Samana´s Bridge

Opposite of the town of Samaná is located  the bridge that goes thru the keys of the bay. Its construction was ordered by President Joaquin Balaguer in the seventies.

The reason for the work was the confusion of Balaguer to see the city plan that architect Ferrand was prepared at the request of Emperor Napoleón; bayfront line keys were marked and the President mistook as bridge. This bridge is of great attraction as a point of promenade overlooking the bay and the city.

Samana’s Crafts

The province of Samaná has many local craftsmen who perform work of any kind using local products. In the El Limón lamps with palm wood elements, wall bamboo, bromeliads arrangements and ornaments are made of palm leaves.

In Las Terrenas groups of local artisans make necklaces, pendants and bracelets that are sold to tourists visiting the area.

Other artisans beautiful province handicrafts made with materials from fig trees and palm, objects not only sold locally but to Santo Domingo stores that sell them are also sent. Overall samanense craft is simple and of high quality, especially the use of coconut as raw material par excellence, resulting in an element of great interest to present tourism.

La Churcha de Santa Barbara

In the city of Santa Barbara de Samaná is located the Methodist Church of San Pedro, popularly known as “The Churcha”.

The present building was built in England in 1900 and transported in pieces to Samaná. It serves as a place for worship Methodists coming from the population of freed American slaves established in the city in 1821.

This is the only building that remains of the ancient city of Samaná, which suffered two massive devastation: a fire in 1945 and complete destruction of all Victorian houses jetty ordered by President Joaquin Balaguer in 1973.

El Zumbador

The zumbador is located in the Valley section, near the Loma de la Cruz community. It is a small river which rises in the mountains, west side of the San Juan river basin, at a height of over 200 meters. It joins with other streams forming a series of small waterfalls before emptying into the San Juan River.

At the foot of the falls, the river San Juan is a land of sand, which end side is bordered by a group of bamboo trees, about 20 meters high. This whole place is characterized by a very tropical landscape image, caused by the vegetation of the San Juan River: great big trees full of epiphytas, palms and bamboo everywhere.

The first small jump Buzzer, almost hidden by vegetation, yet indicates that cascades extend into much higher.

Passing the first big jump, a popular bathing well, can be found above several jumps and pits to enjoy their fresh water. A few meters after this strip bank is coconut crops, banana and yam and little further grassland, that is, the cultural landscape that occupies the hills around the buzzer.

The top of the Buzzer is difficult to access because it is bordered by lush vegetation. Nearby are beginning conucos closed by fencing with cultured coconut, banana and yam.

The most common access is from the road Samana. At Km 3 Valley Road the first crossing of the Rio San Juan is located. From Samana are nearly four kilometers and takes about 20 minutes by truck here.

El Valle

” El Valle”  is a region made up of small hills between the mountains of the east and west. Valley basin is formed by the river San Juan, joining the stream and river  La Majagua (Cold River) and flows into the Playa del Valle in the Atlantic.

El Valle (with buzzer and Playa del Valle) is the area with more visitors on safari tours. Is a major attraction for tourism, for its Caribbean atmosphere with colorful houses, children calling, tropical landscape, a diverse agriculture (crops classic cocoa, coffee, coconut and banana) and overlooking the mountains.

Located in the center of the peninsula, it is the entrance, warned by a sign. It is a road of soil that remains throughout the Valley to Playa del Valle, twice crossing the river San Juan. Valley in the geographical sense begins after about two kilometers of the road.

The Valley an area that is determined by the road and extends Valley communities, and that comes from the south of the peninsula, across the entire region to the north, to end the Playa del Valle.

Surf in Las Terrenas

Las Terrenas is a destination that is suitable for surfing and body boarding, or exclusively for bodysurfing, perhaps the purest form of surf. As there is nothing between the surfer and the wave, a union between man and much more intense experience occurs.

Cayo Levantado

Cayo Levantado is located off Cape Arrows, about a mile from the coast, about 7 km from Santa Barbara de Samaná.
It has an excellent beach, a pier and a great all inclusive hotel where the tourists who stay at the Cayo stay.
It is one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean and is visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists.

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Laguna Salada

The Laguna Salada lies within a valley that has an area of ​​1.5 kilometers in width by 3 km long. A mountainous hill forms a semicircle to the east and south side of the valley: in the east with a height of about 100 meters, forming a cliff next to the lake, and southern mountains rise to 200 meters.

The water is brackish, a green and abundant algae and aquatic plant.

Laguna Cristal

Laguna Cristal  (The crystal lagoon) is bordering the Los Haitises National Park, at the end of Glass, Barracote tributary of river stream.
It is a beautiful blue water lagoon in the background has a flooded cave divers visited by specialists in cave diving.

San Juan River

It is a river that crosses Samaná  from south to north and ends at the beach of the valley, forming a barrel of great beauty surrounded by mangroves in part of its route. It has some pools where locals gather to bathe and access to normal is quite simple, since the road that runs parallel to the river side.

El Limón River

It is the main river in the area and one of the most important of  Samaná.
The river runs through the center of the village of El Limón; It maintains its flow throughout the year and at its mouth there is an extensive beach facing a cove opens.
The river has important gallery forests in various parts of the course as well as waterfalls and pools of great aesthetic beauty.

Palmarito River

It is a tributary of the Limón river.  It maintains its flow throughout the year and boasts some areas of gallery forest. It also has pools of great beauty. Palmarito breaks are completely untouched because access has a rather complicated by the steep terrain surrounding the watercourse.

The biggest jump is about 10 meters high and about 20 meters wide. it is said of this place that is the great unknown in the area, despite having a spectacular beauty and breathtaking natural pool at the foot of the waterfall.

Playa Frontón

It is located within the Cabo Samaná Natural Monument and is a place of great natural beauty.
It is accessible by land from following an ecotourism trail prepared by the Ministry of Environment leaving the area of ​​the Devil’s Mouth, past the village of Cueva del Agua.
It can also be reached by boat, leaving one of the coves on the south coast of the peninsula.
The bottom of the beach is flanked by towering cliffs, creating a special feeling to come to this beautiful place.

Rincón Bay

Located between the Cabo Cabrón and Cape Samaná, undoubtedly the Rincón Bay has one of the most beautiful beaches in the insular Caribbean.
It has a beach more than two kilometers, sand fund over a hundred meters and a generally calm to be very protected from winds waters.
The whole beach is flanked by an impressive mass of coconut trees and still have not developed homes and hotels in its environment.
This is a really beautiful place, protected by their remoteness from population centers, although it has an access road, although long, in a state that leads to the bay quite easily.

El Ermitaño Beach

El Ermitaño  beach is located between Punta Cayita  Honda and Punta de Leche
It has a length of 400 meters and its location surrounded by coral reefs is truly spectacular.

The beach sand is of excellent quality and extremely calm waters, ideal for swimming and go solo.
Beachfront, less than a hundred meters there is a small island and beach area at the back, surrounded by wetlands.
No vehicular access on land which gives a secular isolation that enhances the beauty of the place.