Santo Domingo is the oldest city in the New World, and was the uninhabited site first of whole America of European later the "discovery". It sees the cathedral first, the hospital first, the university first. It walks ahead the stone streets in the Colonial zone, where there is much Spanish architecture and it imagines as they were the things back in century 16. It discovers the city of Colon.

No other city in the Caribbean at night has more variations of restaurants and life. So many restaurants it also has, that are almost impossible, for local people, to have visited all. The capital never to duer to me and is an excellent place to find people.

Santo Domingo also offers good purchases. Stores of discount have good prices of outstanding products. Santo Domingo is the populada and diverse city in the Caribbean. It has of almost four million inhabitants and covers 250 kilometers square.

Of the prettiest beaches in the world!

More than 200 leguas (300 kilometers) of sand beaches idilio gives to the coast a dramatic profile. It is difficult to select between the tides calm of Small Mouth, waters of deep colors in Juan Dolio-Guyacanes, postal-perfect beaches of Romana and Bayahibe, the white sands that cover the beach from White End to Bavaro, 20 leguas (32 kilometers) and extends until Macao, the smooth waves of the Terranas, Opening and Key Raised in Samaná in the north-west, the current joys of the Atlantic sea in the north where the beaches of Cofresí, Golden Beach, Beach Grande and Sosúa - and the beach of Cabarete, perfect for windsurfing all are excellent, or the crude one, indomada beauty of southwestern Barahona, and the pretty one it borders of the sea without limits that tente the imagination. The diversity of beaches partly explains because as much people travel repeatedly to the Dominican Republic, no of beaches are equal.

Culture & celebration in Santo Domingo

Nobody can visit the Dominican Republic without knowing its capital, flood of magician, Romance history and, that was the first city of America after the discovery. It is the biggest city in the country and the first port of the sea.

Located in the point where Ozama River runs until the Caribbean Sea, the city has a good accessible artificial harbor for the mayoridad of the trading boats and passengers. It is connected with boats and airlines with his main points in South and North America and serves like central networking as modern highways. Santo Domingo is a center of the tourism, economy, and administration. It is the site of factories, producing foods process, spirit, metal products, chemistries, cement, textiles and works like exit of the distribution of sugar grey hair, meat of pig and head of cattle and other products of the region in around.

Points of interest include the Cathedral of Santa Maria the Minor (constructed 1514-20), that are thought that it contains the rest of Cristóbal Colon, the palace (constructed 1510; a museum from 1957) of Diego Columbus (c. 1480-1526), the son of Cristóbal Columbus and the virrey of the island (1511-26); churches of century 16, like San Nicholas and San Francisco; and the walls of the original Spanish city. Institutions of education include the Independent University of Santo Domingo (1538), that apparently is oldest of America, and Pedro Henríquez Urena national University (1966).

Cultural institutions include the National Gallery of Art (1943); the Museum of the Dominicaño Man (the first National Museum, 1973), known for its collection pre-Columbiaño; the Modern Museum of Art (1976); the National Library (1971); and several libraries, you publish, private and of the university.

No other city in the Caribbean at night offers better varieties of restaurants and life. In the capital there are so many restaurants that is practically impossible, also for the local inhabitants, them to have visited all. And it is a city that never to duer and for that reason an ideal place to me to find people (important to go to the Levee, first boulevard of the Colonial Zone).

Santo Domingo also offers excellent opportunity to make purchases. You will enjoy the extraordinary market "Market Model". Stores of discount have products of good marks for good prices. Santo Domingo is the city with I animate and diversity in the Caribbean more. It has almost 4 million inhabitants and covers 250 kilometers square.

Whales in Samaná

A surprising spectacle waits for each to you veraño in Samana Bay´the jorobadas whales that come from the seas from Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and North America, that arrive at the Caribbean Sea to give birth and to look for pair in the hot water. From January to March, they are thousands that remains in Samaná Bay.
The spectacle is impressive, when the males of 40 tons jump the water above and fall meters down advanced. If the male does not gain reactions of any female he treats to attract them with a long and singsong song that the whales can hear until a radius of 30 kilometers. Only those that are submerging can listen to this song. Later to give light their small ones, the whales prepare their return until the north. From 1986 "Bank of Silver", Samaná, has become a sanctuary for the protection of the whales.

The pretty national park the Haitises

A whole day traverse pequenos fields of grey hair and towns in the way until the preserved forest. Visit with extranas boat a formation of rock, caves and margraves.

Opportunity to see drawings of the Tainos and rock stems from the time of the native ones, Pre-Colon. The national park the Haitises is located in the part more west of the bay in the South coast traverse of Sanchez, this park has pantaños of margrave with great trees of margrave, forming a green and rich canopy above the signs in the water that wind via the pantaños. Caves of the Tainos, that were the inhabitants first of the island and other popular attractions of the park.

A paradise in the islands Saona & Catherine

An Earth sky. Obligatorily it is necessary to see the "natural well" of Saona island. This is an area in the sea very little deep (until the figure) and warms up. You can swim and take photos from stars of the sea (there are many).

Paradise in Raised Key, Samaná

Raised key is a small island in Samaná Bay. The "Bounty Hunters" came looking for Paradise and they found it in Raised Key. The whole island is a small jewel, located little outside of the peninsula of Samaná and is a perfect place to escape by a day. White sand and like dust, turquesas waters, like crystal - ideal for snorkeling or to swim smoothly. Several birds it has there, like cotorras Hispanioles, lettuces and ganetas. It is remarkable that there also there is ìjutíaî and solenodonte.

This island also is called Bacardi island because some of the palms appear those there of you announce Bacardi. A gorgeous island with hundreds of tourists visiting every day. Traverse can be walked on foot the whole island in only 15 minutes. Now you can imaginarte as it is, the beaches are super pretty absolutely and it is worth the trouble to relax there by hours.

The precious Jump of Lemon, Samaná

A sign arrives that one hour on foot lasts or mounting horse, but the price is worth the trouble. This jump is impressive, 40 meters (132 feet) put well in half of hills of Mountain range of Samaná, some 300 meters (990 feet) above the level of the sea.

Adventures in Enriquillo Lake

A quite great lake with the salt water, greatest of the Antilles, located in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. The home of the greatest reservation of Americaños crocodiles and several iguanas. Also, many types of birds exist here, for example flamenco, ìMadame Zagásî (Corvidae) and "Palm Crowns". Tourists who go to this excursion from other regions of the country must that to think about remaining by one night.

To raise Duarte Tip

It is the highest point of the Antilles (3.175 meters or near 10.489 feet). Its ascent, from foot or with a mule, has gotten to be a great attraction for local and foreign travellers. Located between the national parks of J. Armando Bermudez and Jose of the Carmen Ramirez. This montana has low temperatures, between 0º C to 15º C (59º F).

Concerts & culture in the Stops of Chavón

In the west of Bayahibe it is left Stops of Chavon, a center of art of the Caribbean, constructed in 1976, a simulation of a Mediterranean town from century 15. Located above the Chavon River, in Stops of Chavon there is archaeology museum that is the Dominicaño museum of more importance outside of the capital. There there are fascinating exhibitions of the indigenous culture of Hispañola. High of Chavon also it contains a theater of Greco style with 5 thousand chairs, used for concerts of international musicantes. It advanced the pebble streets you find galleries of artists and stores, and also some restaurants of good quality. For artists looking for its atmosphere of creativity in the Caribbean, in Stops of Chavon is a school of arts and a program: "Artistas-de-Residencia" that offers "workshops" (inglés)y calls to account by 3 months in photography, painting, sculpture, music, writing and architecture. Also there is a design school.

It knows a Carnival Dominican

The Dominicaño Carnival is an attraction of color, rate and tradition that every year turns the streets of the island until a great theater, where people marches improvising and taking advantage of the atmosphere the original culture. Guide of Carnival of Dominican Republic is Possibly difficult to imagine a so full carnival of life and color like that in the Caribbean, that takes place between the last week in February until the first week in March. She is known that carnivals she has to do with the Easter, in the Christian religion, and represents the abstinence from pleasures of the meat. But carnivals have more still means. The custom to decorate themselves and to put masks is as old as the being humaño, and has magical senses originally. The Dominicaños Carnivals have gone described like of the most amused in the Caribbean whole number. The celebrations in Santiago and the Fertile valley are most important in the respect of tradition and popularity. The carnival in Santo Domingo is the center of the official activities.

Merengue in all parts!

In any city or Dominicaño town, you cannot save the fast air of Merengue, that sounds of the horns or the local channels of the radius. One is the "national Dance", of the Dominicaños. It is a music authenticates of the Caribbean, a mixture of rates and Africaños dances, that were stabilized progressively in the Antilles, with the mixture of European influences and Africaños. Merengue was the music that it later conquered to the Dominican Republic Cuba and Puerto Rico. First it was music of the people of privileged classes, but later one put everywhere of the island.