Trip: D R to Haiti BIG dissapointment

HS10 · #1 10-02-2009, 09:06 PM

We left Sosua to spend a couple of nights in Cap Hatien and to explore the area there.
Drove to Jahabon.
Guess what?
You cannot drive a car from the Rep Dom into Haiti without a special permit only to be aquired in Santo Domingo.
We were denied entrance into Haiti!
(We could have entered without our car but didn't want to)
What a bummer!

korejdk · #2 10-02-2009, 09:11 PM

Interesting...are you a resident or you rented on your vacation ? Did the DR border guards denied you passage or the Haitians ? Did they give you a reason ? Did you try a propina ? I was planning the same trip with a rental car...

mountainannie · #3 10-02-2009, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by korejdk

Interesting...are you a resident or you rented on your vacation ? Did the DR border guards denied you passage or the Haitians ? Did they give you a reason ? Did you try a propina ? I was planning the same trip with a rental car...

I would be very surprised if there was any way that you could get a rental car across the border.... You cannot even do that in Mexico/US. For one think, can you imagine any DR rental company covering insurance in Haiti? You can, however, rent a car once you are in Haiti. After you take the bus.

I agree that I would really like to hear more about this... since there are indeed cars and trucks that pass everyday. Who required the permit and where do you have to go to get it?

49erman · #4 10-03-2009, 02:20 AM

Bigger disappointment my guess would be if you actually saw what a complete shi+hole Haiti is..

Chip · #5 10-03-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by HS10

We were denied entrance into Haiti!
(We could have entered without our car but didn't want to)
What a bummer!

You should have asked and I would have told you - sorry.

Still, there isn't a whole lot in Cap Haitien too see.

pedrochemical · #6 10-03-2009, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 49erman

Bigger disappointment my guess would be if you actually saw what a complete shi+hole Haiti is..

That is just a rumor to keep the shi+ heads out.

HS10 · #7 10-03-2009, 02:22 PM

We are residents. The car is private and of course fully documented.
They might have implied that we could 'propina' our way in but we did not want to both go to Haiti, and return to La Republica, with questionable documents.

J D Sauser · #8 10-03-2009, 04:38 PM

I think, you should consider yourself lucky they did not let you in with your vehicle. From what I hear of how things go on in Haiti, I don't doubt that there would have been a good chance that you would not have returned with it (the vehicle) and also am pretty confident that your DR insurance would not have reimbursed you for your loss.

... J-D.

Chip · #9 10-03-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by J D Sauser

I think, you should consider yourself lucky they did not let you in with your vehicle. From what I hear of how things go on in Haiti, I don't doubt that there would have been a good chance that you would not have returned with it (the vehicle) and also am pretty confident that your DR insurance would not have reimbursed you for your loss.

... J-D.

Please extrapolate.

J D Sauser · #10 10-03-2009, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chip

Please extrapolate.

?!?!
Chip, would you be so kind and define "extrapolate", please?

... J-D.

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Originally Posted by yourdictionary.com

ex·trapo·late (ek strap′ə lāt′, ik-)
transitive verb, intransitive verb extrapolated -·lat′ed, extrapolating -·lat′·ing

Statistics to estimate or infer (a value, quantity, etc. beyond the known range) on the basis of certain variables within the known range, from which the estimated value is assumed to follow
to arrive at (conclusions or results) by hypothesizing from known facts or observations
to speculate as to consequences on the basis of (known facts or observations)