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Dominican Republic: A resumé in facts, figures, pictures – and Music

Dominican Republic: A resumé in facts, figures, pictures – and Music

  We spent almost four weeks traveling the Dominican Republic. When we first arrived we had just a vague idea what this country could be like – mostly we associated big resorts, beaches and palm trees with it. Our first destination, the Bavaro/Punta Cana region pretty much confirmed these associations. As Maria, our first host in Bavaro put it, “This is not the real the real Dominican Republic”. And she was right. We found a different world as soon as we…

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Week 1 – Facts, Figures and Pictures

Week 1 – Facts, Figures and Pictures

  We’ve been on the road for a week now. A short summary in numbers and pictures:   Accomodation [table th=”0″] Hotels,1 Private Rooms,2 [/table] Transport [table th=”0″] Bus/Guagua,2 Taxi,2 Taxi drives in which we ended up telling the driver the way,2 Motoconcho (backseat of a small motorbike),1 Taxi/Moto-Offers we turned down because we REALLY wanted to walk,approx. 74 (mostly in Bavaro/Punta Cana area) Motorboat,1 [/table] Weather [table th=”0″] Sunshine hours,basically all from sunrise to sunset. Except for some short…

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