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Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 23 2012 04:41 GMT
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My wife and I went on vacation to Dominican Republic from March 14th to the 21st. It was an amazing experience. The people down there were amazing hard working and appreciative. It really makes you take a step back and look at everything you have. The drinks were great, so great in fact I don't totally recall my first day there. This was huge, we had gone to Cuba in July of 11`and the drinks and the food were not great at all. The food was awesome here too, I brought my own steak spice from home just to add a little flavour if I had found some bland tasting meat. The food was great, the drinks were great, our room was amazing except the AC wasn`t as cold as I would have liked it to be and the resort and beach was breath taking.

The resort we stayed at was the Occidental Grand Flamenco in Punta Cana if anyone is looking at going down south, I highly recommend.

The most fun I had down there was for sure the excursions from the resort. The wife and I ventured off into town to buy some keep sakes and goods, everything down there, for the most part, you bargain for. Someone would ask $200 for something and you would walk away with it for $25. Who can blame them from getting all they can out of some people, we were told the average wage down there was $250/month.

The first excursion we went on was these off road buggies. We visited a beach, swam in lake deep inside a cave, seen how they made coffee, chocolate, cigars, etc. It was a good cultural experience. Not to mention driving the things were pretty fun, we had to wear bandanas to keep the dust out of our mouths and nose. I felt pretty badass, like I should have an AK47 and trying to start a revolution. Anyway..

Our second excursion was a caribbean festival tour. We went out to this open water aquarium place called Stingray Bay, there we got to hold and swim with some de-barbed Stingrays and then we got to swim with sharks. Some of these things were huge, they were called Nurse Sharks. Apparently they are nocturnal so during the day they are fairly calm. We were told that we were not allowed to go too close but on the way over one of the guides came up to me and said `Do you want to touch?' to which I replied ".. Yes". So I got to touch this 15 foot giant shark, as soon as I touched his back he started to turn and move and I thought "Crap, I didnt bring my big cross necklace like LL Cool J had in Deep Blue Sea." Then it swam past me and I thought "Phew". It was awesome!

They also have this stuff down there call Mamajuana, its a drink thats made of healing herbs, honey, red wine and rum. The stuff tastes horrible, and I will never drink it again.

Sorry for the ranting, its 1:40am and the day before we returned home to Canada there was a murder-suicide on the native reserve across the street. So I can't sleep with the banging of drums and singing. So yeah, if anyone wants to go down south, I recommend this place for sure!

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Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
March 23 2012 05:00 GMT
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I didn't get much time to explore the DR when I went 4 years ago, but I enjoyed my adventure there thoroughly. It was with my church, so it was a very structured trip, but what I did see of the country was awesome and I definitely want to go back someday. I am glad that you enjoyed it there too.
Lyter
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United Kingdom2145 Posts
March 23 2012 05:06 GMT
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I went to DR about 6 years ago and it was one of the few actual holidays I've ever been on and I loved that place, the resort was gorgeous and the locals were really nice. Our tour guide was some guy who did eddie murphy impressions on the side, was a pretty chill dude :D Got into a fight with a couple americans who wanted the table tennis bats we rented but that was like the only negative lol, and even then that was pretty fun
surfinbird1
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Germany999 Posts
March 23 2012 19:37 GMT
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I've been to Punta Cana as well, can't remember which resort. I had a fucking great time but in the end we only took one half day trip outside the resort. So it was pretty much replaceable for me. Could have been any other country with a lot of sun and a beach
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