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Puerto Plata ¡Hot! Magazine: a regional visitors guide

Browse and download our free print-friendly Regional Visitors Guide to carry with you on vacation! Worth more than the ink it’s printed with, this guide features coupons and special offers from local businesses that save you money and help you find what you’re looking for. Click here to check it out!

24Jan2010 | They | 1 comment | Continued
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DR Ministry of Tourism Reassures Visitors: Puerto Plata and Other Cities are Receiving Tourists

All of the DR’s beaches, hotels, resorts and tourism businesses are conducting normal business operations, says ministry

21Jan2010 | They | 3 comments | Continued
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Whale season Jan 15 - March 15

Humpback whales wow visitors to Samana

15Jan2010 | They | 2 comments | Continued
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Eco-lodge owner goes the extra mile for self-guided travelers in the Dominican Republic

“Quit trying to micro-plan from your desktop”, says this ecolodge’s owner, who gives his guests a country orientation, selected pre-inspected small hotels to move around to and a local cell phone to stay connected.

1Jan2010 | They | 2 comments | Continued
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Cigar factory photos: “Made by Hands” in Dominican Republic

Post card collection depicts the hands of people at work rolling fine cigars in the Dominican Republic. Photographed by Owen Franken in 2007 at Luis Cuevas factory, a duotone treatment of these recent pictures emphasizes how this caring, handmade process is a tradition that has gone unchanged since its very beginnings.

27Dec2009 | They | 0 comments | Continued
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Photo Gallery: The women of 118 Sanchez St.

“They live on Calle Sanchez 118 A in Puerto Plata, a mother and daughter,” says Carina, from Sweden, whose profiles of life in her chosen city are both colorful and sensitive. “I follow them, and I take at least one photograph each day of them”

16Nov2009 | They | 1 comment | Continued
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Work advances on new Samana highway loop

Photo: Cliff blasting on the new coastal road to Las Terrenas

NAGUA, Dominican Republic.- Work is underway on the Boulevard Turistico del Atlantico, a $168 million highway project that will loop around the Samana Peninsula.

9Sep2009 | They | 1 comment | Continued
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Luxuriating at Villa Castellamonte

How the rich live every day—you can rent it for a week. A correspondent recounts her experiences staying at the posh Villa Castellamonte in Cabrera near Playa Grande

6May2009 | They | 2 comments | Continued
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Ocean World, the world’s first fully interactive marine park

At Ocean World, you swim with the dolphins, and the sea lions — and the sharks!

31Mar2009 | TH | 8 comments | Continued
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Click HERE to discover some of the north coast’s Great Places to Stay

28Feb2009 | They | Comments Off | Continued
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