Punta Cana Stories


It's something else

It's been a few years now, since I've been there with my backpack and a few notions of italo-franco-spanish. Of course I still have a few memories, like a breakfast-yucca that literally carbonized my tongue in Punta Cana… This lonely hotel, between gigantic and Disney-like mansions full of tourists… A long walk to the sea and people, lying peacefully un...


When it rains...

Excursion are offered for anyone who either gets bored with the hotel or just wants to see something different. My parents, the avid snorkelors, decided to take a boat trip out to the reef on a halfday trip while Christi and I went on a longer, more adventurous "outback safari adventure" tour to the interior. The bus picked us up at 8:40 in the mornin...


Ummmm...bugs?

Our hotel is very new. All hotels in this area are under 10 years old, and I think ours is one of the newer ones. It's beautiful, clean, fun... which is why I was a bit confused when this morning a note was slipped under all of edificio #13's doors telling us they'd like to fumigate, for "hygenic purposes". Umm...what? Our rooms weren't "hygenic" to...


Tips

SUNBURN TIPS After being to Mexico twice, I figured I had been burned in every place imaginable (well not EVERY...) WRONG! I have found many news places i never knew sunscreen should go. Everyone always warns travelors to put sunscreen on the tops of their feet and the tips of their ears...well, there are other places someone forgot to warn me about...