I had a fantastic holiday in RD and spent a huge amount of money which I hope stays in the country but I have one incident that I remember. I was in the Caribe Tours bus waiting room in Sosua waiting for a bus back to SD ..the room had about 6 ameriacan people , a couple of well off Dominicans and a young Dominican chap about 19 who looked fairly low income.
As we were waiting for the bus an old man bent over with arthritis came and asked for money... everyone looked away except for me who gave him only a very few pesos because that is all I had because I was going to cash a TC in SD but the young Dominican guy seemed to empty his wallet for the old man.
We drove to Santiago where we all got off for a drink except the young man who drank water apparently because he had no more money for a soft drink. Then some of us on the bus heard little chirpy noises and the driver hopped off his seat , confonted the young Dominican and threw him off the bus because he had two chickens in a box under his seat.
I do not know what the moral of the storey is but I have felt very bad about it.
When I was in RD I have never met such nice people who are facing great difficulties in their daily living with power outages, low incomes and lack of proper ammenities..but in spite of all I found them to be a most couteous people when I was shopping and dining and walking around. ON the way back home I sat next to a guy in the plane who was from Denver who , on hearing where i had been, said he did not understand how I could go to such third world countries with such corrupt people and I thought of all the American and European pigs I had seen at the Hilton Hamarca at Boca Chica with plates overflowing with food far more than they needed ..all because they had pre paid for food and drinking enough drinks to be ill just because they had pre paid their drinks and then becoming loud mouth and boring and I wondered which was the third world country.
Again I do not know if there is any moral to the tale. All I can is that I related very well to the Dominican people and hope that they have a turn in their economic fortunes ... Ricardo 333
As we were waiting for the bus an old man bent over with arthritis came and asked for money... everyone looked away except for me who gave him only a very few pesos because that is all I had because I was going to cash a TC in SD but the young Dominican guy seemed to empty his wallet for the old man.
We drove to Santiago where we all got off for a drink except the young man who drank water apparently because he had no more money for a soft drink. Then some of us on the bus heard little chirpy noises and the driver hopped off his seat , confonted the young Dominican and threw him off the bus because he had two chickens in a box under his seat.
I do not know what the moral of the storey is but I have felt very bad about it.
When I was in RD I have never met such nice people who are facing great difficulties in their daily living with power outages, low incomes and lack of proper ammenities..but in spite of all I found them to be a most couteous people when I was shopping and dining and walking around. ON the way back home I sat next to a guy in the plane who was from Denver who , on hearing where i had been, said he did not understand how I could go to such third world countries with such corrupt people and I thought of all the American and European pigs I had seen at the Hilton Hamarca at Boca Chica with plates overflowing with food far more than they needed ..all because they had pre paid for food and drinking enough drinks to be ill just because they had pre paid their drinks and then becoming loud mouth and boring and I wondered which was the third world country.
Again I do not know if there is any moral to the tale. All I can is that I related very well to the Dominican people and hope that they have a turn in their economic fortunes ... Ricardo 333
