipation? - monger. (Does that make me a wirgin?) Anyway I will be in Cusco beginning Nov 16 for 10 days. Will anybody else be around? DDM, will you still be around?
Tom
Hey Tom,
Good to hear you are coming to Cuzco. Give me a shout at my [blue][Email address deleted by Admin][/blue] and I will email you info on where to stay and any other info you need.
I should be around until the 23rd of November. I planned on leaving a month earlier, but can't seem to leave even though I have charapitas (jungle girls) waiting for me in Iquitos.
Life is so rough here in Peru, having to decide between cholitas (mountain girls) and charapitas.
You're gonna love Cuzco!
DDM
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Hey Johnny Wadd,
Thanks for the excellent report. Too bad I wasn't able to personally show you around Cuzco, but you seemed to have done alright for yourself here. The thing you really seemed to have lacked here, that I could have helped with, was some girlfriend action. I introduced you to a girlfriend I know in Lima and I would have liked to have done the same for you here in Cuzco.
Johnny, I would like to add a few things to perhaps shed some light on your personal biases and experiences, making some contrasts with Lima. First, you prefer blonds and white chicks. I'm just the opposite and have very little attraction to girls of european descent. Consequently, I just love these cholitas. They are usually small and thin, very dark skinned with large almond eyes, high cheekbones, and have nice firm tits. My kind of women, not yours. Second, by sticking with pros and bricheras (semi-pros) you limited yourself to outsiders (limeñas and charapitas) and didn't have a chance to experience real cholitas and cusqueñas.
It's not that difficult or time-consuming to meet cholitas if you speak spanish, and I would have liked to have turned you on to some materials to learn spanish and portuguese. The key to my success with cholitas and girlfriend action is my language abilities and my understanding of latin culture. I speak damn good spanish and portuguese thanks to my Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone foreign language CDs. Johnny, for some reason, despite all your time in Brasil and South America, you have resisted learning the local languages. I hope one day you can learn the local lingo and really experience some dynamite latina girlfriend action.
With respect to Lima, I totally confused as to why someone would return there so quickly. IMHO it is so much cheaper and safer here that it makes little sense for someone on a limited budget to blow all their cash visiting expensive places like Tequila Rocks and Barranco Suites in Lima. I'm here on an extended trip that is projected to last for three years. If I blew all my cash on the overpriced pros in Lima, I'd have to return to the US in a few months. Compared to Lima, the action here is dirt cheap. Here it is extremely rare to encounter a cover charge; in fact, they usually give you free drink tickets in Cuzco at places like Mama Amerika near the Plaza de Armas. I have no problem encountering knockout women in the clubs or at the La Curva chongo where the going price is 13 soles or $3.75. Sure, you have to sort through some women with ordinary looks, but jewels abound here. You just have to look for them. With repect to housing, I'm paying 15 soles or $4.33 per night for a wonderful room compared to the $25 - 50 most mongers are paying in Miraflores. A good multi-course meal here costs 3 soles or $0.86 (drink included) compared to $10 - 20 at Pizza Alley in Miraflores. I just love this town!
Johnny, I wish you good luck on your journeys and hope one day you can return here and really experience the Cuzco I know - the grand imperial city of the Inkas - and its cholitas!
DDM
Thanks for the good wishes. I agree that Spanish would have help me much more -- I know a little but no where near enough. Indeed, I've noticed a big increase in play this time around in Brasil with increased Portugese skill.
I look forward to returning to Peru, and will certainly highlight Cusco on that trip. I think that credit card mess I was having there might have contributed to a sour outlook -- which we all know rebounds in the form of dismal experience.
Thanks again and keep up the good work,
JW
Dan Da Man,
Thanks for all of the great reports! I am an experienced traveler to BA, Brazil, Cuba and DR. I love taking in the sights along with the mongering. Can you fill me in on some basic geography? Is Cuzco where one goes to get to Machu Pichu? If so, is it close and should I use it as a home base?
Thanks
Bunda Blast,
Yep, Cuzco is a good home base to explore the near-by ruins, including Machupicchu. Incredibly, the original inka stonework serves as the foundation for most of the buildings in the center of town.
It's a magical place, that you will love!
DDM
The Shaman
Tonight I had a shaman, who only speaks quechua, read my fortune using coca leaves. That's right, coca leaves. Here they use coca leaves instead of tea, and the results proved to be very interesting.
To begin, the shaman had me breath three times on the coca leaves while still wrapped in a cloth. He then opened the cloth containing the coca leaves and one leaf was on the perimeter of the cloth, while the rest of the leaves were in the center. This leaf, he explained, represented my ex-wife that was far away from me. Next, pointing to a small leaf, he correctly told me about my adopted son. This was getting a little spooky. How the hell did he know about my ex-wife and son?
Continuing to throw coca leaves and interpreting the positions that they landed in, he then told me that two cholitas were after me (what? only two?) and that they were not from Cuzco (correct, one was from Quillabamba and the other was originally from Arequipa). Next, the shaman told me that I was cheating on them with other women (what? a monger that cheats on women?).
I asked him about my upcoming trip to Brazil, and he told me it would be a successful trip and that I would successfully seduce some brasileras and, of course, cheat on them. The shaman told me that I had some money saved for this trip and that I was trying to be thrifty with my money. I asked him if I was a "tacano" or tightwad, and he said no, that I was only trying to extend my trip longer.
Unfortunately, the shaman also told me some things I didn't relish; that I would one day return to my ex-wife and be reunited with her (a monger's worse nightmare). Of course, he told me that I would continue to cheat on her with other women (I liked that part).
All in all, my coca leaf reading session really was an enjoyable experience, and I recommend that all mongers visiting Cuzco give it a try.
DDM