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If there's 2 things that are very characteristic of Baní, that's mangoes and dulce de leche. Baní provides the best mangoes of the country, and they even organize a mango festival every 2 years in June. In all food stands on the roads you'll see several kinds of mangoes, so don't hesitate to haggle to get them at a good price. Another thing you'll see is mango trees all over, but be careful not to take the mangoes from a tree inside a house.
Dulce de leche is another thing that's from Baní. The best stores to buy it are Las Marías, Las 3 Rosas and El Húngaro, all of them in a little town called Paya - between Baní and San Cristóbal but any dulce de leche from Baní is just as good.
However, our dulce de leche isn't like the ones on the Wikipedia article. Ours are solid and sold "in paste". If the paste then is cylindrical and covered with yagua (a kind of palm "Attalea humbolddtiana") then it's called raspadura. We also make dulce de leche with various marmalade fillings: orange, guava, figs...
Updated May 10, 2009
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On the road Las Dunas - Las Salinas, you'll find what the locals call "salao" (or salado). That's a piece of terrain where sea water comes to land and stays there for a certain amount of time. It's not too much water that will flood the area, tho, but to avoid the sea water going farther than it should (read, inside people's houses), they have aligned some stones.
At the salt mine, the workers use salaos to produce big grains of salt that will then be sent to refineries to process for human consumption.
It is forbidden by law to take one of those raw grains of salt and take it out of the country, as well as use it in food preparation.
Updated May 2, 2009
Just as anywhere else in the DR try speaking Spanish. Dominicans in general are extremely friendly, nice people and try to help when they can
Updated Oct 5, 2002
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Just as anywhere else in the DR try speaking Spanish. Dominicans in general are extremely friendly, nice people and try to help when they can
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When I was a child, some of my neighbors, my family and I would go to Baní for a day trip. The main purpose was for my neighbors to visit their relatives and for us to meet other people and, of...
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Ok, so Bani doesn't contain beaches, but these picture still represents the Dominican Republic! Bani is in the middle of the country, with a few rivers, known for its "dulce de leche, coco,...
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Bani is a small little town that its residents also know it as the home of poets. It’s only an hour’s drive west of Santo Domingo. The province’s population is relatively small with 169, 865 people,...
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I don't know that I have to much useful information to give as far as tourist sites. I loved it, but the trip was more personal than touristy. My father is Dominican-American & his father, who came to...
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