Safari en Higuey-kerk vanuit Punta Cana

Echt genoten van het bezoek aan de school en Leo was een geweldige gids. De verstrekte lunch was ook uitstekend. Zeer waardevolle reis!

The day was really varied in activities, we got to see a good glimpse of Dominican culture. We covered an extensive plantation tour, visit to a school, baseball academy, church, a ranch where we did horse riding and had lunch and Macao beach. Pros: it’s an extensive tour with lots to cover in one day. You drive through the towns and countryside so you can see different aspects of Dominican life. There was an open bar on the safari with options of rum, coke, sprite and water. The tour guide and driver were great throughout the day. The ranch was the best part by far, the horse riding was an amazing experience and I really enjoyed it. Cons: every stop is designed so that you part with more money instead of having a full experience. We also were picked up and dropped off separately to the rest of the group by a transfer which was really strange. You had to pay entry at the church, on top of hiring a skirt to cover your legs. At the plantation we were told that bananas and mangoes are usually free but this time we had to pay. My boyfriend was heavily pressured at the ranch to buy overpriced cigars. However, despite this we were very generous throughout the day to them. What ruined the whole day is that we tipped our tour guide Alex $10, and when it came to getting in our transfer and saying bye, Alex and the safari driver Andre made things very awkward by demanding a tip for Andre. We don’t mind tipping but we assumed Alex would be splitting tips with the driver, we’d already parted with $60 that day in tips and this moment just left a sour taste in our mouths. So we didn’t end up tipping the transfer because we were just so annoyed.

Geweldige tour, maar hebben een comfortabele en wat meer ruimte safaritruck nodig voor de hoeveelheid tijd in de truck, Alex en Eddy waren geweldig en deden er alles aan om de tour plezierig te maken voor mij als gehandicapte, maar kwamen overal omheen, en een grote grote bedankt aan de jongens van de ranch dat ik mocht rijden, ik rijd regelmatig maar kreeg misschien te horen dat het niet zo was, maar de jongens waren fantastisch en geduldig, dus als je erover denkt om deze tour te doen, doe het dan fantastisch, nogmaals bedankt x