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Havana, Cuba 2 / 3
It has been such a long time since we updated the blog the last time, and yet so much has happened that I have to break the next blog entry into three pieces. Right now we are in Havana, Cuba already, but this chapter will cover our stay in Antigua, Guatemala.
So, after getting tired of the island's curse, we took the morning ferry back to La Ceiba, where our intention was to stay overnight. This time we decided to avoid the "party district" and get a nice air conditioned room in boring downtown, so we took a taxi from the ferry terminal to one of the air conditioned hotels mentioned in our book. This was the second time our book let us down. After searching for the hotel in the street for a while, a helpful Honduran guy told us that the hotel had for long been out of business. At this moment we were just really tired and wanted to catch some sleep in an air conditioned room to escape the crazy humidity of the Caribbean coast. As we didn't really like La Ceiba anyway and its hotels were just disappearing apparently, we decided to leave the city altogether and go to the small town of Tela.
When we got to Tela, it seemed that all the hotels were a lot more expensive again than they were supposed to be according to our book. It was really hot, and Michelle sat down with our backpacks in the central park while I looked for a place to stay. After long search, we decided to splurge on a pretty expensive room (on our scale) in Hotel Presidente. There we spent lovely two days, and although we still didn't have AC, the combination of cold shower and a good fan worked well enough. During the two days we ate some great seafood, visited a Garifuna village La Ensenada where Michelle got her hair braided for 4 euros, and listened to some crazy birds conquering the central park during the night.
We still had a few days to spend before heading to Cuba, and as Tela was still too expensive for us, we decided to give Antigua in Guatemala a shot because we avoided its tourist crowds on the first time. This ended up to be a really good decision. Although its pretty touristy, we really liked it and enjoyed our time there. A good part of this was because of the amazing hostel we found from the city - by just paying 50 Quetzales (5 euros) per person, we got better beds than we have back home, hot shower and cable TV!
So the lesson we learned was that although we don't want to spend much on accomodation, a good place to stay is really a key to a good experience!
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