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This could also very well be in the Tourist Trap section.....
The Moto Concho, the special quick and safe moto-taxi that takes you anywhere within a radius of 5 km in less than 4 minutes. Never mind that the drivers don't wear helmets, they probably have no license to drive either.
In Sosúa, they're obvious, they're everywhere and they have a sublime way of driving you up the next palmtree.
Either there's one across the street testing the motor of his vehicle (bruum, bruuuum... BRUUM...BRUUUUUMMMMM !!!!) or they approach you discreetly from behind, the motor on 5 kmh speed volume and sounding like a machine gun with hickup. Then they'll slow down to pedestrian speed next to you , pedestrian and ask : "Moto taxi ?"
The first day I hired a moto concho for a fixed price of 20 Pesos. The ride was no more than 300 meters and when I was delivered there the price had changed to 50 Pesos. Not having been in Sosúa for the last six years and still being groggy from the long trip from São Paulo to Puerto Plata , I didn't discuss much , just paid him but asked a friend of mine how much he should have charged me... yup , 20 Pesos.
So, from that moment on I refused to hire a moto concho. Once I was exhausted , my feet were burning , so I asked the moto concho driver who offered his services to me , how much the ride to Calle Pedro Clisante would be. I got the wrong answer ( 50 Pesos ) , so I told him that he was crazy and that he should forget it. He got p*ssed and was yelling after me as I walked away. His concho colleague came after me, told me I should get on his bike , the ride would be 20 Pesos. But by now I had lost my mood for the ride and declined.
BUT, if you make a deal for a reasonable price and stick to it, driving in the back of these guys may be some kind of experience if you have no motorbike experience. And I have to say , these guys are in full command of their machines and drive well and don't speed. So , when in the DR , try this locomotion device with private chauffeur at least once. Theme: Motorcycle
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As mentioned before, the trip ain't over untill you touch down on the green green grass of home.
Not for me though because I have exactly 90 minutes to catch my connection flight to São Paulo and having to go through customs and passport control isn't very helpful for a transit passenger like me, especially when I have to deal with a retardo of immigration officer at MIA named (Volta?) Barrett. This guy looks at me, at my passport, at the screen, at my passport, at me and starts asking questions like where do you come from, where are you going, do you live in the USA, how much cash do you have on you...... a real anxious and neurotic officer they employ at MIA there....
Finally,"What are you going to do now?" and I: "Probably spend the night at the airport hotel if you keep me waiting here so I can miss my connection flight..." So the personified incapacity says: "I don't know what to do with you.. " and I say "Why don't you just stamp my passport and let me catch my flight, then I won't have to stay longer than 30 minutes in this country..." ... and the guy looks at me , shrugs the shoulders and stamps my passport.... Can you believe this...? I hardly made it in time to my plane to São Paulo.....
Enjoy your flight from POP to MIA with rosy clouds, Jackie Gleason and the lights of Miami as you approach the runway !! Welcome home in the U.S.S.R. !! Theme: Airplane
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Gregório Luperon Puerto Plata International Airport ( POP ) , gateway to the DR North Coast.....
Arriving here you get a merengue playing band before you even get near the passport control... I guess you're supposed to tip them but I was not really in the mood.... Too tired, too noisy....
Before you present yourself at the passport control you have to stay in line for the 20 U$ ( or was it just 10 U$..?) purchase of the so called tourist card that they take away from you as soon as you pass passport control....
But just as exciting as getting here is leaving from here...... When you arrive , you don't even want to see or look at the place...... But when you leave it's an international flight and that means you gotta be there 2 hours before take off time..... Look at pic 1... Sunday PM.... waiting lines to no end.... and then the latest, most modern state of the art impressive security check system with all gadgets to prevent the unthinkable..... And if you don't want AA anymore because the luggage personal in Miami sent your suitcase to Costa Rica ( which is ALMOST the same as Puerto Plata, right? If you think about it.... lol...), then you have the choice of the brand new Delta flight from Atlanta !! And Gregório Luperon...???? I don't know , but he might have been the pilot of the airplane in pic 5..?? I wouldn't be surprised.... Theme: Airplane
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