Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Day 3: Labadee, Haiti


Today we arrive at 8 am in Labadee, Haiti and we stayed there till 4pm.
Labadee is a beach resort owned by Royal Caribbean. It is very beautiful, however everything is new and fake in the way that it was made to look like the real Haiti but it’s new and clean and everything is in order, it remain me of Disney World. Everything is manmade, even the palm trees looked like if they were planted there full grown.  It was really pretty in a club med type of way, however, I like to see the real places not just the touristic ones.
There is an artisanal market and then a lot of vendor selling their wears, however they are so insistent and pushy that they take the joy out of shopping (even if I don’t buy anything because I can’t be carrying anything else), nevertheless, I don’t like it went you can’t walk in peace, (it remind me of Mexico). Besides they did not have anything interesting, just your typical island souvenirs.
The beach was nice; the water was transparent, just beautiful. They had many activities to do: a zip line (done that), parasailing, a water park and some other activities that I forgot what.
Today the breakfast buffet was small because most people left early for Labadee, so I had waffles, and couple pastries.
In the island we had barbecue ribs, chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs, and salads and fruits. I had the ribs and chicken and then a few desserts and some fruit. It was very good.
For dinner I had a nice crab cake and stroganoff, well, something that they called stroganoff, because that wasn’t it, it wasn’t bad, it just was not stroganoff. For dessert I had a berrymissu which was really good.

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