Day Trips

Day Trip Options from Base Camp One

Note: these day trips take advantage of your rental car and enable you to make short trips within a two-hour drive radius from Base Camp One. These are your “starter trips” that give you a feel for the country and help you determine how much you want to travel and how far you want to go.

• Beach Day in Sosua; a 30-minute drive, park and walk; lots of local color and action; rent beach chairs or go snorkeling; lots of handicraft shops; walk around town and explore this village with Jewish history
• Beach Day in Cabarete; a 45-minute drive, park and walk; sporty and cosmopolitan, one of the world’s best-known place for windsurfing and kitesurfing; lots of good restaurants and bars right on beach, shops on main street. Optional overnighter offers a great opportunity for dining and partying.
• Explore Puerto Plata; 2o minutes drive; park and stroll the oceanfront promenade to a historical fortress; explore downtown streets and market; lunch in town; shop at local stores and gift shops; optional car ride takes you up to botanical gardens and spectacular views on Isabel de Torres mountain, 2800 ft above sea level
• Beach Day, beach trek in Puerto Plata; 20-minute drive, park on the oceanfront promenade and walk all day along the beach, past the all-inclusive resorts and along mile-long virgin beach
• Day trip to Rio San Juan and Playa Grande; two-hour drive follows the north coast highway east to the seaside village of Rio San Juan; optional boatride through a jungle lagoon; have fresh fish or lobster lunch on spectacular Playa Grande; visit towns and villages along the way; optional overnighter at a remote beach camp featuring a great kitchen
• Day trip to Luperon; 90-minute drive to seaside village popular with leisure sailors as this is the best hurricane hole in the northern Caribbean; park and walk around town, along the docks; lunch in town or at marina; visit La Isabela historical location where Columbus established a village
• Scenic mountain drive into the interior and Santiago city; one-hour drive on a winding mountain road to Santiago, the second largest city; park and stroll downtown streets and markets where there are few tourists if any; historical fort has converted the jail into a working artist gallery; visit a cigar factory and modern cultural center with extensive Dominican art collection; optional overnighter to savor city nightlife, good dining or a Dominican Winter League baseball game.
• Day trip to Damajagua; one-hour drive; river walk to the 27 waterfalls, a natural water slide with guides to take you up

7-Day Trip Ideas