Santo Domingo
This is a deeply Dominican city – an obvious statement but no less true.
This is a deeply Dominican city – an obvious statement but no less true.
The Península de Samaná is a small sliver of land – just 40km long and 15km wide – of rolling mountains, a sea of hillocks pushing their way to a long coastline of protected beaches and picturesque coves.
Within two hours’ drive of Puerto Plata’s international airport, you’ll find all the best that the north coast has to offer – water sports and beach nightlife in Cabarete, mountain biking in the coastal hills, the celebrated 27 waterfalls of...
This iconic region, synonymous with sun, sand and binge eating, is rightly popular with the hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the southeast the economic engine of the tourism industry in the DR.
This one-time farming hamlet is now the adventure-sports capital of the country, booming with condos and new development.
No longer a rustic fishing village, today Las Terrenas is a cosmopolitan town and seems as much French (approaching a colony) and Italian as Dominican.
It wouldn’t be out of line to equate the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic as a sort of sea and sun Disneyland – after all, it is here where the megalomaniacal all-inclusive resorts snatch up broad swaths of cinematic beaches faster than the...
The road to this small fishing community 28km northeast of Samaná ends at a fish shack on the beach.
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.
Nestled in the low foothills of the Cordillera Central, Jarabacoa maintains an under-the-radar allure as the antithesis to the clichéd Caribbean vacation.
Samaná is another far-flung Dominican town swimming hard against the currents of the global recession: come here outside whale season and it feels like a ghost town, with as many daily closures of local business as glorious sunrises over the bay.
A getaway from a getaway, this appropriately named beach only a few kilometers west of Las Terrenas is a better alternative for those seeking a more peaceful, reclusive vacation.
Comendador del Rey, or Comendador for short, is the official name of the border town west of San Juan.
On the coastal highway 36km northwest of Sánchez and 54km southeast of Río San Juan, Nagua is a hot, dusty town whose interest to tourists is strictly as a transportation hub.
In 1956 the Dominican government est-ablished Parque Nacional Armando Bermúdez with the hope of preventing the kind of deforestation occurring in Haiti.
The country town of Moca has prospered in recent decades as a result of its production of coffee, cocoa and tobacco.
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