What is the prettiest little village you have seen in the DR? (I am thinking of retiring to the DR in another year or so and am looking for somewhere QUIET and peaceful and very green. Pine trees are a serious plus. I can speak Spanish and am learning Haitian Creole. I don't need an expensive house or even electricity, for that matter, just so long as the location is quiet and peaceful and very pretty.) Where do you suggest? Thanks!
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BUENA Vista on the way to Jarabacoa is pastoral, pines trees, small but close to La Vega and about 10 km to Jarabacoa.
I think San Jose de Ocha is lovely, ditto Matas de Farfan, I also have a thing for Pedernales and the fantastic pine forest above it overlooking Haiti. I long to get out of the Capital and move up to the serenity of the small village but alas, I fear that I would miss the ocassional scrabble game, the international library, the every once in a while cinema. I did a year and a half in Las Terrenas five years ago with no car, when my biggest excursion was to buy goat feed with a friend in Nagua...... sooooo I know a bit of what I speak... BUT... not to say that it CAN't be done... just know that you are going to be a bit of an odd duck in the prettiest village, unless, of course, you are dominican? Everyone is going to know everything about you and you are going to be all alone, very alone, completely and utterly alone........could you handle that?
Villa of Juncalito in Janico, Santiago...
Where the Spanish colonists settled away from the big cities...
Returned as in deported from another country, or a voluntary return to the homeland after an absence?
Although I havent been there in years, San Jose de las Matas, has always stayed in my memory as a really nice town, Lots of trees, clean, Oak trees with moss on them, a river ( that I tried panning for gold in ). if you like hiking, a trail to Pico Duarte is not that far from there. nights are cooler than in the city.
Villa of Juncalito in Janico, Santiago...
Where the Spanish colonists settled away from the big cities...
Agreed, Juncalito is very clean, nice village, and beautiful girls I would love to live there.
Uhh..I live in Jarabacoa and I wouldn't recommend Buena Vista to anyone retiring here!
Jarabacoa if great and Constanza I think is even nicer. In fact, on the road to Constanza there are smaller towns that are gorgeous, we are eve thinking of relocating up that way.
Why? I have friend that live off the main road about 300 meters ( just after the school) and it's very quiet, and according to them safe.
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