welcome back to another video everyone we are continuing to explore the countryside here of
the dominican republic still and you can probably tell we're surrounded by greenery right now yes
today we are at the tibagua eco lodge this place is absolutely stunning we cannot wait to show you
around so we are only about 20 or 30 minutes from the city of puerto plata but we are in
the countryside overlooking the north coast is a gorgeous view can't wait to show it to you
if you've been following along in the past few months while we've been here the dominican
republic hopefully we've really started to put across there's a lot more to this country
than just going to visit an all-inclusive resort i think this place in particular really encompasses
that it feels very real very authentic before we get going we'd love if you guys would stop for a
second and hit the like button on the video that really helps get the video out there and it's just
just on our way to the viewpoint we're going to show you that in a second if you don't know who
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it's nice to see you guys again in every single video wow look at this insane view there are
some really amazing viewpoints from all over this property but this maybe is my favorite i mean look
at the view itself but also there's a beautiful pool here we're surrounded by palapas there's
trees there's greenery it's amazing so back to this incredible view for a second way off in the
distance you can see the ocean and of course right here where i'm standing is this gorgeous pool
and those palapas and there's just something about these palapas it's very rustic very romantic at
the same time and it's like glamping glamorous camping you know what i'm saying and there's so
much fun to stay and we're going to show you the place where we are staying here it's not one of
these it's a little bit different in fact this place all the rooms are a little bit different
so we thought we would show you guys where we are staying and you can see look all look at the stone
pathways stone pathways all over the place so we are staying in one of the casitas which has its
own outside deck area it's got nice seating out here perfect for having your morning coffee and
we'll be talking a little bit more about coffee later in the video or you know with a glass of
wine and enjoying this incredible ocean mountain view so welcome to the inside of our room how cozy
does this place look the first thing you're going to see is this bed it's like a four post wooden
bed it's very comfortable by the way you'll probably notice there's a mosquito net as well
and here's an interesting concept if you follow me over this way this is completely entirely open air
so that is really cool because you get a nice breeze especially in the evenings it stays nice
and cool you probably see behind me got a little desk set up there is kind of an extra little cot
area as well and there's more back here so in this side of the room you do have a closet area
for putting away your luggage and hanging up your clothes and then next to that is i guess the water
closet you have the sink and your toilet in there and you might be wondering but where is the shower
so this is neat because you kind of walk over this bridge outside for just a moment and voila you're
in this separate shower hut it's actually open air above you i never even noticed that before
and then the shower is right here we've been in some places with some outdoor showers but this is
probably the most unique outdoor shower we've ever encountered it's really really stunning
so you might be wondering what is it actually like to sleep here well we did sleep here last night
it's super quiet it feels a lot like if you have been glamping before it's almost like being in a
tent because it is open air and there's a breeze coming in you can hear all the but everything from
outside like the tripping of the frogs and the bugs and that's about all you can hear and it's
super it's just super comfortable and cozy but you still get to sleep in a bed all right it's time to
show you what we consider the best part about this whole eco lodge get ready to see this so right now
we are walking through the restaurant and we are doing that because we are about to show you this
uh wow so this has got to be one of the best views you're going to get on the entire north coast it's
absolutely breathtaking even the view from the pool is lovely but when you come up here it's just
wow you can see all the way down cabarete is way way over there which in case you're unfamiliar
with it it's where we've been living for the last few months and we have lots of videos on it
and then next to that it's sosua and then puerto plata and the mountain i forget the name of it
but that overlooks port alata is right there so if you look closely down this way you'll see
the roads one of the main roads to get up here so that should give you a sense of
scale of how high we are and then you'll see the roof of basically one of the palapas so
i think we can give them a better view though huh i think we can do it
such a beautiful spot right so i know we mentioned before that all the rooms are
quite a bit different ours has its own bathroom but some of them do have shared bathrooms there
is a bathroom here that probably has the maybe the best bathroom view in all of the dr do you think
you can check it out well i haven't seen this yet she has told me about it
make sure no one's in there qualifier for michelle
for it ah so i see so there's there is the throne you sit on the throne and close the door and look
what there is a picture frame here look at that so over here this is where you can get a shower
you can see there's a door so you have your privacy i think back behind this way there's uh
yeah another bathroom so you're good there if someone's in that one and then of course there's
like a sink like a station over here just to wash your hands when everything is done so
we're gonna take you into some of the different rooms because they really are all different
so this one has a couple of different beds it's got a double on this side i guess that
would be a queen and then two singles so great if you're with a group of people
but have you seen the view yet have you seen the view i'm starting to realize this place is all
about these views every room seems to have an epic view like this so this room in particular
feels like being in a tree house you are high up well well over the trees you've got a beautiful
breeze a beautiful view sleeping in here at night must be incredible especially if it rains at night
but you can hear it on the palm bronze above you with that lovely breeze and the chirping it's
really really special just because there's another room right next to the one we just showed you
well we'll show you this as well so as you can see this room is quite a bit different than the last
it doesn't have those kind of triangular ceilings and the roofs it's very big it's very spacious and
it also has that incredible view we keep talking about just look at that you see
the ocean off in the distance imagine just laying here in the bed and looking at that
here's one last room to show you and as you can see well we just keep saying it's a view another
view this one has its own private patio again with do we sound repetitive here the most amazing views
that's the thing about this place is that i don't think you could have a room that doesn't have a
nice view it's just it's pretty incredible i know look and again you can just lay there in that bed
and well you get it have the view so this is another of the rooms that has
its own private bathroom it also has this seating area a desk table area it also has
a loft so there is this beautiful look at this this ladder is really really cool all right so
now we have a question to ask each and every one of you when you think of the dominican republic
is this what you think about i know a lot of you will think resorts in punta cana but if you're
new around here we've been here now for many months and if there's anything we're learning
this country has it all i think it's like one of the slogans it really does have it all i
think it is one of the slogans but it has mountains it has rivers it has waterfalls
and amazing beaches cities towns villages it does happen you can probably tell just every
area i feel like you can drive every 50 kilometers especially here on the north coast the landscape
just changes everything keeps changing all the towns are different they're all unique
they all have their own personality they all have a different vibe and then you find things like
this absolutely so as far as accommodations go yes you can go stay at a five-star
luxury all-inclusive you could go camp somewhere you could stay in a condo we've showed those in
the past you can come have a really really fun unique experience like this and honestly we needed
this we've been working quite a bit takes a bit of work to put out the videos and we've been busy so
even though we are filming a video today it's nice to just kind of chill out when we're done
with this video you know we put the camera down so let's talk about the background of
this placement how did such a unique place come together here in the dominican republic so first
the person that owns this is from canada his name is tim he is a lovely gentleman he came to
the dominican republic in the early 80s he also happens to be i'm going to need your help with
this the honorary canadian consul for the north coast here in puerto plata so yeah he's doing
great things for this whole area he really is and he bought this land in the early 2000s and
slowly developed it so i think originally he just had a few little things on the land not much
there was some tents i believe or like canvassy more has more canvas yeah more rustic no walls
but originally he the intention was that students coming from canada they were doing a bunch of
volunteer opportunities here and they had nowhere to stay so we kind of built that for them and then
over the years he eventually kind of built it up with the goal of having
a very authentic countryside dominican experience for tourists to have when they come here one of
the main focuses of what they do here is community tourism and there are a few different options but
one of them is a coffee experience you may or may not know that agriculturally here coffee is a big
product that they produce all over the dominican republic but we got to go experience it first
hand they basically take you through the process of making coffee from the tree to the cup so you
get to see the actual like beans that come out i guess more of a plant that comes off the tree and
how it's produced to become an actual like coffee bean then the coffee is roasted right in front of
your eyes it's also grinded up with mortal and pestle that is quite something to watch after
that they filter it through a bag with very hot water and you get to taste extremely fresh coffee
probably the most fresh coffee you've ever tasted it is quite the experience it's a lot of fun it's
also not too long it's easy to do and we highly recommend it if you come to this place another
option for the tours that they offer is one that actually is a very long hike i wish we had time
to do it because it sounds amazing i think you walk through the village through the countryside
up a hill and then eventually you end up at this lagoon river waterfall i think generally you have
it by yourself it sounds incredible because i know there's some really epic waterfalls here in the
country that are really really famous so there's a lot of people here but having one to yourself
sounds amazing and i think it's about an hour and a half in an hour and a half out and then
of course you want to spend time right there so it's about a four hour trek in total it sounds
really really fun so i wonder if maybe some other time we can come back and do it so it is the next
day and i made my way into the kitchen where there is a fire going and on top of that fire is that
giant pot of san cocho and we are about to eat that right here at the restaurant with
this incredible view there is also a cat here his name is mr bill he owns the place basically but
he's apparently hungry too as are we by the way i think trevor just mentioned it is the next day we
were going to film dinner last night you can eat all your meals here we were going to film dinner
last night but one really nice thing about being here is that they kind of do meals i guess family
style you can eat at your own table but you end up meeting a lot of really lovely people which
we did and we had dinner with them so we didn't end up filming that's why we're doing lunch today
sankocho we did it in a previous video it's a very very typical dominican style stew it's super
delicious so we're excited to have it again today so here it is if you're not familiar with what
is in this soup it's very much like a stew and you can see there's different chunks of meat i find in
our experience there's a surprise every time you never know what kinds of meat you're going to get
we're told there can be seven kinds of meat and often you get very starchy um vegetable items as
well sometimes there's yucca potatoes it could be avocado it's often a surprise and we always love
eating this dish so let's see if it's any good so i'm not quite sure the proper way to do this they
give you a big thing of rice and then of course the big thing of sancocho i mixed it together
hopefully that's the way you're supposed to do it if not it's still going to taste really great
i think we did that last time i think we did too but i don't remember but if we're doing it wrong
please just correct us let us know the proper way to eat sankocho let's give it a try though
we did really really enjoy this dish the last time we had it in cabaret we did have it in cabaret
this might be better than the one that we had in pepperoni and that one was really good
oh it's super flavorful lots of like mild i'm not gonna say spices but herbs in there it's
very very hearty very creamy very thick i love it with the rice it just adds a little bit of
more substance to it not that there's not that it's lacking in substances got all these all these
root vegetables i think there might be potatoes like trevor said yucca it's very very hearty i
feel like even with a small bowl of this you're gonna be full for hours so i just got a very nice
surprise on my spoon went in there and got two pieces of meat this is chicken and what looks
to be some beef just gonna try them at the same time the smell of this you guys is just intense
so i was back there in the kitchen getting that b-roll and the smells in there they're just
beautiful such beautiful smells you can smell the flavor flavor just slaps you across the face it's
just cooked so long and so slow and it just makes the meat so tender it's very fun to eat this dish
if you guys ever come to the dominican republic definitely get san cocho just because it's always
a surprise every bite you have and i get why they eat it it's so hearty so delicious and it's just
packed full of flavor such a fun time here i had a blast me too i had to stay
longer it's such a beautiful place obviously we've talked about a million times beautiful views
great food the food here has been absolutely wonderful the people here have been amazing
yeah it's great that all that is in one you know if you come here there's a restaurant so
you don't have to worry about going to get your own food you have to cook and food's absolutely
delicious so if you are coming to puerto plata specifically or the dominican republic we highly
recommend you try something like this super unique and super fun and you're never ever gonna forget
it yeah we had a blast and so if you're new around here and you're like who are these guys and it's
your first time um catching one of our videos it's trevor and nana and delightful travelers and you
leave us comment below if you like the video click the like button we have a lot
more coming up now speaking of that we'll try to let you guys know what is possibly
next we're trying to figure this out so we still haven't shown you our new apartment i know we
hinted at that a couple of times but we did move from the previous apartment that we showed you
so we might do that maybe in the next video well in that if you don't know where that is
that is in cabarete which is where most of our videos are so we're going to show you the video
but after that i think we can safely say but don't hold us to this if it doesn't happen
we're going back to los terrance and seminar in general and salmonella so this is the time
that we're gonna get to spend i think more time here it's not totally planned out so yeah don't
don't get mad at us if we're wrong the reason we're bringing it up though is because a lot
of you were excited when we were in los toranas already this time please give us recommendations
there should be enough time before we get there to actually take you up in some of those we're hoping
we get to like la scalares and visit some of those beaches yeah there's stuff like that there's a lot
to do also there's something else that's exciting that's gonna happen i'm not gonna spoil it
yet but we have some friends coming to visit we're like 95 it's a truck on the side of the road they
beep at everyone but back to the friends we have some friends coming to visit we're 95 positive
and i'm pretty sure you're all gonna know who they are was that we probably hung out with them before
they might have been in videos before and they might be youtubers so you'll see but i think
for now we're going to wrap it up we're looking at this amazing view this way you guys can't see
we'll stop talking about the views but what a time dominican republic you just keep blowing our minds
blowing our minds every single day i feel like we encounter something new
encounter something incredible it's just an awesome adventure love it love it alright
guys that's it from puerto plata beautiful port of plato wishing you all delightful travels see you
soon