check out Martin at Isaira Tours - Dominican Republic
I am not sure if he still does a Haiti excursion.
I did a quite few years back, never again and would not recommend it.
Haiti is a poverty-stricken land of overpopulation, denuded hillsides and a people suffering the wounds of civil strife and oppression, guns everywhere we turned. The roads are appalling and beggars on the roadside in every little filthy village were not a nice site. Go if you like but the place is not for me.
In Haiti, Abductions Hold Nation Hostage;
Despite U.N. Troop Presence, Much of Capital Controlled by Gangs
The kidnapping plague, which began in 2004 after the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and peaked during the past six months, is the latest horror in a long history of upheaval that has sealed Haiti's position as the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. A hip destination for the adventurous rich in the 1970s -- a place where Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones hung out and where tourists lounged at the Club Med -- Haiti is now a barely functioning country, dependent on the largess of international donors for two-thirds of its budget. The United States, which provides $200 million a year, is Haiti's largest bilateral donor.
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Despite the presence of thousands of U.N. troops and a new military offensive to root out gangs, armed thugs still rule much of this hilly capital, where many of the 2 million residents live in tin or cinder-block shacks. A swarm of recent kidnappings is terrorizing residents and scaring away foreign investment.
Dozens of schools closed in December after students were kidnapped in a series of incidents and a school bus was hijacked. That month, at least 100 people were reported kidnapped, the most since August, when 115 were abducted. Victim advocates say the real numbers may be much higher; once freed, people often are afraid to go to the police
Some people from first world countries have a tendency to think that because they have seen with their own eyes the poverty that they never see in their homeland (although, I'm pretty sure their grandparents probably lived it.... I recently looked at some historic photos of NYC (late 1800s, early 1900s) and the slums looked as bad as any in the developing world) that it makes them understand the world or the realities of the world at a level they feel others never will.There's a growing market niche in the tourist industry for what is known as 'slum tours', designed for voyeurs who relish looking at misery and despair through the panoramic windows of their air-conditioned Pullman bus. Go ahead, google for 'slum tours', and you will find, example, that one of the main tourist attractions in India is the Bombay slum tour. Why not, a Cit? Soleil slum tour of Port au Prince, Haiti!
The Cap-Haitien region is a very nice area to visit, but i'll recommend at least a week to enjoy it. Yes, poverty is there, but I don't think vacationing there makes it any worst.
I encourage you to go to Haiti. The only thing is to have a reliable guide on your first visit, as it is very disorganised.