Medellin Reports

[HoyaDay]

If you don't speak Spanish, an English speaking guide with a car is a good way to see the sights (maybe not negotiate as much as safely get you places). Most normal Colombians are decent people. And most Colombian males have no problem with our hobby.

There is a list in the "Medellin Guides. " section (surprise surprise). I personally like Jimmy (a former NYC cabbie) although it's been many years since I used him.

When you're done, WRITE A REPORT. You owe us now.

Thank you.

[Osteoknot]

As soon as Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand opens fully back up, I'll be back!

"Flight booked for Medellin! This is going to improve my mood by leaps and bounds. Before I discovered Medellin, I was aiming for SE Asia, Cambodia or Laos (Thailand is great place to visit, but the time to move there has passed). The girls, the lifestyle, the cost of living are about the same in Colombia and SE Asia. Well, the Colombian and Venezuelan girls are way better looking in the face, and if big boobs and asses are your thang, those are harder to find in SE Asia. The other HUGE differences are travel time, cost of travel, and language. I will leave here at 7 AM and have boots on the ground in Medellin by 1 PM, for 20 K freq flier miles. And learning Spanish is a helluva lot easier than any Asian language. However, a lot more English is spoken in Thailand than in Colombia, not as sure about Cambodia, I never got embedded. And it takes two days get there, and tons of jet lag. Medellin is in the same time zone as us, and when I am not using freq flier miles, tickets are in the low hundreds, not thousands".

Gratuitous fotos.

[HotelAl]

I think you missed your flight in June (6), LOL.

LMA0. I ment July 13th.

[John Clayton]

Has anyone been to adult movie theaters and gotten to have sex or fool around with a girl? ...

Do they even exist?

[Jbj64]

Has anyone been to adult movie theaters and gotten to have sex or fool around with a girl? I'm thinking of bringing a friend and was curious if I could have sex in the theater.

I asked her about regular movie theaters and she said they have cameras watching.

[Boy Blanco]

I know I'm not Brad Pitt but it annoys me when girl takes her phone out to arrange her other appointments. I'm thinking then inside my head: WTF wait till our session is over. I never say anything, I don't know if it's worth it.

[Osteoknot]

Very safe indeed, Coca Cola has a big market share of the bagged water market in Colombia.

Probably it was the drugs, jaja.

I posted the first photo earlier writing that this chica from Cali had as good a body and sweet pussy as I have ever pressed but the original foto didn't show her boobs. Then I stumbled across these two photos of her spectacular boobs. Her face is cute, a solid 7, but dayummm, her body and her pussy were a 9.5. Unfortunately, she is the craziest girl I've ever banged in Colombia to the point of being unstable so no plans to repeat. Depends how horny I get for that body and pussy. She asked me to fly her to MDE a bunch of times. I have her blocked now because all her communications degraded into tirades, but we have been thru several cycles of that over the past two years. Always interesting to learn about oneself and how much I will put up with for some exceptional poontang, jaja.

That's a vanilla soft serve ice cream cone in her hand in the one photo.

[Combo]

But I have more than 100 mil in my wallet and I'm in Chicago jajaja.

I have lots of foreign cash in my desk, Russian, Euros, Thb PHP MEX COP.

I think its cheaper to save it for a next visit then to pay to cash it back after you just paid to switch it.

Best to wait until one thinks the COP has hit bottom then buy a bunch.

If I lived there I would get 50-100 kusd when that happens jajajaja.

And just redeposit it like Surf suggests.

Agreed. I just threw out 100 k as a general minimal amount. I certainly don't cash out my FX back into USD when returning to the US, so I have odd amounts of Col Peso, Brasilian Real, etc.

Good luck calling a bottom (or top) in any currency, stock, or other asset.

I'm also in and from Chicago.

[Mr Enternational]

How is knowledge of Spanish more of a concern for you than knowledge of Asian languages? Is English more widely spoken in places you frequent in Asia than it is in Colombia?

English is definitely more widely spoken in Asia than in Colombia. You would have to go well off the beaten tourist path in Asia to be desperate to know what someone was saying.

Funny thing that happens to me a lot. When I am somewhere that I speak the local language I guess people look at me and assume I do not. Because when I start talking to them in Spanish or Thai or Portuguese or French, the first thing they say is I don't speak English. I will say but I am speaking in Spanish, etc. They are not listening for me to speak their language, they are just waiting for their turn to say they do not speak what they assume to be mine.

[BlackThought]

I'm thinking back to the guys who stocked up on pesos last year when the rate went from 3000 to 3500. About 10 days later it was 4400.

I'm not the ISG investment guru, but it seems like a bad investment to me. Sure you might get a better rate today than you can get next year, but even if you do, you've lost the use of that capital until you manage to spend enough time in Colombia to go through a ridiculous amount of pesos. $5,000-$10,000 worth? I just spent 23 days, rented a car for 12 days, spent 11 extra days in an expensive airport hotel, and splurged when hanging out with my friends, plus encountered about $700 of other unexpected costs and still spent less than $3500.

Then there's the risk. Personally I'm uncomfortable carrying around enough cash for a Colombian to buy 2 houses.

If I was tight with my money, never overpaying, and all that, I could easily stretch $5,000 to last 2 months, probably 3.

Great advice as always. It may seem cheap now, but it can get cheaper; seems to be the pattern in Latin America: Venezuela - Argentina - Colombia (next)? The government would likely have to print more money which will devalue the currency further. I read somewhere that only 1.6 m Colombians pay income taxes out of a population of 50 m.

[Silver Turtle]

How about the security condition there? I saw several videos showing that 4-10 punk kids chalking and attacking pedestrians, including olds and women, to steal $2-10. Other people, 20-50 people, did nothing and they were just watching the robberies. I don't know if one victim got killed or not. My friends who live at the Botero area witnessed the robberies in the videos and told me that there are many robberies days and nights now.

Since I've been diagnosed on this board with Dunning Krueger syndrome, along with others, I'm having difficulty comprehending what I have been observing over the last four days being at ground zero most days from about 10 AM until 7 PM. Before the arrival of the Venezuelans, there were few if any girls out working in the mornings, now there's quite a few out at 10 AM, and primarily Venezuelans.

On Tuesday I went with one of my new spinners, a Colombiana, who has only been working for three months in El Centro. Compared to all the other girls working the streets I would peg her at in the lower bracket of the upper third of Chicas beauty wise working the streets, when I took her, she was happy, but very sad telling me how hard it was to get clients, and how the Venezuelans where driving the prices down. She also said that she has noticed a large increase in the amount of girls working over the last three months which has also been noticed by others as evidenced by the herds and groupies of girls, primarily the Venezuelans..

[MarquisdeSade1]

No one can predict the future, but in all likelihood, the Col Peso will continue to weaken in the near future. The country is in desperate condition. I'd be more worried about things devolving back to the violence pre-2000 than about the currency strengthening.

Between trips, I wouldn't hold more than 100 mil or so Pesos.

But I have more than 100 mil in my wallet and I'm in Chicago jajaja.

I have lots of foreign cash in my desk, Russian, Euros, Thb PHP MEX COP.

I think its cheaper to save it for a next visit then to pay to cash it back after you just paid to switch it.

Best to wait until one thinks the COP has hit bottom then buy a bunch.

If I lived there I would get 50-100 kusd when that happens jajajaja.

And just redeposit it like Surf suggests.

[MarquisdeSade1]

The office of the mayor of Medellin sponsored a day long cultural event in Plaza Botero. While crawling along my usual paths yesterday I was struck by the high quantity of civilians and the higher than normal quantity of providers. Many of the regulars were forced behind and alongside the church because more than half the plaza was blocked by stages and lighting platforms. A small orchestra and several other bands performed. An artist created a large chalk drawing in the open area between the museum and the Palacio de la Cultura. The weather was pleasant. I can confirm Surfer's observations about the sheer number of girls out, including some new faces. I expect it will be even more noticeable when the stage and performance equipment are gone.

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How about the Mercado Del Rio?

[Combo]

The price of cop is dropping nicely.

Does anyone know of a cost effective way to buy cop online and have it delivered FedEx to your casa in USA?

I looked at Chase Citi and BofA and some BS online currency services but the rates are all shitty.

I would like to get 5000-10000 usd its getting close to 4000.

No one can predict the future, but in all likelihood, the Col Peso will continue to weaken in the near future. The country is in desperate condition. I'd be more worried about things devolving back to the violence pre-2000 than about the currency strengthening.

Between trips, I wouldn't hold more than 100 mil or so Pesos.

[Surfer500]

Is English more widely spoken in places you frequent in Asia than it is in Colombia?

In Thailand the majority of the working women speak English. I have never ever had an issue there related to not being able to communicate with people, versus here in Medellin and struggling at times trying to understand.