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well we are no longer in canada i can't believe these words are coming out of my
mouth as you can probably tell the setting is very different we are now in the caribbean yeah
we've flown down to the dominican republic we are in punta cana going to be here for
this area anyway for a couple of weeks can you pinch me for a second because
i just need to all right this is real we're here we're actually here so the last time we were a
outside of canada and be on a tropical beach we were stuck in the philippines that happened right
at the very beginning of this pandemic come back to canada about 16 months ago something like that
we've just been at home in canada not traveling internationally since then by the way if you're
new around here i am anna trevor is currently behind it the camera we are the delightful
travelers so we already said we're on puta cana beach specifically we are on bavaro beach one
of the goals of today's video is to show you guys what it's like during kind of the end of the tail
end of the pandemic it is 2021 i imagine this beach is usually packed with people even this
time of year but take a look it's pretty empty if you ask me so if you guys are new around here
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big things are coming we are in the dominican for a very long time i mean the entire winter
pretty much yeah we're gonna be staying at least four or five months maybe maybe we'll go somewhere
else maybe we'll stick around longer who knows we'll figure that out later but that means loads
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said we are on viveiro beach it's full of all-inclusive hotels we're staying at the
melia we'll show you that maybe in the next video but as we walk we're going to pass by
loads and loads of resorts i think this might be the paradises i think it is the paradises but you
guys can see it's not busy huh there's empty chairs there's loads and loads of empty chairs
how are you guys we're good we're good
so this happens around here right yeah they were they were pretty tame but
there's a lot of people that'll come up to you on the beach and try to either like
braid your hair give you a massage sell you a tour that kind of thing
i find at first it's really really annoying but after a day or two you just totally get
used to it you say no thanks it's no big deal i actually find the camera like the big camera here
kind of scares them off a little bit they don't know how to react less aggressive with the camera
if we just had a phone or a gopro they'd be they'd be following us up the beach right now but
they're all good people you know their country's been hit hard by the pandemic as well so try to
support everyone where you can i mean that's why we're here as well the paradise this must
be a pretty big resort because we were walking by that for a long time now we're in front of
another one i was trying to figure out on google maps exactly which resorts are here so this might
be secrets but i could totally be wrong um by the way though this beach is absolutely stunning it's
definitely i can see why it's rated one of the best beaches in the world it's long super long
if you walk for ages the sand is like powdery and white and the water is very very clear and there's
not too much um seaweed or anything i know we've heard a lot about all the seaweed that's here
doesn't mean that at all all right we should probably talk about why the dominican republic
why did we choose this place to basically avoid canadian winter and be our first trip yeah so we
had originally planned on doing europe going back there we really missed greece and italy
and we had thought a lot about doing that we really thought that's what we were going to do
but you know like the delta variant thing happened you know corona dollar yeah you
know all that stuff and it just seemed like the rules were changing quickly in different countries
you're a little bit worried about a getting stuck somewhere or b just like not being able to enter a
country because of whatever reason you didn't have the right test or you can get it just seems really
complicated and kind of intimidating yeah and we thought this made sense so hey it's really easy to
get the to the dominican from our part of canada and their vaccination right here is quite high
i think it's one of the highest in the caribbean and their covenant rates have been relatively low
yeah so yeah so that's it that's why we chose here and we never properly explored this place
before we've only been here once at a resort yeah we've never filmed it we were at a reason
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like to get here to fly here it was actually way easier than i expected coming from canada and i
think the us you do not need a negative pcr test and you don't need to be vaccinated but you do
need to fill out a form online before you come it asks all sorts of information about where
you're staying your health status all that stuff it doesn't take that long to fill out and then you
immediately get a qr code with your name both both people on it well if you're depending on
who you're traveling with i guess with your family you'd have everybody on one qr code
basically we flew here we went through immigration it was super easy you have to fill out a form
and then when you're leaving as you leave uh through customs you just like scan your qr code
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they're a little more aggressive up in this side but then they see the camera the bigger camera and
they don't really there's also a lot of boat tours along here so they'll probably try to like get you
in basically because it's right here all right so we came back over to our resort so we don't
normally stay at resorts just for the record and we are here in the dominican for a very long time
but because we haven't traveled in like a year and a half we thought we'd treat ourselves
you can see we got more than a snack down here it's a big plate of food kind of resort food
it's not that bad and the next video will kind of take you through where we're staying we'll give
you a tour of the resort but don't worry if you're from the dominican and wondering we will be here
trying your local food that's what we do we're usually traveling world trying local
food so once we're done with the resort we'll be in other places in the dominican for a very
long time and if you happen to be from maybe the northern hemisphere and you're wondering what it's
like to kind of move to the dominican follow us because we're going to be doing that we're here
from now for the next four five six months in the dominican republic and we're going to be in
different parts of the country of course one thing we always love to do and you guys probably do too
when you visit a new country is try the beer here it's called presidente we also have presidente
light but i think this is just a regular one we've seen lots of oddly enough mexican beers
like corona and modelo seem to have a lot of that here but presidente is the one you want to go for
it's made here and i'm pretty sure it's made here in dominican it's very like light and refreshing
it's perfect beach beer hot weather beer this resort we're on is absolutely beautiful as you can
probably tell if you didn't catch the name earlier it is called the melia punta cana beach so i think
that's it yeah the adults only side so then the next video will go through do a tour like you know
what we like what we don't like you should come here that kind of thing but i think a lot of you
guys are wondering about covet and if we feel safe in a dominican with like the protocols and that
kind of thing i'm not going to talk specifically about the resort just because we'll do that in
the next video but in general the nice thing about being down here is that we're pretty much
outside all the time all the time the only time we're inside is when well just the two in our room
really yeah so i mean they they do say that if when you're outside you don't need to worry about
both covets spreading as much so yeah we're not around many people we're you know just kind of
doing our thing sitting on the beach so we have noticed that we've been here for a few days before
we got to this resort and outside it seems like you're supposed to wear a mask and most people do
i think basically when you're around other people in public exactly where i'm at but
the restaurants we've been to it's kind of like it is back in canada you wear your mask until
you're seated where you can have some food or a drink so so far we're noticing it's kind of
the same yeah and then super we were in the supermarket the other day and every i think
everyone had masks sanitizer everywhere so so far so good yeah well it's pretty quiet here
that's one thing i noticed we mentioned it before yeah the resort isn't too busy the beach itself
also i mean you guys just walked with us all the way down to the beach it doesn't seem that busy
of course we've never really spent that much time here and i don't think we've ever been on
this specific beach either so i'd love to hear from some of you if you've been here before
this is busy is this a typical we're filming this on october so is this like typical for october do
you think it's quieter no in january february i'm sure it'll be a lot busier i mean there are a lot
of empty chairs behind you and if i go this way a lot of empty chairs that way not a lot
of people walking on the beach and not a lot of people in the ocean yes it's interesting for sure
i still can't get over how beautiful this beach is it is not getting old and we're a few days in
already it's just spectacular gorgeous can we also say we're talking about palm trees oh palm trees
something like i guess back in the day back before the pandemic we were always in tropical places
i don't think i ever get tired of palm trees but maybe i take them slightly for granted or i used
to not anymore it's good to be back it's nice to be back in a tropical location it just in general
feels good to travel again this is the first time if you're new around here the first time we have
been doing this in about a year and a half really really good if you're thinking about going on a
trip and you're not quite sure i can tell you once you get down wherever you're going whether
it's here or not it feels really good and it feels kind of normal with a few pro cove protocols that
you're probably already doing to be honest like you're probably already used to them depending
on what country you're from so again if this is your first time tuning in or for all you long
time viewers thank you for clicking on today's video we are in the dominican for an unknown
amount of time months and months and months it could be four months five months six months we're
going to be living here basically we're going to be in a different area in the north at some
point maybe in next month so we're not going to be living at an all-inclusive forever so that's not
your thing just it's not really our thing either but it was fun it's fun to do right now they're
going to be loads of stuff about to be eating lots of beaches lots of fun excursions i think
lots of visiting towns and different different spots and if you're watching this and either
spent a lot of time in the dominican or you are a dominican and you have some suggestions for us
leave comments below if you're from the dominican please let us know what we should do where we
should go what we should eat we love diving into the culture we're gonna do that if you're not from
the dominican you ever wondered what it's like to move to the caribbean and kind of be here for a
long time and avoid canadian winter or u.s winter yeah this is this is the time to subscribe guys
subscribe right now it's gonna be a lot of fun as you can tell we're ecstatic to be here and this is
just the start of the whole adventure our longest journey our longest time away and the biggest
adventure on this channel yet alright guys that's it from punta cana wishing you delightful travels