Central Highlands

Introducing Central Highlands

Even the most die-hard beach fan will eventually tire of sun and sand, and when you do, the cool mountainous playground of the Central Highlands is the place to come. Here you’ll find the popular mountain retreat of Jarabacoa (500m) − the Cabarete of the interior – a tourist town and the center of a booming adventure-tour trade. Here you can go white-water rafting, visit waterfalls on horseback and still party till the sun comes up, if you’ve a mind to do so. Economic life in the area revolves around Santiago, the DR’s second-largest city and the capital of a vast tobacco and sugarcane-growing region.

Last updated: Mar 2, 2009