Mom came to visit for 10 days. She stayed with my family for a few days and I showed her around Santiago, but she brought the rain with her, so she didnt get a typical view of the city. Most of my friends were leaving on that sunday (she arrived friday) so I wanted to stay and say goodbye to them. Then on monday we went on a little adventure to the nearby town of Jarabacoa. We saw two awesome waterfalls. One of them being the waterfall in the opening scene of Jurassic Park! I need to watch it again so I can feel cool that Ive been there!
Then we left for the North Coast. Our destinations: two days at Rio San Juan, a cute little beach town that has a lagoon with mangrove forests in sight and then twoish days at Las Terrenas a more developed beach town with lots of European tourists. So it took about three little guaguas packed with people to make it, but we finally god to Rio San Juan and made it to our hotel which is literally on the beach. We had a beautiful view from our two huge windows of the water and at night we could hear the waves crashing. Spent the days at the beaches, very relaxing.
Then on our way to Las Terrenas. Took most of the day to get there so we spent the rest of the day at the beach of course. The next day we got adventurous again. Rented a little scooter and off we went to Samaná, we were attempting to catch a boat over to the amazing los haitises (devoted readers will have already seen awesome pictures) but we didnt make it. We then spent the next three hours on scooter trying to get to a legendary amazing beach: playa rincón. The guide book said most people go by boat, and we learned why! The last few miles were down this red dirt "road" so scary. We collapsed on the beach, had a pina colada (sin alcohol) and then we basically had to go because it took so long to get there and we had a LONG way to go. But we had a grand old time.
Forgot to talk about this hilarious little episode above. We went to fill up on gas before we left on the long journey home and somehow got caught in a HUGE crowd of all the other motoists filling up. There are more off screen. It was ridiculous! My little mom in a sea of dominican men!
I call this the picture that embodies the dominican republic: a scooter/moto, horses, a stray dog, the beach, and a random kid!
Me collapsed at playa rincon. Look how deserted and beautiful! too bad we couldnt enjoy it..
At rio san juan. There were these weird taino heads, i was trying to be one.
Our view from our hotel!
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