welcome back to another day here in puerto plata we're in the cabarete area but we're
not actually well officially in cabarete we're in an area called encuentro yeah so it's just about
maybe 10 minutes outside of cabaret day very very unique vibe here we've never filmed here before
we've been here a few times but never actually done a video so we thought it was time to show
you this very unique area so throughout the course of this video we're going to go into all the ways
that this area is really unique but one thing you're probably going to notice is these amazing
trees it's not palm trees around here there are palm trees but this whole area right here
i don't even know what types of trees they are but they just like jut out of the sand
they're baked they're probably relatively old it's really really neat the other thing
that's really neat about this place is we're well we're right by a very beautiful beaches
there's no shortage of beaches windy as soon as you walk right down uh right onto the beach but
there's actually a lot of surfers here which also makes it very very unique you know once in
a while you'll see a surfer on cabaret beach but in general this is where all the surfers are it's
funny because normally there's a lot of people down here surfing but today there's not as many
and it's saturday so it's kind of odd but i think what it might be is the waves i don't think the
waves are as big as they normally are all right who's going to try it first you or me definitely
you this guy used to uh skateboard back in the day when in his much much much younger years me
i just have terrible balance so i think i would be the worst surfer ever it would be embarrassing
don't hold your breath there i'm not about to go jump on a surfboard for the very first time and
go in to that ocean we have a lot of exploring to do and if you're new around here it's trevor you
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did you do it you did so once you get off the beach you're gonna discover all these cute little
beach shacks there are of course surf schools and surfboard rentals there's a couple of boutiques i
believe and of course a couple of cafes that you can eat at i feel like this probably has the vibe
that tulum had i don't even know how long ago 20 or 30 years ago we discovered tulum maybe seven
or eight years ago and it was starting to get busy but we've heard in the last couple of years it's
just full of people so speaking of cafes and tulum check this place out the vibe here is awesome you
can see surfboards around there's really cool seating areas and you just order right here
from the shack and look at what we got this is a smoothie bowl it's been a while since we've seen
some smoothie bowls around usually you find these in bali and we're not in bali we're in
the dominican republic so if you're wondering the name of this place it's called pura vida as trevor
already said we each got a beautiful looking smoothie bowl i love a smooth good smoothie bowl
also got a juice here so normally you might recall that we usually get chinola juice which
is passion fruit juice it's so unbelievably good here but went for something a little bit different
today a strawberry lemonade with just a little bit of sugar let's taste it oh that is so good
so refreshing it's a really really hot day you can probably see i'm sweating it's nice and cold
i definitely mixed a lot of ice in here it's not too sweet it's not too sour
strawberry is nice but then you get that little hint of lemon as well i'm guessing it must taste
pretty fresh because it took longer to make the juice it actually did it did well let's try this
beautiful looking thing i'm going to mess it up in here there's mango some raspberry there's granola
there's banana you can also see some seeds and usually these are nice and cold if that
makes sense so let's let's go for it i'm going to try to get a bit of everything let's try it
oh that's just perfection in a bowl i just love smoothie bowls i think my favorite part
about them is the different textures that you get there's some crunch in there there's some yogurt
in there it's nice and creamy it's just so many flavors all mixed into one you can see a little
chunk of banana i didn't get that on the first bite just tastes so incredibly fresh i know we
raved about this before but the fruit here in the dominican republic you just can't beat it
it's always one of our favorite things to get when we're out especially when we're in a beautiful
location like this like this is just amazing here i don't know why we haven't come to this
area more often it's only about a ten minute drive away from cabaret we made our way back
to the beach here and i can't believe how quiet it is you can see there's almost
no one here in fact i don't see anyone at all we heard there's a path we can walk for about 20
minutes to get to another cool area see anna back here i think she's uh well he looks like you're
taking some photos over here huh this is a super cool spot there's all these like i don't know
what to call them old boulders of some sort maybe from a building or something but the water's like
really shallow and clear right here it's beautiful yeah this is cool these were clearly put here to
kind of stop the surf break but it does look like kind of concrete from a building all chopped up
and it's neat because there's a lot of these kind of giant squares here before we keep walking up
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for sponsoring this video and supporting creators like us now back to the beach it just boggles my
mind that we are here walking empty beaches now we're in the north coast the area this
area is called encuentro but it's in the port of plata province and i don't think you could ever
get this in punta cana right i can't even imagine there's like literally nobody in front of us nope
and nobody behind us we have this entire beach to ourselves we heard there's something pretty
cool at the end of this walk we're on a 20-minute walk to find another kind of
cool looking area and so we're going to see what that's about but the whole way so far is just
empty beaches like courses empty beautiful so we had to take a little detour here from
the beach because there's a path it's the only way you can get around you can see kind of this old
abandoned building there just like look at that look at the view it has
wow there's a lot of coconuts here huh yeah i just noticed that kind of coconuts on the ground
probably shouldn't be walking under these trees because they're probably not very well looked
after i don't imagine anybody goes up there and gets the coconuts that are ready to fall on our
heads it's so interesting how the i guess terrain of this beach keeps changing as we walk even like
a few not even kilometers a few minutes basically went from that lagoon to like kind of a normal
beautiful looking beach and now they have like these i don't even know what to call it
very jagged rocks rocks yeah we're going to say cliffs but of course
little mini cliffs but the cool part is right over here you can see like the ocean just crashing
up against this so i imagine when it's high tide these must hit pretty hard
yeah or they might even be covered up when the tide died yeah all right we're now
off the beach again to another path just to get around those rocks and this one is really cool
it's like we're in a very lush forest with a carved out path made of sand and again all
these trees are coming in like an upside down v giving you all this shade it's super cool
oh wow look at this it almost looks like a tree house like here on the edge of a little
cliff right remember earlier in the video when we said that this place gives us tulumbots well
look at this this looks like it's literally smacked right out of tulum and swap
right here well this place just screams tulum we had no idea this was here you can see some pools
around and it's very jungly and here right next to the ocean there's also a little bar area this may
be the cutest bar i've ever seen where you can get any kind of drink you want we went for a modelo
and the name of the place we're at was kind of two places down here i don't know the name of the
other one but i know natural cabana you might be able to see the sign behind me that is it's like
a hotel there's a restaurant here as well it's pretty cool place but yeah this beer is gonna
do the trick while we're just looking at the ocean this view is incredible and yes in two videos in a
row we are drinking mexican beer i'm sorry and a last of you i think we're having corona this
time seems a little bit more appropriate because we are comparing things to tulum so if we were in
tulum we would be drinking and medela they did not have any dominican beer over there yeah it's very
i think the presidente people like run out of beer every once in a while because they seem to
have shortages here and there anyway we want to talk a little bit about low season here because
you might be wondering i know we've talked about how there are very few people here right now and
you've probably seen only a few other people in this actual video it is low season as we film it
i think this area is normally pretty quiet even in high season but uh cabaret and dominican republic
right now is so quiet it's like having it back to ourselves when we first got here in october
november we felt like we had it to ourselves and then it got busy again and now it's ours again
we only have a limited amount of time left here in the dominican republic we're gonna be really
sad to leave i mean really sad to leave we have i think a couple more episodes coming up don't
hold us to that because we're getting it's getting really tight for us we have i think about a week
or something like that give or take so oh man i'm gonna miss this place i mean even this walk today
it's just a great reminder of why we fell in love with this country like that walk is incredible
here's where we're at now with more to come in the video we're going well somewhere pretty cool
after this but yeah we're going to miss this place but something we are excited about is when we
eventually we're going to one more country when we leave here that you guys are going to
find out soon you have to wait for the video after that we're going back home to canada and finally
we're going to reunite with well family and of course our tiny house so if you don't know we
bought a tiny house last year and now we're moving it we think we got that figured out
but if you guys want to book it we'll put a link down in the description below because i know a
lot of you will have inquired and asked if it's available so it is so we'll put the link below
if you want to stay at our tiny house and that is in cape breton nova scotia
specifically it's going to be a blue bayou resort it's an absolute beautiful area there
next up we decided to come over to a very hip very trendy place here called encuentro food truck park
this place is really unique for the area it's midday so there's not a lot of people here right
now in fact some of the food trucks aren't even open but we decided to come anyway because we're
feeling snacky and look what we got to correct our previous cerveza beers we found an actual
presidente so we're going to have that along with these beautiful looking tacos that we just ordered
look at those guys so we got some chicken and some fish tacos i am going to go for the chicken here
you can see it's got some cilantro on there some sort of green sauce probably maybe a cilantroy
sauce as well onions some tomatoes i think there's some lettuce one thing i'm kind of sad about is
that there was a note saying that they can't get any flour tortilla first any sorry corn tortillas
so it's on a flour tortilla i love a good corn tortilla so i'm a little bit disappointed but
i'm sure it'll still be delicious i also added some hot sauce to make it spicy
you can hear the cars we're right on the side of the main highway here you can kind of hear
them ripping by but more importantly how is that wow that is so supremely delicious i'm not sad
about the flour tortilla at all because this is so good chicken nice and tender i'm not sure if
it's fried or not i thought maybe it might be but it doesn't look like it all the cilantroy
flavor going on is amazing as you guys probably know we are both team cilantro i love cilantro
that green sauce on there has a nice little zing to it adds tons of flavor this is one really
really delicious taco all right the taco i went for is a baja fish so the minute i got over there
to even kind of look at the menu they said right away like right away you have to get the baja fish
so well i have to take them up on that if they're saying it's that good it probably means it's fresh
and well it is that good so let's give it a try it looks like it's dressed just for the record
like if the toppings are the same as the chicken taco that anna just tried so here we go
the flavors going on in this little tiny taco are out of this world first of all the fish is
very fresh so i'm glad i took her up on that recommendation but can we just talk about this
creamy creamy sauce how do they make such flavor it just kind of comes right at you right away
it's one of the first things you notice so good the tortilla as well we were disappointed when
we saw them no no corn tortillas we're just such big fans but i agree with anna it doesn't need a
corn tortilla flour tortilla is gonna do i'm glad we stopped in here because we haven't even been
here in a very long time and now this is a good reminder that every time we come back here to
cabaret day we're going to have to come here to the encuentro food truck park we're now back at
our place here and we were just talking about how great of a day this was i mean this was something
we don't normally go to encuentro and just kind of walk that beach walk and it's such a cool thing to
do it was a really fun day it was fun seeing the surfers i wish there were more surfers it just
must have been a bad day for it but we've heard there's usually a lot of people there fun little
beach jacks going for a walk and then going to that other part and then of course the food truck
park it's a really neat area we hope some of you are watching that even know cabaret in general and
here in port puerto plata province that you you saw this video and you're like whoa i didn't know
that was there because there's a lot of cool stuff i mean how about the food truck park like that's
an incredible thing a very up-and-coming kind of trendy area we've actually met a lot of people
that live over in that area and unique condos and that kind of thing but for us it's like there's
at the moment not enough stuff yeah for us to live there yeah like amenities yeah there's not enough
too far you need a car pretty much to do anything there depending where you live but for the most
part and we normally don't like that so but we do encourage you guys to check that place out
if you get the chance and if you are thinking about visiting the dominican republic hopefully
some of you are watching that are looking at punta cana videos and maybe this is all changing your
mind because the north coast is where it's at in the dominican republic so a couple of quick other
things or maybe just one quick other thing we are starting to be a little more active on facebook
we're just kind of having fun with it it's kind of snappy content and we never really tell you
guys about it and we want to because we know some of you might come over and maybe follow our page
yeah we're working on trying to grow that page get more followers so yeah we'd love it you'll
see some of the older videos but we're just kind of making short versions and just not to confuse
you of where we are at the moment yeah youtube will always be our main jam don't worry and this
is where to follow us you know in real time i guess the videos are youtube is our main thing
that's what i'm trying to say but facebook we're just having fun with that all said great day we
still have at least one maybe two videos here left in the dominican republic and then off we go we
go to a new place we kind of teased that in the last video so if you want a couple little hints
go back and watch yeah i guess so thank you all for tuning in trevor anna delightful travelers
if you're new around here if you're not new it's nice to see each and every one of you again all
right guys that's it from puerto plata or cabaret day wishing you delightful travels see you soon