prettiest village

lbs720 · #1 07-02-2009, 02:33 PM

What is the prettiest little village you have seen in the DR? (I am thinking of retiring to the DR in another year or so and am looking for somewhere QUIET and peaceful and very green. Pine trees are a serious plus. I can speak Spanish and am learning Haitian Creole. I don't need an expensive house or even electricity, for that matter, just so long as the location is quiet and peaceful and very pretty.) Where do you suggest? Thanks!

Chirimoya · #2 07-02-2009, 02:47 PM

Maybe somewhere like Los Cacaos in the mountains of San Cristobal or Paraiso in the SW? For pine trees, the Constanza area?

korejdk · #3 07-02-2009, 02:56 PM

on the road from Luperon to LA Isabela there are some of the prettiest villages that I have seen the DR

bob saunders · #4 07-02-2009, 04:31 PM

BUENA Vista on the way to Jarabacoa is pastoral, pines trees, small but close to La Vega and about 10 km to Jarabacoa.

mountainannie · #5 07-02-2009, 05:38 PM

I think San Jose de Ocha is lovely, ditto Matas de Farfan, I also have a thing for Pedernales and the fantastic pine forest above it overlooking Haiti. I long to get out of the Capital and move up to the serenity of the small village but alas, I fear that I would miss the ocassional scrabble game, the international library, the every once in a while cinema. I did a year and a half in Las Terrenas five years ago with no car, when my biggest excursion was to buy goat feed with a friend in Nagua...... sooooo I know a bit of what I speak... BUT... not to say that it CAN't be done... just know that you are going to be a bit of an odd duck in the prettiest village, unless, of course, you are dominican? Everyone is going to know everything about you and you are going to be all alone, very alone, completely and utterly alone........could you handle that?

Hillbilly · #6 07-02-2009, 09:34 PM

Villa Trina
San Jose de las Matas
Moncion
Guananico
are all picturesque.

HB

mountainannie · #7 07-03-2009, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly

Villa Trina
San Jose de las Matas
Moncion
Guananico
are all picturesque.

HB

HB
Any expats in any of those?

Farmer · #8 07-03-2009, 05:17 PM

Always glad to see San Jose de las Matas make the short list. Of course I was a Matero for a few years, but I can vouch for it's vistas and relaxed pace of life.

Hillbilly · #9 07-03-2009, 07:37 PM

Probably...a lot of returned Dominicans, too...

HB

Chirimoya · #10 07-03-2009, 07:46 PM

Definitely check out Villa Trina and Monción.