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welcome to Santo Domingo where the local time is 1203 pm this certainly has been a pleasure having you on board
this morning we have officially landed now we have to hop a taxi for about a three hour ride
straight into the jungle all the way to the north side of the island
good morning adventurers hello from the dominican treehouse village
is this place insane or what you guys so this is where we arrived to last night
and now we have to walk like a quarter mile jungle path to get down to breakfast
luckily all the breakfasts and dinners are included so we don't have to do anything just
show up that's the way i like it, me too, roughing it kind of yeah super roughing it in the jungle
y'all check it out we're making our own cold brew in the jungle
a little bit not so bad though gotta have our iced coffee baby
it looks all artisanal that actually looks perfect that's great i'm so excited
breakfast is officially served i ordered way too much but i got one of everything and it
looks amazing but we are sitting down in the big communal hut area that is also the dining room
it's the bar it's the chill area the hangout area check it out yeah everything happens in this room
and it also has an amazing view of some of the other little villas and just pure jungleness
all around us it is fantastic it's actually raining right now and it's just so soothing
they got chill music epic jungle vibes and we have mr mocha coming to say mocha i don't know how he
survives in this jungle heat with that giant coat you always like us when we got food don't you
welcome to our amazing treehouse villa is this amazing i said amazing twice it's amazing i guess
it's amazing it's so pretty it's so cool y'all they have 22 of these this is number 21 and it's
one of their bigger ones we're really perched up high in the hill it's great because you have a
nice view of some of the other villas down below you can see the main hut where we had breakfast
this morning and tons of wildlife like everywhere you look there's a bird or a creature or a frog
or a snail i wish we had brought our binoculars if you are bird watchers this is a paradise for you
because they just come right into the trees all around your bedroom all morning long the way this
thing is constructed is super cool so basically they just have all of these ropes made out of
little pieces of wood and that's what's holding this whole thing together i'm just kidding there's
actually a bunch of nails in all this stuff all this rope work is just for show i guess but
man it looks cool every single joint has this intricate wooden rope work wrapped around it i
wish i knew the technical term for doing this but i don't so i'm just going to call it wooden rope
of course these jungle huts are completely open air so you have to be comfortable
with nature the plus side to that is that you can get a nice breeze whipping through here
they have a fan up here which is great and you can really crank this sucker up it goes nuts
stay here i think we're on two right now oh yeah baby that's on the five setting and that sounds
like a freaking helicopter above your head but it keeps you nice and cool at night the whole thing
is open all the way up to the roof and the roof is very very interesting it's just a bunch of raw
wood and then the top of the roof the shingles are actually made of i think it's just the
leaves from a palm tree that are all dried out and then they kind of cross hatch them together
and it makes this really nice waterproof roof and surprisingly there are no leaks in here whatsoever
you don't even see a spot of water up on the roof and it's been raining on and off every single day
this thing feels surprisingly sturdy considering it's just made out of a bunch of uh trees and
twigs and wood i also was actually working out this morning though putting it to the test
i was doing a bunch of burpees and squat jumps and everything and i guess Eric felt it a little
bit yeah i was laying in the bed and i was just like earthquake i really thought there was an
earthquake for a second or maybe had a dream that there was an earthquake or something it was a
little scary so it does shake if you jump around in here but it didn't fall so that's good right
is that really cool as you can see they have this huge bed luckily they have a net around it so we
have not gotten a single bug in here at night we haven't even gotten a mosquito bite since
we've been here y'all i don't know how they do it they might be magicians but it has been
so peaceful because you get the breeze through but you still have the net to keep you safe at night
they got these awesome swings y'all and they are completely handmade i think
and actually everything in here looks handmade they've got these chairs over there the tables
all the nightstands and everything it just gives the whole thing this rustic handmade charm
you can get some speed in this thing check this out
attached to the main room is our bathroom which is pretty big it's still open air you get a nice
breeze in here which i guess also means potential for creepy crawlies but we have not seen a one i
don't think i've seen a single spider or anything we got our eyes out for us yeah we are very scared
of spiders even after all these years of staying in places that have been spider infested and
everything as the night has fallen the spiders have come out you guys it's become spider land
oh yeah so we're in this like 10 by 10 square foot area and i can see maybe like 30 spiders right now
but it's pretty classic in here they have your toilet and your sink interesting thing you're
not allowed to put toilet paper in your toilet so they have a very heavy duty trash can next
to here for everything else now you might notice there is no shower in here but that is because it
is an outdoor shower you head up this magical outdoor walkway to the shower up at the top
and even though you're outside it's completely private and we both tested it out this morning
my word y'all one of my favorite shower experiences to date really i was a little nervous
they claim they have hot water that it takes a couple minutes we're really high up on the hill
i didn't know if there'd be good water pressure it was fantastic it got hot in like 20 seconds plus
how beautiful and serene is this it was amazing every unit comes with a shower but not everyone
comes with a hot shower some just come with a cold only faucet i do think they have shower
stalls throughout the property where you can take warm showers if you get one of the bigger
suites you get the hot water included and the seclusion of the jungle with it get on out of here
it's my turn oh i don't want to stop though i just want to shower forever that was weird okay bye-bye
i guess it was weird this might be the most humid climate we've ever been in in our lives
every piece of clothing that's just sitting over a rail or in your bag feels wet to the touch it's
so strange because it's actually not very hot here during the day in fact when the clouds come
over and the breeze comes through you get cold i've gotten goosebumps many times and yet i'm
still stopping what needless to say my camera's been fogging up i couldn't fly the drone earlier
because it kept fogging up for some reason but i will say it's making my hair super duper curly
which is fun all right we got to pay attention to where we're walking because this is the kind
of path you're walking on it's really easy to sprain an ankle on it look who it is little mocha
what a little scamp i guess he's done that before so majestic i didn't know he left the
main hut area he's usually asleep by the way y'all we just found a whole new area of the village that
we didn't know existed there's this fantastic stone walkway through this little water path
to rope bridge there's the river which right now looks a little crazy because unfortunately
just last week there was some insane flooding in samana and it came right through the tree
house village apparently the waters rose you couldn't get in or out and it left a
lot of debris and there's still a lot of water flowing through so it's really brown and murky
a little bouncy huh i don't know if i want to be in the same spot as you on this
oh this is the most bouncy rope bridge we've ever been on i think it's like a trampoline
i don't i don't love it some of these bits of wood here are barely hanging on
look at that slowly back a little bit you got a coffee i survived but i don't
know that i liked it gotta love when it literally looks like they have duct tape
holding this thing together it's actually some steel cabling here so it's not too bad
yo we went to have lunch and look who showed up yeah we're like a half a mile away from
the village yeah smoke is everywhere and we made another friend although he doesn't
check out our amazing lunch bread this is the wi-fi cafe emma the treehouse village doesn't
have wi-fi and they don't serve lunch but that is not a problem because at the entrance to the
walkway to the village there's this cafe that feeds you lunch and that you get a voucher
from the treehouse village and it's quite a feast yeah and they got cold beer
oh my god this is not included but it's a little warm today so we're going all in
mocha's leading us back to the village oh stop him for a scratch oh there he goes
he's off he's got a lot of pep for a pretty big dog lead the way buddy mocha come on
he refuses to let me get ahead of him
y'all the treehouse village has a freaking zipline course however we weren't aware when
we signed up for this the way we have to hike all the way to the top of a freaking mountain
i'm making it but it doesn't help that i have all my gear in my backpack
and this giant camera I wasn't quite ready for it i think we're close are we close no
holy cow this is terrifying
oh god
smoothest landing yet how's your ziplining been so far
it's an experience y'all you just gotta go you can't think about it but i forget how
scared i am of heights until i'm up really high jumping off of things this is easily
the best ziplining we've done though the views are incredible i mean it's amazing yeah amazing
but my legs are shaking y'all i'm like freaking out you're doing great i feel alive
she got stuck we got a little stuck but we're okay that's how you do it
to last zip line and check out how they rigged this one up around the biggest tree trunk in the
world that's super cool that's what's holding you up looks looks sturdy enough it really does
biggest coconuts in the land the best consolation for facing our fears
we're just walking up to our room and the whole walkway is lined with these uh
little snails however yeah they're very crunchy and it's way sad there's so many
of them there's another right there and right there they're the biggest snails i've ever seen
how many have you killed so far i haven't killed any i haven't seen any dead the next day
well you've stepped on a lot of them i've stepped on two you have a horrible crunch when you step on
them purple crunch and then you know and then you can't sleep at night and it haunts your
dreams it's got a blair witch thing going on it is it's kind of creepy right now what about this
mark my words don't eat too many french fries or this is what happens and don't step on snails we
ended up coming back to the main hut and just chilling and having dinner and just hanging out
with all the other guests and uh we kind of closed the place down we've got our rum drinks here i say
close it down but it's only it's not even 10 yet no it's barely 10. we have the whole main hut to
ourselves we've got the bartender to ourselves we've been playing this game every single night
this is deep sea adventure and uh if you guys remember the first time that this appeared in our
videos you should leave a comment because if you know that you've been watching for a long time or
you've seen a lot of videos i don't know we love traveling with random two person games because we
often find ourselves in places like this with no wi-fi so here we are there's no wi-fi but we still
have plenty of entertainment the way this game works is you you're all divers and you have to
roll to get down as deep as you can and then take the treasure before your oxygen runs out which is
up here it sounds kind of complicated and stupid but it's actually really fun it's very very simple
and maybe i've beaten Eric a few times yeah so i'm putting on a good face i'm a little sour about it
because we get a little competitive in this game but she's won three i've won one i guess we'll see
y'all tomorrow go into the deep sea davy jones locker hold your breath scurvy hold your nose
yo we're checking out of the uh treehouse village just now and right when we started
to leave little mocha started leading the way oh one last little trip through the jungle with mocha
also we were calling mocha this whole time it turns out it's a sheet she's so furry we
couldn't tell itself but we have to make the like a quarter mile walk back to the
entrance of the treehouse village and then we have a couple of friends who are gonna
show up today that we're gonna meet there yeah it's gonna be a real delight nice one
you found it! well who do we have here
y'all this is Trevor and Anna in case you don't remember them because we haven't seen
them in like three years but they're the delightful travelers that's why
we made the joke about the people we're meeting are going to be so delightful
and they are truly delightful it was quite the ride to get up here like you warned us
about the roads but we did not think they're washed out man completely crazy flooding where
are they sending us yeah we are literally in the middle of the jungle right now oh yeah
holy cow you guys what an awesome start to our trip here in the dominican republic
yeah it's fun quite realize like what an epic adventure that was gonna be yeah but uh we'll
have links to the treehouse village and all that stuff everything we did in the description below
can highly recommend it if you can make the trek out there it was a crazy experience one of the
wildest and most memorable stays for sure i'm still dreaming of that shower but we're so excited
to be spending the next few weeks with our friends trevor and anna we're gonna be exploring all over
the northern coast can't wait to get out into the cities to try some local food see the beaches
we're gonna be seeing a lot of sights like this that's right we're beach front right now baby so
just have to stay tuned and keep watching upcoming videos to see where we are right now and i don't
know if it comes across but we're actually super tan at the moment you're actually just so i'm just
super sunburned you kidding me come across oh yeah all right we're gonna post this video i'm gonna go
try to even out this tan burn and then we're gonna chill goodbye adventures we'll see on the road