Well molotovcocktail I'm african american and I know my decendency is african. I love to learn about my people and the dr has just that. I love my culture and every where my people are, I look at it like this my sisters and brothers all over the world are interesting to me and I move my ass to the beat of a drum just like my decendents its just in a different language and played by different instruments. I love my people and I wish things were better in the country's where my ansisters came from and are, as far as people promoting prostitution in the dr I would never pay for cause I hate to see my people selling there body for money I wish I had enough money to change that to keep them clothed,feed,and sheltered but I'm just one person. I know I am blessed to have it as good as I have and I think that what makes me more concerned about my people. By the way this troll, gringo, or whatever else the name may be isn't like most people who come to the dr for sex or those things, I don't have to leave the states for that we have that here.

Good answer Redd the Molotov Goofball was just trying to pull your chain you are obviously far more civilized and intelligent than the trashy goofball is . ,,,,,pay no attention to persons of his ilk and stripe they will only vex the spirit . Enjoy your visit and hold tightly on to your wallet the people are very friendly but sometimes not sincere

Thank yot enriqo

Jarabacoa and Santiago are nice but I don't know if its good on a first visit. If you are going in a group then I would say it was good for a first timmer. Stick to the resort tourist areas on your first trip. Make some friends and on your next trip have those friends meet you in Santiago.Jarabacoa.
Yes, the women are increadable... not talking about working girls, I am talking about real women.

Also, you might find it shocking that most gas stations and car washes have a bar/mini club built in. You can go have a drink and dance but don't be proud that some beautiful women are talking to you and want to sit at your table. Those are working girls... Working girls in DR are actually beautiful not like the typical working girls that you see in USA.

Red you said you want a place where you can meet people, go to different restaurants for dinner, enjoy a night a good lounge, not far from the beach, museums etc. Let me recomend Santo Domingo City. I live here and I guarantee you that you will have an awsome time here. I would recomend El Quinto Centenario Hotel, Hotel Santo Domingo, The Hilton Santo Domingo or the Melia Santo Domingo to stay in. If you want to go the beach one day just call Apolo taxi (do not take the cabs in the hotel as they are extremely expensive) and ask to be taken to Juan Dolio beach playa caribe. It is a beautiful beach and not as conjested as Boca Chica beach and it is only 30 to 40 minutes away from the city. In the city you will find many great restaurants to eat in such as Adrian Tropical which is very close to the hotels I mentioned and you can also go to El Conuco which is very famous in the Capital and it has great food. In the city you will find all kinds of restaurants from Italian(Vesuvio) American (Tony Romas), International cuisine, Japanese (La Suheria), Chinese, Argentine and delicious comida Criolla (Dominican Food). There are many museums such as Chiristopher Columbus' house, The first Hospital, The first Cathedral and the first streets of the new world. There is also el Museo del Hombre Dominicano which is very interesting and El Faro A Colon which is also very interesting with many artifacts of Columbus' voyage through the new world. You can go to any of the local lounges and clubs and meet friendly beautiful young professional women. If you chose to go to Santo Domingo I can recomend a few of the places I go to for a drink or two.

Santo-Domingo is a good look for a first timer travelling alone. A lot to see and the energy is intense.Go to the Malecon, Colonial Zone and El Conde to browse around.

Redd1723-You are very idealistic, suffer from both historical and geografical naivete and are confusing culture with race. You should leave your afro-centrist mentality at home, because once you leave the states, and I hate to disappoint you, but black people from other countries will neither identify with your US African-American militant ideology nor understand where you are coming from or know what you are talking about.

Just because two people have common racial ancestry does not mean they will have affinity and is not a quarantee for camaraderie among those who share certain characteristic whether racial or otherwise. Africa is hugh, a big continent and very diverse, not all negroid but rather has a multitude of ethnicities, nationalities with their own particular cultures, incalculable number of different languages and dialects.

To your surprise and dismay, it is a common everyday occurence, your black African brothers and sisters kill each other in tribal conflicts. But most remarkable is the wide spread intra-tribal warfare typical of most communal societies, capable of escalation to all-out wars of annihilation between their very own kind. There has always been very serious conflicts among ethnic communities, within black Africans which has resulted in massacres. One example among many and most significant is the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 in which mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology. Ethnic and inter-ethnic war-torn Africa is hopeless, has gone on for centuries and suffers from what is believed to be chronic conflict fatigue. Looks like black-on-black violence has not change much since the jungle days of slavery up to our present day contemporary urban society.

So don't travel to the DR and expect to meet your long lost African relatives separated from each other as a consequence of the slave trade and if that is the case, the basis of your motivation to travel and truly your interest, then maybe Haiti might be a better choice, a more appropriate place for you to visit.

Like you said: "I love to learn about my people and the dr has just that. I love my culture and every where my people are, I look at it like this my sisters and brothers all over the world are interesting to me and I move my ass." Go to Haiti instead and there you will find and learn all about your African brothers and sisters in its purest essence.

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Guillermone I think u missed my point and what is was pertainin to I know my black history I am very educated with a master degree in chemistry the subject this was on was coming to the dr just for sex and other things now if you want to talk about black history we can. By the way don't think for one minute I don't know about black on clack crime every because I do. I've been robbed in my own community that I travel through every day so I see it and know of it well, now don't get it wrong you have crime in every race and I live in a very nice area where it doesn't happen every dat but it does happen