Parque Mirador Sur
Roughly 6km of green corridor along Avenida Mirador Sur, described by the government film commission as the country’s first ecological park.
Roughly 6km of green corridor along Avenida Mirador Sur, described by the government film commission as the country’s first ecological park.
A seafront boardwalk with paths, shaded picnic tables and toilets, running to the small cove beach at La Caleta beside the underwater national park.
A pebble beach on the Barahona coast road with the Los Patos river forming a wide natural freshwater pool right behind it, used by local families.
Five kilometres of undeveloped white sand backed by coconut palms, about fifteen minutes from Las Galeras, calm at one end and surf at the other.
About 5.5km of coastal footpath through tropical forest from the Boca del Diablo blowhole to Playa Fronton, roughly two hours each way, ending at a beach walled in by a limestone cliff.
A cocoa cooperative founded in 2008 and run by thirty local women, growing, fermenting, processing and bar making organic cacao. Factory visits run with at least two days’ notice.
The waterfall canyon jump and swim circuit, done in a 7, 12 or 27 waterfall version, guided throughout.
A day trip from Santo Domingo to an organic cacao plantation run by Rizek Cacao, walking the cacao trail to plant a tree and learn extraction, fermentation and drying, through to chocolate-making in the factory, with lunch.