Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic We had been through Santo Domingo a couple of times in the past, but just in transit to one of the beach resorts in Puerto Plata, and had never stopped in Santo Domingo to explore it. This time, since we were catching a flight back to the US from Santo Domingo,…
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In late December 2017, we decided to go spend New Year’s eve celebrating a friends’ birthday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. So after finishing up the Colombia Cartagena trip, we came back to Dallas, and then took off to Punta Cana via Miami. We had booked the Four Points Sheraton hotel near the Punta Cana…
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Cartagena Part 2, Colombia Dec 2017 Next part of Cartagena to explore was the market; so we took a taxi to Mercado Bazuto the ride cost us $5 from Bocagrande. Most taxi or uber rides in Cartagena cost us between $2.80 and $5 one way. Bazuto market is a large sprawling, haphazard, unorganized, crowded, relatively…
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Cartagena Part 1, Colombia Dec 2017 After a short business trip; we decided to explore Cartagena, Colombia, since we had liked Cali and Medellin earlier. We flew to Cartagena via Miami, and when the plane landed in Cartagena, the people in the plane started clapping. We had experience this before in several parts of the…
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Sicily 05: Palermo, Cefalu Next day, we left Agrigento and decide to take a long scenic drive to Palermo, passing several interesting places. We drove west from Agrigento along the coast to Mazara del Vallo, via Sciacca, Menfi, and Castelvetrano. Nice scenery along the way, and great roads. In Mazara, we stopped at a small…
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