There is alot more crooked and pushy people hanging around Sosua than I have seen in the past. The vendors are extremely pushy. I just tell them "no" and continue walking but sometimes, that is not sufficient. Sometimes, they insist on following me and yapping in my ear even if I am in the middle of a conversation with someone else. One got in front of my brother on our way to Sosua beach today and blocked his path because we ignored his pleas to enter his little hut. My brother almost hauled off and belted him. The vendor would have deserved it.
The putas are nastier and more forward than before. There are plenty of "hard core putas" hanging around plaza sosua and the discos at night. They approach you and ask for a drink. When you say "no" they wont go away. Alot of them look like drug addicts.
The worst thing is the pickpockets. There are so many now. I spoke to two different guys who have been pickpocketed inj the last week. One guy got on a motoconcho to go to his hotel. A girl got on a moto behind him and followed him. As soon as he got off the moto in front of his destination, she got off her moto and ran up to him and started hugging him. He realized she had picked his pocket but she was alreadt jumping back on her motoconcho and he sped off. Another guy who was staying in the condo above mine was pickpocketed on the beach. He told me the girl had undone the botton on the back pocket of his shorts and removed his wallet within seconds. He was smart enough to check for his wallet as soon as she walked away and upon discovering it was gone, grabbed the girl and dragged her behind one of the vendor huts and made her strip. After searching her thoroughly, she didn't have his wallet so he dragged her back to the spot where she had approached him. There, tossed off to the side under a tree was his wallet. She was intelligent enough to pick and dump it in case he caught on like he had. Then of course, she was going to come right back for it.
I am not trying to paint a bad picture of Sosua. I just want people who are coming here to be aware of the bad elements. There are plenty of good people here too.
Larry
The putas are nastier and more forward than before. There are plenty of "hard core putas" hanging around plaza sosua and the discos at night. They approach you and ask for a drink. When you say "no" they wont go away. Alot of them look like drug addicts.
The worst thing is the pickpockets. There are so many now. I spoke to two different guys who have been pickpocketed inj the last week. One guy got on a motoconcho to go to his hotel. A girl got on a moto behind him and followed him. As soon as he got off the moto in front of his destination, she got off her moto and ran up to him and started hugging him. He realized she had picked his pocket but she was alreadt jumping back on her motoconcho and he sped off. Another guy who was staying in the condo above mine was pickpocketed on the beach. He told me the girl had undone the botton on the back pocket of his shorts and removed his wallet within seconds. He was smart enough to check for his wallet as soon as she walked away and upon discovering it was gone, grabbed the girl and dragged her behind one of the vendor huts and made her strip. After searching her thoroughly, she didn't have his wallet so he dragged her back to the spot where she had approached him. There, tossed off to the side under a tree was his wallet. She was intelligent enough to pick and dump it in case he caught on like he had. Then of course, she was going to come right back for it.
I am not trying to paint a bad picture of Sosua. I just want people who are coming here to be aware of the bad elements. There are plenty of good people here too.
Larry