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Samana, the vacation paradise in the Caribbean
Samana is a heaven on earth, a paradise of the Dominican Republic bordered by lovely beaches of white sands and creams with crystalline turquoise waters and mountains full of coconut palms and a splendid forest, this combo of natural beauties define it as a wonder of nature. Samana is a northeastern peninsula in the Dominican Republic known for harboring the highest concentration of coconut palms per square meter in the world. Majestic landscapes of hills and great beaches of white sands and crystal clear waters. Samana is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic, it has some of the most beautiful landscapes of the Caribbean. Samana is bordered to the North and East by the Atlantic Ocean, to the South by the Bay of Samana and the Province Monte Plata (in the Southwest) and to the West by the provinces Duarte and Maria Trinidad Sanchez.
Samana is a province of great tourist development but with almost virgin places. The development is concentrated mainly in the centers of Samana, Las Terrenas and Las Galeras. The hotel offer in Samana is mostly in small hotels and apartment complexes, there are many modern luxury apartment complexes that offer with all the amenities for a wonderful vacation like the Aligio Las Terrenas, Balcones del Atlantico, Alisei Luxury Village, Albachiara Beachfront, Playa Bonita Beach Club, El Colibri Residences, these resorts do not have All Inclusive meal plans, offer only lodging plans or with breakfast included and have restaurants inside their facilities or on the beach. Samana also has luxury hotels like Luxury Bahia Principe Cayo Levantado, considered among the top 10 All Inclusive resorts in the world, there are many boutique hotels such as Sublime Samana, Viva V Samana and large All Inclusive hotels such as Bahia Principe Portillo, Bahia Principe Cayacoa , Bahia Principe Samana.
The Samana Peninsula is 245 km away. Of Santo Domingo, is an area rich in marble, majestic landscapes can be enjoyed along its roads and wonderful views of mountains bathed by beautiful beaches of white sands. The Bay of Samana is known internationally because thousands of humpback whales or Yubartas are gathered there each year in a beautiful mating ritual, where visitors can walk a few meters and photograph them. Its main center is Santa Barbara, an old fishing village, with a magnificent port and an international airport. The resorts are sparse but of great quality; We can see 5 star structures such as Bahia Principe Samana, Bahia Principe the Portillo of Las Terrenas, Bahia Principe Cayacoa, Bahia Principe Cayo Levantado. Other structures always of exquisite category like the Hotel Aligio, Hotel La Tambota. The International Airport of Samana opened in 2007 receives flights from all over the world, mainly charter flights of Tour Operators from Europe, the United States and Latin America.
Samana has tourist attractions, such as Cayo Levantado, a small island in the northeast of the Bay of Samana, in it are beautiful white sand beaches. Waterfall Limon, a beautiful waterfall nestled in a majestic natural forest. Los Haitises National Park, Las Terrenas Beach, Las Galeras, El Portillo, Playa Bonita, Playa Coson, Fronton Beach, Rincon de Las Galeras.
The Humpback Whale Sanctuary
Each year, during the mating season, Samana is visited by whales and humpback whales, which provide a majestic spectacle for visitors, whale sanctuary is on the way to Cayo Levantado, which allows visitors to see the Whales can also visit the island of Cayo Levantado.
Los Haitises National Park
Los Haitises is one of the main ecological attractions of the Dominican Republic. The Haitises constitute a karst or relief in rocks, tropical limestone in little mountains, characteristic of these climatic zones of the earth. In its external morphology it presents hills, corridors and valleys, and in its internal morphology cavities, some of great dimensions as those of coast. It is a dense coastal wet forest in the southern part of the Bay of Samana, an immense reserve full of caves, Taino pictographs, humid forests, and hundreds of species of birds, many of them endemic. The characteristic that distinguishes this mystical place of the other parks of the island are their mogotes or "lomitas", that reach to reach the 40 meters of height, and cover the complete surface of the park. This phenomenon occurs because of the karstic geography of the region, and the trade winds that, when colliding with mogotes rise and produce rains almost every day of the year.
Waterfall Limon
It is an impressive waterfall of approximately 40 meters of height that falls directly on a refreshing lake, excellent for swimming, located between Las Terrenas and the town of El Limon. This waterfall is beautiful because of its great height, a forest of green with mosses that cover the walls of the rock and the water that flows forming a translucent veil. Colonial Tour and Travel offers an ecological excursion to El Limon waterfall departing from all the hotels of Samana and Las Terrenas.
Las Terrenas
In the 1970s, Las Terrenas was a small fishing village, farmers, beekeepers lived in their huts, without water, without electricity and forgotten, was difficult to access, in 1975 arrives at the Terrenas Jean "French" and inaugurates the Tropic Banana hotel on the beach was the first hotel in Las Terrenas and this started the development of tourism and a significant change in the lifestyle of the settlers. Its beaches are spectacular, soft creamy sand and are the main tourist attraction of the municipality, because they arouse the interest of visitors and residents. They are used for bathing, taking photos, film filming, water sports by the waves and the stability of the winds. The colors of the most beautiful sands that exist. It is located on the Atlantic coast, located on the northern coast of the Sierra de Samana. Las Terrenas beach is scenic, looks like a postcard, full of coconut groves, synonymous with the pure Caribbean. Las Terrenas is where the virginal geography is a song that seduces the tourist. The almost virgin beaches allow an absolute abandonment in the midst of a wild vegetation of wild flowers for the outsiders, being lulled by the song of birds similar to the blackbirds, called chinchulines. The tiny fishing village of Santa Barbara de Samana, founded in 1756, has become a tourist village, but without losing its original airs. There are excellent hotels and excellent gastronomy all along the coast. The main economic activities of the municipality are tourism, trade and fishing. The hills represent an attraction for investors and visitors, whether Dominicans or foreigners who seduce them to build or acquire a second residence preferably overlooking the Scottish Bay. The hills reinforce the beaches as the first attraction because people acquire them to see the sea. Las Terrenas has beautiful beaches: Playa Coson, Playa Bonita, Playa Las Ballenas, Playa Perdida, Poppy Point, El Portillo, Playa Estillero, Playa Moron and Playa Limon.
La Churcha
It is a nineteenth-century wooden church built by liberated Afro-American slaves who emigrated to Samana after being offered free land to cultivate. City of Samana. His name is a corruption of the English word "church".It is a nineteenth-century wooden church built by liberated Afro-American slaves who emigrated to Samana after being offered free land to cultivate. City of Samana. His name is a corruption of the English word "church".
