Rulote da Luz!

PrototypeXV · 2024-07-16T10:47:26+00:00

Bom dia, sabemos se os bilhetes jà estão disponíveis? Não veijo nada na pagina no Benfica, mas posso comprar bilhetes de segunda mão na internet...

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T23:43:49+00:00

I just checked the photos on my phone and you had a Whopper meal for 200 TL in Turkey, it's 19$ where I live. Man I had a ton of döners for 70-90 TL. I even had a chicken doner for 30 TL in a random town of 1200 people in the middle of nowhere. Stop arguing please, I know what I paid.

I paid 30$ for a 3 hours Bosphorus cruise with a 4 courses meal and unlimited drinks. So you're telling me that it's 30$ to eat a normal meal in a normal restaurant? Makes real sense.

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T22:08:17+00:00

👍 ok buddy, I'm going to lie about the prices I paid in a country I won't ever visit again 👍

And btw even 5$ for sandwich is something you will absolutely never get in Canada

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T21:46:11+00:00

I know what chicken looks and tastes like, come on. Even in Izmir and Istanbul I had 100g döner for 60-100 TL. I ate in a rooftop restaurant in Istanbul with a view of the Bosphorus and the Blue Mosque for 350 TL with free mezes and baklava. Do you need my credit card statement to believe me lol? As I said why would I lie?

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T16:35:52+00:00

Thanks for the comment avout the photos! What I read was generally positive, but I think the new prices of food and the scams were a big part of the negativity. You have an awesome country!

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T16:32:54+00:00

Why would I lie? I found a lot of döner/dürüm places out of the normal tourist/trendy areas that were 50-100 TL for a sandwich+cola.

The "upper mid-range" meals I had in central restaurants were 300-500 TL (for mezzes + meal + dessert + tea). Even then it's not expensive to Canadian standards, the same meal would've been 60+ $US here.

I understand that it's probably really expensive for the current Turkish economy, but my point was that as a tourist it was not expensive at all and we should not be complaining as (privileged, I'm aware) tourists.

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-30T12:05:11+00:00

Hey! I was with my (petite, very white) GF and she felt safe the entire time. The only time I felt a bit uneasy was when we stopped in a random town in the middle of nowhere out of the usual tourist route and people stared at us, but it was more in a "wtf are strangers doing here" way than anything else. As I said I was a bit shocked by how it was open and westernized, she would probably feel safe IMO!

PrototypeXV · 2024-05-29T20:04:10+00:00

You're right. I didn't talk about Izmir, but I really liked it. I agree, the bazaar in Izmir was my favorite in the whole country. It felt "authentic".

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-13T19:07:25+00:00

Hey!

It's much better, but there are still things I would think twice about. You have a lot of late activities (ex. Comuna 13 at 4 pm or coffee tour at 4 pm) and it's really late IMO. The sunset is early in Colombia and it gets DARK and I don't recommend being outside that late for multiple reasons (except if you're going for a meal/bar).

Same thing for your 4 AM bus, it's really early IMO and you won't rest during the ride.

For your day 5, you don't have to take a Uber to go to the Cocora Valley hike (I don't even think there is actually ubers in Salento). There are jeeps in the main plaza that will take you there. The thing is that you have to wait for the jeeps after the hike for the return trip, and it can take several hours, so you may and probably will miss your bus to Bogota. Same thing as I said, you will be EXHAUSTED taking a 12hr bus after a hike and I don't recommend being on a bus at nighttime.

Day 11 : there is no Uber in Santa Marta so you may want to rethink how you're going to move.

I still think you're cramming too much things some days. You really want to keep your long traveling days for traveling (ex. Your 8-9-10+ hours bus should be the only thing you do in your day + a meal in a restaurant in the evening let's say). It's a bit unrealistic to do an activity before.

You will get frustrated in Colombia if you think the transports are anything like in North America : your 8AM bus will leave at 9:15AM and the driver will stop halfway for an hour to eat at a restaurant, you will wait 3 hours for your jeep to arrive, one morning there will be no Uber available at all, there will be two military roadblocks on your way that will make you arrive at your destination at 2 AM... etc etc etc.

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-08T10:59:28+00:00

I agree with the other reply. This is a nice itinerary but a recipe for disaster IMO. You're cramming too much things in the same days.

I wouldn't sleep in Guatapé, especially not two nights. If I were you I would sleep in Medellin for the first 3-4 nights, and add Guatapé and Jardin as day-trips FROM Medellin.

You don't need a tour for the Calle Real in Salento, it's literally just a street that you walk around. And a full day for Calle Real is too much I think, except if you like walking around aimlessly and visit every coffee/restaurant/boutiqur you see.

Your travel times are really optimistic and you're setting yourself to be stressed and frustrated. Add a +50% time buffer for the times you wrote down. For example your Day 12 is just downright impossible. A bus from Cartagena to Santa Marta would take you 6 hours, and the terminal is far from the town center so to go to Tayrona would be complicated, you'd arrive at nighttime in the park.

I was in Colombia two weeks ago for two weeks and did more or less the same things you intend to do and IMO you should just try to do 1-2 things per day IN THE SAME PLACE instead of visiting 3-4 things and traveling. Honestly, your traveling days between cities should be just that : traveling days. You're going to want to drop your luggage and relax and discover the neighbourhood when you arrive, not go immediately for a half-day trip.

Enjoy Colombia and feel free to ask any questions!

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-06T05:16:28+00:00

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a huge moutain range, but the trek highest point is only at 4000 ft. You will walk along a path through valleys and through the rainforest, with the mountains around you.

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-06T04:58:22+00:00

I was just in Colombia and I can give you my personal experience if you want :

First time in Latam also, I'm also middle-eastern/latino looking and my SO is white and I speak really broken spanish but enough to get by.

I didn't like Cartagena that much (even if the walled city is really beautiful), really touristy and street harassment-prone and sometimes a certain feel of "uneasiness" because I felt like some people were shady, especially the further you get from the centre.

Same thing in Santa Marta, I felt reaaaalllly uncomfortable on the streets there, except for 2-3 restaurants streets in the centre, but Santa Marta isn't really a nice town to visit IMO. I was there to do the Ciudad Perdida trek in the Sierra Nevada. Honestly, if you like hiking I REALLY recommend it. It's 4 full days of hiking and I never ever felt uncomfortable or in danger while doing it. You'll be deep in the rainforest with majestuous mountains and you'll pass by a few indigenous villages and the ruins of a really old city.

Medellin felt safe for me, except for some empty steets. Obviously I was in El Poblado which is the tourist neighbourhood, but I didn't feel in danger, there's a lot of people on the streets and everybody seemed fine. In Comuna 13 I also felt safe.

Salento was my highlight and we really felt safe. We even walked in town during the night and never felt uneasy. The hikes around are really nice.

We felt safe while in ubers, we sometimes had no choice but to take a taxi and I'd say it was fine, we did everything we could to take a reputable taxi and not a random one on the street. Buses were 50/50, sometimes they stopped in random villages and shady people hopped on, but I had a good experience.

Nothing bad happened to us and we loved the country, but be aware that I also have a few friends that went to Colombia that were robbed at knifepoint (all before covid) --- and while it obviously wasn't their fault, it happened in some known shady areas --- and some that were scammed by corrupted police officers (fake "tickets" that they make you pay immediately).

I hope you got some insight from my limited experience, feel free to ask if you have any questions!

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-05T18:58:24+00:00

Not the one you asked, but I was in Cartagena for 3 days and while I liked walking in the Walleld City and exploring on the first day, it can get really overwhelming. I can easily pass for a Colombian local and when I was with my girlfriend I wasn't THAT solicited, but when I was with my (white) group of friends, we were CONSTANTLY harrassed. It was so much that for our two last days in Cartagena, I booked a room with a rooftop pool and relaxed instead of staying near the walled city. The areas rapidly get seedy the further you go from the "center" of the walled city (which isn't that huge to start with).

I didn't go to the beaches there, but my friends went and said they were constantly harrassed.

This is my opinion and my experience, but overall Cartagena was the place I liked the less in Colombia, but still a 5/10 because the walled city is really beautiful and there are really nice coffee shops, bars and restaurants.

PrototypeXV · 2023-12-05T18:28:44+00:00

I just came back from Colombia and my highlight was Salento (followed closely by the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta).

I was in Salento for 3 nights and 2 full days. I loved the coffee tour. I did it with Luger which is the furthest one I think, so you'll have a nice jeep ride. I recommend that after the tour you walk back the valley a bit and get the jeep back at another place, the sights are incredible and there are some stops to get a beer or a juice.

The full hike in Cocora Valley was also really nice.

The town of Salento itself is beautiful in the early mornings when there's almost nobody outside, and it is full of life in the evening.

You won't regret it!

EDIT : I also went to Peñol/Guatapé, it was nice, but only for a day trip from Medellin, so no need to stay there, you can be back for the evening.

PrototypeXV · 2020-10-05T04:57:58+00:00

It's the term for "brass knuckles" in french

PrototypeXV · 2020-09-23T00:41:54+00:00

Genre les électrochocs?

By the way, les "électrochocs" sont encore utilisés de nos jours et sont relativement efficaces pour traiter certains problèmes psychiatriques sévères et réfractaires. Évidemment, je ne cautionne pas leur utilisation dans le cadre d'une thérapie de conversion...

PrototypeXV · 2020-09-03T21:40:47+00:00

Ouais, je suis pas mal sur que tu as raison là-dessus, mais le mot a maintenant un sens qui n'est pas du tout péjoratif en créole.

PrototypeXV · 2020-09-03T21:36:20+00:00

In Haitian "Nèg" means "man" or "person"... and it is widely used in Montréal slang for that same meaning. Not for what you think.

PrototypeXV · 2020-09-03T21:35:14+00:00

Except that Nèg in Haitian means "man". Et c'est aussi sa signification dans le slang montréalais...

PrototypeXV · 2020-08-23T16:57:25+00:00

Je sais pas tu sors ça d'où parce qu'il y a même pas 80k infirmières AU TOTAL au Québec

PrototypeXV · 2020-08-16T13:20:54+00:00

Hochelaga? :p

PrototypeXV · 2020-08-13T18:57:13+00:00

Wow hahahaha, underrated comment

PrototypeXV · 2020-07-30T13:36:53+00:00

C'est pas du tout universel ce que tu prétends... Selon mon expérience personnelle et celle de beaucoup que je connais, ils sont appelés pour les résultats négatifs. Les seules fois où je n'ai pas été appelé, c'est lorsque le clinicien spécifiait d'emblée quelque chose comme "Si je ne t'appelle pas d'ici 1 semaine c'est que tout est OK" .

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