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Marching To Our Own Drummer in Sousa D.R

A Beautiful Sousa Beach

Sousa Dominican Republic: We arrived at the Puerto Plata on Saturday and were met by a taxi driver that was recommended by a friend of ours who visited the DR a few months ago. Orlando was wonderful – he helped us find where to shop for groceries, the best beaches, places to go out in Cabarete and Sosua, restaurants and everything! We speak broken Spanish so that was a great help.

Highlights of our Trip

Day 1

The pool at The Palms

We arrived at The Palms and the young lady that rented us an apartment for the week, met us at the pool – she introduced us to our first tropical drink – chocolate rum! Highlight of day 1 was definitely the chocolate rum at the pool side.

Day 2

Exploring!

Sosua Beach is an incredible experience! Lots of little vendors selling hatian art and trinkets. Highlight of day 2 was strolling down the beach window shopping, then stopping at one of the little beach bars for a nice lunch and a swim in the Caribbean ocean in the afternoon.

Day 3

Dinner in Cabarete – we went to Casa Nova and had an excellent dinner. Cabarete beach is different to Sosua beach – more restaurants and less vendors, although they do have beach vendors walking around with necklaces and bracelets that you can buy. Dinner was tasty and very reasonably priced.

Day 4

Locals! We went in to a part of Sosua, known as Charamicos for a walk … the locals are great – everyone is so friendly. We stopped at a small restaurant on the main street and had fresh fruit juice and a ‘Dominican Lunch’. Heaps of Chicken, rice cooked with beans and salad! This was the best part of our trip … everyone was trying to communicate with us, trying out their broken English and us talking our broken Spanish!

Day 5

Day of rest – Orland (our taxi driver) took us to a small quiet beach this morning, right below the hotel Waterfront in Sosua. We had lunch at the Waterfront Restaurant which was excellent … even rinsed the sea water off in their pool!

Day 6

Time to go home. We left some used clothes for the maid at the Palms, when we gave them to her she was so happy – such small things make these people so happy. This was THE BEST vacation I have ever had and we’ve already decided on dates for next years trip!

Other Restaurants tried and liked:

Lax in Cabarete

Café Cito in Puerto Plata

Rocky’s in Sosua

Review submitted by Amy L.: a TuesdaysTravler reader from South Africa. Amy has been a traveler for going on 15 years and is thouroughly enjoying discovering the world! She'll be concentrating on the Caribbean for a few more years -she says this of her Domican Republic experience- "I've been to a few of the islands already but none has captured my interest like the DR has."

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