You can travel from Santiago to Santo Domingo. We even have telephones, faxes, and other modern conveniences!
Metro and Caribe Tours provide fast, efficient service for around RD$500 pesos round trip. Take a light jacket, it's cold on the buses.
you can leave at 6 in the morning and return at 11 p.m. (Last buses leave around 9 p.m. from Santo Domingo, I think!
Travel time-station to station-- is alittle less than two hours during early and late hours, a bit more than two hours during peak traffic hours...
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