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Puerto Plata: City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch

Puerto Plata: City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch

Explore Puerto Plata on this full version of the city tour! You'll spend with us about 6-7 hours, discovering the real Dominican Republic. Our guides speak English, German, French, Polish and Spanish. Experience the ride to the top of the famous Mount Isabel, enjoy the bird eye view of the coast and the Puerto Plata city. Go for a pleasant walk through the exotic National Park of Isabela Peak. Enjoy the vibrant nature in botanical garden. Then discover the colonial city: Independence Parque with the Saint Philip Cathedral and colourful old wooden houses around it, famous Umbrella Street and Dona Blanca Pink Street. Try fresh coconut from a street vendor! Have some free time for a cup of dominican coffee or a cold beer. You can find some souvenirs here if you wish. Explore the Saint Philip Fortress along the harbor bay and have a look at the fishing boats on the Malecon seaside boulevard. In the afternoon you'll have a typical dominican lunch: fish or meat with rice and beans. It's called "bandera dominicana" - "dominican flag". If you're vegetarian or vegan we will arrange something different for you. Soft drinks during the meal are included. After the meal you'll visit the factory Macorix House of Rum where you can taste many kinds of rum and sugar cane liquors. It'll make you feel the Caribbean vibes :) Dominican Republic is known as the world's biggest producer of organic cocoa. You'll visit the organic chocolate factory in Puerto Plata where you can taste it. Finally, we can drop by the supermarket for a while, so you can do some dominican shopping: rum, coffee, cacao, etc all in affordable local prices. At the end of the tour you'll be surprised how much can be done on Puerto Plata City Tour :) It'll be a day that will leave you with great memories from Dominican Republic! No time to waste, take it all.

Puerto Plata: Half-Day Historic and Cultural Highlights Tour

Puerto Plata: Half-Day Historic and Cultural Highlights Tour

1 Macorix House of Rum Macorix House of Rum is a historical museum of the Ron Family Macorix was born in 1899 by the Carrión family from the town of San Pedro de Macorís, a place considered by many to be the land of poets, artists and sugar cane. 110 years later, Ron Macorix became part of the Vinícola del Norte family of the port city of Puerto Plata, uniting two emblematic rum-producing towns in the Dominican Republic. 35 minutes • Admission Ticket Included. 2 Umbrella Street Being one of the most beautiful visual attractions of the city, a lot turist go day by day, for enjoy of this beautiful places and take the most beautiful pictures. 15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 3 Catedral San Felipe The Cathedral of Puerto Plata or San Felipe Apóstol is one of the most iconic and beautiful places with a lot of history for those who visit and explore the city of Puerto Plata, this monumental building stands next to the Central Park and gives the area a splendor and matchless beauty. The Cathedral of San Felipe Apostol or simply cathedral of Puerto Plata is a temple of the Catholic Church that is located on Calle José del Carmen Ariza 36 in the city of Puerto Plata, part of the province of the same name to the north of the island La Spanish and the Caribbean country of the Dominican Republic. 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 4 Paseo de Dona Blanca The Doña Blanca tourist walk is a small alley in the center of Puerto Plata painted entirely in pink, in a tribute to the founder of the first hotel in the city, the Europa hotel. 15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 5 Puerto Plata Province This is a beautiful visit in the upper part of the city, where you can have a beautiful view that I assure you will love. 10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 6 Fifi Jewelry And Cigar Store The most impressive cigar factory in the city, where they give you the opportunity to see how the cigar is made and they also give you some to smoke. While the jewelry store is a beautiful, well-conditioned place, both with very professional staff. 25 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 7 Del Oro Chocolate Factory Del Oro Chocolate Factory, Dominican Republic is well known for their chocolate production, so of course I had to take a Del Oro Chocolate Factory tour. The cultivation, processing and exporting of raw cocoa and other cocoa products is a large portion of their economy and they do it well! Much of their chocolate makes it's way to the US and Europe. 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free 8 Fortaleza San Felipe Its construction was commissioned by King Philip II of Spain, and it was completed in 1577 by Rengifo de Angulo, the fort's warden. The fortress functioned as a prison on several occasions and the patrician Juan Pablo Duarte was held there as a political prisoner on the orders of Pedro Santana. 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Puerto Plata: city tour through the historic old town

Puerto Plata: city tour through the historic old town

The walking tour begins at the former Puerto Plata train station and leads to one of the city's most historic squares: the Fortelaza San Felipe. From the fortress that once protected the city, the route leads to the photo spot on the city's most important street, the "Malecon" promenade. From here, the route leads directly into the old town, where a small pedestrian zone and the renowned Monsenor cigar factory await us with a short tour. With a typical Dominican ice cream, we head to the center of the city - Independance Park with the town hall and San Felipe Cathedral. After a short stop at Island Treasures, where you can buy souvenirs and small gifts, we head to the city's most famous squares: the all-pink "Paseo Dona Blanca" and the street of umbrellas. Once the photos have been taken, it's time to let your taste buds do the talking: at "La Chocolateria" you will learn all about the cultivation and production of Dominican chocolate, including snacking, of course. The last point of the tour takes you to the DomRep's most famous export product, the rum producer Macorix. In the Macorix Museum, you will learn all about the production and history of the company, including a tasting of course. Our tour ends after around 4 hours at the Macorix Museum.

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We had the best tour guy ever Aribel. Won’t ever forget this tour or him such a pleasant and friendly person very customer service. We was all the way in Santo Domingo and he guide us on how to catch the bus to get to puerto plata even was tracking our location making sure we was safe keeping us dated on how much more time it would take us to get to puerto plata(ohh my what a long drive) even though we arrived a bit late he make sure he provided us with something to eat and that wasn’t even apart of the tour (which made me respect him and his business even more) we had the best tour didn’t rush us nothing. Not to talk about it was my birthday day and he did gave me some amazing photos my family and I want to thank you once again for the amazing tour we had with you. Anyone considering booking this trust me you won’t regret. Aribel I wish you and your friend much success in this business🫶🏻

A great day in Puerto Plata. Jammed packed with a variety of stops, we did so much but didn’t feel rushed or pressured to buy anything. Our tour guide Yeury was delightful and took great pictures for us. Pick up and drop off was at the port taxi area. Great communication, comfortable air conditioned van, such a value, perfect day.

We had an absolutely incredible time on the tour! Our guide Diana was knowledgeable, friendly, and overall really great. The included lunch was delicious and the activities had a nice variety. Highly recommend this tour as well as the company!

I recommend this tour guide service, good transportation, private photographer service, it was the first time in Puerto Plata DR and my wife and I decided to visit the city, and the service we chose was excellent. 10/10

Aribel gave us a great private tour of Puerto Plata. We had a ton of fun and he provided so much interesting info.