Obispo Street

I think Katie and I did an excellent job of finding a good place to stay for our remaining nights in Havana. We were centrally located on this street called Obispo, which is a main pedestrian thoroughfare in Old Havana (Habana Vieja). Throughout our travel in Cuba we stayed in these places called casa particulares. The Cuban government established this system where homeowners are allowed to rent their rooms to travelers for the price of US $15-30 a night. Most of the places are just spare bedrooms within the house of your host family. They usually offered us meals (paid, of course) but were by far the best options as far as food went the whole trip. All of the places we stayed at were in these beautiful old period buildings, some nicer than others of course. This particular particulare was located right up the street from La Floridita, a very famous Hemingway hangout and the birthplace of the daquiri. Every direction you could go was just teeming with beautiful architecture and busy people.