I am planning on visiting the DR with my wife early next year for about 3 months, with a view to making this a regular thing. It is likely that we will at some point find a community that we like well enough to return to regularly, but for our first trip we would like to spend several weeks in a few different places to get a "feel" for the options that are available to us.
As a starting point we have decided on the north coast, so will be looking to stay in a couple of places along the coast, but we would also like to visit at least one town away from the coast, higher in altitude, so a few degrees cooler. We will be looking to rent a furnished apartment for about a month and the "obvious" place seems to be Jarabacoa, where there certainly seem to be some lovely places available to rent. It seems to me that there are probably other, perhaps smaller communities in the upland areas that might also be suitable, but my research abilities seem to be letting me down as I am having trouble finding them, so I thought "why not ask the people who know?"!
So what are some of the other communities that I should be looking at?
As a starting point we have decided on the north coast, so will be looking to stay in a couple of places along the coast, but we would also like to visit at least one town away from the coast, higher in altitude, so a few degrees cooler. We will be looking to rent a furnished apartment for about a month and the "obvious" place seems to be Jarabacoa, where there certainly seem to be some lovely places available to rent. It seems to me that there are probably other, perhaps smaller communities in the upland areas that might also be suitable, but my research abilities seem to be letting me down as I am having trouble finding them, so I thought "why not ask the people who know?"!
So what are some of the other communities that I should be looking at?