Dabamf said:
Well...any tips on getting with girls in Thailand, cambodia, laos, vietnam, etc etc? No thanks on the hookers. Just stay away from whitey hotspots? What"s the protocol there? Any and all advice will be repaid with stories and, if possible, pictures.
It"s extremely difficult to just meet people and hook up unless you speak the language or know somebody. Not knowing the local language and just showing up as a tourist on a limited time schedule will drive your chances down to nothing, and 99% of the play you would get would be from working girls assuming that you are a tourist and looking for action. That isn"t to say that it is impossible...but good luck.
Even if you were to stay out of the local tourist hotspots and go to local hangouts, w/o being able to speak their language you"d probably be taken as a sex tourist and I"m not sure how you"d be received by some chick if you hit on her (
"OMG, he must think I"m a working girl!"). Also, there is risk of being mugged by being outside of tourist areas, or offending some girls BF and ending up getting mauled for being a foreigner in a local bar that thought he"d just start hitting on local chicks.
Where you are at is different, you"re there long term, more South Koreans probably speak English than the places you listed, locals know that you probably aren"t a sex tourist (technically, lol).
If you knew a local that could show you around, that would be different. If if you spoke the language, or started living there and got to know people, then yeah. But just showing up wanting to go to bars, to the beach, with the hope of meeting local chicks? Outside chance at best. Maybe, MAYBE, if you went to south Thailand for remote beaches or to Ko Pha Ngan for a Full Moon party, but even then you"d just be one of many, many foreign tourists. In that case you"d be better off hanging out with other tourists and trying to find some euro women to hook up with.
I say that as someone who has tried backpacking around w/o having a local friend or speaking the language. For the most part I don"t think I"d try the solo backpacking deal again, at least in that part of the world. Maybe with a SO, or I would go somewhere where I have RL connections (the Philippines is on my list if I can get away as I know someone there).
Divinefactor said:
Specifically stay away from Bangkok and Pattaya if you wanna stay away from hookers.
This. I wandered around a number of places, these two included, and almost any cute chick I encountered was "working". Normal, local non-professionals are probably too busy going about their normal lives to be out meeting farangs. Walking Street was a trip, and you have to be careful about which "Massage Parlors" you walk into (unless you are looking for a soapy massage, but I digress). Just walking down Walking Street, I got groped, grabbed and pinched more than I ever have been in my life. Usually at the sidewalk bars where girls are trying to get tourists to come in, about all they know is "sexy man" or some other similar phrase.