What are good areas in Cali?
Hi guys,
I plan to visit Cali next month and I know nothing about the lay of the land and would like some advice. It would be great if some of you guys know Medellin as well for the use of comparisons. I plan to stay in an Airbnb because I stand a better chance of not having too many people monitoring me and my guests. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
When in MDE I like to frequent ground zero aka El Centro but I would never want to reside there. I like the bars and strip clubs but when it's time to lay my head I want to feel comfortable. Belen, la 70, and Laurales are my go-to areas when trying to find a nice safe, and secure location without costing an arm and a leg. These locations were also pretty close to everything as far as when I want to visit El Centro, la70, or El Pablado (Parque llyres). I've stayed in Pablado several times and I love the fact that I could walk to the clubs at Parque lyres and the proximity to nice restaurants but too many street vendors are always there ready to pounce on the gringo tourist and try to sell them something.
All and all, I'd like to hear your guy's opinions on key areas in Cali taking into account price, safety, proximity to chicas and clubs, etc.
Thanks in advance guys.
Trip delayed. More time to work on my Spanish
Seems my trip is going to be pushed back a few months. Sucks, but I'll just use the time to continue working on my Spanish. I'll probably not have to rush it, either, and could end up with a solid 2-3 weeks in country. Silver linings and all that.
I read that later in the year is the rainy season in Cali. Does it get really bad, weather-wise?
[QUOTE]But if a high percentage of the chicas in the *****houses are Colombianas, I say why not come to Colombia for the action.[/QUOTE]Well, this is definitely my plan. But it's far more accessible and safer than Colombia overall. English spoken everywhere, USD is legal tender. It's a duty free island where people can take a flight from NYC and buy jewellery that's cheaper than back home (even factoring airfare). It's a popular boating destination with hundreds of yachts of all sizes being based here in the winter. Popular for scuba diving as well. Having all of this in a relatively safe place, with reliable point and click mongering 15 minutes away where you know what to expect (prices are set, girls get STD tested) and the service is generally good makes it a good destination all-round. There isn't much of a freelance market, but you can pull locals on Tinder if you have enough game.
[QUOTE=BayBoy;2842585]I've been to the French side of the island. I guess the big excitement is looking at the topless French girls laying on the beach.[/QUOTE]It really is a different vibe. Dozens of really great restaurants. Lots of luxury shopping, etc. I have friends who love it. These aren't mongers though.
[QUOTE]I mean you have to keep everything locked up for your safety (hotel, car and private stuff). The locals are indifferent that you are there.[/QUOTE]Locking your car and keeping valuables off the seat in plain view is smart in just about any place in the world. It's fairly safe. Yes, shit does happen, and there are opportunists, but you simply do not have to keep your head on a swivel like you would in Colombia.
You should be happy people leave you alone, really. Gringo treatment most often just means paying more for less. It's also not a poor country. Sure, there are poor people, but even people in hospitality are making a couple grand a month, so you don't get the same level of deference to tourists as you would in other places.
The Quick down and dirty guide to Cali
First of all let me say I actually want more mongers to consider Cali that being said If you Love meddy you'd likely hate Cali.
And vice versa while I don't hate medellin if I never went there again I'd be ok with it In fact I hardly get the appeal of the place.
People hear what they want to hear from my posts when I say Cali is a walkable city that is correct, but if you tried to walk from the north to the south that is a very very very long walk.
There's no upscle red light district in Cali at least not a Parque lleras style place the closest eqiuvalent is Parque Boulevar. And the Boulevard is NOTHING LIKE Parque LLeras there's no hoes there and the crowds are only there on weekend nights around 9 to around 2 or 3 o clock again there's street parties with locals dancing to Salsa music theres no hoes around there. Same with Parque del Perros it is what it claims to be a big Dog park with Bars and restuarants surrounding it again if your spanish is good maybe you can snag a Non pro but there's really no hook up culture in Colombia except for the artificial one on Medellin and Cartagena. Dates generally invovle local restuarants movies and kicking with the fam drinling Rum and no sex.
You don't need a guide here but a short stayer with no Spanish might want one because the easiest to find brothel with the girls That a CALENO would find attractive would be in Clinica Dr. Amor. But the first few times I saw it I went up to the front door and it's on a regular street looking like a regular house in a regular neighborhood. If you simply google Mapped it and went to the front door chances are you'd miss it the actual address is unhelpful in that regard.
You'd have to go around the back in what looks like a junkyard for Taxi's and go to the hidden back enterance to be allowed in. All the other brothels in the city are the same way on a regular ass street and you'd never know exactly where the place is or if it's open. The place that was down the street from me in El Ingenio only indication that it was open was the Outside Iron gate would be open when it was open and it's a daytime brothel not a nighttime one. Again in my years of boots on the ground in Cali If you wanted casa action and you were in El Ingenio at night the closest spot is the way expensive Tangas VIP or the Deluxe Club VIP.
Other than that Athough I wouldn't reccomend using a dating app or Photoprepagoes or Milerocticos you can try it it's not nearly as risky as Medellin for Tinder but I know guys that got got in Cali on Tinder too. The Prepagos sites may not be open and usually whoever you see on the site will not likely be there once you go to the location.
Centro has Bar La Vente and Son Senero which are fun and although a non spanish speaker might miss the signs they're fairly easier to find.
For street meat fans they're out there there's less targeting of Gringos for Gringo's sake but if you see a ton of dudes riding Motos you stand an excellent chance of becoming a victim of oppertunity on those dark streets. If you're a meddy centro vet then I'd use the same spidey sense that you use in Meddy for Cali. I never been anywhere near Plaza Botero at night but I guess the difference is Plaza Botero is a tourist destination during the day wheras Cali's centro is just that a Cheap run down downtown where locals get cutrate deals in the daytime.
There's not zero SW's in the daytime but the ones that are out in the daytime are discreet and well you get what you pay for. The Night action brings out far better pickings but again the streets are pitch Black in places but there's better lighting on the main streets near some of the bigger cabanas / Fast sheet no tels. Some of the better girls approach San Sonero (but not Bar La Vente) Quality and if you're lucky every once in a while Hotel del Rey girls generally are the hottest SW girls in Cali but they will try to overcharge you on the fees related to using Hotel Del Rey.
There's also kind of a union among Del Rey girls so if you want to stay within the 50 to 60 K COP range you might have to take their numbers and reconvene elsewhere. Keep in mind that Cali's Centro does have some trannies around. They don't hang around the regular girls but if you wander the blocks thinking that you need to see each chica then you'd run acroos the Trannies in the darker streets dressed even more provocatively.
As Far as the Massage Parlour scene some of the best ones in Town are in the south but If you went to Katmandu In Limonar to one of the spots in El Ingenio then that's at least 4 kilomters away. Even the two spots that I know in El Ingenio (which are very good and recommended even for just the massage) is several blocks away from each other and as I said in nondescrpt houses that you wouldn't be sure was the right spot.
A final thought about the Cali scene is Caras Lindas is right off of Sexta and there may be other undiscovered gems but again I've told mongers exactly where it was and they still counldn't find it. When I showed people around even I missed it a few times. Same thing with Cyber world again never would've known where it was even though I passed it a million times on Sexta. Again a real get what you pay for kind of place but a place with the absolute cheapest pussy in town even cheaper than the SW's.
The point is if you decide to come to Cali although a true google master who carefully RTFF would do well in Cali but if you need someone to take you hand in hand to the best places then reach out. If you want to see all these places they're pretty spread out you'd need a car to go to all of them. If you stopped reading at Cali is cheap and come anyway and it's not what you wanted don say that you weren't warned.
Hope this Helps.
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Making a short story shorter
[QUOTE=BayBoy;2843812]Triple your a prolific writer on the Cali scene. I can't add too much more on this subject. You pretty much analyzed it very well. My view is that there are 63 K posts about Medellin and 13 K posts for Cartegena and Bogota. But only 5 K for Cali. That pretty much sums it up. Cali is No. 4 on the pecking order and that's the way it is. Just not as popular destination for mongers.
I'm a Bar La20 and Son Sonero type guy plus the SW scene around there. Thats all I need to be happy in my sexo needs. Been to Dr. Amor a few times. Good quality place. I couldn't find Cyber World my last trip to Cali. But I will be in Colombia in 2 weeks, will make sure and stop in there then.[/QUOTE]That's it that's why Cali is #4 in Colombia You went to Cyber world with me it's right on Ave. Sexta you're stomping grounds and YOU CAN'T FIND IT. I haven't been since then but it's the building with blacked out windows almost directly across from Caras Lindas. I'm telling you this and there's a 50/50 chance that you'd find it when you get here.
That's the essense of the Cali scene. You don't know what you don't know.
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Torturing a deceased horse
[QUOTE=MoonShot;2843648]Cali is a city that I intend to visit one day. So far I have only visited Medellin and things are going well. I have focused exclusively on Facebook girls in Medellin and things are much tougher to find Facebook girls in Cali. So far out of 1,100 FB friends, 1 girl is in Cali and the rest are in Medellin. If I ever got more serious about visiting Cali, I would try a little harder to find FB girls located in Cali. It may be a city where Tinder works better than Facebook. Cali is on the backburner for now but if I find more Cali girls on FB, I would move up the date.[/QUOTE]Cali is a completely different city than Medellin, Coming from Medellin is like going to say Valledupar. It's the "real" Colombia I did the same thing went I first came to Cali didn't work, If a Cali girl agreed to meet you then expect to go on 50 dates with no sex because she would consider you an actual friend.
Facebook game developed in Medellin because of the scoplomine attacks from Tinder girls no where in the world does mongers use Facebook specifically to find pussy. Maybe you can use IG but even then it doesn't really work. If you really really want to come to Cali (and if you're fine in the Meddy market you probably should stay there) Then you'd be better off using Tinder and Bumble. I know guys who got drugged in Cali off Tinder but I used it for a year without any problems, For some reason I never heard of Bumble being a site that attracts drug gangs.
But if you really want defenite action I'd use Seeking SA is SA and works in every country where it's available.
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Differences and Similarities
[QUOTE=Icky994;2843329]Hi guys,
I plan to visit Cali next month and I know nothing about the lay of the land and would like some advice. It would be great if some of you guys know Medellin as well for the use of comparisons. I plan to stay in an Airbnb because I stand a better chance of not having too many people monitoring me and my guests. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
When in MDE I like to frequent ground zero aka El Centro but I would never want to reside there. I like the bars and strip clubs but when it's time to lay my head I want to feel comfortable. Belen, la 70, and Laurales are my go-to areas when trying to find a nice safe, and secure location without costing an arm and a leg. These locations were also pretty close to everything as far as when I want to visit El Centro, la70, or El Pablado (Parque llyres). I've stayed in Pablado several times and I love the fact that I could walk to the clubs at Parque lyres and the proximity to nice restaurants but too many street vendors are always there ready to pounce on the gringo tourist and try to sell them something.
All and all, I'd like to hear your guy's opinions on key areas in Cali taking into account price, safety, proximity to chicas and clubs, etc.
Thanks in advance guys.[/QUOTE]To answer your question basically you nailed it. You could say that the Boulevar is the laurelles of Cali. You could say that Granada is the El Probablo of Cali. I don't know which Barrio is the equivalent of Chipichape but lets say that's the high end area of Cali but Pance would be the Beverly Hills of Cali.
The difference between Meddy is that you can live in the most exclusive areas in Town for less than 40 dollars a night. If you choose to tay in an Airbnb because you think it's private and people won't see you running those chicas from AguaBlancas in you're wrong. Maybe if you live on Av. 9 in Grenada in a high traffic area maybe you can sneak a chica in sight unseen.
And in any neighborhood that you'd want to stay in you'd have night watchment who are literlly watching you. It' be a good idea to introduce yourself and slide him 10 million pesos and additional amount at the end of your stay per day. Beleive me EVERYONE on your street does this technically you don't have to do this but he doesn't have to do anything when she sees the chicas comming out with all of your stuff or seeing that yiu haven't left the room in dyas.
But having actual security is still better and yes you'd want to introduce yourself to him too. That security guard can even point out decent chicks to you or get your things.
Help out those you help you.
Hope this Helps.
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