Latbear4blk

My next traveling windows are Thanksgiving week in Nov and the 2 weeks of Winter Break. I am tempted by Rio, but I think my decision is weighting in favor of continuing my Colombian exploration. So this is a question for the Colombian savvy friends. I am considering going back to Medellin for one week in November (my 2nd visit) and visiting for 2 weeks Bogotá in Christmas and NY (my 1st time the Capital). Do you think it is a wise decision?

I know s/he is reading this thread. I guess you may get a PM if s/he wants to drop the mask.

I just checked it. I am not surprised I had never heard of it before. Thank you for he tip, you were the one who sent the PM! Muchas gracias.

I love it when I am overestimated. Now, if you think you helped to clear out my lack of understanding, you are very wrong. However, I think the OP sent me a PM I have not yet read. Hasta la vista!

I hate it when I do not understand a joke.

The one thing I like of these developments is that they unmask the deeply undemocratic nature of American "model" democracy.

Thanks. I should find out whether Mercosur citizens also have a better deal. Wishful thinking.

I would extend this statement to the entire south of Rio Grande. All our countries have a National ID and we all are used to carrying it with us always, as the police has the right to demand your documentation and in most countries can detain you if you fail to produce it.

Are the locals paying 50/60 dollars per month? I was paying less in my gym in DC, although I dropped my membership during the pandemic lock downs.

I think it is reasonable safe during the day. That is why I do recommend at list one visit to the area DURING DAYLIGHT.

As an additional thought... Why any real person would be concerned about their realness being questioned in a virtual forum? Why any real person would run to collect and share documentation and testimonies to prove their existence, if questioned in an anonymous virtual forum? I do not know what is worse, total trolls or totally dumb.

Why did you post this in the public forum instead of sending a PM to him?

Uh? If does not contain the city's name, how do you know what city the post is discussing? I understand your point. Yes, it would be great and it would look neat. But my point is, if you really want to find all the info about a destination you are researching, all you need is the search engine. This forum does not have an admins team working on managing it, we are here for free. Use the resources we have, we do not need more.

The search engine does not care about forums if you set it that way. If you are researching a location, enter it in the search box, set it for all forums, for titles and content, and it will deliver you all mentions of that topic in one place.

I am totally illiterate on SE Asian culture. Would anyone explain to me why you are talking about a LINE, instead of a phone number? Gracias!

Yes! I was mistaken! So I have not been in the Parque del Periodista.

It looks like I have been in all the right places. 😇 I would not compare Parque Bolivar and Parque del Periodista (or de los Periodistas, not sure which one is the name). Indeed, I would avoid both places at night. But the daylight experiences are quiet difference in one or the other. Bolivar is a noisy and hyperactive hub where, as I pointed, you can observe a wide diversity of urban fauna. In contrast, Periodistas is a quiet, calm, and I would even say magic urban corner. It is hard to believe that the rapid waters are not clean but coming from the sewer. The water does not smell, and with its noise covers the traffic and other regular city sounds. It is like stepping into an oasis of calmed nature amidst the above urban craziness. I did not see police, tourists, sex workers of any kind, or anyone older than 30, I was the only dinosaur there. No one was talking. I only saw here and there lonely men and women, or couples, from very young (probably 12 y.o.) to mid 30s, consuming some substances. You could also notice in the grass drugs parafernalia left overs, not enough to say that the place was a dump. It was the perfect place to sit and smoke one of the empanados we had just bought.

Do you know what, Mac? I would include the square in front of the cathedral as a touristic attraction DURING DAYLIGHT. If you are identifiable as a Gringo, I would go with a local companion. I found it fascinating. It is a mix of countless policemen ignoring what was going on around, lumpen teens smelling glue, above 50s y.o. local clients cruising for a cheap fuck, several hot working class young men smoking weed and hustling, countless non attractive at all-ill looking-young men obvious and desperately offering themselves, beautiful very young she-males (I do not know what the politically correct term would be nowadays, in my times I would have said transvestites), admirably standing under the sun with their wigs and inches of make-up, and not sweating not even a micro-drop groups of White and Asian tourists walking with a guide, grabbing their purses and cameras, close to each other like an infantry platoon opening their way in zombie apocalypse Female prostitutes (unlike their male counterparts, they were at least average looking, I did not notice any female junkies), doing their way to avoid their Fabulous competition Regular local men and women passing by, walking fast Retired men walking around street vendors In my opinion, it worths a visit. I specially enjoyed observing the interactions between the johns and the hustlers

Translation apps have improved so much the last few years!

Never! This is FUN!

Homophobic attacks in Oslo and USA Supreme Court sanctioning Christian Theocracy. Nice Pride Month, this June 2022.

I have to explore that area the next time. Last April, I walked around in the early afternoon. Definitely, based in what I saw under day light, I would not wander around the are at night, not even escorted by one or two friends. I would only feel safe in a large group. My local new friends also advised against walking around that area at night. They emphatically recommended me to visit the bars and clubs in the zone (I did not), but stepping out of a car at my destination, and calling for a car from the doors to return home.

Dummy troll accuses @Slvkguyof obsessively looking for his posts. Dummy also declares he has put him in his Ignore list. However... Dummy joined less than a week ago. After he shared that @Slvkguywas now in his ignored list, he has several times quoted posts of the allegedly ignored poster. In one of his serial dummy posts, Dummy even confessed that "now and then" he checks what slvkguy is posting. So he has blocked a poster just a few days ago, and after blocking him just a few days ago he has already unblocked him several times to read the posts. And yet he whines

Apparently he is as skillful to find information on Mexico as to hide forum members. I wonder what his intellectual coefficient is.