The Dominican Republic travel guide: Your trip to the Dominican Republic starts here.

Routes, destinations and cities in the Dominican Republic, with things to do, when to go and how to get there.

8 destinations 14 provinces 22 cities

Across Cidade Turismo: 41 countries · 78 routes · 496 destinations · 1,295 cities

In the photo: Praia de Bávaro — Punta Cana

Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.

The guide

The Dominican Republic, city by city

Cidade Turismo is a travel guide built city by city, now also in the Dominican Republic. For each place you'll find things to do, attractions with their own page, when to go and how to get there.

The guide has three ways in, so you can start wherever you like: routes, which link towns along one journey; destinations, which are the tourist regions; and the provinces, with the main cities in each one.

The texts are written from official tourism sources, such as national and regional tourism offices, national parks and city halls, and new cities and routes keep being added to the guide.

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8 destinations

Destinations

The tourist regions in the Dominican Republic, each with its towns: things to do, when to go and how to get there.

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In the photo: Bonao and the mountains (Monseñor Nouel)

22 cities in 14 provinces

Provinces and cities

The guide by province: each one with its destinations, cities and routes, and each city with its attractions.

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The map

The destinations in the Dominican Republic

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Tap a patch to open the destination. The star marks the capital.

Limites: Oficina Nacional de Estadística / OCHA-HDX / geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Adaptação do Cidade Turismo.

Where to start

Cities to discover today

Six cities from the guide, changing every day.

Barahona · Barahona and Pedernales

Paraíso

Paraíso is a fishing village on the southern coast of Barahona, between the mountain and the sea, with pebble and sandy beaches and cold-water rivers. Very close is Playa Los Patos, where the country’s shortest river, according to local tradition, forms a freshwater lagoon beside the beach.

Província de Santo Domingo · Santo Domingo

Boca Chica

Boca Chica is the closest beach to Santo Domingo and Aeropuerto de Las Américas: a cove with shallow, calm water protected by a coral reef, with light sand, food stalls and weekend activity from Dominican families. It works well as the first or last night of the trip, near the airport, or as a beach day trip from the capital.

Samaná · Península de Samaná

Las Galeras

Las Galeras is a quiet village at the eastern tip of the Samaná Peninsula, at the end of the road, with a calm beach in the center and access, by boat or trails, to isolated and wild beaches: Playa Rincón, long and lined with coconut palms, and Playa Frontón, with clear waters at the foot of a rock wall.

Monte Cristi · Monte Cristi

San Fernando de Monte Cristi

San Fernando de Monte Cristi is a small, quiet town in the country’s northwest, with wooden Victorian houses and a French clock in the central park. A few kilometers away is El Morro, a stone table above the sea in Monte Cristi National Park, and offshore the Cayos Siete Hermanos. In town, the house of Máximo Gómez preserves the history of the Cuban independence manifesto.

Puerto Plata · Puerto Plata, Sosúa and Cabarete

Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata is the main city on the north coast, with a center of wooden Victorian houses around Parque Central, the 16th-century Fortaleza San Felipe by the seafront, and the Amber Museum. A cable car rises to Loma Isabel de Torres, with a Christ statue and a garden at the top. To the east lies Playa Dorada; inland are the Damajagua waterfalls.

Barahona · Barahona and Pedernales

Santa Cruz de Barahona

Santa Cruz de Barahona is the main city of the southwest, a port with a malecón facing the Neiba bay and the Sierra de Bahoruco behind. It is the base for the south coast road, with Playa San Rafael, where a mountain river forms freshwater pools beside the sea, and for Lake Enriquillo inland.

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About Cidade Turismo

What is Cidade Turismo?

A travel guide to the Dominican Republic organized into routes, destinations, provinces and cities. Each city has things to do, attractions, when to go and how to get there.

What is the difference between a route, a destination and a city?

A route is a journey linking several towns. A destination is a tourist region with its towns. A city is the place itself, with its attractions.

Are the pictures in the guide real?

They are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it. Photos sent by travelers are shown separately, as travelers' photos.

How do I find a place in the guide?

Type the name in the search box: it can be a route, destination, province, city or attraction. Or start from Routes, Destinations or Provinces and cities in the menu.

Is the guide available in Spanish and English?

Yes. Destinations already translated are available in Spanish and English at cidadeturismo.com, and the rest are being added.

Is there an app?

Yes, for Android, on Google Play. With it you can save the destinations you want to visit and get the guide's news.