- Beginning of the journey in Santo Domingo: Jérôme meets Bernardo Rijo, his in this town, they go to the Plaza Colón : they meet a street vendor who sells Mamajuana a medicinal beverage made with herbs and rum.Then they see children playing street baseball (instead of a bate they have a broom handle and instead of ball they have bottle caps) and Jérôme tries to hit one of there bottle caps with the broom handle.Later they see the baseball field of the Liga Mercedes, where Rafael Guerrero, the baseball is training young boys.Later Jérôme meets Rafael Perez , a painter , they walk in the town and see paintings, Rafael explains there they are Haitian paintings (the tourists appreciate also Haitian art).In the night Jérome and Rafael go to a club where a band is playing merengue, Bernardoi is also there and all enjoy dancing merengue.Later Jérôme and Rafael travel by car to the Cordillera Central, In a small village they meet Esperanza, a dynamic woman who has managed electric supply and a suspension bridge for the village: besides the farmers have little coffee plantations and get more incomes.Ten Rafael and Jérôme travel to Punta Rucia, where they meet a French man and his American wife who manage a little guesthouse near the seaside (a nice place for people who need to rest in quiet place).Later Jérôme and Rafael go to Rio San Juan, they see a cockfight (but they are not so convinced), nevertheless the fight organizer invites them for a dinner and they speak about family ties.Then Jérôme and Rafael travel to Sanchez in the Penindula of Samana: they take a boat to the National Park of the Haitises: Henry Rodriguez , their guide shows them the islets where they see the mangrove with brown pelicans and frigate birds, then they visit a cave where they can see Taino cave paintings.Then they arrive at the Ranch "Epona" managed now by Thomas Leger and Orianne Saba, a French couple who take care of 14 horses who live in liberty: with Orianne they make an horseback riding through the hills and arrive at Coson Beach where Luis receives them and prepares for them grilled lobster. Besides we see interesting zooms about the Dominican women and their cares for their image (fashion, hairdresser, about the tobacco industry in Santiago de lo Caballeros (the Dominican Republic produces each year 200 millions of cigars), about the music which is everywhere in the country (music school of Ramon Martinez, Yokaira Martinez the young accordionist), about the Central Cordillera where people enjoy canyoning and rafting in the River "Yaque del Norte and where Omar manages The Ranch Baiguate (ecotourism: horseback riding), about the the beach "El Encuentro" in Babarrete where people make kitesurfing, about the French people who live in the Samana Peninsula, about the Taino Park managed by Karyn Varnier and the story of Tainos who came from Venezuela and lived in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba and whose heritage in the Spanish language are the words hamaca, canoa, tabaco, huracán and maíz.—zutterjp48
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