[Duke Castile]

Guys, what are the must hit towns/cities of Colombia besides Meddlin and Bogota?

I will be headed towards Ecuador initially so I can stop on the way and then when I'm done in the Amazon come back to wherever.

[rottenapple]

Cali and for a smaller city I like Popayan.

[el mechanico]

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towards Ecuador

My intel from here tells me to stay away from those bastards at all costs but if you have to go get your feet wet in a kinder place like Colombia.

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[newgame]

Popoyan is nice, but I wouldn't call it a must. As far as tourist attractions I'd say Guatape, Cartagena, Bogota, Eje Cafetero, and Valle de Cocora if you like hiking.

[Duke Castile]

(03-26-2015 09:13 PM)newgame Wrote:  

Popoyan is nice, but I wouldn't call it a must. As far as tourist attractions I'd say Guatape, Cartagena, Bogota, Eje Cafetero, and Valle de Cocora if you like hiking.

And for women?

[newgame]

For women I think Bogota is the easiest and good quality. Cali is pretty easy and high quality. Medellin is the most difficult and best quality. I have had good luck in smaller cities like Pereira too, but haven't spent enough time there to say for sure yet, but the quality seems high. Barranquilla and Bucaramanga are on my list to try next. The coast is so hot though that I only could handle it for a few days.

[iknowexactly]

(03-26-2015 12:02 AM)Fisto Wrote:  

Does your fatigue change when you get oceans of sleep?


No, I'm always tired. More sleep doesn't really change things. If I get less sleep then I'm really bad off.

This is the conclusion I've come to after years of self experimentation.

A lot of times when I hear
"chronic fatigue" I wonder if a good differential diagnosis is done to check for depression, because a lot of the symptoms coincide-- mild and moderate depression are the "common cold" of mental health.

I believe most people have clinical depression at some point in their life, of course most never get treatment because that would mean there is something "wrong" with them.

A lot of people just have too much stress-- stress is cumulative, and just because no single one of your stressors is destroying you, doesn't mean the aggregate isn't too much to handle.

When I first got to the Philippines I was exhausted for months, I had a bunch of mild to moderate stressors but they added up-one should keep in mind even POSITIVE changes are stressors, because you have to adjust.

-- Having a sex life for the first time in years.
-- The breakups and new girls -- being a "player" is not me really.
-- air pollution
-- totally different climate
-- totally different bacterial load
-- very different diet
-- loss of social support from USA
-- concerns about being ripped off, possible problems with cops ( people have treated me really well so far, but I didn't know that would be the case.)
-- getting off TRT to increase fertility.

I'm just starting to feel better after about 5-6 months.

[chochemonger1]

(03-26-2015 11:54 PM)newgame Wrote:  

For women I think Bogota is the easiest and good quality. Cali is pretty easy and high quality. Medellin is the most difficult and best quality. I have had good luck in smaller cities like Pereira too, but haven't spent enough time there to say for sure yet, but the quality seems high. Barranquilla and Bucaramanga are on my list to try next. The coast is so hot though that I only could handle it for a few days.

Bucaramanga is not worth it. I think i posted a mini data sheet on it. Most chubby girls I have seen in Colombia and their attitude is similar to Ecuadorian girls, which I dont like.
Though the city as a whole is very livable, great weather, safe, more compact and not as spread out as other Colombian cities.

[Duke Castile]

IKE, it turns out that depression is related to gut issues.

I've started looking at the gut when having a healthy microbiome as being an "emotional" immune system. Events are neutral, we place a value on them. When you don't have a strong emotional immune system, you're more likely to place a negative value on an event or string of them.

The microbiome and it's roll in Chronic Fatigue

How the microbiome influences depression and anxiety

[Duke Castile]

I'm going to visit every little city if I can.

[noktrnl]

Newbie here. Strangely enough, I'm also in South America for a few months and also afflicted by this illness.

OP is right
The OP is pretty spot on with respect to the current understanding of the gut microbiome. It affects a lot more than just digestion -- from depression, to sleep, to "allergies". Fecal matter transplants are also the newest treatment available. They've been proven to work, but are not yet that common (or so I'm told).

What's worked for me
I've been coping with a) an anti-inflammatory diet (read: http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/) and b) probiotics. There are periods where I can maintain the diet and I feel great, sleep great, look great. But there are periods where I have insomnia, digestive issues, etc and feel like absolute shit. Anecdotally speaking, these seem to be when something interrupts the diet or when there's a major stress event. Supposedly if you can maintain this diet for 2-3 years, your gut will heal itself. I haven't been able to do it yet.

Causes
Regarding the topic of stress, it's a factor but not the underlying cause. I quit my job at one point and took off to get away from it all. But I couldn't leave this shit behind.

Foods/chemicals are merely the triggers, so you gotta watch what you eat. I felt way better with the food in Europe. I wasn't surprised, as the EU is much much more strict with respect to the pesticides and preservatives allowed in their food. Sadly, food safety in the US and Canada is not as good as you would believe.

I've been trying to trace back exactly what it was that got my sick like this. Accutane is supposedly a big culprit and has fucked a lot of people's lives. For me, I believe it to be antibiotics I took while in Asia many years ago.

I hope the ayahuasca treatment works out. I was recommended it, but my brief look into it led me to believe it was more effective for treating addictions and such. Dunno. But I'll be following this thread closely.

[Duke Castile]

Update

I flew out the at 1030 the other night and arrived yesterday morning. Couldn't sleep at all on the plane but JetBlue is more comfortable than most other airlines.

Tip - Tell the stewardess that the audio isn't working properly, she will find you another seat and usually it's better because those cost more. (obviously game her on the way in with a smile and greeting with eye contact)

I arrived the next day (yesterday) and went through immigration and customs in about 2 minutes. Zero problems or wait.

Taxied into Zona Rosa for 23 mil and have had zero problems with taxis trying to really screw me so far.

My studio off Airbnb wasn't ready yet and another guy renting in the same building was there so we started talking. We walked over to a cafe where I had a plate of yucca, chicken, beet salad, for about 6 mil. That's like 2 bucks or something.

We wandered around until our rooms were busy and went to a nearby mall. SO MANY HOT GIRLS walking around.

I came back and met the girl that owns the building. Fucking SMOKESHOW. I got her whatsapp and messaged with her a bit before meeting up with Atlantic.

I went to the Body Tech gym and tried to get a day pass. Apparently this is unheard of, and so the girl asked how long I intended to be here. I said 3 days and she said "Oh perfecto"!

She told me to walk around the corner to the internet cafe, sign up at their website for 3 days, then print out the paper, then come back.

Why this is there system is one of the many questions I've had when visiting a 3rd world place. It just makes no fucking sense.

I walked around for about 10 minutes and could never find a place.

I came back an explained I couldn't find it, the gym manager came over and he spoke a little English, we talked and he's a fit guy and he spoke to the front desk girl.

He hooked me up with a week pass for free and that was that so I was happy.

I got a great workout in considering I was so tired and Atlantic met me there.

I left since I started before him. I didn't really see any hot chicks but I'm sure they're there. The dudes, gay or straight will all check you out to compare themselves. They do dumb things to workout like biceps cable curls lol

I went home, changed got my speakers and room set up and started playing music.

I went downstairs and spoke to the girl that owns the building, sat in her office and asked her to go to dinner. She said she would but she has a bf. I said "I'm jealous, leave him"! and she laughed. I found out he is French and I told her he would understand if we had an affair. She laughed and blushed a little. I figured that would be the time to make a power exit and went back upstairs and started getting ready for Gringo Tuesdays.

Atlantic showed up wearing the same style of clothes I wear. It was uncanny. He had on boots like my Fryes and a jacket like my Allsaints.

We headed out an met another guy on the way to grab a burrito. It was the first expensive thing I've encountered here at 17mill for a tasty burrito and a water.

We went over to the Gringo Tuesdays event and I immediately started talking to what I would call a hard 6. Looking around I felt she was one of the better girls there so I kept speaking to her.

A little while later, I saw a girl that I would consider one of the best in the club. Long beautiful hair, white skin, beautiful face, and a round ass with a tiny waist.

I walked up to her and started speaking. She speaks perfect English and is 18.

Insta boner.

I started gaming her hard. We danced various styles of latin dance (or she did and I tried my best). I teased her and finally by the end of the night was able to get her to kiss me.

I had to WORK for it.

Around 12am I was hitting the wall hard and said goodbye to the girl, I couldn't get her to leave with me (which I was actually glad for because I like her).

The other girl I would see periodically giving me dirty looks but I didn't see her on the way out.

I walked home and crashed for 10 hours straight until the guy next door knocked and I got up and we had some breakfast of empanadas, mango, and cafe.

I came back and spoke to the girl downstairs greeting her in Spanish and we spoke some more. She was dressed up noticeably more than yesterday. I told her she looked beautiful and she have me a big smile.

We went to an area called Candelaria and walked around a bit. Pretty cool historic area, it reminded me of Antigua except the buildings are much larger and there are more modern ones mixed in. It sits on a huge hill looking over the rest of Bogota.

I chatted with some Tinder chicks but couldn't lock any down and decided to go to Cartegena for the weekend since everyone is leaving Bogota for the holy week or whatever.

I booked my flight and started looking on Airbnb for a place.

Conclusion so far: I love this country.

[Big Nilla]

The fort in Cartagena is awesome.

[Atlantic]

Dude you will kill it. Those two older chicks I introduced you to completely changed their body language when they seen you. One started stuttering. Being over 6 feet is a huge advantage down here. Ya pity about your girl not coming home, she was very cute.

Get in touch when you are back in town.

[scotian]

Fisto I hope you packed some light clothes as the temperature change from Bogota to Cartagena is crazy, you'll be sweating your nuts off up there. The city is nice in the tourist areas but outside is a dump, if you're looking for a decent hotel that's good value for money, I recommend Hotel Centenario I think its about $20-25/night and is a quick walk to the old city and also close to the hostels. Cartagena should be packed all week and the clubs will be fun but I think that two days in that city is enough and you should considering hitting up Santa Marta, Taganga and Parque Tayrona, you can take a Marsol Bus. If you want to feel like a rock star and get lots of attention then you should hit up Barranquilla and visit the mall Portal del Prado, Atlantic will tell you about it and the teenage groupies wanting to take pics with him, it shouldn't be too hard for you to convince a girl from Cartagena or Barranquilla to come with you for a couple of days to Tayrona.

Also, the taxis aren't metered up there, they just charge you whatever so try to ask a local for an estimate of what it should be and agree on that price with the taxi driver before going anywhere.

[Brazilianguy]

Hi, Fisto!

Let me know if you need any guidance when it comes to your intended ayahuasca experiences.
I lived in the Amazon for almost 3 years and have extensive experience with the brew.
Just so you know, after drinking ayahuasca your view of the world will change in ways unforeseen.

Make no mistake: it is a spiritual experience, so you will have to put off partying and women for a few days in order to get prepared for it.

[Duke Castile]

(04-02-2015 03:53 AM)scotian Wrote:  

Fisto I hope you packed some light clothes as the temperature change from Bogota to Cartagena is crazy, you'll be sweating your nuts off up there. The city is nice in the tourist areas but outside is a dump, if you're looking for a decent hotel that's good value for money, I recommend Hotel Centenario I think its about $20-25/night and is a quick walk to the old city and also close to the hostels. Cartagena should be packed all week and the clubs will be fun but I think that two days in that city is enough and you should considering hitting up Santa Marta, Taganga and Parque Tayrona, you can take a Marsol Bus. If you want to feel like a rock star and get lots of attention then you should hit up Barranquilla and visit the mall Portal del Prado, Atlantic will tell you about it and the teenage groupies wanting to take pics with him, it shouldn't be too hard for you to convince a girl from Cartagena or Barranquilla to come with you for a couple of days to Tayrona.

Also, the taxis aren't metered up there, they just charge you whatever so try to ask a local for an estimate of what it should be and agree on that price with the taxi driver before going anywhere.

That's great advice Scotian thanks man. I'll def follow it. I've already got a place booked for a few days in Cartegena and I'll plan to come back to Bogota to meet with this 18 year old if the chemistry lasts over whatsapp.

[Duke Castile]

Had a ball aching make out a little while ago. I met up with the first girl I met for a coffee at Juan Valdez near my studio. It was closing so we walked to a Irish Pub. She ordered a mojito and we spoke and hung out. I said I was getting cold and walked back to my place.

I had to work for the kiss but once I finally got it she was gasping and moaning and then the slow torture of trying to get her huge fake tits out ensued.

Those finally popped out and she was riding me like we were in high school dry humping.

I got her to grab my dick but I could hear her phone kept vibrating.

She got up to answer it and realized a lot more time had gone by. She had to meet her family because it was her mother's bday.

Supposedly she'd coming back over after but I'm skeptical.

[ONE A DAY]

Nicely done man! I didn't know you were around here. I thought you were out there traveling..

My phone is broken and I can't check my whatsapp messages.. This is really killing my game for tonight.

[Duke Castile]

Last night:

The girl didn't make it back over but is supposed to be here in about 20 minutes to see me before I leave for Cartagena.

I have been chatting with one girl on tinder who I'd give a 6. Cute figure and face.

In anticipation of the flake I said she should come over and be in my arms.

She said she wants that.

I'm like ok cool, then I give her my address and she starts getting offended saying she isn't slut etc etc.

Then the most bizarre conversation takes place over the course of several hours in between swipes on Tinder and general fucking around.

She starts wanting to see naked photos, dick pics etc and is so demanding that I'm suspecting it's a gay dude.

I finally send a dick pick and I'm 50/50 on whether it's even a girl anymore and she says "wao".

"Ok I'm coming" (in Spanish).

So yes, while this is a humble brag it is also what really happened so I am honor bound to tell you gents about my wang.

She comes over and looks better than her pics and I upgrade her to 7 easy.

We are smashing within minutes of her arrival and I am SO GLAD that first bang is finally out of the way.

I have been about to POP seeing all this hot Latina ass everywhere.

Anyway the girl looks like a young Catherine Zeta Jones to me, 24, spoke no English, and nice tits with a small but round ass. I snapped a photo of her while pretending to use the translator and showed a few guys I'm on chat with.

I made fun of her nalgas and said she wasn't really a Colombiana. She was genuinely bothered by this! haha.

Anyway, gotta shower and get most of the pussy smell off me.

To be cont'd

[Duke Castile]

Update:

So I showered, got the hair of my bed and brushed it all together in a pile on the floor in my room and threw it away.

Of course the girl was late. I met her downstairs and we walked to a nearby place to eat.

Bogata's streets are empty because of the holiday and everyone leaving for their families homes or vacationing in Cartagena.

We came back to my place and it was like starting over again but finally as time drew near for my flight I tapped into the sexy wild woman she really is and she was naked and smoking.

Still, she wouldn't let me fuck her but I have to say hosing her down from her face to her waist was satisfying.

I got in a taxi and headed to the airport.

Once there the taxi tried to rip me off. In Bogota they have a weird system that has a meter counting for the duration of the trip. Once you reach the destination, he takes the number on the meter, looks at a laminated chart and matches the number on the chart which tells him the fare.

I could see it and it was 19 mil. He told me it was 48.

We were speaking in Spanish and I have to say I have come a long way. If making myself understood, getting directions and following them, and having general conversations is conversational level Spanish then I think I'm basically there.

I told him in Spanish "Impossible Sir" and pointed on the graph, he looked embarrassed and said because we are in the airport it is more and dropped the price to 25 mil.

I said fine and gave it to him.

While waiting on my flight I went to a bar. There was a really cute dark skinned girl sitting there and I overheard that she was also going to Cartagena. I spoke in Spanish again and told her I was also going and a general outline of my plans.

We made heavy eye contact and spoke a bit more before I ordered and she went back to reading her book and drinking her beer.

2 male backpackers walked up and took the corner between me and the girl. They were looking over and eyeing her but clearly unable to engage from lack of balls.

A guy and a girl also came and they appeared to be a couple. It's so stereotypical that it's not even funny that these people who consider themselves to be individuals her every check mark on the "basic" list.

The girl was dumpy and the guys were all dressed like they were at the beach or going fucking mountaineering.

In the spirit of showing these twats how it's done, I got up walked over and sat next to the girl and told her in Spanish I wanted to speak with her more and asked her about her book.

I was some famous Colombian writer's autobiography or something with a photo of them as a child on it.

I pretended I didn't understand why she would want to read a book written by a child and how interesting of a life could they have had by 4.

She thought this was hilarious and we kept flirting.

I looked over and of course all the backpackers were scowling including the female.

FUCK YOU BACKPACKERS.

Have fun with the fatass and dumpy sand you brought to the beach!

We walked downstairs and sat together and contented to talk.

Some guy from Spain was down there and he started speaking to me totally destroying the confidence in my Spanish comprehension ability.

I couldn't understand a single fucking thing he was saying.

I got her whatsapp and we've been messaging since but I've been pretty fucking busy as I'll explain.

When I arrived I was pretty tired. I was waiting for the lady who rented me a place to pick me up.

She came by and we went to the condo I rented.

When she opened the door I felt sick to my stomach.

The place was not at all as described. A fucking fold out sofa no proper bed, the AC was blowing lukewarm air, and no proper towels. There was fucking hand towels. Finally, the place was like a closet. It was advertised as being able to accommodate 5 people. Well only if you stack them on top of each other. "But there is wifi right"?

"OH si si"

Ok at least there's that I thought. But there was nothing else I had decided to get this place for.

OOOOH but she has some cheap shampoo and soap for me in the shower!!!

I hate this type of shit but I was too hungry and tired to decide what to do.

I paid A LOT for what was supposed to be a pimp pad.

She agreed to drop me off at a place near The Old City that was a great Colombian restaurant.

I got in and saw it was for fucking gringos with gringo prices.

I was too hungry to try and find someplace else so I had food I couldn't really enjoy because I felt like it was just a continuation of the rip off I just experienced with the apartment.

She was supposed to send me the address of the apartment so I could get a taxi back but she didn't.

I didn't know what to tell a taxi to take me back and I didn't want to get in one, drive around aimlessly and then have to deal with a taxi trying to get me to pay some crazy amount so I started walking back in what I thought was the general direction of my place at night.

I was so dead tired and pissed off.

I recognized a few places and then remembered there was no goddamn water in my place so I stopped and bought to 1.5 liter jugs.

I walked about 3 Kilometers with those things before I found my building and made it inside.

When I finally got there the lady messaged me the address.

I laid down on the sofa bed too tired to shower and sweaty from the heat when there was a knock on the door and the lady's cousin came inside uninvited.

He was there delivering the password for the wifi on a piece of scrap paper. Why this couldn't have just been messaged to me I have no idea.

I laid down again and heard him speaking on the phone, right when I was about to kind of get comfortable he said "Yo"! and banged on the door walking in again.

I wanted to leap off the couch and crush his fucking face in.

He asked me if I logged onto the wifi yet.

"No I'm tired, I'm sitting her trying to relax".

He acted like he expected me to try it right there and even looked annoyed that I wasn't.

It was so hard not to say GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I MURDER YOU.

He left finally and I fell asleep.

The next morning I discovered that there's no wifi and that was the last straw.

I messaged the lady, told her I wanted a discount, that this was unacceptable and that I was being misled. I still was polite and left the door of plausibility open that this was a misunderstanding and not an outright scam.

I decided to walk the 3k back to the old city to learn where I was and cruised around speaking to various people in Spanish asking about the price of breakfast, saying oh that's too expensive and for gringos and just generally trying to enjoy myself when I wasn't having to hear barrels of bullshit and excuses from this lady.

I had to hear about all her fucking problems and how she did me a huge favor by picking me up from the airport and how far away she lives. How she lowered the price for me and how everything is expensive, booked up and hard to find a decent place for anything less and what a favor she's doing me.

As if she wouldn't have to drive in to hand over the keys anyway.

Plus that ride would have been maybe 3 bucks maximum.

Anyway I matched a girl on Tinder that was working in a hostel in The Old City.

I walked over about a kilometer to meet her. Her face was pretty but she was a little chubby but had a big round ass. I decided I'd bang as long as no one knew.

I ordered some delicious and blessedly cheap food from a place that brought the meal over to her hostel where I was hanging out shooting the shit with her and some Australian guy that's really nice.

I ate and told the guy about the apartment.

The girl got on the phone with her and reexplained everything I already said and of course more denial and more bullshit to the point where I no longer felt safe leaving my things in the apartment and maybe even unsafe staying there.

I filed a complaint with airbnb and the girl brought me to this cool little boutique hotel that's cheap and right in The Old City. I didn't even feel the need to negotiate a lower price. I'm also the ONLY person in this whole place I've seen so far.

I went back, got all my shit and left telling the lady I filed a complaint with Airbnb and I'd be leaving an accurate review.

After coming back, sweaty as fuck I messaged the hostel girl to come over and she said she would but only for a moment.

As soon as she closed the door I pulled my crotch smelling dick out and she started going to town on it.

I banged the hell out of her and sent her back to the hostel saying we would be going out later that night with zero intention of doing so.

I walked to a place for dinner and had some delicious ceviche and crillio steak.

After getting back I started to decide when to go out but then some awesome news came from my job and I had to work until 2am so didn't get to make it out again.

So far 2 notches but the girl that jacked me off has been blowing my phone up and the pretty 18 year old is dying for me to come back to Bogota.

I may have to make a trip back before exploring this part of the Coast more.

[Veloce]

You'll probably find that South American Spanish is by far the easiest to converse in, with the exception of argentina and brazil. The best conversations I've had, where I understand damn near 100%, have been with peruvians, bolivians, and colombians.

Castilian Spanish is pretty faggy (except when spoken by chicks) I can't stand the way Spanish dudes talk.

[Atlantic]

Good report but sucks that you got ripped off. They are pretty sneaky on the coast.

Dude link in with me and Linux this week at Barranquilla.

[Duke Castile]

I could live in this country indefinitely. People are very nice here.

[Duke Castile]

Guys, I got the final results back from Ubiome.

I was right.

I'm not crazy.

My energy levels are fucked because I have a tiny tiny microbiome with the only large strain of bacteria being Clostridia (very harmful), I'm in the very top percentile of it.

The average unhealthy fat fuck American dwarfs my Microbiome which means they have a much larger range of healthy bacteria that give them all sorts of healthy byproducts.

I'm a fucking genius!

The implications of this are so far reaching and enormous that words cannot even describe it right now!