Reply. Fact or Fiction. Donkey Shows
Thanks 4 the reply here Phordphan. I had heard that these shows were possibly "stories" and "myths". "legends" really, but was not too sure. A friend of mine mentioned that he heard of them in Thailand. Pattaya area. Very cool reply. Thanks and I will forward the information along.
[QUOTE=Phordphan;1915351]Tell your friends to give it a rest. They do not exist. They most likely never existed. I have worked with guys who insisted they saw them, but they can never pin down exact dates or locations. Others insist it was always friends of friends of brothers of 3rd cousins who swore they were there when stationed in Dago during Vietnam. I have seen photos (old photos) of such things in, I think, Nuevo Laredo. As far as Tijuana goes, it's mostly urban legend. IF it ever existed it was very long ago. Again IF.[/QUOTE].
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ROSARITO BEACH (PLAYAS de ROSARITO) -
Taking a couple of friends down for "their" first visit to Tijuana in a few days, and am curious if anyone here knows anything about Rosarito Beach (Playas de Rosarito). From what I understand, it is about 20 miles west and it has some bars, restaurants. And, well. A beach. Is it a trip worth making according to anyone here? It would simply be "something to do" as a break from the 'Zona, although we will be spending 90% of our time in the 'Zona. Is taking a taxi the way to go? What does the taxis charge for this trip (each-way or round-trip)? Just curious if anyone has any input -.
Road trip to further South
Rosarito Beach doesn't have many attractions besides Spring Breaks, when alleged college students party and have wet t-shirt contests etc.
The yellow and white colectivos for Rosarito Beach wait on Madero corner of Calle 4 or 5 I forgot. For 50 pesos each, they will take you and drop off across the street from from hotel Rosarito Beach. Return pick up at the same spot. The colectivos also pick up passengers along the way. Remember their color stripes and wave them down if you see them.
A colectivo driver claimed to have contact for girls. He called a couple numbers and took us to a bordello South of the hotel, but the place had been closed for a few years; weed overgrew the yard and sticking out of windows. He took us to another bar but there was no girls working. So we went back to Tijuana quickly.
Rosarito Beach is known for having a few drug stash houses busted in the last 2 years, and ex pats executed for deals gone wrong. A Mexican girl was raped, sodomized and murdered on that beach a few years back. Mexican papers showed pictures of her naked with blood and [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord113][CodeWord113][/url] splattered all over. It was very gruesome. The beach is full of horse shit and the water tepid. One crowded summer day, I found an outhouse on the beach for beach goers, just a huge hole dugged in the sand, full of smelly crap, with 2 wood planks over it. If fallen in it would be impossible to get out. Needless to say I found that beach very crude that I don't want to hang out.
If you have a couple guys you can rent a car from national on Revo and drive South along the beach down to Ensenada. Stop for lunch at the fishing village Potpola or Puerto Neuvo. Stop on the many uncrowded pristine beaches on the way down South, with bars, trinket shops, coconut stands, restaurants, camp sites and fancy resorts etc.
The winding coastal road near Ensenada goes though some breathtakingly beautiful stretches of the coast. You can stop to look at the migrating whales, the huge nets where they raise 500-lbs blue-fin tunas, the Japanese fish canning factories where they dry thousands of shark fins on roof tops. I met a few Japanese who go to bar Anthony to pick up girls regularly.
Ensenada is a very nice, clean. Safe town where cruise ships drop off thousands passengers. It's a fishing town with a very lively fish market, but I never found a good seafood restaurant I like in Ensenada. Tijuana has many better choices.
The people in Ensenada are more genteel and easy-going, unlike the hyper and crazy people running amok in La Zona. Besides the tourist traps on the main Ave Mateos Luis, side streets, like Ave Ruiz, have many shops for locals with good deals like bikers' genuine leather jackets for $10-20 etc. I found a few smiling young shop keepers who were so beautiful, nice, sweet, gentle who wold be worth GF materials.
I used to rent a room at the hotel Santo Tomas next to bar Anthony, bring a camp stove or elec skillet, buy fresh seafood cheap from the fish market across the street and cook them on the balcony and party all day. Mexican families would party and cook their food in hotels' parking lots during the annual Baja 500 race in August and carnival in Feb. At night I would hang out in bar Anthony all night hehe. There are usually a few good-looking young girls in Bar Anthony.
I will be doing that road trip with a couple guys this summer. Have fun.
[QUOTE=Caprese7;1916838]Taking a couple of friends down for "their" first visit to Tijuana in a few days, and am curious if anyone here knows anything about Rosarito Beach (Playas de Rosarito). From what I understand, it is about 20 miles west and it has some bars, restaurants. And, well. A beach. Is it a trip worth making according to anyone here? It would simply be "something to do" as a break from the 'Zona, although we will be spending 90% of our time in the 'Zona. Is taking a taxi the way to go? What does the taxis charge for this trip (each-way or round-trip)? Just curious if anyone has any input -.[/QUOTE]