You could have everything in a big place, but then, enjoying would be limited by long distances . this doesn’t happen here. Everything close everything together. If you stayed in the capital, for example , you could be in a modern city but if you wanted you could be within a few minutes in a completely different environment surrounded by the wild green nature with high mountains , fresh rivers and the singing of colorful tropical birds.

Dominican Republic occupies the eastern side of the island, limited at the west by the Republic of Haiti, at the east the sea separates it from Puerto Rico. To the north the Atlantic ocean, and to the south the Caribbean sea. Its currency is Dominican Pesos . One US dollar is 39 dominican pesos.
Tourism the major commercial industry.
The most visited island of the Caribbean , but the economy is also supported by divisas and the exportation of a lot of products from agriculture and others . in this country for example exist the biggest Amber mine in the world.

The population of the country is 9 millions , 70 percent are mixed race basically African descent. 80 percent say are catholic, the official religion, and 3 millions live in the capital . official language Spanish.
Everyday the Dominican Republic is. Ther are several reason for this: Its natural beauty, The peaceful it is , famos Dominican baseball players its tropical fruits its people in general.

 
The City
Santo Domingo. as The first city in America still conserves a colonial zone as testimony of those splendorous years of the Spanish colonization but even thou zone old buildings are still in use the colonial zone is now basically like a beautiful city in a city. The big and modern Santo Domingo. Home of three millions Dominicans.
The country is in the Ecuador line and is in the route of many satellites signals for which Santo Domingo is one of the best communicated cities in the western hemisphere and not just technologically Miami , Puerto Rico , Cuba and Jamaica are close and there’s always flights going there.
Traveling around the city can be done by public bus ( 6 pesos ride) , these buses go long distance and you seldom have to change route . By car 6 (pesos rides), shorter route. And taxi most of which charge 60pesos for going places all around the central city.
Services that are not good still are the city cleaning and the electricity . black outs are common. If you don’t like blackouts you may consider renting a place that has its own energy generation. But don’t worry its not difficult to find. Most of Hotels and hosting services have them.

All places that the school offer for accommodation have this characteristic.

Regarding to the food. The capital has most of American fast food restaurant , McDonald’s , Burger King , KFC, Pizza Hutt etc. But if you want take your time and enjoy there’s plenty of restaurants specialized in international foods : Italian, French , Arabian, Chinese etc. The Dominican food of course is available everywhere. You will probably have it in the place where you stay.

But maybe is better getting to know the city will be easy specially if you walk around with a group from Mabraska. And if you want to explore it yourself. Don’t hesitate . the city is considered one of the most peaceful in the world.

Accomodation
There are three different accommodation options

-Host family :
you can stay with a Dominican family carefully selected. by M abraska

-Rent A flat
: single or double bedroom
as soon as you arive to the school you will receive brochurea with all the acommodation facilities and their caracteristics
including prices and photos, then you can go pe rsonaly to see the one of your preference.
The same with hotels

-Hotels:
different categories
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