INTRO

Yes, I seem to have a fascination with countries that begin with the letter “C” these days. I’ve been to Cambodia twice this year, am in Costa Rica now, and am planning on traveling to Colombia in a few days; with hopefully a trip to China later this summer (Macau). Anyway, a simple system for a simple person.

This was originally going to be a just a fishing trip with some buddies to Quepos, Costa Rica, but hey, once a monger, always a monger. I found ways to partake of some skirt chasing on the side in CR, and already hooked up with a few lovelies in Costa Rica. In reading this report, you’ll have to excuse the liberal use of fisherman parlance and the occasional and accidental posting of pic of a sailfish as I’ll be simultaneously filing a fish report for another site along with a TR report here.

On this trip, I’ll be targeting a few select species: Sailfish (fish species) and Colombianas (Female Species). Both of these targeted species are without a doubt the crème de la crème in their respective species classes IMO --- true trophy specimens that are exceptionally beautiful with distinctive appendages (sails or a full chest and bootie).

Here’s one fine specimen of a Cali, Colombiana working in Costa Rica that “tagged along” with us to Quepos. I blurred her eyes a bit as I consider this one a long time acquaintance.

Photos: Fine Specimen 48 49

For some reason, the girls were extremely shy this trip and I didn’t focus too much on getting photos in Costa Rica. But I will have it ready for my Jaunt in Colombia.

Recent TR reports and pics from Colombia pushed me over the edge. I’ve always had a great fascination with Colombianas, especially the ones I came across at the Del Rey Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica. These girls are, and were, uniformly hot (see my pic of Colombiana from a previous trip who is also from CALI) with bodacious bodies and ample chests. In addition to their ravishing good looks, the Cali girls have this incredibly cute lilting accent when they speak Spanish – kind of sing-songish. Very cute. Anyways, there must be something truly special in the water in Cali to churn out such beauties, just as there is something in the waters off Quepos to attract so many sailfish (excellent fishing, averaging 110-130 lbs). I’ll be finding out first hand. There’s a lot already posted about CR, so I’ll save the write up for later; suffice it to say that the Del Rey was hopping with model-quality Colombianas this trip.

PREPARATION

We’re lucky on this board to have an excellent primer on Colombia by Gator (See Colombia Section). It’s a bit dated, but has some useful information. There are also some good trip reports here, especially of Cartagena. In reading up on all this, I got the impression that Colombia is a vastly misunderstood hobby destination like Cambodia. Lots of confusion about safety issues, but reading between the lines, Colombia appears to have a treasure trove of good looking p4p venues to explore. I also studied at least 3 other adult travel sites and culled some very useful information for all of you thinking about Cali. Although there is a lot on Cartagena and Bogota, there really wasn’t too much information about Cali. I chose Cali because it was relatively easy to get to from San Jose, explained later, and because of the consistently great encounters I've had with Caleanos at the Del Rey in Costa Rica.

As some of you may know, Cali is the second largest city in Colombia as well as the Salsa Capital of the World. There are several airlines that fly there from Costa Rica into CALI. I actually chose to fly COPA (Panamanian) airline to Cali Directly from Costa Rica for about $220.00 roundtrip, plus elite miles on my Continental Frequent Flyer program. COPA stops off in Panama City for about 2 hours and then flies directly to Cali. They have one flight a day from Costa Rica. When I was in the States, I checked fares to CALI Colombia with COPA and AVIANCA (Colombian) which both had decent fares out of LAX for about $680.00, economy. Many more airlines go to Bogota for obvious reasons and Cartagena always required routing through Bogota from the West Coast.

VISA: There is no VISA requirement for COLOMBIA if you hold a U.S. passport. I read that the airport was about 25 minutes outside of the downtown. Although there are lots of taxis at the airport, I chose to have a hotel employed taxi meet me at the airport.

HOTEL: On the rec from posters here and on another board. I booked my room at the Windsor Plaza Hotel, which is located in downtown and which is walking distance to a lot of p4p attractions. They don’t have any websites, but do have a friendly staff person who answers the phones. They don’t speak English, so it was a wee bit rough getting across to them, but hey, my high school Spanish held up fine. No website unfortunately and they’re not good about answering emails. The following info is posted in Gator’s great Colombia guidebook posted on this site.

Hotel Windsor Plaza
Calle 17 Norte 4n65
Phone: (2) 660-6390
Fax: (2) 660-1304

PHONES: A brief note about phone calls to Colombia. Many long distance carriers blocked calls to Colombia for some reason. You can dial COLOMBIA as follows: 011 572 xxx xxxx using prepaid long distance cards. I’m taking my GSM cellphone to Colombia with the understanding that they sell SIM Cards in Colombia.

Well, back to some more fishing and some rest before I venture into the unknown.

¡Qué cuerpo! ¡Qué sonrisa! ¡Tiene mucha pechonalidad! Ya ni llorar es bueno...

Nice start Merlin! I'll be following in your footsteps, have a trip planned to Colombia over July 4th. Did you get EUAed on COPA on your trip from San Jose? It's supposed to work the same way as CO - I think COPA is wholly owned by CO.

Looking forward to the rest!

WS

Looking forward to reading your report. By the way, as far as I know you can't buy a SIM card in Cali. Maybe the other cities. I went all over trying to find one. However, my GSM cellphone DID work in Cali and I was able to place and receive calls but God knows how much those phone calls were. I haven't gotten my bill yet. I imagine maybe like $3 a minute.

Let me know if you found a SIM card. I went to several stores and they told me it wasn't possible. Maybe you can buy a cellphone there with a SIM card and take it out? I'm not sure. All the places I went said you needed a contract.

Good luck.

Gregorio, es verdad, mi querida tiene una cuerpa perfecto y una bien corazon. Que Padre!

WS: CO did upgrade me to CR and back, but couldn't do it for COPA for some reason. Not a long flight so not a big problem. Boy, WS, we have same tastes and the same adventurous instinct.

GF: your recent pics and report is what really did it for me, as I'm sure for others, in making this trip. Thanks for the info about the SIM.

Cool Merlin. Glad to have helped. Please do report back and let us know what you thought. I really liked the people of Cali. The city as I mentioned is a dump but you're not going for the city I guess. That's why I like to balance trips out to beautiful places and other places.

I do plan on traveling throughout Colombia this year. I'll probably hit Medellin, Bogota, Cartegena and maybe some smaller cities like Armenia.

Good luck.

Looking forward to reading your report.

One correction is Medellin is Colombias second largest City, Cali being its third largest.

Hunter

Thanks for the correction Hunter, I will definitely have to make my way out to Medellin as I hear the girls are actually prettier than in Cali! I met 2 girls from Medellin, both stunning, and they both told me that most of the models in Colombia hail from that region.

Just got back from Cali and wanted to put my 2 cents in about Cell phones having sold and owned them since 1990. I went there with my GSM cell phone T-Mobile and it seems to work but in reality I did not place a call. The cost per min with them is .99cents a min. so its reasonable.

I also attempted to put my sim card from the states into a friends cell phone from Comcel to see if it would work .. It did not. and I wasnt surprised. Folks you have to buy a cell phone in cali or colombia to realy get the full monty of fun. I bought a prepaid Cell phone in Cali on my 2nd trip back in early 2002 and have been using it ever since I even have a easy to remember phone number. Since I got a prepaid one.. Or as they say prepago. All you need is a passport to get one. My phone is older now but still works perfect as I've only used it on 6 trips to cali now. I plan on selling it and getting a little phone now costing about 240,000 pesos which is not alot of money for the super convience of having a cell phone. a Cell to Cell phone call cost 1,000 pesos a min. to a local phone its cheaper much much cheaper. you can go to internet cafes and pay as low as 300 pesos a min to an avearage of 500 a min to call cell phones.
and get this . you can call the U.S.A for 300 pesos a min too.. amazing the price similarity. I always tell everyone its super expensive to call the U.S.A so I can get them off the phone fast as I'm on vaca and don't want to talk.

There's my 2 cents.. email me if u need more

So this is what you've been up to. Great stuff. Talk about carpe diem. Really looking foward to reading this whole series of reports when time permits.

Thanks for the good write up, although I have lived in Colombia for 2.5 years, never yet been to Cali. Although I plan on going there for a long weekend in June. Although not planning on any P4P action, just to go and have a look around and dance with some Calenas who I met in Cartagena when they were there on holiday.

Cali, Medellin and Cartagena girls

On another thread you mentioned about the girls being better looking in Medellin and Cartagena than Cali. Medellin and Cali have many of the best looking girls in Colombia, although you will find them everywhere, just far more of them in those two cities. In Cali they will tend to be of more mixed race therefore the skin colour is darker in Cali, in Medellin they are more white skinned, ie proto Latino look. That is why there are more models from Medellin, just the type of look preffered by the Latin fashion industry. They are also far harder in Medellin to approach than Cali. Cartagena, normally the best looking ones there are from other Cities. Depending on your taste in women, is wether Cali or Medellin has the best.

City

I have been told that Cali is not very pretty, Medellin mostly is very pretty with the most perfect all year round climate I have come across on my travels.

Internet

Medellin and Cali are better off cities in Colombia, so in the better neighbourhoods you will find less internet cafes because many people will have computers at home.

Hunter

Hunter, thanks for the great write up. I'm already researching Medellin's p4p scene but there seems to be even less info than other places. I'd be very interested in any experiences you've had in Medellin.

I didn't realize you lived there, perhaps you can confirm the info about the safety thing as I am still getting alot of emails inquiring about this issue notwithstanding my recent experiences and GF experiences.

You're correct that CALI is an ugly city with little or nothing to do. I did enjoy the CASINOs, which were wide open, and the escorts and freelancers were all available during the daytime.

I'm also looking forward to hitting Medellin. A few dudes went lately and told me the P2P scene isn't as good or diverse as Cali's. I hear it's a beautiful city though. Even everyone in Cali kept telling me how beautiful it is.

I agree with you Merlin. I still get guys that email asking about the safety issue. That's why it will never be mainstream like other places. Think about it. These are guys that travel all around the world scared. Think about the rookie American that has never left the USA before. He will really be scared to go to Colombia. Maybe it's a good thing. I don't know.

The funny thing is many people from Cali have never even been outside of their own city. Many people I talked to didn't ever leave the immediate Cali area because of fear of traveling or moreso lack of money. It's sad.

We are somewhat off-topic now, but GF, you absolutely should check out Medellín. It's more reserved than Cali, but the women are beautiful, plentiful and very approachable if you've got game. The city is very clean, nice malls...blah blah blah. Definetley get yourself there sometime.

LM

Merlin first of all sorry for the delay in replying, I have just returned to the UK on businees, only for 2.5 weeks thank God.

There is plenty of p4p play action in Medellin, from what my friends tell me there is less than in Cali, but more than enough to go around. I have only touched on the p4p play scene in Medellin, I normally hang out with ordinary girls, just go the casas once and a while. Action with a 6/7 for about an hour costs about 30-40,000 pesos in the ordinary casas. The better quality casas costs about 80,000-100,000 pesos for a 7/8 for an hour. An all nighter can cost about 100,000 pesos plus, depending where you get the girl from, I have never had a girl for all night in Medellin, so I am relying on my friends info.

One guy who can help you regarding many things is Roberto who also lives in Medellin and knows the p4p scene inside out, email below:

chgo01@aol.com

Regarding safety Medellin or Cali should be treated like any large City in the US. There is the possibility of being mugged, take the normal precautions as in the US and you can lesson the odds. One thing differant is the so called taxi bandits, where you can get in the wrong taxi and they will pull up in a out of the way spot and take everything with the help of some friends OR take you to an ATM and force you to use your ATM card to withdraw the maximum then take everything. Never had either happen to me, but met half a dozen gringos who have been robbed by taxi drivers. You can reduce the chances of the happening by getting people to call the taxi from where you are leaving and if you are in a popular area take a taxi from a taxi rank. But if either of those two is not always available you just take one from the street. I have been in Medellin 1.5 years and must have taken about 600 taxis from the street even at 3am in the morning and nothing has happened yet, just to put things in perspective.

Some neighbourhoods should not be entered as in any US city, just ask trusted local advice before you go anywhere new.

The Countryside is where most kidnappings happen, so if you are going to visit the Countryside ask trusted local advice to make sure that the area is safe.

Hope this helps.

Hunter

Excellent post Hunter, thanks for the info on Medellin and Roberto, I'll have to contact him for some insider information.

I'll refer email posters to your recent post re: safety issues as I state to them upfront that as a one-time visitor, I cannot do more than just tell them about my experience in Cali (no problems).

I didn't know about the Taxi bandit problem was that potentially problematic, and I can see how that can happen. I did use only the taxis lined up in front of shopping centers and never got into a taxi with someone I didn't feel comfortable with. Most hotels have taxis on staff that you can arrange for pickup to further ensure safety. But I didn't have any problems myself with the Taxis, even coming from casinos with winnings.

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