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Like a wee little crab of crabsville…
Right so let’s just forget that I have completely not written anything AT ALL for Bolivia & Peru & just presume I had a fantastic time (which I did) & that I didn’t die there as previously predicted would happen. Bonus.
Cuba so far it’s been interesting to say the least so I thought while I’m pretty much doing nothing with hardly any communication to the outside world, I may as well smash out another blog post for your mild amusement (one hopes).
So on the way to Cuba I’ve pretty much realized I have no money at all on me, no transfer to the Hotel in Varadero & if there is no ATM I’m screwed, especially if they expect me to pay 120CUC for a taxi there (WTF!?), so while on the plane I kind of decide ‘what will be, will be’ & just hope something works out for me. Luckily lady luck is on my side, I find an ATM & after hearing some bull of some dude about the 120CUC Taxi being the only way as buses will take ages to leave blah blah, I find another guy whose bus leaves for my Hotel in 30mins & only costs 40CUC, BOOM!
Basically the Hotel in Varadero is really nice but your typical large American style with Canadian meat heads flexing in every corner & girls going ‘like, like, like…yeah like’ while fixing their false eyelashes around the pool, yak. The beach was really nice though & the room also cool but due to a huge lack of communication with the rest of the world in Cuba, I spent most my time just chillaxing, sunbathing & watching Family Guy, American Dad , The World’s Deadliest catch plus American Chopper :D
Onto Havana! I was really looking forward to this one as I’d heard good things about the City.
Hotel – Fail, Havana – Fail, People – Fail.
I really didn’t get Havana, it’s falling down in a lot of places, the people make you feel like they resent you being there but try to be nice to either get tips or then con you & it’s just really difficult knowing where to go or what to do unless you do an organized city tour. I pretty much got conned the moment I took my first steps into the collapsing Havana streets…
Two lads got conned also, going into a bar everyone welcomed them then after a great night with everyone drinking, they hit them with the bar bill for the whole bar pfft.
Cayo Largo ~ Now this place is lush, the kind of place you go with your other half for pretty much just sunbathing (a lot of nudie places), cocktails & lots of sex :) Even though I only done two of those things I still had a really nice time, especially going on the Catamaran & meeting a lovely couple from Rome.
Largo truly seems to be the home of the Geckos, they are EVERYWHERE. As are the crabs which stalk you, watching you then when you turn to face them they put their claws up in the air as if saying ‘it wasn’t me guv, it wasssssnt meeee’ then run sideways off the path into a hole (I also saw a snake which I went to take a photo of and them realized I didn’t have a clue if it was poisonous or not, so left it be). There was also another interesting creature, a crazy old woman with skin the colour of tar, who wore green sparkling bikinis, hot pants & little tops showing off her aging cleavage, nice. She was sweet though because she always called me bonita as she drunkenly staggered past in her massive heals.
On leaving Largo I went back to Havana for one night with the Rome couple & we decided to try & find somewhere for Salsa. Well that was interesting to say the least, it took 4 taxi’s going round in circles & to about 4 different places (was a Monday night so maybe quiet in the salsa world), ended up in ‘Cafe de Musica’ which was nice, although much like the other places was covered in young girls dressed like prostitutes (I think most of them were. They would chat up the foreign old men for food, money blah blah), but it had a live band & while we waited for that to start I got suitably drunk
The band was ace & all around people were dancing salsa but what made it even more interesting was once the band finished they started playing really cool house music & everyone got up & ‘had it’, including the Rome couple who danced pretty frigging amazing for 50 year olds. A good night & I went home drunk at 2.30am with a taxi coming at 5.30am for the airport :S
A long (& hanging) 2 flights later & I arrive in Cancun. Because I had missed the bus/ferry to Holbox Island I decided to hang in Cancun for a couple of nights to see what it’s all about. Actually the downtown area was alright & not too Americanized, I stayed in a cool Hostel which was like a flat share & I got free breakfast & dinners there which was ace. I also felt complete & utter hysteria when I walked into a shop &, after two weeks in Cuba, found somewhere with so much choice of food & drink it totally overwhelmed me (I almost shed a materialistic tear).
Now I’m currently in Holbox about to leave for Playa del Carmen tomorrow. Holbox is a cute little island with only golf carts to get about, the streets are sand covered & everyone is very very chilled out. Met some Argentinean lads on the bus who I shared a taxi with to the port with 4 of us crammed in the back (this happens a lot while travelling, also had 4 in the back of the taxi in Havana & about 8 of us in a car in Honduras!).
I’m staying in Tribu Hostel which I highly recommend; it was built only a year ago by a really nice Italian couple & it just really bloody cool, has a cinema room that’s amazing plus a nice bar, lot’s of space & the beach literally next door. Went on a Whale Shark tour yesterday where I got to swim literally over a whale shark twice, was so amazing & I so wanted to reach out & touch it (not allowed dammit), then three of us went on a bike ride to go see the flamingos, only issue being they are in the water far away so we waded through lots of thick muddy flamingo s*** for a while. Met some nice people so far, one woman who is travelling for THREE YEARS :0 The only downside to this little gem of a little island is the mosquitoes & sand flies, they certainly have a mean bite or thirty.
Happy to be back in Mexihoo now , love the fact every single shop, bar & restaurant plays pumping upbeat house music YUMMERS!! Can’t help but shake it when going to buy some coke (the drinking variety). Also getting a lot of nice comments on my tan now as apparently it’s a lovely golden colour (Thankgod after no sun for 2 months but which will last all of approximately 2 weeks once I’m home) but then one woman who commented completely wiped that compliment & body slammed me into the dirt by then asking if I was 32! Haha, nice. At least everyone else out here seems to think I’m 26 ;D
So that’s about it, maybe one day I’ll get to write about my adventures in Bolivia & Peru as so much happened & met some amazing people with great banter to write about, it would be a shame not to but for now my blog is almost at an end. Six days left, six months in Latin America which have been an experience to say the least.
Thank you everyone I have met for an amazing time & memories, I am sure those I got on with most will become lifelong friends.
It’s been good
Sue :)x
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