buenos dias amigos this is the earliest morning we have done in a while at least since we have been
in the dominican republic yeah those of you that follow us regularly no we're not really mourning
people once in a while you have to do it for something really really epic i think today is
gonna be it so for those of you that watched our last video you already know that we are
in punta russia which is on the north coast of the dominican republic a little bit closer to
haiti than where we are in cabarete this morning we're going to do something super amazing most
people just come here to do a day trip we came for a few days because the town itself is super cute
very very quaint and like very dominican feeling but we're going out on an excursion today we're
going to take a boat and we're going to go to a little island i think we're going to see some
some very cool stuff at least i hope so it actually rained yesterday so hopefully the weather
cooperates today our boats here all ready got the wet bag ready this reminds me of the philippines
we are now on the boat the water is calm and so much better than
yesterday we were gonna go yesterday and then ended up having to cancel
but i think this is gonna work out well there we go let's go
there's a little bit of a bumpy ride but it was a lot of fun uh we made our first stop it's
so funny because i feel like we're in the middle of the ocean but it's like i think
they call it the small pool it's really shallow here but you can stop and snorkel i don't think
we'll do that today but it's really pretty just to look at so our plan is to just stay here for
a few minutes and then get to the island because there's a lot of people that go to
this island it's a saturday i expect it to be very very busy so we're gonna stay here quick
then head over there because that is the main attraction but my god you guys the world is a
crazy place i can't get over what i'm looking at right now and this isn't even the main attraction
this is not where we want to break down
in the middle of the ocean
this is not where you want to get stuck definitely not where you want to get stuck
well this is what we came here for this is a little sandbar island right out in the middle
of the ocean and it's just as pretty as i wanted it to be totally getting major philippines vibes
here guys well we'd like to officially welcome you to paradise island or kaio arena as they say
so beautiful as we already said we got up really early today to come out and i think we've well
we started to beat the big boats imagine while we're here though start to come but some people
come from a lot of people come from like puerto plata area get up early in the morning take a bus
here and then get on a catamaran with like 50 other people so i'm sure we're gonna be
innovated by them at some point but right now oh my two other boats here and if you're wondering
that little boat ride we were on was about 20 minutes but yeah let's go check this place out
so it's not the biggest island i've ever been on huh it's a little bit small but it's kind of
perfect i love it i bet i get you it gets crowded when when the big boats get here yeah i know we're
gonna try to like this is why we came out here early yeah but oh my god i can't believe what
i'm looking at i can't believe this exists and look mountains in the background i don't know
how well they're going to come through but yeah oh man i've never ever seen a place like this
literally how does this exist so i already mentioned our last video but if you haven't
watched that you should go back and watch it because it's basically us driving from cabarete
to punta racia it was a couple of days ago and now and then like exploring the town the beach
it's so cute it's so quaint it's like feels kind of authentic it's small i think everybody's like
family and knows each other and i think a lot of you guys will come to the dominican
republic or when you think about the country you think about puerto plata you think about punta
cana you think about all-inclusive resorts but this country has so much more to offer
starting with this little town this little sand bar in the middle of the ocean
so
i don't think i've ever seen so many fish in one spot i actually wish i
brought the snorkel stuff with us it's on the beach i went back and got our snorkels
because there's so many fish here i can't wait to actually see if we can see them
but i haven't been snorkeling in ages hopefully i remember how to do it how do i look you guys i'm
ready to go anna's already uh oh she's making her way back there do i sound a little funny
do
so that snorkeling was absolutely amazing not quite sure how good the
audio will be with that gopro sometimes it's not so great so hopefully you could hear us but
it was super amazing totally worth coming out here just to do that alone i'm glad we came
and we did because hey it's getting really windy and we knew it would get windier throughout the
day but thankfully we got that drone up in time but also there's lots of boats coming now yeah
you can see a whole bunch of people back there behind you and some there and that's not even
the big boats no not even none of the catamarans are even here yet and they usually have like at
least 50 people on them so i we timed this very well today all right we're just getting
back in a little tiny boat and we're told that there's some mangroves around here so i think
we're going to kind of hit up those before we get all the way back into our little beach village
whoa that was that was pretty fast now
wind blowing here it's very windy here but check those out it's super cool mangrove right in the
middle of the mangrove right now it's kind of like feels like we're going down a river just
when you think the excursion couldn't get any better you get to do this look so cool
we're in like tight corners you probably can't hear me right now but this is awesome
and just when you thought the excursion couldn't get any better here we are and
these are really narrow yeah this is like much tighter than the other one wow check this out
this is so cool i'm standing up right now at the few branches here and there absolutely love it
the color of the water is like an emerald green and we're just surrounded by these
mangroves there's so many mangroves it's insane
we're now back in the town here and we've already forgotten how beautiful this place is the color
of the water here is out of this world it's almost just as gorgeous as the water we just saw yeah the
beach here in town is just gorgeous again if you didn't watch our last video you should go watch it
yeah kind of our intro back into town by the way if you are coming to stay in town rather than
just doing a day excursion here bring lots and lots of bug spray i don't think we've ever been
well once well maybe once in brazil we had we had worst bug bites but this is a very close second so
they're just mosquitoes and no seems but keep that in mind we're loaded with bites and we put bug
spray on but at the same time back to the island that was amazing it was about two to three hours
in total definitely go early even more people showed up when we turned the camera off here it
is out of this world guys yeah that was one of our favorite excursions i think we say that every time
we do an excursion yeah but it was pretty awesome this was up there so right now we're just out kind
of for a walk getting a little bit of exercise we wanted to walk past town and see what's up here
yeah you can see it from where we're staying and it kind of looks well it is super quiet up
here nope not a single person there's a few like villas and things but yeah it's really quiet and
you can come bring a blanket some towels and maybe a cooler and hang out here this is our
own beach and we need these guys to come join us okay take a look behind me does this not
have a little bit of hobos vibes in mexico for all you guys that followed us we've been there before
if you don't know what holdback she's looking up but oh my word bananas we just keep walking around
saying bananas all the time i mean you probably think we're really weird but we're always saying
bananas this place is absolutely financed well we officially found some kind of a lodge pinterest
yeah i think i actually mentioned it in the last video that was really expensive to stay here
i think it must have just been this weekend maybe they only had a couple of rooms left
because i looked in like january february and it was regular prices but this is it check it out
we've got some uh swings over there we might have to get in those later if we
yeah they've got hammocks over there maybe if they let us stay maybe we'll see well they officially
let us in here the grounds are quite something there's this amazing pool that has an infinity
edge and it overlooks the sea the ocean it is incredible you can see the colors of the water see
the hammocks swings this place is really unique and the rooms as well they look quite something
so we've ordered some lunch we didn't eat much this morning because we didn't want to
eat too early and then we just had a little snack while we were out on the excursion
we didn't bring any beer with us either which was definitely a mistake we kind of thought we're
leaving early in the morning like we're not going to want beers but by the time we got out there
we were kind of regretting that we didn't and everyone else had them as well so we started off
with the presidente light we're waiting for our lunch to be ready a little bit of a travel tip for
you of what we did here today because if you're staying in a place or staying in a cheap place or
you don't have the budget for it or maybe you just want to test out an expensive place but you're not
quite sure if you want to spend the money or you just want to visit a place try uh going calling
them visiting them asking what's up what's happening that's what we did and just asking
like can i come for the day can i spend is it like they're a minimum spend or they might charge you a
certain amount to come to spend the day at the resort you can use the pool use the beach have
lunch that kind of thing here i think it's a minimum spend of 45.45 us dollars per person
but we get to use well all of the facilities but i think a lot of people just don't know that you
can often do that especially in low season when hotels aren't busy they want to have you come
in and enjoy the enjoy the facilities and eat some food and drink some beer check out what we ordered
here these are green pea cakes so it's almost like a croquette or a fritter so if i go at this
it's a little soft so let's see if i can do it so there's also some i think this is like a coconut
sauce sounds good oh it is good oh that's what i need right now i have to show you
the inside of these you can see all the peas kind of mushed up in there it's nice and hot
and it's crispy on the outside it's all juicy it's all golden this um let's try this on its own
the coconut's subtle and there's also like a little bit of tomato or something in there
the sauce is really good it's really vibrant looking it's really orange
perfect little appetizer because we got more food on the way well the next course
has arrived i ordered a warm chicken salad which has potential to be boring but this is nothing
like boring it looks really not not at all like what i expected but it was really interesting
so it said it comes with a lemon oregano vinaigrette and it's uh served with uh a
i think they said repeat arapitas like arepas so like i guess smaller reference which are
kind of little fried i guess they're kind of like croquette type things but yeah but no
greens or anything so it's way more interesting than i would have expected it smells amazing
just diving right in yeah
wow when i ordered that i thought it would be good but nothing overly special but i wanted
a salad when it came out it was like whoa this is interesting but it looks amazing
it tastes incredible super lemony you can taste that oregano i think it's
fresh oregano a lot like dried oregano get the crunch from the arepas on the bottom
it's not dry at all though like you'd kind of expect maybe it was a little dry but not at all
oh this is so good this is one of the best things i've eaten in quite a while
all right well this monster you're looking at is a fish sandwich so it's a crispy fillet it's
absolutely massive the fish on the other end is just falling out of this look at this thing
i think on here is some spicy mayo some onions but i don't know if we will eat this one bite
okay that fish is super fresh you can see the lettuce i don't know if you see the onions but the
spicy mayo gives it a bit of a zing it's a bit of a zip a bit of a kick then you get the bread and
it's really thick bread but it actually kind of clenches down nicely so you can actually fit it in
your mouth i didn't think i'd be able to do that but it's really soft right it's really good burger
this is like my perfect kind of lunch sometimes i don't know what i want for lunch didn't want a
hamburger didn't want cheeseburger i didn't want to try anything too greasy i didn't feel like
a salad today because xana got one i just wanted something like this and this is where it's at you
guys this is delicious all that ocean water might be pretty warm this water is uh let's say very
very very refreshing it's quite chilly it's good after you've been lying in the fun for a long time
but it's so nice to do this one of the best things about being here is that you have the option of
this pool which is literally on the beach and then going to the beach and going and swimming in the
ocean as well like so many so many tough decisions during the day well as you can see we made the
very difficult decision to come to the playa to the beach so we got this little hut back there
that's pretty cool isn't it look and uh yeah this is what the beach we walked up earlier so
you can see uh the pier is right back there the swings are over there so yeah and the water's
really calm here and it's cloudy right now and it still looks this color this is ridiculous all
right well oh there she is did we make the right decision i think we did i mean the pool was lovely
there's really no wrong decision but this is nice this is a really nice palapa uh so if it does rain
i think i think we're safe in here but look at this guys how big and then just right out here
for the exposure yeah there you have it that's it well we hope today we showed you a whole other
side of the dominican republic maybe the aside of the dominican republic you haven't really thought
about or you even known existence i know we posted some instagram stories today also follow us on
instagram by the way if you're not already and a few people respond we're like this is not what i
picture with the dominican republic and i know a lot of people just think of like all inclusives
and big resorts and putacana and that kind of thing but there's a whole other side there is
there is so much we hear there's we know there's mountains here but we're starting to hear from
locals and just other people that have been there that there's amazing towns in the mountains
there's i think like evergreen trees here yeah okay so we'll definitely be doing that in the
near future so many things i have this huge list of things that we have to do while we're here but
honestly this is kind of what we've been missing you know for the last year and a half
we've been missing the beach in our lives the plan but you guys know what i mean we
love getting off the beaten path and just kind of getting out there and exploring and just finding
little quaint villages like this because this is this we just keep saying it but it's it's
pure perfection it's been a lot of fun it's been amazing i'm so so so happy we came here
don't regret it for a second it's been wonderful and you should definitely add it to your list
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what are we doing next i think we're just heading back to cabaret and we'll figure it out from there
back to cabaret for uh well i think it's going to be christmas season so i don't know christmas in
the tropics but back to cabaret christmas in the tropics so exciting it's going to be a lot of fun
all right guys that's it from punta rucia wishing you delightful travels see you soon