Wow! We just returned from our 8 day adventure through Haiti. We saw so much of the country that even my husband never saw while he lived there on his younger years. The most unbelievable sights that I saw that I must take note of are...
- Tent cities
- Mansions
- The poorest of poor and richest of rich
- Port-Au-Prince airport and city...as I like to refer to it as a game of Tetris...filling up every single spot available
- The barest mountains, and then the must green mountains
- My husband and brother--in-law stopping to help out victims of a car accident; Every passer-by stopping to help the accident victims, coming from the top of a mountain on foot, as well as drivers; A random driver picked up the man who needed medical attention to bring him to a hospital
- Going through cities with no one, then entering traffic, people, and cars everywhere
- Sitting in the Commissary of Gonaives office; their jail cells; a shot gun in the bathroom
- Blowing out half of the hotels electricity from my blow dryer
- The minister of the Dominican Republic, his wife and dog
- The Citadelle Laferrière; climbing to the top; young children laying down on top of the highest part, at the very edge, playing on the palace; a view from 3,000 ft high; a trio-band of children under 5 years old, playing handmade instruments out of bamboo and sticks
- Ruins of Sans-Souci Palace
- Founders of Haiti sculptures
- A Food for the Poor light post
- The 365 Doors Palace & The Crête-à-Pierrot
- The Presidential Palace, crumbled from the 2010 earthquake
- Many limbless men
- One of the most beautiful beaches at Club Indigo; Brazilian Marines playing volleyball in speedos; uniformed Army soldiers walking on the beach
- Amazing sunsets
- The same man selling lambi (conch) out of his canoe in the ocean, twice in two resorts hours away from each other
- A man swimming with a basket tied to his feet that just caught lambi, bringing it to shore to sell
- Fresh food and juice everyday, all from the earth; endless rice, beans and plantains
- The House my husband grew up in, where his mother still lives
- Haitian Christmas dinner with family that traveled hours just to see us
- Hanging out with hurricane lamps because of no electricity
- A dear friend, Ronald, who we hadn't seen in 4 years
- Outdoor kitchens and bathrooms
- Amazingly beautiful restaurants that made me feel like I was walking into a European heaven
- Bringing our own alcohol into restaurants
- "White" skin Haitians speaking Creole, French and English
- Ogier-Fombrun Museum
- The owner of Moulin Sur Mer
- The house my husband was born in, on the floor, literally
- Cars and trucks piled so high with people and things
- Beautifully decorated Haitian taxi buses
- A semi truck flipped over on it's side with several men outside of it, trying to figure out how to get it out of the swail
- My all time favorite Haitian band, Carimi, in the nastiest, most disgusting "night club," but had the time of my life; a bathroom so nasty we couldn't use it; got 2 hugs and kisses from Mickael, the lead singer, and a photo with him
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