Las Galeras
On the far eastern tip of the Samana’Penninsula in the Dominican Republic is a tiny little fishing village called Las Galeras. It’s a bit of a venture to get there, but once you do, you’ll be ever so glad. First, the trip:
Getting to Las Galeras will take you from city to town to village. Whatever airport you come into, you’ll probably take a bus to San Fransisco de Macoris. That’s the easy, air-conditioned part. In San Fransisco de Macoris, you downgrade (or upgrade, depending on your perspective) to a “gua gua.” Essentially, you climb into a van with twenty to thirty other sweaty people and maybe a few chickens, and when the van’s full, it’ll leave. The gua gua will eventually get you to Samana’, and from there it’s a taxi ride (or another gua gua, depending on your tastes) along the coast to Las Galeras.
So the tough thing about Las Galeras is that Las Galeras is out there. The great thing about it? That Las Galeras is out there.
In Las Galeras is a beach that will be essentially all yours. Not only that, there’s a lovely little European enclave full of a diversity of restaurants (and plenty of local culinary culture to digest as well). For very reasonable rates, you can easily head over to El Limon for the day — an impressive and beautiful waterfall with a pool at the bottom in which you can swim and escape the heat. There are horseback tours that will take you up from the village of El Limon to the actual waterfall. (One word about that: I hope they have horse insurance for those horses and, for that matter, person insurance for their guests, because you go up some incredibly steep, wet slopes during the trip.)
Notice a theme in the Las Galeras area? Getting anywhere is an adventure, and arriving is a blast.
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