Hoy newspaper reports how visiting the peak of the tallest mountain range in the Caribbean will soon be more attractive for the less adventurous traveler. The report focuses on the new facilities the Ministry of Environment is building to house visitors to the Duarte Peak or those taking the Hispaniola Trail. A caba?a with capacity to lodge 200 visitors coming with their sleeping bags has been designed to comply with international standards. The refuge will offer garbage and bathroom facilities for 24 persons at the same time, complete with modern sewage facilities to reduce environmental contamination. The caba?a will replace the La Compartici?n caba?a that was built for forest rangers some 40 years ago in the Parque Nacional J. Armando Berm?dez but was instead used intensively by all mountain trekkers once adventure tourism took off in the Dominican Republic.
The Ministry of Environment also has under construction a similar refuge at Valle del Tetero in the same Cordillera Central mountain range.
The areas offer day time temperatures of 12 degrees and gorgeous scenery of the top of the Caribbean more than 3,000 meters high.