Dominican Republic - January 2009
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Français I'm a lucky girl. I'm going back on a trip soon! Not to Asia this time. I'm flying west, across the Atlantic, to the Caribbean. Destination: the Dominican Republic.
Press trip
This is not a personal trip, but a press trip. The tourism fair takes place at the end of January in Rennes and the Dominican Republic is the guest of honor. We are several journalists from different media to embark, this Thursday, from Nantes airport.
Yes, I know. Spending a week in the sun in the middle of this polar winter is a more than enviable fate... Ah! I'm not going to complain. Working in flip-flops? I'm all for it. Moreover, this trip is oriented "tourism and nature". Too hard.
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A first trip, nine years ago
I went to the Dominican Republic nine years ago for vacation. I had taken a dry flight and snubbed the "todo-incluido" formulas. Without seeing much more of the country, to tell the truth, than those tour operators and resorts that I thought I was so different from at the time?
I visited the capital Santo Domingo, and then put me on the side of Las Terrenas, on the peninsula of Samana. In short, a pure relaxing stay.
I had a little dive, too. But this time, it would surprise me that I find time to make bubbles under water.
The most memorable memory I have kept of this distant stay in the Dominican Republic is music. Omnipresent. At every street corner, in stalls, restaurants, bars, cars. Not a place without a sound that pulse merengue, bachata or reggaeton ... I found it very strange, on my return to France, to no longer hear resonant music in the streets.
So I'm leaving. Too happy to change horizons, to cross an ocean. To be far away, somewhere else, not home... How I love it!
What's more, it's totally new on this blog: it will be my very first account of an "organized" trip, my very first chronicles on a non-Asian journey! Big. That would be almost intimidating.
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