Life on the island

For the price of a golf-cart rental ($50 US for a full 24 hours) you can see pretty much everything on the island. Sure, you could do the same walking or bicycling or even for a small bus fare, but there's very little that compares with the sheer hedonistic joy of driving flat-out round the island, pounding beers in a golf-cart. It is absolutely worth the expense. The island is divided in a lot of ways. There's the uber-rich half, where you can see small ruins and very expensive, sort of lonely-looking houses with views of the sea that only an immoral exploitation of labor could buy. I'm just guessing about that. We couldn't figure out how much they might cost. It's possible thay you could build or buy there for as little as a few human kidneys on the black market.
In the tourist center, where the streets are closed to auto traffic, the little shops and restaurants are punctuated with cute-cute little wooden houses. See above photo. And then in the section of the island where the locals mainly live, you see shacks and ramshackle houses mixed in with more expensive places. I thought I'd give you a picture of each kind.