We spend our time exploring the island - we walked the path to the north side of the island ending up at Otto Beach. We walked along the beach and though some jungle passing Farm Peach and Love and Derrek's Place which both seemed to be completely deserted. We also took the path up to the light tower at the top of the hill but I was too chicken to make the climb to the top in my flip flops.
We spent the rest of the time hanging out in Cafe Tranquilo which has excellent food (the owner is a trained chef), cold drinks, good coffee, and using their free wifi with our iTouches (better then lugging around a lap top).
We also visited Little Corn Beach and Bungalow (which looks really nice) for lunch and snacks a few times as it was just a few minutes walk north from Carlito's.
We ate dinner and hung out every night at Cool Spot which is next door to Carlito's. It seemed to be the place to be for people staying on the east side of the island and always had a good number of people there to socialize with. We had some excellent chicken dishes and even tried the famous run down. I normally am not a big fan of sea food but the run down was excellent (order a day in advance). We washed it all down with beers and flor de cana rum. Dinner prices were reasonable with most dishes being around $10. On some nights they will have a free dessert for dinner guests. One night was a coconut pound cake and another night was a killer cake made with a fruit topping that tasted like chocolate.
On our last day we had breakfast at Rose's restaurant (on the path towards Casa Iguana) I had an excellent huevos rancheos, complete with coffee and juice for only $3 - definitely the best bargain on the island and would have eaten there again if we had tried it earlier during our visit
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