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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Gran Canaria: Gay sunshine mecca in The Canary Islands of Spain

I go every year to Gran Canaria in March (next year will be my 7th trip). So when asked to give some advice about flights or accommodations there I wrote the following:

The pics show me naked out in the Maspalomas Dunes, which can be reached on foot from the Playa del Ingles beach or by walking back from the shoreline toward central Playa del Ingles (town).  The major gay nightlife is usually found in and around the Yumbo Center, a large 4-story shopping complex, with numerous restaurants, souvenirs shops, fashion stores, etc. It becomes the local gay mecca sometimes after 11pm each night and is active until 3-4am. There are also sex clubs located within the Yumbo, mostly on the ground floor level, mixed in with the gay bars, several which have drag shows and strip shows.  

You can sometimes find good bargains for flights and hotels to Gran Canaria on the major travel booking sites, but not always the most popular ones, like Orbitz, Yahoo Travel, or Expedia. 

Instead take at look at:
http://www.alpharooms.com
http://www.booking.com

Alpharooms also has flights with hotel stay plans that can be quite cheap, although I have found it usually cheaper to book them separately. But it is worth checking out if you are coming from a major European city. 

Koka: The place that has been fairly nice (a small studio apt with kitchen and balcony or direct access to the pool), it's cheap (in March usually $30-$40 a night) and also not too far from the beach or to the Yumbo (gay nightlife) is:

Apartamentos Koka,
Avenida de Tenerife, 17 35100 Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Palmas, Spain Tel 928 76 16 17

(I just checked these sites for possible booking for next March, the Koka is already fully booked. So you may find the same is true for your stay). 

However, there are dozens of similar apartamentos hotels, like the Koka, some with room and board plans. In fact, some may be closer to where you want to be. I suggest staying with walking distance of the Yumbo Center since you'll inevitably end of there late at night (there are taxis, of course) to more outlying areas (which are nicer and more expensive). 

It all depends on what you want or need out your vacation. 
I prefer to stay cheaply since I am usually not in the room at all except to sleep and sometimes cook my own meals. There are plenty of restaurants, of course. But the typical place in Gran Canaria has only the basic food (rather unhealthy too). So I prefer to save my money for splurging on gourmet meals in other larger cities in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. 

Note too that there is a city bus from the airport (LPA) that runs through Playa del Ingles and onward to the Lighthouse tower near the beach in the actual town of Maspalomas. 
In the two cities blend together and even the locals confuse the two locales. It's better to know the street names and have a map or the address of the hotel before you arrive. 
I got off at the wrong place once and had a long walk with a suitcase before I found it (or a taxi). 

P.S. There are a few exclusively gay hotels, but I prefer the 'straight' ones -- just because the services are the same but the clientele is not. Gay men can be snobby and even act condescending (especially some gay couples on vacation). At least the straight people will either be friendly or just plain ignore you. Besides, you have to pay premium prices for gay hotel (clothing optional or not). You're just as well off to be naked on the beach and in the dunes all day and then stay clothed at your place of accommodation. 

The Basement Studios is a gay hotel, but they also allow day and evening guest from outside, especially for their Wed night sex party. The Cellar (gay nude bar) is open nightly from 10:30 ish until late.

Saturday, November 03, 2012

My first trip to Bali: Indonesia at its best and its worst Part III


I went to Bali for 7 days in January this year. Happily, I didn't get as many negative recommendations as you before I left.  Actually, there is some truth in what everyone has already but I spent time writing about my first Bali experience which you can find on my Travels with Sunbuns blog:
 http://sunbuns.blogspot.com
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 Search the key word: Bali in the upper left hand search box.  There is one more that comes from what guys said in a now-disappeared forum on this topic.

I stayed in Seminyak  at Villa Layang Bulan, a clothing optional boutique hotel,  but the gay bars (with flashy drag shows and dancing half-naked Bali boys. It's worth a trip.  Laki Uma is another not too far away - I didn't make it there but it is also clothing optional with a special 'activities' for daytime guests who pay a separate entrance.

  Watch out for being ripped off my massage boys who promise a lot but fail to deliver, although they try to insist on collecting the agreed upon price - without the happy ending ... literally.

I agree that staying somewhere like Ubud would be a much more wholesome and culturally uplifting experience.. but that is NOT the only reason some of go to Bali.

In January, a couple of Seminyak gay bars had either closed down, come up new (str8) management, or had just gone into repair work.  Potato Head Cafe is now virtually straight only.

Tanalot Temple on the west coast not too far from Seminyak (an hour or so drive) is the attached photo.   Plan to stay until sunset at Tanalot,  that's when hundreds (if not thousands) gather to see the sunset, which can also been seen from the cafes / outdoors restaurants above the water-side temple.

There are a couple of monkey parks where tribes of free-roaming macaques beg for food.  It's mandatory to also take in a nighttime kechak performance - there are a couple of them in Ubud and else where.  The holiest temple is a bit of pain to reach but the trip there can be via the coast or Ubud.  Entering the temple has a 'required' free donation.. my advice is just pay them 10-20$ and be over the hassle.

 
Finally,  I combined scuba diving with tourist excursions -- be sure to negotiate prices for complete tour packages -- or hire a driver and make booking on the fly. It'll probably work out to be the same cost.

My first trip to Bali: Indonesia at its best and its worst Part I

On January 2nd - 8th, I spent my first vacation in Bali, one of the Indonesia islands that gets millions of foreign tourists. It was a very interesting and enlightening trip. I went scuba diving on two different days at two different locations - once among the soft corals of Mendanjan Island in the far northwest, and also dived about the ruins of the USS Liberty, an American cargo ship torpedoed in Indonesia waters by a Japanese submarine on January 11, 1942 (70 years ago today as I write this). Because it did not sink, it was docked at Tulamben, where the 1963 eruption of Mt. Agung caused it to be rolled into the sea just off shore. 

I visited several gorgeous Hindu temples, including Tanah Lot Temple, a picturesque Hindu temple built in the 16th century on a huge rock 100 meters off Bali's west coast, and surrounded by water during the high tides. I took two days of a private tour, one arranged by a the driver from my hotel, Villa Layang Bulan, and the other conducted by my scuba instructor. We took very scenic drives over small roads overlooking beautiful rice terraces. One of these brought me to the mountain village of Kintamani, which offers spectacular views of Lake Batur and the volcano. We stopped by the Elephant Cave or "Goa Gajah", a hermitage from the 11th century, used by both Buddhists and HIndus, where a huge collapsed statute of Buddha lies in ruins among the fresh water spring that opened when it fell (presumably due to an earthquake). 

I took in a traditional Monkey Forest visit, where these socially astute creatures can be quite agressive in search of food. I visited the town of Ubud, where I stayed in a beautiful villa boutique hotel that seemed more like a temple itself. Ubud is the largest aritsan town in central Bali, where I shopped for silver and gold jewelry, ornate wood carvings and all kinds of souvenirs. I visited its temples and also attended a kechak dance and fire dance performance that evening, after running to it soaking wet in one of the daily rainstorms. There wasn't constant rain - except for my very last day. Generally, it was sunny with scattered clouds. If it rained, it usually came on quickly and didn't last long (15 minutes to an hour). Temperatures ranged from a cool 18 at night and even cooler in the higher altitudes to a high of 30 or more in the daytime. 
I ate chicken noodle (mee ayam) and sate (kebabs with peanut soy sauce) at a roadside warung (portable eater). I enjoyed my visit to hhe Mother Temple at Besakih, Bali's most holy and the largest Hindu temple, built in the 11th century. It's built on the slopes of Mount Agung at an altittude of 1000 meters. 

The people I met were perhaps one of the most interesting of Bali's features. I'll hold off telling about them until I get else confessed. 

I needed to make it clear from the start that I did enjoy my first visit to Bali. From what I tell after, you may get the impression that there wasn't so much that I didn't like about Bali. That's far from the truth. It's different from many places I have been - but probably not so different from most. There's much about the island that is beautiful, exciting, and attractive, but I would be totally honest if I omitted telling that I was also disappointed by some aspects of Bali: its crowded roads, the heavy commercialization, the level of street smarts needed to get things done, the deceptive friendliness of the people, and the heavy religiosity practiced everywhere. 

While none of these problems was unique to Bali -- perhaps they are not so much 'problems' as different approaches to live and interpersonal communication to which I was not accustomed -- and can be found in many places. However, you hope to be able to relax on a vacation without having to be constantly hassled by these societal contraints. While I was able to relax to a large degree, there was an undercurrent of tension with all of the complaints mentioned above that it sometimes was difficult to overcome negative feelings. 

First, let me explain. I went to Bali - mainly as an escape from cold winter weather. Secondly, it was also intended to be a sex vacation. I had heard stories about how wild Bali could be - at least, those stories of wild gay abandon with some muscled brown bodies of hunky Indonesian men loomed large in my consciousness before arriving on the island. 

The person who make a big impression was a beautiful Balinese man with whom I fell in love. Surya was my diving instructor. Although he knew I was gay (I had signed up with a gay travel site and was staying at a gay hotel), he himself was straight, married and expecting his first child at the end of this month. I don't think I'm being deluded to say that he actually teased me quite a lot. His boss, the owner of the dive shop is gay (also non-Indonesian). Surya, no doubt, knew the effect his body, voice, eyes and hands were having on my psyche, but he played that out to his advantage as he kept hinting that he could make himself available if the price were right. I'm not quite sure he had anything more in mind than a regular back rub (oil massage), but it certainly sounded like he could be persuaded to do more or even let me do more. However, he insisted that he had never done such a thing before and had not, in fact, ever had an intimate conversation with any of his clients before. I don't actually know if he was telling me the truth or not - although I have no reason to doubt him and plenty of reasons to believe that he told the truth. 

It started innocently enough. He came over from the second boat when we were having lunch and sat down next to me to eat his meal. He asked if I might be interested in going out for another's day diving later in the week, but - at the point - I was already tired and just wanted to explore the beaches and the area around Kuta / Seminyak (the gay area of Bali) more so I said I wouldn't be interested. After we returned to shore after our second dive, we were all getting packed up and ready to go. I needed to change out of my small bikini swimsuit (actually it was see-thru if you looked carefully). I knew Surya was going to be the person who drove the van back to Kuta Beach so I mentioned to him that I was going to go get changed. He dropped what he was doing and offered to show me where I could get a shower at the small shop about 100 meters up the dirt road. When we got there, I pull off my swimsuit and showered naked next to him. I was hoping he would take off his own boardshorts, but he didn't. It was the kind of spontaneous CMNM experience that I had been craving, and which I suspect that Surya knew full well was making me more and more attracted to him. He casually showered himself next to me, glancing down from time to time to look at my cock and balls. I feigned innocence because, in reality, it was nothing more than just a shower with a fellow diver. After showering, he moved into the toilet, where I supposed he changed into this street clothes, as I did in an adjoining changing room. 


Playing around with a gay guy would be a dilemma for Surya since he was very cognizant of needing the money because of his wife's having a baby (and stopping her work), but also he told me of his good friend from his hometown whom he had grown up with. He told how that friend had allowed himself to be used as a 'kept boy' for a older rich Frenchmen, who even now visits the island every six months, lavishing gifts that included a house and car on his friend who is also married, but still engages in sex with the older 'daddy'. The moral and economic dilemma seemed to weigh heavily on my Surya's mind. He joked with me about his being available for a nude massage for 2.5 million rupiah, but in the end, he could not find the guts or perhaps I should say -- he finally held out with the strength of good character -- to simply say he was joking, and not really interested. But I suspect he had been sorely tempted - not by my looks, but because I felt that he sensed he could trust me more than he had been able to do with any of client. 
Moreover, he really did seem to get pleasure from my words of praise about his looks, his character, and his expertise at diving instruction. When I told him something nice about his looks or character, he would smile broadly and repeat, "I like that very much." 

Surya often asked, "Will you be dreaming of me when you return home?" I could only heartily agree that I will dream about Surya for a long time to come. I really loved watching him - his dark coffee-colored skin was a joy to behold. He had wavy jet black hair, a broad smile of white teeth, and wide shoulders and brawny arms, yet not overly muscled or brutish. His voice was godly and he is surely the great grandson of some powerful Hindu god. 

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Nude sunbathing in the Tokyo area


Question:   Can you go nude sunbathing anywhere in Tokyo?

Just saw that you know a lot of places for sunbathing in Tokyo......will be there on sunday morning for 2 days only.......i'm a WGM from France 40 yo.....will stay in Shinjuku.....so could you recommend me a nice place not too far to be naked ? do you know may be a gay bar with naked or underwear party ?

My Answer:
Most of the places are far and too complicated to explain, but there's one (or two)  that might work: The one I usually hang out at during warmer weather is a secluded, wooded river front area near a public recreation area on the Tama River (in Fuchu City).  I explain more about it further below.
However, for tourists and visitors, the one easier to find is Odaiba or お台場海浜公園 is a public  seaside recreation area on reclaimed land in Tokyo Harbor.   Remember Odaiba is in a pubic park so being nude should be done with caution.   



Sometimes men get naked for sunbathing (or nearly naked) on a island at Odaiba Marine Park.  There's a seaside beach park (manmade beach) at Odaiba, but people sometimes sunbathe, but not actually nude on the beach. Instead, a few do get naked (or almost naked) on the man-made island to the far right and around.  The island has a historical significance which I won't go into now.  But it's semi-isolated and there are some spots that lend themselves to sunbathing and sometimes semi-nude or discreetly nude sunbathing.   Note: Public nudity is illegal in Japan and heavy fines (including imprisonment are possible), but fairly rare (partly because no one does it where they can get caught).  Still you should take precautions and be discreet. 

Public Baths and Hot Springs Resorts  (non -sexual rest and relaxation but plenty of nudity). 

If you just want to get naked with other males in a non-sexual environment, then you could try one of the onsen (hot springs resort) -- outside the city, or visit one of the newer onsen inside the city. Public baths used to be found in nearly every community, but more recently the majority have closed and some have been replaced by a commercial hot spring bath.  There are over 50 locations where a public bath has been replaced by a hot springs day-resort with the great city limits of Tokyo.   These are legitimate mineral (salt) baths that provide a relaxing place for family fun; in some cases, there are massage services on the premises, and some even have body work services.   There is no hidden sexual meaning to any of these services, even though it might appear differently.  For example,  the hot spring bath I go to in Hino City (western Tokyo) has a body-scrubbing service. The man' s body is rubbed with an abrasive (not too harsh) cleanser and the dead skin cells are removed for about 1,000 yen (in addition to the entrance fee to the baths - 800 yen).  The male is nude and keep in semi-privacy behind a screen (although it was easy enough to peep over and get a look at the youngish woman rubbing the naked man's body).  Of course, that isn't a turn-on sexually for me, but it made me wonder if some of the staff who do this might actually be male. 

 Some of these hot springs baths have an outdoor bath pools adjacent to the indoor bath area. These roten-buro ( 露天風呂  - secluded, hidden from public view outdoors baths) are a nice way to get an up-close look at Japanese men - in groups and often accompanying their families, small children, and teens, or their school or work friends (or teammates).  The costs range from about 800 - 1800 yen and there are typically restaurants, and a lounge area (with TVs) where you can relax in a bath gown outside of the bath-time. 

 How to get there:   
Take the Yurikamome Train (a monorail leaving from Shimbashi Station, a couple of stops south  of Tokyo Station, JR Yamanote Line (Green circle train).   Get off at Odaiba Kaihin Koen (Odaiba Marine Park) - first stop after crossing the Rainbow Bridge. Then walk to Odaiba Beach (5 min), and then walk to the far right, turn on a causeway that stretches out into the harbor toward an island.  On that island, in discreet places, sometimes guys get naked (or almost naked). It obviously depends on the weather, and I imagine Sundays arehh bn  rather busy with tourists and sightseers so it would likely be difficult to be discreet.


If you have only two days, I would recommend instead your going to 24 Kaikan in Shinjuku. 
It's a gay baths (and hotel) with an outdoors sunning area on the top floor.  Nudity has to be discreet  -- there are CCTV cameras  on the roof- but it is possible to get naked, and there is a shower area where you can also be nude as you shower.   Also you will have the several floors below of sauna, play rooms, shower stalls, etc, where gay sex goes on.

 Address:   2-13-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hand drawn map at:
 (the Lawson convenient store (on Shinjuku-dori (Avenue) is now a different one (Sankus or 3F)

I'm not aware of any naked parties except perhaps Gate In (although I've never been (over the age limit -- LOL). 

Gate In, Tokyo-to, Chuo-ku, Yaesu 1-7-10 Nakatsubo Bldg 5F, 



  You can find additional spots and bars at: 





Local cruising spot in Fuchu City on the Tamagawa River

府中市側で稲城大橋に近い、水遊びの公園のそばです。多摩川~で服全部脱いでフェラしたり…オナニー見せたりしたいです。顔射して下さい





For me, there's a much closer spot.  In spring, summer and warm days in the fall, I go out to the Tama River not too far from where I live (near the Inagi O-hashi Bridge - just 300 m north of it), and discreetly sunbathe nude or semi-nude (depending on how many people are around).  There is also a gay cruising area there which is near a public park located right on the banks of the river.  It's a wooded area that is located actually in the river bed, which is down below the flood embankment and in the land between the embankment and the actual river ( where the river narrows and widens as it meanders in its course).  The wooded thicket is on a raised area (perhaps an island many years ago), and men get naked there for sunbathing and also gay cruising.  It seems never to be really busy but gets its most visitors on weekends and holidays in the afternoons and before nightfall. Obviously, most are local Japanese men.

If you'd like to go or would like to join me there (when it warm enough), you can contact me for directions. 
For me, there's a much closer spot.  In spring, summer and early fall, I go out to the Tama River not too far from where I live (near the Inagi O-hashi Bridge - just 300 m north of it), and discreetly sunbathe nude or semi-nude (depending on how many people are around).  There is also a gay cruising area there which is near a public park located right on the banks of the river.  It's a wooded area that is located actually in the river bed, which is down below the flood embankment and in the land between the embankment and the actual river ( where the river narrows and widens as it meanders in its course).  The wooded thicket is on a raised area (perhaps an island many years ago), and men get naked there for sunbathing and also gay cruising.  It seems never to be really busy but gets its most visitors on weekends and holidays in the afternoons and before nightfall. Obviously, most are local Japanese men.
  Here I am at the X-spot.  I like being seen by clothed or partly nude men.



The photos above are of the public park (wading pools and streams for people and kids to play in the water). Just beyond and behind this wading pool (lower photo) area, heading toward the river itself), you can find the hidden cruising spot.  You'll often see a couple of bicycles parked along the embankment as 'visitors' have parked them there.
  This is just beyond the wading pond, right on edge the concrete embankment.  It's usually where I park my bicycle. The Inagi Ohashi Bridge can be seen in the background.  On the far left and middle of the photo is the edge of the wading pool.

 There's a small tree in the foreground (ignore it), but it's on the embankment which is a flood levy built out of concrete and concrete tiles. Look further along and towards the very center of the photo, and you'll see a tree right on the edge of the embankment.  It's a large tree with abundant branches that spread out like an umbrella.

Just before that tree,  you can go down the concrete embankment to a trail.  There should be a trail worn between the tall grass and bushes - a least in summer, early fall there is. The trail is about 25 meters long and leads up into the dense ticket where the cruising and nude sunbathing goes on.   If you make your way into this hidden islet (usually no water), you will find a low area among the trails. There are 3 walnut trees and some willow trees there which is where the fun goes on.

  Sometimes guys make a pretense of sitting or standing around that area near the tree. That way they can see who is going in to cruise and will follow if they are interested in pursuing.  Sometimes, a fellow or a coule of fellows will sit and smoke or have canned drinks while they are waiting.

I haven't been there enough to know any patterns for what time of day or which days are busy. Fridays can be busy. I once saw a naked guy scurrying off in the bushes beyond the inland island thicket. Saturdays and Sundays and holidays would also tend to be busier... but there can be no guarantees.



Map / Directions: See the Google map below. You can walk (about 18-25 min) from Musashinodai Station   (Keio Line from Shinjuku, take an express train to Chofu, then a local train to Musashi-no-dai).  The wading pond visible in the above photo is located on the map. There a man-made stream that runs from the wading pond to the right (north west) for about 150 meters.  The cruising spot is just beyond the wading pond.



Google Map
Kelly