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I visited in Cartagena, Medellin and Bogota in January. Had a great time. I was very surprised how pleasant Cartagena was. Found some great restuarants and enjoyed strolling through the streets in the walled city. I stayed at the Bonbon Allure which is a short walk outside the city gate, very nice neighborhood and across from the water. It was a beautiful hotel with outstanding breakfast service. They were very discrete about visitors. My friend and I each booked double rooms. We were allowed one visitor per 24 hour period and beyond that the hotel assessed a fee, $25 I think. There was a gay disco just down the street. Lots of hot young guys. Packed, loud and obnoxious EDM. We left after one beer. No one approached in the disco and the music was too loud to try to talk to anyone. But we left, got on Grindr and there must have been a dozen guys messaging us saying "we saw you at the disco, we want to meet!" Grindr and Hornet were very busy. Some guys included $ in their screenname so you know what they were seeking. A broad selection of gorgeous men. Loved it. The museums were also great. I thought it was very relaxing. Bogota was same as usual. Stayed in the gay mini hotel the San Sebastian in Chapinero. Decent rooms and sweet staff. Immediately next door was a place "Boys Internet Cabinas." I honestly thought it was an internet place so once when the internet in the hotel was running slow I visited. Haha! Lots of cabins and lots of boys but they weren't there for the internet. GLory holes everywhere and lots of non-commercial blow jobs. We took the Turistren which was a fun Sunday afternoon. Pretty ride, both through the city and then in the country. Stopped at the Salt Cathedral, interesting, worthwhile, and then had an hour or so in a colonial tourist town for lunch. Musicians on the train and the Colombianos all partied and danced as the train lurched along. Lots of fun. Didn't like the saunas in Bogota. Babylon was packed with stand and model gorgeous muscle boys. Very busy dozens having sex in the steam room but unless one is young and of model quality no one is interested. Went to two other suanas. Awful. Went to a couple bars but not very interesting. I hadn't been to the colonial downtown before and enjoyed a full day sightseeing there. Medellin, as all say, was terrific. We stayed at the Estellar Blue Hotel in El Poblado. It's a long but pretty walk to the Metro station. Parque Lleras with all the open air bars and restaurants was fun. Steak houses good -- the "famous" Thai restaurant was about as Thai as my German grandpa and the food was mediocre. Several of the restaurants were at best middling. On my return in June I'm going to pay more attention to reviews to find better fare. Mixed results bringing saunas boys home from there. My friend Vince, who doesn't speak Spanish, invited a masseur from Club Tobi. Vince had a double room but the front desk made him register the guest and pay, $30 I think, for the visitor. My favorite, the bartender at Club Tobi came around 10pm but the hotel wouldn't let him go up to my room and they wouldn't call for me. Duh, I should have told him to call my room first so I could meet him in the lobby. I don't think the hotel was anti-gay or anti-visitor, just doing diligence for safety. The hotel was beautiful, only $70 a night, huge rooms, brand new, perfectly clean, everything working, premium channels on TV, free breakfast AND dinner. I'd recommend the Estellar Blue but for June we're going to the Hotel Dix, closer to the metro station and Parque Lleras. We did the Comuna 13 tour and I highly recommend it. There were 2 other guys on the tour, both gay and from San Francisco, cute, smart, and lots of fun. We went up the escalators, through the neighborhood, all over on the cable cars. It was a long exhausting tour but very satisfying and well worth the price. Tour guide with sense of humor, highly knowledgeable and articulate. Good English. We also spent a day in the downtown museums. We had a hell of a time finding the "street of sin" and during the daytime. But when we saw some fierce drag queens, some strung out looking young guys. Plan to return there for a visit. The masseurs at Club Tobi, spectacular. We didn't get to any clubs. Donde Aquellos was largely deserted when we went by.

Ja, das ist richtig mit certain exceptions. Best regards, RA1

- For those new to Brazil, check out the link below, then go to this garoto's video - He is already a hit at Lagoa - He gives many of the other garotos a lot of competition for clients. I think the answer and reason for his high demand in the saunas is disclosed in his video - here: http://malicia.com.br/Anuncio/AnuncioDetalhe?idAnunciante=5110 By the way, there is an error in his ad. His ad says "idiom" (languages) - espanhol - He is from Northern Brazil and speaks Portuguese. -

Porto Alegre 2015 I went to Porto Alegre at the end of 2015. It was my first time on the sauna scene - but I was familiar with the city / had a hire car / and know my way around... and I'd been reading this forum in the run up to my arrival. At Mezzaninu, I also had the problem of attracting attention! Having read this forum, I was expecting to be inundated with guys... But I, stupidly, maintained my usual "ice queen" attitude and they all stayed away!!! Eventually I was approached by a bearded Uruguayan guy in the sauna itself. He spoke some English, said he toured round SP, RDJ and POA saunas and offered to bottom for 100 RS. Given my desperation, we went to it. He sucked with a condom. And managed to bottom. I hated the beard. Spurred on by Tomcal's exploits... and not knowing whether I'd ever get the chance to do this again... in the following days I just went for it... All the guys who said they'd bottom managed to bottom. One guy really tried so hard to bottom but it was clearly really painful for him so I felt it best to stop. All the guys sucked without condoms. All the guys fucked with condoms. The guys shower and shower and shower... so you get the impression if there were any infections anywhere, they'd be soaped to death. I caught nothing. I never felt anyone was watching the clock or trying to bring things to a premature end. Usually at the end you'd lie on the bed and do some google translating. With the Tomcal stories in my head... I did the threesome... which was much more enjoyable since it seemed a lot more fun... the guys laughing, joking around and perhaps feeling more confident. I tried a foursome... though getting up from the table with three guys to head off to a room during some drag queen calling bingo numbers was probably not my best idea as she started shouting at me calling me names - the guys found it funny... The foursome was probably not a great idea... too much going on... and too many people waiting for direction! I stuck up a bit of a relationship with one of the guys (google translate)... went to bars, went to dinner... and when he was at the sauna, he'd direct anyone who was my type towards me. We actually got on really well... and he was making some effort to speak English (which he'd learned from video games!)... so when I'd done too much, I paid for him to go with a couple of lads he liked. He chose two guys he'd always fancied - one was an absolutely stunning top (whose wife thought he was just waitering at the sauna)... and we ended up in a sort of threesome... though to be fair I wasn't that interested in him... and allowed the top to grind my friend into the bed. I know some might think... What were you paying for that for?... but to be fair, it was fun... and fun listening to the guy tell me how he'd always fantasized for months about the straight guy! I paid for a top-only guy as well... for, I guess, "foreplay"... and again I didn't feel cheated... lots and lots of kissing and sucking... and google translating. I picked up guys at the after club - Bar Mix... usually go go dancers who were happy to come back to my hotel Then I'd drive to the after-after- club - Sexy Vicio - which is an absolute horrific dive near the bus station (a terrible area at night)... populated, I think, only by rentboys. Here one of the Bar Mix dancers would point guys in my direction... and we'd slink off to motels or back to my hotel. And it was here - Sexy Vicio - where someone offered TO PAY ME FOR SEX!!! And chased me round the club trying to get me to agree! Unbelievable. Everyone asked for 100 RS I probably would have asked for more! Porto Alegre - great guys! - and probably a smaller population of guys so scammers find it harder to survive.