The Dominican Republic is the most visited of all the islands in the Caribbean by a wide margin. We stayed on the south coast, which is a study in contradictions. A beautiful resort, surrounded by poverty and sugar cane fields, which are largely worked by migrant Haitian labor. The beaches are beautiful, but the overall poverty rate is 35%. Our dirt buggy ride went slowly through the villages where little children ran alongside and begged for money.
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- The CLEAN photo
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- Overwhelming poverty with cute kids begging.
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- At least the mud made the mosquito bites feel better.
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- I had so much dirt in my eyes that I did the last 10 minutes of the trip with only one eye open.
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- That one little guy needs a belt to hold up his pants!
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- The sign above the door says “God above all!”. These must be some heavenly eggs.
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- Sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see.
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- Much of the sugar cane is harvested my migrant Haitians, who work back-breaking 14 hour days.
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- Mike trying some sugar cane. You chew a juicy chunk then spit it out.
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- Mamajuana is a local concoction of tree bark, red wine, rum and honey.
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- Getting into the mud puddles!!!
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- We are now officially a Tide commercial.
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