Where to Go in the Dominican Republic

 Sosua is a small town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. Located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) from the Puerto Plata International Airport (POP), the sosuatown is accessed primarily by Camino Cinco, or Highway 5, which runs much of the length of the country's North coastline. The town is divided into three sectors: El Batey, which is the main section where most tourists visit, Sosúa Abajo, and Los Charamicos.

At the 1938 Evian Conference Rafael Trujillo offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees; about 800 German and Austrian Jewish refugees received visas by the Dominican government between 1940 and 1945,The government provided them with land and resources with which they created a dairy and cheese factory, named Productos Sosúa, still in existence today. Descendants of the original settlers still live in Sosua, where they maintain a synagogue and a museum.

The town was little known until tourism took off in the island in the mid 80's.

Sosua Abajo, which translates roughly to "Lower Sosua", is located on the western side of Sosua in a valley nearby a river that flows into Sosua Bay. Mainly a rural area of Sosúa, Sosua Abajo houses many of the workers who commute to the El Batey area, nearby Cabarete Bay and Playa Dorada. 

 Cabarete is a town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic, noted for its tourism and beaches. It was founded in 1835 by Zephaniah Kingsley (as part of his Mayorasgo de Koka estate) along with his mixed-race family, and 53 slaves he freed from his Florida plantations and brought here while the island was under Haitian administration. Anna Kingsley owned a house in the harbor that stretched out to the sea. Several descendants of the Kingsleys and of the former slaves live in the area today.

Cabarete Bay has been the location of professional kitesurfing competitions (e.g. "WorldCup/Copa Mundial", "Master of the Ocean"), and nearby Playa Encuentro (3 miles to the west) is among the most popular surfing beaches in the Caribbean. 

Samaná is an earthly paradise of the Dominican Republic bordered by lovely white sand beaches and creams with its crystal clear turquoise waters and mountains full of coconut palms and a splendid forest, this set of natural beauties shape it like a wonder of nature. Samaná is a peninsula northeast of the Dominican Republic known for housing 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. Samaná is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic with beautiful coasts and majestic landscapes that create some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Caribbean. Samaná limits to the North and East by the Atlantic Ocean, to the South by the Bay of Samaná and the province of Monte Plata (in the Southwest) and to the West by the provinces Duarte and Maria Trinidad Sánchez.

In Puerto Plata you will find one of the most complete destinations in the Dominican Republic, with white and golden sand beaches, Victorian houses, historic area, Isabel de Torres mountain and its teleferico, you can also enjoy adventure tourism with the 28 jumps or waterfalls from Damajuagua and now Ocean World, the largest dolphinarium in the Caribbean.