Hola! Wow! Got up at 6am and took two buses to La Romana in the east RD 150 or $4.00 and then took a gua gua (dangerous koombie in South Africa) to Bayahibe for RD50. It would have cost me RD50 more if I put my bag in the back but I kept it on my lap! Scrooge eh! Arrived here at 10:30 am and met Franklin the front desk guy at Hotel Bayahibe. What a sweetie. He couldn´t be nicer. Every time I came back to see if my room was ready he nicely said No it is another 30 minutes. So I checked in at 12:30 to a room with 3 double beds, two walls of windows and a view of a Swiss owned Dive Site and THE PLAYA (beach). Great little touristy town. Lil expensive for a backpackers budget but somehow I will survive the week. I booked 6 dives at an American owned biz, Fun Diving including two day excursions to local islands, a wreck dive, wall dive, several aquarium type area dives and snorkelling galore. Im here for 5 days at $35.00 per nite. For two it would be about $24 each. Not bad for Caribbean but VERY expensive for Central or South American or Asian or African accommodation.
It is POURING POURING POURING rain today so...Monday afternoon hanging out with Franklin and the staff and having a few El Presidente Lights, mangos and bananas and sitting on my balcony overlooking the beach and dive shop and people watching. Quite nice actually!
Hope your Monday has been as eventful and warm as mine. Bad news....I sat in CHEWING GUM and it is all over my pants. What to do? I will freeze it tonite in my freezer and scrape off in the am.
Oh...no more problems with my tummy so I am ok! Filipe and Jan are WONDERFUL new friends here in DR. Together we are fetching my mother at the airport in Santa Domingo on Saturday.
Besos, Georgie
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