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Looking at the Map, there are three possible
airports to arrive close to the East of the
Dominican Republic, depending on the airline: It
doesn’t matter which one you arrive, the time and
distance from each of them is about the same to
finally reach us in
Pedro Sanchez
close to
Miches:
1) Airport
Punta Cana, near the
Resorts of Bavaro and Pt. Cana
2) Airport La Romana,
southeast of the island.
3) Airport
Las Americas, (near
the capital St. Domingo),
If you know a
little Spanish, you can "dive-in" into the Dominican
daily life using its public transportation system,
which we think is a perfect way for "Eco-Tourists",
since this way you can learn about the local
peoples, their habits, life-style, way of traveling,
etc. Transportation on the road is no problem.
Public transportation is the most economic way of
traveling, buses of all size (called "Quaqua")
connect the cities and villages, whereas all the
"sidesteps" into remotely situated settlements is
done on motorcycles (called "motoconcha") everywhere
waiting at the bus stops. They will also find a way
to handle any extra baggage, don't worry to be
stolen, they make their honest living out of such
services….
Thus traveling
around in the Dominican Republic turns out to be
very easy, even without much knowledge of Spanish.
Since: The
buses have no fixed stopping places, they are simply
flagged down at the roadside with a wave of the
hand. In smaller buses (Van-type), you pay the
driver directly. Bigger buses have a collector ('cobrador')
for collecting the fares; tell him where you want to
go before you get on. Most of the bigger buses also
have a destination sign in front.
Arriving from Punta Cana Airport:
The route from
Pt. Cana
airport to
Pedro Sanchez or
Miches takes you via Higuey
until El
Seibo. The buses leave approx.
200 meters
outside the airport terminal, just across the exit
hall at the other side of the big parking lot. Take
the bus to
Higuey (shuttling about every 20 minutes) and
get out at the big modern cathedral. There, you
change to another bus towards
El Seibo,
which leaves just beyond the southern gate of the
big parking lot of the Basilica. Arriving in
El Seibo,
you leave the bus at the roundabout with a gasoline
station, and across this gasoline station is the bus
station (Parada) into direction of
Miches,
passing half way at "Vista
del Valle" in
Pedro Sanchez,
where you can get out right at our doorsteps..
Arriving from La Romana Airport:
The procedure
is about the same as when coming from Pt. Cana,
except that the buses run from La Romana
to Higuey
and from there to
El Seibo.
Once you have arrived at the Parada El Seibo (which
looks like a big garage), you take a Motorconcho to
bring you to the Parada
Miches,
at the roundabout with the gas station. From there,
the small buses are daily shuttling in half hour
sequences between
El Seibo
and Miches,
with our small village of
Pedro Sanchez located just in the middle of the
distance.
Arriving from Las Americas airport:
From Las
Americas take a taxi outside the airport arrival
area, to bring you until the next available bus stop
towards San
Pedro de Macoris, about one mile away. From
there you can continue with another big bus towards
Hato Mayor
and then further to
El Seibo.
Once you have arrived in
El Seibo, get to the bus station for
Miches to
continue towards
Pedro Sanchez,
as described above.
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