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well hello everyone and welcome back to the channel if you happen to be new around here
my name is Trevor and this is Anna we are the delightful travellers make sure to hit subscribe
and click the like button for our Dr Adventures yes of course we are still in the Dominican
Republic we will be here for quite a while today we've made a little day trip out of the day and we
are in the city of Puerto Plata so the goal of today is to see how much we can fit in here in
one day in Puerto Plata I know a lot of people do day trips here also a lot of people come on
cruise ships we came from cabarete which is where we live and where we're staying it's about an hour
drive so today we're going to be visiting a few different places we're starting at a fort we'll
show that in a couple minutes there's also kind of like an old town and a square we'll probably
head over there and maybe we'll go up a mountain yeah you said Fort this is kind of neat you can
see it behind and also I didn't expect this view yeah we're right on the water it's a gorgeous view
view speaking of cruise ships the cruise ship port is literally right behind me you can see
two massive ships there it's right beside the fort so you must have a really nice view when
you come in on the ship and then they dock over here yeah so this I believe is the original like
the older cruise port so someone might be coming here and arriving at the newer Port which I think
is a little bit further to the West yes so if you're wondering where Puerto Plata is it's on
the North Coast of the Dominican Republic the population and this is the odd one it's between
200,000 and 400 ,000 people according to Google I know random random numbers but we do have some
friends back there you might be able to see them in the background and uh well we'll introduce you
hey it's you guys again still here they're still here if they don't know it's Jumping Places you're
repping the oh yeah today I'm repping you're repping the brand we're about to go in the
forth though you guys all ready yeah something different than a beach day well into the fort
we go and this place is actually a lot smaller than I thought there are some places you have
to walk through duck down but there's lots of artifacts there's lots of history of course on
this area and there's even a piece on DTE and his importance I guess he was in prison here as well
yeah so if you didn't know he was the Founding Father of the Dominican Republic you're going to
see his name literally everywhere when you come here so you definitely get familiarized with it
but interesting that he was actually imprisoned here this isn't an overly big Fort so doesn't take
long to go through the couple rooms then you come upstairs which is where we are now yeah
now the price was how much a person it was 100 pesos per person so quite cheap yeah that's not
too bad it's like basically a couple dollars if you're coming off the cruise port and it's just
so conveniently located so we're actually at the top of the fort here and you can see these kind
of old school cannons like looking right out to seea you got that incredible view it's nice and
Breezy up here it is I bet you can tell from this this sounds probably not very good right
now because it's really really quite windy those flags are just like flapping away yeah you can't
miss the Dr flag behind you so the inside of the fort is very small but the outside there
was actually actually more of an area that you can walk around than you think we're about to see more
of these cool cannons are going to like appear in the background here and we just have an amazing
view like right now I'm looking at that cruise port that you saw earlier but in another Direction
you see kind of some mountains and Rolling Hills in the background and of course you can't miss the
ocean at the same time we just came downstairs or a lower level where it's slightly less windier but
still pretty windy right here yeah nice views as well um but we were just kind of discussing off
camera how this kind of reminds us of the fort and San Domingo except that one was much bigger
and maybe not as good views but also the one in Puerto Rico in Old San Juan has a similar look to
it yeah that one was also on the the seafront yeah one Domingo was on a river on a river but close
to the seafront but not right on the sea front which is kind of weird when you think about do
we know do we know the age of this one yes so I actually was just reading this was commissioned
by the king of Spain and it was completed in 1577 so they were probably all completed maybe around
the same time I don't remember similar style okay the big question do you guys know if you've seen
an older Fort h no pressure than this yeah I think I might have read that this is the oldest one in
the Caribbean am I right you might be right I don't know darl do you know no I have no idea
well we found uh the main sign here it's actually pretty cool and not colorful I know in most of the
towns they have these colorful signs that say the town name PTO Plata has one as well but it's like
silver rather than being super colorful so if you are coming to the city this little section is just
right down from the fort you can walk here quickly and you got quite the view again of the ocean and
there's actually some beaches up along the coast but I don't think they're like official public
beaches they look kind of like more rugged and a little bit untouched even though we are right
in the city it's absolutely beautiful in Porta Plata dare I call it underrated so we're now up
on the uh malacon here which goes for quite the distance in the kind of older section of the town
I see people running here all the time but it's a beautiful walk it is I think if you're wanting to
get some exercise and like not having to worry about traffic this this is the perfect place to
come because the road's on one side and then you can just walk for ages along here you can
probably tell it's a little loud but what's neat is on one side you can see the ocean and that's
beautiful while you're walking the other side has some really nice like colorful buildings which I
think is a new addition since the last time we've been here all right into the colonial section we
go and it's a lot of fun as soon as you get in here there's lots of dancing and well colorful
buildings and what's cool is this is pretty close pretty close to where we just came from huh yeah
it seems like there's a lot of things in just like a short walking distance so we always love that I
always forget how much I love that the buildings are all these different colors and it just makes
for an extra fun vibe especially in the Caribbean yeah and this heat kind of wooden too it is kind
of wooden it's cool so they're clearly just in the middle of getting set up for Christmas I think by
the time you guys watch this it'll probably be a couple of weeks after we filmed it it's the
beginning of December right now the last time we were here was way closer to Christmas and they
were like fully set up but I think they have more stuff this time I think so too what's really cool
about the square is there's all these colorful buildings completely surrounding it with this
kind of like centerpiece that's all white and green but I do spot a Christmas tree but it's
funny now we've been here twice both times at Christmas so we're going to have to come back
again when it's not set up and when it just looks normal what do you guys think about Christmas in
the tropics yeah it's weird right cuz it's like the opposite of how I think have you ever had
you probably never had a snow snowy Christmas no I haven't I'm from Brazil so that's normal for
me for him well be honest you'd probably prefer a non- snowy Christmas you might like this more yeah
I do I don't like cold weather that much so this is very good we don't like cold weather either
exactly we but we spent most of our Christmases at home in Canada it was just two years ago it
was our first ever Christmas away and we were here okay the real questions you you're half Brazilian
half Brit what not warm weather warm weather warm weather Squad got some fun little facts for you
about puera Plata the name of it is actually the full name is San Felipe to Pora Plata I don't know
why they only call call it the short name now but it dates back to the 16th century much like the
fort does um but the funny thing was this part of the city was really built in 1865 which explains
kind of the Victorian architecture that you see around we just met this fell who watches all of
us both of our Channel what's your name did we Don Donnie Donnie nice to meet you Donnie nice
to meet you did I hear you from the states yeah I am from the state North Carolina lives here Liv
here for three years and he plays in a Dominican band wait we got to go watch your band where you
play at the whole island We Tour the whole island wow I played for the president twice what yeah
and um we're pretty popular here pretty popular what's the name of the band yaho yaho we'll look
it up try to find look it up so another thing they have here is um a lot of souvenirs and like little
trinkets you can buy so if you are coming off a cruise ship or just visiting in general there's
so many different things and all of it's pretty nice you can see some hats so yeah you going to
buy anything yeah it's like it's actually a really nice spot You' think it would be like super cheap
kind of like chusy stuff there's some of that but there's some really nice jewelry and stuff here
too this wasn't here last time so I don't know if it's like a certain day of the week they have the
market or if it's just a new thing check that out that could be our ride maybe that's super
cool why aren't we in one of these oh look at that one how cool is that we need a car I know
it look like people are on tours too is this like a thing you can come and do here yeah check this
out it almost has like Havana Vibes in Cuba this car is super cool they're trying to definitely
improve like the city and have lots of different touristic things right yeah I've never heard of
this but it's really cool maybe someone can let us know in the comments if this is like a common
thing you can come get a tour in one of these old cars I know so it's time to get some lunch and we
came over to a place called Cafe and the inside of this place is incredible we found a seat in
the back and right here I got myself a ham and cheese sandwich I just wanted something really
easy it's not too big because it's so hot out if we eat something too too big well it just slows
us down let's be honest I'll try it really quick does look good doesn't it not going to lie I saw
the bread on this sandwich and it just looked like kind of a grocery store bread so I was kind
of like how how's this going to be it's toasted a little bit uh the inside has all the things you
would think that comes on ham and cheese there's some lettuce some basic ingredients Tomatoes but
there's ketchup on this but it's their own ketchup I believe so that's actually pretty creative and
it is it is good not my favorite sandwich I ever have but if you're right here in the old town the
old section of Porta Plata maybe come and check this place out it's easy to come to so I went for
a wrap a poo renero wrap so there's chicken ranch sauce I think there's cheese I believe
there're supposed to be bacon in here as well I actually have no idea how I'm going to eat this
it's presented really really nicely but it's huge let's see if I can actually manage to do
this yeah that's surprisingly good I mean it's not something I'm going to like remember for the rest
of my life or anything but really nice lunch I love the cheese on it it's kind of like an
added bonus one of the things you're definitely going to come across in pora Plata is this pink
Street have you ever been on a street this pink before literally the entire thing totally pink
it's cool because it's not super wide it's kind of narrow and then you got things like this I'm
going to show them look check out this like bicycle just kind of hanging on the wall yeah
it's like totally an Instagram Street you come here to take photos well here's the funny thing
I never really thought about it's more like a pink alley it is yeah and it's pedestrian only
rightfully so you guys ever see a street so pink not at all it's the pinkest Street maybe
in the world yeah it's bizarre we were saying Street yeah Barby Street it almost look like an
alley right yeah it's it's tiny but it's a good spot for fotos yeah a lot of people though and I
think I noticed when I was looking at the cruise ship uh schedule there's no cruise ships here
tomorrow probably would have been a better day well welcome to Umbrella Street we got some maau
parrots back there so yeah this is definitely the uh most most touristic Street in the town
yeah I thought Street was bad but then you get here and it's really really crazy yeah you can
probably hear uh the music of course and you can probably see the sheer amount of people the thing
is The Umbrellas are really cool CHR is going for it I mean when you're on this street you got to
get in on the fun that's pretty good it's a pretty good British attempt I've done this before I just
realized you guys might not be able to make out the like the Hopscotch jumping area that's why
this guy was like jumping like a crazy person yeah I don't just walk like that you absolutely
have to come to this street if you're uh going to be in the city it's not always this busy like
right now we're up one of the ends and I'll show you like right now it's not too busy here if you
look back this way I think a bunch of Cruisers just kind of went by so yeah it's not as bad but
the umbrellas are really cool look at that oh there goes Anna do you like The Umbrellas I do
like the umbrellas and it gives you a little bit of shade too cuz it's hot it's true did we mention
it's 30° today Celsius Anna's been looking for a hat since we got to the Dr say Trevor has been
trying to get get me to get a white hat cuz it looks really good on camera so we just walked
by this one it's really pretty you guys like it we got to figure out the price first but what do you
guys think do we like it do we like it so we're just buying this hat we still got the price tag
on it but he's giving us a mama Wana which is made is it wine red wine and honey and cinnamon little
wrong yeah did you try Chris I'll try it now is it to Allin one or sip me no no no uh as SI
okay
hat oh I really like it like a a new [Laughter] taste yeah I like it in Brazil we have something
very similar to this it's called Kataba quite quite similar very he's watching us on YouTube
already now he's are you subscribing to finished yeah finished no no it's
okay so you subscribe to Jumping Places too yeah that's Carol car Carolina that's
her I told you you guys you'd probably like mamana no it actually tastes a lot better
than I thought hey this gu a little hint of rum you bought a bottle yeah I definitely like so
you guys probably notic it's just how fun this city is like that whole interaction we just had
was completely random Dominicans are some of the nicest people on the planet but now we're going
to kind of leave the area down head up to well a mountain that's close by all right well next up
we are going to take a cable car this Cable Car teleo Porto PL is what it's called and yeah it's
it's a cable car well this they they packed a lot of people on there didn't they hopefully we won't
be that past yeah it's going to be there's no way it's just the four of us that would be cool
[Music] though [Music] so we're told this is the way to see the absolute best views of the entire
city and we're already like maybe halfway up maybe not even halfway up and we have an amazing view of
the city we can see where we were earlier I see the fort down there you can see the cruise ships
you can actually see the uh Church in the middle of the square yeah it's a it's a killer view look
there's even like an open part so there's the uh cable itself w oh God that was kind of scary
I'm not going to lie that was a bit scary we are officially going into the clouds y not sure I've
uh ever had this happen before it's started wow oh the ears are starting to pop as well well we
officially made it to the top and uh yeah it might look like fog to you guys but this is uh we're in
the clouds officially that's so crazy you can sort of see it circling around the mountain actually it
was clearer earlier today maybe we should have maybe we should have done things backwards but
it's kind of to be up here in the fog there is a statue up there that I can barely even see
there's like a kind of Christ Redeemer statue up there that we yeah barely see but we're not
going to get the views but we got them on the way up but it's still pretty neat to be up here I'm
interested to know how it compares to Rio cuz obviously I think when anyone thinks of these
statues they think of the one that like looms over the city of R de Janeiro which happens to be where
Carol's from yeah and how much was it to come up again 550 550 pesos so about 10 USD per person per
person that's not too bad that's really I mean for the views you get in general and then you get to
kind of well you get to see a Christ Redeemer yeah I think there's some other stuff up here did you
say there maybe some Gardens up here there might be some Gardens somewhere well we're trying to
figure out uh what is actually up here but at the moment I can say tell you it's a lot cooler maybe
if the sun was out it would feel like the same temperature as on the ground but you can actually
see the CL the clouds like rolling I don't know if they'll be able to pick it up on the camera looks
cool in but in person you can see the clouds going by our heads it's really neat well we managed to
find a bridge and we can hear some uh yeah water down there it's like a stream going by I have to
imagine that the views would be amazing up here if it wasn't cloudy right now cuz you can't see
anything right and the temperature we have to talk about the temperature it's at least maybe
five maybe six maybe 7° cooler uh we're okay we're from Canada we're in shorts but there's definitely
people that have dressed for the occasion up on this mountain one thing we notice is that when you
get off the cable car there's quite a few signs around pointing you to different things but as you
make your way back farther away from the cable car they kind of disappear there aren't really
many signs over there's something important apologies yeah speaking of things that kind
of disappear check this out behind Anna there's like a cell phone tower there but you can't even
see the top of it huh you can't how how thick the clouds are up here so I'm not sure if we mentioned
that we are um right now in a botanical gardens it's one of the things you can do at the top so
it comes in handy when there's uh well you don't have your view there's big stairs here so I got
to watch where I'm walking but yeah check this out like it'ss pretty Lush all these gorgeous
gorgeous flowers and right now we're on our way to some kind of like there's like a man-made pool or
something here a lagoon a lagoon well I'm glad we uh walked down here because even though it
is a man-made Fountain it's very pretty here there's like a nice stream you got a good view
of the bridge it's pretty cool yeah and nice as it would be to be up here when the sun is out and you
can have all the crazy views it kind of creates a mood it does especially when the clouds are
like rushing by but that's going to do it for our guide to Pora plate today I hope you guys enjoyed
the video this city is so much fun it's like that perfect size you can easily do everything we did
today in one single day that's so great you could probably fit in a few more things if you really
really wanted to we felt like it was a perfect amount of time probably about 5 hours or so but
yeah I mean I'm sure if you wanted to do a full 10 12 hour day you could do it so if you got this far
in the video and you don't know who we are it's Trevor and Anna we're the delightful Travelers
thanks for tuning in hit subscribe hit like if you're not new around here you guys know we
appreciate you coming back each and every single week now we got to go wait in line to get the
cable car down to go back to our car to go back to Cabaret and if you're wondering I think there will
be one or two more videos left with Jumping Places yes they'll be back go subscribe to them as well
all right guys that's it from Puerto Plata wishing you delightful travels see you soon [Music]