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Pro
Amazing people, GREAT food, rich historical background, beautiful beaches and scenery
Con
poverty, intense humidity, chaotic
In a nutshell
A place with many firsts
23 Reviews Amber is a vegetable fossil resin that when hardened becomes a semi precious gem used in jewelry. The range of its colors go from pale yellowish to bright red, and more rarely green and blue. It differentiates from Baltic amber in the tree where they're originated from. Larimar is a variety of...
Alcázar de Colón - Columbus' house
12 Reviews This mansion was the house of the Columbus family in Santo Domingo. It was built by Christoper Coulmbus' son, Diego in 1515. Today, it's a museum furnished with original and period furniture. This is by far the best of Santo Domingo's attractions.
Faro a Colón - Columbus Lighthouse
11 Reviews Christopher Columbus or Cristobal Colon as the Spanish call him is larger than life itself in the Dominican Republic. Considering that this island’s government and society have had quite a bit of trouble during the centuries to establish themselves after the initial glory and fast decline, Colon...
Acuario Nacional - The Aquarium
7 Reviews Despite seeming a little dated (its actually built in 1990), this open air aquarium was actually very nice. Its location has a great overlooking view of the Caribbean. It has a great display of Sea turtles and mantees.
Los Tres Ojos - The 3 Eyes National Park
5 Reviews The 3 eyes is its english name.. It's a large sinkhole with 3 lagoons (the 3 eyes) in it. The most impressive of which is the Azul Ojo, the "blue eye", which is a lagoon with crystal clear blue water.
Catedral Primada de América - The Cathedral
11 Reviews Built between 1521 and 1540, this was intended by the Vatican to the religous center of the West Indies. The church structure is a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque styles. This was the first cathedral built in the Americas.
Parque Colón - Columbus Square
8 Reviews The 19th century precursor to the megalomaniac “Faro a Colon” mausoleum is the monument to the Gobernador in the old town on the grounds of the ex Plaza Mayor, nowadays baptised Parque de Colon. The composition is apparently produced by a French master whose name is not that important to posterity...
Museo de las Casas Reales - Royal Houses Museum
8 Reviews This building completed in 1520, was the office of the Governor General of the West Indies and office of the Royal Audiences. The complex has been a museum since 1976. It houses Santo Domingo's artifacts in the Hispanic period.
El Malecón - The Ocean Front avenue
4 Reviews I though about simply including this in the tip about the Malecón, but the seafront is just too beautiful along the outskirts of Santo Domingo to really cram in with the sea wall. The Río Ozama is obviously a major port and harbour for the entire Dominican Republic, so it can sometimes seem like...
1 Review and 154 Opinions I stayed here on a recent business trip in the Zona Colonial in Santo Domingo. This 6 room hotel...
2 Reviews and 223 Opinions The service was wonderful. I paid 76.50 for a standard room with a king-sze bed, a TV, refrigerator,...
3 Reviews Gloria (the guide) asked us if we wanted to shop, and I said no, so we got back into the car and drove to a restaurant called El Conusco. She said this is where all the tours go for lunch. It is well set up for large groups of people and has a buffet of national foods for people to eat. Egarrido...
2 Reviews I don't know how to classify this restaurant, as it is meant to be like a bit of Spain in the capital of the Dominican Republic. The restaurant is in a historic and fitting setting - the Plaza España, just across from the Alcazar Colón, and its distinguished by its large Spanish flag and faux...
9 Reviews Taxis are not just means of transportation. They transport you into another dimension. Such beaten up and gutted out vehicles are difficult to find the world over. It is a minor miracle that they are actually running not to mention being allowed to run. The downtown fare up to the “Faro a Colon”...
Metro/Caribe Tours (first class buses)
1 Review One of the best and probably cheapest way to travel on the island is by bus with Caribe tour. The busses are equipped with air-conditionning and television. For a 4 or 5-hour-fare, you'll only pay +/- 100 pesos.
Calle El Conde - El Conde street
4 Reviews This "Pedestrian Only" shopping street is both the center of tourist goods and western designer clothes. It runs from Parque Colon to Parque Independencia. The street name honors the Count of Penalba, who defeated the English during the 17th century.
1 Review The biggest department store in Santo Domingo. We entered there as I wanted to buy a couple of disposable cameras (my camera stopped working on my second day in SD... why they never break down when you're at your home place??? :) What was supposed to be a 10-minutes shopping, ended as kind of funny...
6 Reviews Dominicans love stew Goat meat and Michelangelo Restaurant is consider the best places to eat this exotic dish. Goats in some providance are fed oregano plants so the Goat would absorb the oregano during the feeding. Michelangelo is a International and Seafood Gourmet Restaurant, but 8 years ago...
Jugo de caña - Sugar cane juice
1 Review Jugo de caña means sugar cane juice and it's delicious! The way to get the juice is to grind the sugar cane, and they usually do it in front of you when you order your juice. The juice is sweet and also an excellent diuretic! I recently bought a glass of sugar cane juice for 25 pesos (a little less...
Los Tres Ojos - The 3 Eyes National Park
1 Review Los Tres Ojos are 3 lagoons inside 3 caves, and then there's a fourth eye, an "open lagoon", that's not considered an "eye". All of them are fed by a subterranean river. The taíno people, the islands first habitants, used these caves for religious ceremonies. At the beginning all 3 caves were one...
4 Reviews Puerta de la Misericordia is usually not on the standard tourist retinue because it is a bit out of the way, but it still an interesting part of the city's history. The western-most gate in the city's defences, it stands beside the ruins of the San Gil Fort. The Puerta gets its name from the fact...
6 Reviews Besides comfortable shoes and clothing and a water bottle (or 2), a good map of the Old Town is good to have if you want to know where you walked by or information in general. A good one can be found at Colonial Zone. They have a printable version and the one on the link, where you can click on the...
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My hometown, la Ciudad Primada de América
Being a Dominican I cannot help but to recommend visiting my country and especially my home town and the capital of the country, Santo Domingo. In the mean time, enjoy my tips and what my hometown has...
The city is chaotic, with some areas nice and ritzy, and others desperately poor. But what strikes the most is the friendliness and openness of its people, and their desire to live and enjoy life....
Santo Domingo was the first European city in the Americas — an important base for dozens of Spanish explorers, with Hernán Cortés leaving here to launch his attack on Mexico, and Diego de Velázquez......
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