So I get a few days off while I am here and want to see a bit more of the country.
What I was wondering is most of the towns are the same. As in same colmados, same motoconchos, same feel of music and dust and such.
If I were to be in La Vega or elsewhere in the country would I experience the same type of people as in Maranatha or Sosua?
I don't know where Maranatha is located, but Sos?a and La Vega are worlds apart.
La Vega is quite an attractive city with clean streets, fancy light fixtures and rows of Royal and Cana palms line its main streets , many of the neighborhoods are tranquil with well appointed homes, and plenty of good looking nice people. The parks are well maintained and in the center of town there are some colonial buildings.
Sos?a is not as clean, no fancy light fixtures line its streets and no trees (other than the palmitas) line some sections of the sidewalks (although giant trees on private properties which loom over public streets do offer shade here and there). Sos?a does have some nice residential areas filled with foreigners and some Dominicans, and there are plenty of nice people, but plenty of the not-so-nice kind as well.
In terms of physical appearance, La Vega looks what a tourist town should look like while Sos?a doesn't and yet, the economies of these two cities are completely the opposite.
The Cibao is wealthier than most other places (except Santo Domingo), so obviously the towns are generally cleaner, nicer, with plenty of nice well maintained homes in the towns as well as in the countryside and the best part is that its as pure as the Dominican Republic comes as far as foreign influences go.
The coasts, well that's another story all together.
-NALs