Sooooooo..............
We deceided to go camping.
THE CAST.
Me my wife and my 7 month old rottweiler.
BIL and his 2 kids ( boy 8, girl 7).
BIL his novia and her 2 kids ( girls 3 &8).
3 sobrinas ( 12, 25, 22 and her 4 year old boy ).
And the donkey...
THE LOCATION.
Everyone knows and has been but no one can recall how far neither an exact route.
Anyway off we go, bright sunny afternoon must have been around 2.
We leave ( by the way this already deep campo....). About 2 ks on a normal countryside road.... turn off on a earth/stone kind of road steep uphill. Maybe 2/3km. Through a couple of isolated hamelts until an ankle deep strech of a river to cross. This is a mountanie/hill area. Lust ecosystem type.. Then riverside big boulder type or small path through the woods/centuryold cacao trees. Hard going but fun.... very steep parts ( a seed of worry creaps out -----I am a pessimist on some things.....)
Finally we arrive. Paradise. Waterfalls. Natural cristal clear ponds. Great.
But it is already last light (dominican time. 2 hours hike turns into nearly a 4 hour hike.....anyway......).
Lets get the tent up.... huge thing 3 rooms/living room..... I ll spare u the story.... it is easier in day light than pitch dark.....
Tent in place . Get stuff sorted out. Put up huge hammock we have in between 2 huge cacao trees for my wife and myself.150cm high. Great. Fire going, food put on. Great. A great night under the stars. Coffee. Laughter. Dominoes.
And of course the Donkey.......
Twice on the hike the donkey collapsed. And me and my BIL, miguelo ( the handy one as opposed to mono the othr BIL who suddenly a month ago turned blind from diabetics!!!!! ) had to get him up-----consists of lots of shouting while pulling his ears (!!!!!)and at the same time try and take weight of him. Worked once.... the other time we had to unload the donkey so he could get back up..... The donkey, which we borrowed by the way since I do not have the honour or owning one, was old and scruffy looking, but did his donkey stuff real good, ie carry food, tent and water to destination.....
But we were There and eveything was going great......
We deceided to go camping.
THE CAST.
Me my wife and my 7 month old rottweiler.
BIL and his 2 kids ( boy 8, girl 7).
BIL his novia and her 2 kids ( girls 3 &8).
3 sobrinas ( 12, 25, 22 and her 4 year old boy ).
And the donkey...
THE LOCATION.
Everyone knows and has been but no one can recall how far neither an exact route.
Anyway off we go, bright sunny afternoon must have been around 2.
We leave ( by the way this already deep campo....). About 2 ks on a normal countryside road.... turn off on a earth/stone kind of road steep uphill. Maybe 2/3km. Through a couple of isolated hamelts until an ankle deep strech of a river to cross. This is a mountanie/hill area. Lust ecosystem type.. Then riverside big boulder type or small path through the woods/centuryold cacao trees. Hard going but fun.... very steep parts ( a seed of worry creaps out -----I am a pessimist on some things.....)
Finally we arrive. Paradise. Waterfalls. Natural cristal clear ponds. Great.
But it is already last light (dominican time. 2 hours hike turns into nearly a 4 hour hike.....anyway......).
Lets get the tent up.... huge thing 3 rooms/living room..... I ll spare u the story.... it is easier in day light than pitch dark.....
Tent in place . Get stuff sorted out. Put up huge hammock we have in between 2 huge cacao trees for my wife and myself.150cm high. Great. Fire going, food put on. Great. A great night under the stars. Coffee. Laughter. Dominoes.
And of course the Donkey.......
Twice on the hike the donkey collapsed. And me and my BIL, miguelo ( the handy one as opposed to mono the othr BIL who suddenly a month ago turned blind from diabetics!!!!! ) had to get him up-----consists of lots of shouting while pulling his ears (!!!!!)and at the same time try and take weight of him. Worked once.... the other time we had to unload the donkey so he could get back up..... The donkey, which we borrowed by the way since I do not have the honour or owning one, was old and scruffy looking, but did his donkey stuff real good, ie carry food, tent and water to destination.....
But we were There and eveything was going great......