Dominican Fishing Tours

Dominican Fishing Tours
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600lb Black Marlin Jumps in Boat -- Dominican Fishing Tours

The Peninsula of Samana and Las Terrenas

Las Terrenas, Samana

        Las Terrenas, located approximately 245 km east of Puerto Plata, must be accessed by one of two mountain roads. If you are coming from the west, you would turn left after the town of Sánchez. If you are arriving from the east, you would drive through Samaná, and turn right on the road towards El Limón and El Portillo.

         Once you're on either road it will take another 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to reach the town of Las Terrenas. The road from Sánchez is the most exciting route to take. This curvy, steep road takes you through the Cordillera Samaná mountain range. Go slowly and you'll see spectacular views of Samaná Bay and Parque Los Haitises on the south side, and the Atlantic coast on the north side.

          Along the way you'll see brightly painted Dominican homes, as well as the unique farming and vegetation of the area, including 60 varieties of palms. Upon arrival in Las Terrenas, you'll be awed with the calmness of the area and the beautiful white sand beach lined with tall palms and pastel-colored wooden fishing boats. The next thing you may notice is its Mediterranean-influenced atmosphere.

            There are plenty of cafés and oceanfront restaurants where people can be found sipping wine, over long, leisurely lunches, or having a mid-day break over a café latte. Shops there offer a variety of arts and crafts, many of them unique handmade items that can be difficult to find elsewhere in the Dominican Republic. Activity-wise, you can enjoy watersports like snorkeling, diving, windsurfing and kiteboarding. The 4-wheel drive and horseback riding trips are also popular because they allow you to see otherwise non-accessible areas of beauty. If you just want to plant yourself on a beautiful beach you can also visit closeby Playa Bonita or Playa Las Ballenas.

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Fishing in Monte-Cristi

MonteCristi

MonteCristi, located approximately 135 km west of Puerto Plata, sits among desert-like surroundings on the northwestern tip of the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1506, the town was an important trading port until the 19th century - exporting sugar, mahogany and other crops to Europe. Presently most of the 25,000 inhabitants make their living from farming, fishing and the salt flats to the north.

There is not a lot of tourism in this Victorian-style town, but those that visit can enjoy Cayo Cabrita and El Morro beaches, as well as very good diving. From El Morro , you can swim 300 meters out to Isla Cabrita , an island housing a lighthouse. One of the largest tourist attractions in the park are the navigable channels thick with mangroves and reefs, a perfect refugee for the manatee, an endangered marine mammal. In the Estero Hondo waterway, there are more than 20 species of manatees.

Divers enjoy investigating the several shipwrecks, which include colonial-era galleons. Many come to the area to visit the National Park, Parque Nacional MonteCristi , consisting of subtropical dry forest, lagoons and a 900 foot high Mesa. The Mesa overlooks the spectacularly clear sea below and several small islands located just off shore, known as Los Siete Hermanos (The Seven Brothers), where large sea turtles lay their eggs. There are over 160 species of birds and over 10 species of reptiles that occupy the park. The people of MonteCristi are a big celebrators of Carnival , the days leading up to Easter Sunday, and May 30th, the Patron Saint festival in honor of San Fernando.

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Fishing Tours in Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata was founded by Nicolás de Ovando in 1502. A personal decree of Christopher Columbus gave the city its name, because of the shimmering silver color of its coast at sunset. Puerto Plata is cradled between its colonial harbor and a dramatic backdrop and natural reserve, Mt. Isabel de Torres. Still erect from centuries past is the colonial fortress of San Felipe, built in 1541 to defend from possible pirate attack. Many of the turn-of-the-century homes have been lovingly restored, and the charming central park gazebo was recreated from period renderings of the original. The 1970's brought tourism to the Amber Coast, with a meticulous development program directed by the Central Bank's Department of Tourism Infrastructure.

Cabarete has developed an international reputation as host to major windsurfing competitions. With its six kilometers of beach, it offers hotels and condominiums and enjoys a prosperous community life. The land surrounding Cabarete originally belonged to a wealthy colonial landowner of the Davila and Coca family. The name Cabarete appeared for the first time in the early 1800's. A large portion of the land was eventually acquired by Zephaniah Kingsley, a rich plantation owner married to an African, Anna Majigeen. After departing from a Florida torn apart with racial tension, Kingsley started his own colony in Cabarete in 1836, with his mulatto family and freed blacks who worked the land. He built a mahogany house for his Anna overlooking the sea at Cabarete, and often returned to this paradise he created far from the racial unrest of other lands.

Cabarete, located approximately 40 km east of Puerto Plata and 20 km east of the POP Airport, is a charismatic little beach town that attracts sports enthusiasts and sun worshippers from all over the world. Until the late 1980's, this town was not much of a town at all, but a vacation area for a few Dominicans from Moca and Santiago. A couple of foreigners discovered the ideal windsurfing conditions in Cabarete Bay, and this secret spot didn't stay secret very long. Since the late 80's the town has hosted both professional and amateur international windsurfing competitions. In 2000, kiteboarding started to take off, and the town has hosted international professional competitions every year since. Cabarete is considered by many to be one of the top places in the world to windsurf and kiteboard, but that's not all that can be done here. You can surf, mountain bike, horseback ride, go canyoning, and take part in so many other adventures, or just simply enjoy the fun in the sun to be found here. For all the information you need on visiting Cabarete.
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