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In many towns and villages, the locals have music playing 24/7. Usually merengue, salsa, or bachata. It's great to listen to it, because it's so lively. Even if it's the same CD over and over again... Leave a Comment
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Typical Dominican cuisine, usually called as comidia criolla contains a lot of starcy and friend food, but there is plenty of variety. The main food in the Dominican Republic is rice and chicken is definitely the most popular meat. Here are some of the dishes that you may come across and perhaps would like to try:
Sancocho (national dish): an all-inclusive meat and vegetable stew, which could contain anything from pork to tripe and sweet potatoes to cassava.
Sancocho prieto: a black stew made with seven different types of meat.
La bandera : white rice, red beans, stewed meat, salad and friend green plantains (tostones)
Moro: rice mixed with beans
Locrio : rice mixed with vegetables with some meat.
You can also try their great sea food chillo (red snapper), mero (sea-bass) or lambi (conch).
The BEST are all the fresh tropical fruits like mangoes, papayas, melons, oranges, bananas, and pineapples. There are people selling big fruit plates on the beach - they cut the fresh fruit in front of you and it tastes absolutely delicious!!
Ok, are you hungry now? :) Leave a Comment
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If you read about Hispaniola before you leave, you will get an idea that the neighbouring countries, the Dominican Republic and Haiti have a long history of not getting along. Do you know why? I personally find it very important to know some of the background before I leave to any trip and thus, I found this book to read : "Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola". It is a very informative and educating books, so I can highly recommend it! Leave a Comment
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La Vega is very famous for its carnival and the devil costumes as well as the traditional masks. Unfortunately I never saw the carnival but I guess it would be great! Leave a Comment
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Sitting under a Bedouin's tent, you will drink a really good tipical cup of tea with them: they will show you all their famous hospitality!!!
Venta Club "Marsa alam" organize this " tea time " with an amazing excursion with camels in the sunset!!!
If you like this arabic dream, you can continue it with a tipical dinner in the desert!!!
And if you LOVE these moments, you'll can visit the "city of emeralds" with a night in a bedouin tent...WOW!!!
Also, what is a desert without a Jeep safari??
Here, You can do it !! Leave a Comment Phone: 0039.02.334.733.47Website: www.ventaglio.com Other Contact: Jump into your travel agency!!!
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A view of conditions on the "Los Guandules", in the outskirts of the city of Santo Domingo.
This is a common sight in the poorest shanty towns in the outskirts of the city, the people are a mixture of dominicans and haitian-dominicans, they grow as much as 10% sometimes during the influx of Haitian nationals, when the Dom. Rep. has ended it's elections campaigns, during these however, the national police exact operations, where many of them are arrested and deported almost within a day or two, without prior due-cause or to let them at times pick their family menbers in the case of mothers, many that come to give birth in Public Hospitals because the lack of Health entities in Haiti, something troubling to me is that, the children born to these Haitian nationals are deny Dominican nationality, the main excuse the gov. uses is that they only come to Dom. Rep. to give birth, because dominican nationals are given free schooling and health care, and it taxes the system greatly, and that international agencies don't cooperate to ease the economic conditions that Haiti is under, but I see no point in this, you can deport the parents, with their children if they wish to take them, but not negate their Dominican nationality, we're a country of many shades and to be honest it's more about money than color, so next time you visit the Dom. Rep. take a trip of a day or two into Haiti, shop around a little bit then get back into Dom. Rep., it would help a great deal there. Leave a Comment
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One of the local types of houses you're bound to see in the rural towns and some parts of the cities in the interior in the Dom. Rep., this is one of the most common and some date back as far as the early 1900's. Leave a Comment
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This is a poor sector in the outskirts of the city of Santo Domingo, it's very populated, sometimes two families (parents, kids, in-laws) share a single house, this part of the town it's known as 'Los Guandules". Leave a Comment
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This is a regular sight on the poorest's hubs in the city limits and around some industrial parks in the Dom. Rep., these are a very distinct and shocking scenes to those who stay in all inclusive hotels, on the most remote and rural parts of the country, mainly because the companies that built the resort wanted to purchase large amounts of land and cheap, so this is a common trend to see luxurious resorts in the outskirts of vastly poor settings, however this beeing said, poverty should not be confused with disdain or sadness, this sect of the population makes about 40 to 50% of the local composition you're going to inter-act with on a daily basis in some cases. Leave a Comment
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This is one of the most popular refreshments in the Dom. Rep.
it's called YUN-YUN or FRIO-FRIO or maybe some other thing depending on where you are in the country, but is very much the same from wherever you get it, made of shaved ice, done by hand from a large block of ice in the middle of a wooden cart, surrounded by the flavoring mixes, strawberry, cherry, pineapple, tamarind, etc.
it helps to cool during the year round heat, if you're staying in Dom. Rep. for a short while, them I'm afraid you shouldn't drink it, because you need time to adapt to the water there (your stomach) but if you have a pretty tough one then by all means yummy! Leave a Comment
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