Skip to the bottom if you just want some quick tips. This thing got way out of hand. I know there’s already a lot of info available here on Cartagena so I’m just going to add a few observations that I haven’t seen yet. Cartagena for me was a lot of fun. I’d kind of been avoiding it because I knew it was a major tourist/backpacker destination and I’m not that interested in being a ‘tourist’ normally but I found a cheap flight here on the way to Venezuela and people kept telling me it was worth a visit so I thought I’d give it a go. I was originally planning to stay for only a few days but kept on meeting interesting people at the hostel, including the son of the owners who inivited me to go out with his local friends and then a pretty local girl who I thought might be worth the extra effort (paid off) so I ended up being there for almost 3 weeks. The first thing I’ll say about Cartagena is that outside of the tourist part (maybe 10% of the city) the city is a shithole and very monotonous. Everything is covered in a beige dust like the city’s built on clay or something and there’s rubbish everywhere. I saw a lot of the city because I caught some buses to Boquilla (town on the beach to east of the city) and a barrio called El Amparo, and also when I rode a bike with some locals to playa blanca which is like 50kms away. The saving grace is CUTE GIRLS. In my experience cartagena is full of cute brown skinned girls and you’ll spot them fairly frequently even in the shitty parts. On to the important part…Getting them in the sack. I picked up twice in my time in cartagena. I had some other opportunities but they would have required a sacrifice in quality that I wasn’t willing to accept. The first time was a girl from Ibagué that was there on holiday with a gay friend and a french canadian girl who was studying spanish in Ibagué. I really didn’t have to do anything for this bang, it was purely right place, right time. I went out alone for a walk one thursday night in Getsemani, the main backpacker area, and ended up sitting down in busy plaza where the local church is to do some people watching. This spot became a favourite spot to just hang out and have a drink. There’s a lot of tourists hanging around but it’s still got a very authentic vibe with heaps of locals hanging out listening to music and talking, and heaps of little brown skinned cuties walking around (This is the kind of place that makes me love Colombia. It just doesn’t exist in Australia). Anyway this night I just sat down alone on the bench and within a few minutes noticed these guys looking at me from a distance I kind of stared and raised an eyebrow and they called me over and invited me to drink aguardiente with them. The girl was only 17 but with a big ass and tits and a pretty face (she told me black guys were hitting on her constantly and I believe her. Exactly the kind of white chick with a booty they seem to like). I wasn’t that attracted to her but she was making it so ridiculously easy I just decided to go with it. Within minutes she was telling me how much she loves guys with blue eyes and getting very touchy. Anyway to cut to the chase, the candian girl went back to the hotel early, we went to a bar (dont remember what it’s called, its downstairs from Quiebra Canto) and ended up hanging out with some dodgy rolos until the gay passed out the table and we got a taxi to drop him off at the hotel and then continued to a motel. It was actually my first time using a motel, I’d always just used my apartment in medellin before. The sex was pretty average, mainly because it hurt her a lot. She was a trooper though and whenever it looked like she was in pain and I slowed down a bit she’d tell me ‘no importa, dale dale’. The next conquest was the one I’m really proud of. I’m always more attracted to the ‘authentic’ colombianas. The one’s that don’t speak english, that have never hooked up with a foreigner. I want to be the first foreigner to defile her. Anyway this girl was a friend of the guy who works at the hostel and she came by one afternoon to buy weed from him when I was there. Afterwards I asked the guy who it was and he said she’d (supposedly) never hung out with any foreigners and called her straight away and organized for us to go hang out later that day. The first time we met was pretty boring just talking but it was notable because it was the first time in my more then 14 months in Colombia that the police blackmailed me. We went to smoke a joint behind the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas and as we were finishing up some cops on a motorbike came up. The kid from the hostel had a knife and although they didn’t find weed on us, they suspected it and told him that if we didn’t give them money they would take us to the station to drug test us all and arrest me for possesion. They even showed the huge bag of weed they already had in their bike that they were threatening to pin on me. I ended up giving them 20mil. I could have just told them to get fucked and walk away but I would have left the others in shit because of the knife the kid had. We made plans to meet up the next day but she flaked. The hardest part about getting this bang was the girls schedule. Working 8-4 and studying 6-10 monday to saturday. I liked this because it meant she was ostensibly a ‘good’ girl, therefore increasing the satisfaction of defiling her (although it occured to me that it doesn’t in any way rule out the possibility that she was a prostitute when she was 15, she’s 20 now). So anyway the next time we met was the following friday when we went out in a group with some chilean guys I met at the hostel and her and her two fat friends. I was trying to get her out alone but she was resistant and I thought fuck it at least I can use her to get me in a dancing mood and ready to hit on the other girls if it looked like it wasn’t going anywhere with her. So here’s where I’ll a take a detour to talk about Cartagena’s other night life options… From the moment I arrived I was asking around whenever I was chatting to locals about where the nightlife is in the rest of the city. Normal cartageneras do not go out in the old city unless it’s some very special occasion, or they get a foreigner to take them and pay for everything. If you only go out in the old city you meet backpackers (75% Argentinean while I was there, and by the way, those argentinean girls have got NOTHING on the locals), rich colombians from other cities (mostly Bogotá) and a lot of prostitutes. A lot of places in the old city only have prostitutes. It’s boring if it’s not what you’re looking for. The are two other main nightlife areas in Cartagena. Bocagrande, where the rich cartageneros and traquetos have their apartments and a few spots along the Avenida Pedro de Heredia until you get to ‘La Bomba del Amparo’. I only found one good spot in Bocagrande, but I only went there a couple of times and never on the weekend. The place to be in Cartagena on a Wednesday is without doubt ‘15 minutos de fama’. I only found it by accident because I went with some guys who wanted to go to a casino but got bored, but it turns out that wednsesday night is ’super amigas’ night, and the place was packed with strictly local rich kids. It was the one place I went to in Cartagena that felt like it might have been Barrio Colombia or Lleras in Medellin (the same bar exists in medellin actually). Lots of pretty girls dressed nice but in groups with a lot of guys. Still, for a wednesday night in cartagena you’re only other option is one of the backpacer bars on the Calle Media Luna so it’s definitely worth rolling the dice and checking it out I reckon. We actually went back on thursday and found the place a complete graveyard, so make sure you go on Wednesday. The other spots I went to in the ‘barrio’ were those along the avenida. I don’t have names of the individual bars, there’s just a few spots where you find some bars and nightclubs groped together. It takes about 10-15mins to get there in taxi but it’s all just straight down the avenida so you can’t get lost. The three night spots I saw were Las Gaviotas, Los Ejecutivos and across the road from La Bomba del Amparo. They’re all just a few minutes walk from each other really. So this Friday when I went out with the girl I met, her two fat friends and 5 ugly chilean guys we went first to Las Gaviotas, which we found pretty quiet so we walked down the street for 5-10 minutes past Los ejecutivos and the centro comercial la castellana until we got to a place that has green lights (that’s all I remember), saw it had people in it and went in. They were playing ‘crossover’ latin music and there were a few cute girls as well as some pretty ugly chicks. I left the chileans to deal with the fat girls and got to work dancing with m girl and feeding her alcohol, which was going pretty well except that she kept on avoiding any attempt at going for the kiss. I’m usually not very direct but tonight I decided that I was going to make my intentions obvious, I wanted to know if something was going to happen or not because if not, I was going to get the next bus to Barranquilla (aside: they say there’s absolutely nothing for tourists in barranquilla outside of the carnival but the city apparently has a banging night-life and the girls I’ve met from Barranquilla have more often than not been cuties. Is it just me or does that sound perfect for the spanish speaking worldly man…a big colombian city where a foreigner is still an unusual site)… So I grabbed the girls hand and lead her outside to give it to her straight. I told ‘I think your hot, I like you, so what’s up?’ She kept kind of moving away so I had grab her and kind of used it as an excuse to wrap her up and kiss her neck telling her that we can fight if she wants cause I’ll win (something like that anyway), she ends up telling me that she doesn’t want to hook up with a foreigner who’s just going to leave the next day, that she’s not that kind of girl and all that shit. I told her that I was staying in Colombia, that I wasn’t 100% sure if I would stay in Medellín and that I really liked Cartagena so who knows etc. All kind of true . About now the others come out and she says she has to go because she has to get up for work at 6am and it was already 2am, so we all pile in a taxi to drop her and her friends off. When she gets out, I get out with her to go for the kiss but she’s kind of in a hurry and I barely get a peck. Later she’d tell me that it was because she didn’t want us to get robbed, which might be true cause she lived way south. I left the two fattest and ugliest chileans at the house of one of the fat friends (They both fucked her. Filthy bastards!) and went back to the hostel, wondering if I should escape to Barranquilla. Nexy day it seemed like my direct approach had an effect because I awoke (at 2pm) to a message from my target saying that she liked me, really wanted to see me again, the next time would be way better bla bla bla. I was having fun and I’m a lazy traveller (can’t be bothered to pack up my mess) anyway so I decided to hang around and see what happened. It was here I hatched a plan to stay at a hotel down by the Bomba del Amparo the following Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I figures either she’d come around and it’d be or I could go out to the bars/clubs nearby and have my private room a short walk away if I had any success. I couldn’t find any info on the net so I went down during the day to look for a hotel near the action and found a couple. Funnily I only remember the name of the one I didn’t stay at, Hotel Sol de Este. The other one was Hotel ’something’ Plaza. Both cost about COP$70000 (COP$90000 for 2 people) for a room with double bed, tv, wifi, bathroom. Well worth the extra cash after sleeping in a shitty hotel bunk for nearly 3 weeks. Friday arrives and I get a message telling me that she feels sick and doesn’t think she should go out but would still like to visit me at the hotel. When she gets there we talk for a few minutes before she lies next to me on the bed and falls asleep within a minute then promptly wakes up and freaks out saying she can’t sleep cause she has to work the next day. I told her she should go home if she’s that bad but she said she didn’t want to, I took the hint… I got some mad dirty looks from the male receptionist when I took her to get a taxi around midnight and he maintain the cold demeanour for the of my time there. When she came again the next night he told me I had to pay for two people if she was in my room more than 5mins…I had a long talk to the security guard (young black guy full stories and advice for looking after myself with the cops and the rougher streets of cartagena. legend.) when she left and he pointed out that I’d missed the two brothels and a love motel across the road from the hotel I was staying at so the management is actually kind of used to gringos bringing back hookers and doesn’t like it. Anyway this is turning into an epic ramble so I’m going to do a… Summary 1. 15 Minutos de Fama in Bocagrande is the only classy club I went to in Cartagena that only had pretty young and rich cartageneras, There was a Chupitos shots bar pretty nearby that seemed to have a similar clientele but I was hardly there 5mins 2. There are two big shopping centres that I checked out a couple of times. The fanciest one is Caribe Plaza which is pretty close to the old city, but the one I spent more time in and saw the best ratio of hotties was La Castellana . Its 15-20mins on the bus from the old city straight down the Avenida. It’s big and has a lot of opportunities for daygame. A foreigner is a strange site down there because it’s so far from the tourist part. Lots of looks and curiosity. 3. The plaza by the church called ‘Parroquia de la Santísima Trinida’ in Getsemaní (main backpacker area) fills up with people, including lots of pretty local girls most nights. It’s a good spot to hang out and people watch or strike up a convo. You might get lucky..I did 4. If you’re feeling adventurous and want to meet locals check out the nightlife in Las Gaviotas, Los Ejecutivos and just before La Bomba de Amparo . They’re all more or less within 15mins walking distance along the avenida. You’ll need to be with someone who speaks reasonable spanish I think. 5. Cartagena’s nightlife outside of the tourist spots really only get going on saturdays. Friday at the places I mentioned above was pretty subdued and when I asked around every said that because so many people work saturdays fridays are always pretty quiet in comparison. I never got to prove this myself because I had a cartagenera in my hotel room doing things she swears she’s never done before… 6. For a local girl, the stigma of being seen with a foreigner is probably worse in Cartagena than any other city. Cartagena is the city where old foreigners have come to get hookers for years. This could make the job of defiling a ‘good’ girl a lot harder (but a lot more fulfiling). I can’t believe how long this has become. I’m sure I’m forgetting something that I really wanted to add but hope it helps someone out anyway. I get a lot of value from Roosh and the forum and have been meaning to give back for a long time.

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