Highlight    8 days beach and mountains

              US$  999.00 p/P              8 days history and culture   

Privat journey   min 2 Person        daily

Group journey            min  6 Person            max 15 Person   weekly

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1. Day:       

Santo Domingo

 arriving at the airport and transfer into the old part of town of Santo Domingo. To become acquainted with remainder of the daily for the free order around the oldest city of the new world.

 Included meals:                  no

 overnight accomodation:                                

Hotel Caribe Colonial, Santo Domingo

 2. Day:       

Santo Domingo

 today become acquainted with you the first European city in America. Here the first cathedral was built, resided the first governor, the first bishop is voted and the first hospital opened. The quirlige town with millions of inhabitants has a set of cultural to offer in particular architectural objects of interest as one does not find it otherwise anywhere on Hispaniola. They start the day in the historical, from the UNESCO protected old part of town, the so-called Zona Colonial. On the city round course you see the palace of the Diego Kolumbus, the palace of the governor and the general captains, the cathedral and the Parque de Colón with the bronze monument of Christoph Kolumbus. They walk to the lady road by the Calle de  Damas, and see the many business and street vendors as well as bars and restaurants. In the afternoon you become acquainted with the objects of interest outside of the historic town centre. They drive to the Faro A Colón in the east of the city. In a large Mausoleum the mortal remnants of Kolumbus are to be here. They hold for the largest aquarium of the Karibik with the Acuario Nacional, and visit the los Tres Ojos with underground river. Before you reach  the 27 de Febrero, the largest Road of the Down Town, the port promenade by means of the boulevard, make a stop with the Palacio Naciona. In the modern quarters at the Malecón the Merengue rhythm revives in the evening hours.

Included meals:    Breakfast and  lunch

 overnight accomodation:                                

 Hotel Caribe Colonial, Santo Domingo

 3. Day:       

Santo Domingo – San Cristóbal – Plaenque – Baní – Azua - Barahona

 (daily distance 220 km)

 you drive along the coastal road out of town to San Cristóbal, the birth city of the dictator Trujillo. The city is today a market and a commercial centre and possesses decorations a baroque church. Drive on by agriculturally used area to the beaches of Playa Najayo and Palenque. The villages are surrounded by Mango and bread fruit trees, Kokospalm and bananas. Inspection of the local hospital in Palenque, which is led by Mrs. Doktor Maria Elexia Bautista Wegmüller. It is exemplary and very cleanly led national hospital with own laboratory and an intensive care unit for lethal cases. The patients are treated free of charge. The travel leads into the province Peravia and into the region of the Sugar. Owing to the water wealth since the colonial age Sugar is here already cultivated. After Baní the road leads to the smal mountains by increasingly more meagerly becoming country. Here grow Kaktus, yellow-flowering agaves, thorn shrubs, acacias and acting like eyes. In Hatillo you see the Bahia de Ocoa. They drive by a coastal plain, which is formed by fruitful washing country. Large Farms witness from the fertility of the soil. The province capital Azua had famous establishment fathers with Diego Velazquez (has late Cuba conquered) and Hernán Cortés (has late Mexico conquered). The road leads those into the mountains, by a dry and a stony, with agaves at Mexico reminds, surveying width unit country. Then a far view of the large river opens Rio Yaque del Sur with palms in the river valley and steep, strongly eroded walls. It is this the only river oasis in this dry area. They reach to the Bahia de Neiba convenient province capital Barahona against evening. Here the famous Pirat Cofresí is to have had its slip angle.

 Included meals:    Breakfast and the lunch

  overnight accomodation:                                 

 Hotel Playa Azul, Barahona

 4. Day:       

Lago Enriquillo

 (daily distance 210 km)

 one of the most delightful areas of the country is round the area around the Lago Enriquillo. It takes the deepest zone, 40 m under the sea Nivel. The area is hot and drying, however by sources and small rivers extremely in parts fruitful. To the locality mansion Jaragua is offered for the first time a view of the enormous lake. Motionless are appropriate the shallow water by the strong evaporation for extremely salt of lake in the sunlight. The lake is 42 km long and 12 km broad. A thick layer of died shells and Corals covers the sea-reason. Boat travel on to the national park explained Isla Cabritos. By its separatingness it became a Naturparadies of first rank. For the reptiles good living conditions prevail despite the island situation. The national park is a retreat area for pointed muzzle crocodiles, the rare Nashornleguan. Under over 100 the plant types there are several endemic. Subsequently, travel by the place La Descubierta with its multicolored painted timber buildings. Here well a Stop can be inserted, in order to observe multicolored driving. In the wild-similar surrounding field around the partial verkrusteten salt lake some important former Taíno settlements were discovered approximately. With the inspection of the caves of read Caritas discovers you interesting rock cutting, Relikte of the Taíno culture. Enriquillo, the Indian leader is to have looked for with its trunk refuge before the Espaniolos here. The border small town Jimaní is wealthy, in addition, considerable oversleeping. Also at the border station to Haiti much is not the matter. They visit the market in mark passport. On the south bank of the lake you drive via Duvergé and have the opportunity to swim in a natural basin. At the crossing with Cabral you pass a large monument of the Kaziken of Indian Enriquillo. They drive along the Laguna del Rincón, a fresh water lake and habitat of many flamingos, Kormorane and turtles. Return trip after Barahona

 included meals:     Breakfast

 overnight accomodation:                                

 Hotel Playa Azul, Barahona

  5. Day:

Barahona – Santo Domingo – Bonao – La Vega – Jarabacoa

 (daily distance 360 km)

 short inspection of Barahona, the center of the sugar industry with its Raffinierie, its silos and sugar tubing resounding. Determine the townscape mostly pretty timber buildings, huts and market conditions. Subsequently, longer travel via Santo Domingo after Jarabacoa. On the Autopista Duarte you drive by rural areas with intensive agriculture. Stands with tropical fruits along the road invite to stopping. In a high valley large Plantagen with Citrusfruits expand. Mansion Altagracia is a larger small market town. Here at stands many basket goods are offered. Bonao has one of the largest nickel mines of the world and is suitable for a break. The travel leads along the fruitful Cibao valley after La Vega. Here Christoph Kolumbus let the fortress La Concepción build, because he assumed rich Goldfounds in the region. Soon the upward gradients increase on the good road. Here the mountain world of the Cordillera cent ral, also mentioned, begins the Alpes Dominicanos where many spend native summer holidays. Jarabacoa is on 600 m over sea and is surrounded by Pinienforests, rivers, mountains and valleys of the rivers Rio Yaque del Norte and Rio Jimenoa. Prevail the whole year over springful temperatures. The air health resort is the center for moving friends and nature lovers. Innumerable adventurous kinds of sport are offered here. Since everything prospers here, the popular place and its environment are famous both for flower breeding and for their horse breeding.  

 Included meals:      Breakfast and dinner

 overnight accomodation:                                

Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa

 6. Day:

Jarabacoa

 (daily distance 30 km)

 you visit the charming place and visit the coffee factory Monte Alto, where everything is explained to you over the cultivation and the processing of the coffee. Naturally there is also a coffee sample. Stop at La Confluencia where the two rivers Rio Yaque del Norte and Rio Jimenoa flow together. Subsequently, short travel to the Cascade Salto Jimenoa. By means of a nature way and some small bridges, one of the most important hydro-electric power plants of the country, you reach this impressing Cascade. It falls over 42 meters into a natural basin. Here you can take a recreating bath. Return to the Ranch for the lunch. The afternoon is to you for further activities at the free disposal or lets you completely simply times the soul and enjoy you the wonderful freshness in this beautiful nature.

Included meals:      Breakfast, noon and dinner

  overnight accomodation:                                

Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa

 7. Day:

Jarabacoa – Santiago de las Caballeros

 (daily distance 80 km)

 return trip after La Vega and trip to the barrier travel place Santo Cerro. On 465 m a high mountain are the 1886 delighted church virgin  Mercedes. Before it a cross and a Type stand directly. Allegedly it concerns a branch of that tree, from which Kolumbus let the first cross manufacture here. Travel down into the fruitful Cibao valley. This is the agricultural vault of the island. Here coffee, cocoa, tobacco, rice and bananas are cultivated. It was already at present the Taíno strongly settled. End of the 1940er years let the US-American company United Fruit company irrigation plants build. No miracle that the restaurant metropolis Santiago developed to the second largest city of the country. They visit a cigar factory where you everything over the tobacco processing are told. For some years the Dominican republic of the neighbour island Cuba referred the name and rank in the cultivation and processing of the tobacco plant to the second place.

 Included meals:      Breakfast

overnight accomodation:                                

 Hotel center Plaza, Santiago de loosely Caballeros

 8. Day:

Santiago de Caballeros – Moca – San Francisco de Macoris – Nagua – Sanchez –Samaná peninsula

 daily distance 180 km)

 the city Santiago was created loosely three times and is the richest of the country. Here it does not happen as for a long time hectically as in the capital. They visit already from a distance the visible landmark of the city, the Heromonument, the cathedral Santiago de Apóstol, the fortress San Luis and the Parque Duarte. Likewise the opportunity exists for the inspection of a Rum manifacture. Drive on after Moca, famous for its courageous men and the railway monument. In the environment of the town much coffee and cocoa are cultivated, which causes the place the economic upswing. At the outskirts of a town of Salcedo you visit the sculpture of the Tres Hermanas Mirabel. The Mirabel sisters María Teresa, Minerva and Patria were shot 1960 after an attendance of their arrested men cold-bloodedly by the soldiers Trujillos. This atrocity caused large at home and abroad indignation. By a fruitful valley you reach San Francisco de Macoris. In the shade of large jungle trees prospers cocoa, which is partly spread at the edges of road for drying.  At the edge of way you see everywhere to cultivations of Papaya, bananas, Mango and king palms. On the Farmland graze Frisian Holsteiner, red-brown Angeliter and Zebu cows. With Nagua you reach the Atlantic ocean. In the environment there are particularly beautiful beaches and you becomes attentive on small shops, at which splinter piglets are roasted. At the coastal road small remainder aura width units settled. The Zone is swampy and the water places is surrounded from close Swampplants. The  small town Sánchez with its calm roads and beautiful timber buildings in the builder style is because of the beginning of the peninsula Samaná to the Bahia de Samaná. This was once a lively, active port, because the last stop of the railway line was here, which led from La Vega to the bay. Of it today still the railway museum witnesses in the open air as well as the old station. 63 km for a long time and between 10 and 20 km broad peninsula Samaná is a tropical paradise landscape with lonely beaches in hidden bays, clean mountain rivers, schroffen rock coasts and a rich bird world. A steep and winding road crosses a beauty hill landscape and leads again to the sea. Lively center of the north coast is las Terrenas. Here you feel still the charm of the Karibik. The beach is nature-leaves and coconuts lies in the sand. 

 Included meals:  Breakfast

 tip

enjoy it following these travel some meet to beach holidays in las terrenas at the fantastic beaches samaná of the peninsula.

Hotel                   Santo Domingo    Hotel Palacio Pedernales           Hotel Villas del Mar Barahona             Hotel Playa Azul   Palenque              Hotel  Playa Palenque Jarabacoa         Rancho Bayguate    Rio San Juan        Hotel Rio S.Juan Bocca Chica      Hostal Zapata