Dominican Republic is one of the tourist destinations most visited by most of the citizens of the planet. His enormous and blue beaches, his form of life and the hospitality of his inhabitants do that, every year the number of tourists multiplies in the area. It is sure that some of you is gliding or thinking of visiting this country shortly, so we are going to give you some advices to travel to Dominican Republic.
The first thing that you must bear in mind, at the time of planning any trip there is the season in which to come. If you decide to travel to Dominican Republic you are of luck because you can do it in any epoch because the climate which he enjoys this country is tropical, what does that his temperatures are located between the 26 to 30 grades, practically the whole year. Bear in mind that this tropical climate brings abudantes rain, so avoid May until November, especially May, August and September, because in these months the rainy station takes place.
To travel to Dominican Republic always, and like not, you have to take your passport and national papers. When you come to the airport, they will make you refill a few forms, which also you will have to complete to the exit of the country. The tourist's card costs approximately 10 dollars and the valuations of exit of the area approximately 20 dollars. Since you know, the official currency is the Dominican weight, although you will not have problems to pay in euros or in dollars. If you need to change coins, do not worry because you can do the change in the same airport, as it happens in other countries.
With regard to the clothes that you have to take in your suitcase, the best thing is that you take clothes ligerita and, as far as possible, cotton made pledges. The footwear has to be comfortable and, of course, do not forget your swimsuit, caps to protect you from the sun, sunglasses, creams of solar protection and a repellent one of mosquitoes. You can, also, take some pledge of overcoat as a jean jacket or not too thick jacket. Anyway, you can throw a glance to the advices that we have already put in your knowledge in this blog on how packing the suitcase and what to take in the trips first-aid kit so that nothing forgets you. Also you must take an adapter of flat pin to plug in him in all kinds of electrical devices.
With regard to the hourly direfencia. If you go out of Spain, there is always a difference of 5 hours less in the winter epoch and 6 hours less in the summer epoch.
Let's speak already about gastronomy. The Dominican kitchen is characterized for being "Creole", that is to say, it is of European origin, but developed in America. Also, it is tremendously varied and there are plates for all the tastes. They predominate over ingredients as the rice, the meats, the fish and the vegetables. Do not forget, since you are there, to prove any of the plates most known as Flag (rice, abichuelas, meat and salad), I parboil (stew of meat), Asopao (watery rice and pig leg), the male Banana, the Fish with milk of coconut and the Dominican Beer. Since always, be careful at the time of drinking water, this one must always be bottled, so you do not drink tap water.
Finally, we go with the transports. The first thing that you have to bear in mind is that practically the whole internal transport is carried out by highway. There are no railroads in Dominican Republic, only those who use the sugar bowls to transport the sugar-cane. Several international airports exist in the country, the most important is that of Port of Haina, very near to Santo Domingo.
To move throughout the country will be, therefore, to use the buses, the cars of concho, which are cars that travel round specific routes and stop in any point of these routes, points in which they leave and gather the passengers. In turn, there exist in the big cities taxis similar to those of our country, the only thing is that they are not provided with a taximeter, so they will receive from you the tariff stipulated by the company or the tariff that you agree with the driver, everything depends the time that there lasts the trip and the distance that you cover. But the best option is that you use the called motoconchos, which are a species of taxis that will transport you where queráis for very little money.
And these are the advices to travel to Dominican Republic that you need to know. The only thing that you already have left is to enjoy his ambience, his inhabitants and his beaches.
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