Playa Limon

Borec · #1 01-14-2008, 07:06 PM

Want to share a magic part of DR
We have stayed for new year at a small hotel called Harley Heaven near Playa Limon, about 40 minutes drive from Mitches.
Playa Limon is in my opinion the last real undeveloped carribean beach, about 5 km long, yellow sand, palm trees and medium size waves. There is no infrastructure, only during the weekdays there is a group of tourist who ride horses to the entrance to the laguna limon.
The hotel Harleys Heaven is run by a Andy, a german, and as a name suggest harley lover. He is a very nice guy. He has 6 rooms on a small hill, overlooking the palm trees, and with a views of Montaña Redonda, a vulcano like hill nearby (you can drive all the way up to the hill, if you have 4x4, you could do it with a normal car too I guess, but the road is pretty steep, best time to visit the hill is at about 4 pm when the sun goes down, and you have amazing view of both lagoons from there Redonda and Limon).
Andy also has a bar in a new hotel (two stories, and has about 8 or 10 rooms) that he is building near the river below the small hill, there is also another hotel there run by austrian, I think it is called las Cuevas, it has a restaurant, but when i asked for beef, i got something that looked like two 25 peso coins, and was charged quite a lot of money for it.
Harleys Heaven has no air con, just fans, two of the smaller cabañas on the hill have small fridges. As there is no electricity supply, Andy has his own generator and inversor.
Anyway the beach is beatiful, and if you have 4x4 you can drive kilometers down the cost throught the coconut palm forest, without seeing a soul.
I have been to the hotel 4x already and it is my favourite place in DR. It will not last long as there are plans in motion for some development alias Cap Cana, Casa de Campo. Which does not surprice me much. So go and see it before even this place will go.

If anybody wants more info let me know. Here are some pics from the area of Playa Limon and its surroundings and from the road to Mitches.

I will post more pictures in a next post as there is 10 picture limit

apostropheman · #2 01-14-2008, 07:13 PM

it looks beautiful.

thanks for the pix and the info.

bigbird · #3 01-14-2008, 11:02 PM

Both sets of pics are fantastic. You do wonders with a camera.

2LeftFeet · #4 01-15-2008, 12:03 AM

Wow... it looks beautiful. Do you have a website for Harley Heaven? How do you get there? I couldn't find anything. I'm looking to get away and this looks perfect!!!!! What is there to do? Snorkeling? hiking? or is there just NOTHING?????

Thanks

2LF

Dre Broeders · #5 01-15-2008, 06:49 AM

I am Tourguide in Dominican Republic.
I made 40 different excursions with tourists in 13 years.
The Tour Laguna Limon VIP is in my opinion the best and most intereresting Trip in Dominican Republic.
Surely Harley Heaven has a website.
Andy the owner is already 14 years a good friend from me.
He is German. And you know that Germans always want to have everything perfect.
I never stayed in his hotel. But I am sure that it is very OK.
Harleys Heaven - Playa Limon - Hotel - Cabanas - Bar

Borec · #6 01-15-2008, 07:47 AM

Glad you people liked it, as I said I have seen quite a lot (by means not all, of DR, and quite a lot of other beaches Tahiti, Australia, Brazil) and this is one of the most beautiful. This is his website:
Harleys Heaven.
He had some problems with his previous site, but I guess he fixed this one now. By the way he has INTERNET there as well. :-) (satellite)
As to what can you do there? Well it is not really for snorkeling, as there are waves. The excursion (driving your self) to the Montaña redonda is worht the trouble. You can also get horses and go horse riding (cannot remember the prices, but Andy will know), or go for a boat trip to the Laguna Redonda (I brought my own inflatable kayak, so that was not a problem). But the best is to explore the beaches with 4x4, and getting coconuts and making coco loco :-). bring your own machete, rum and ice. Be warned, not all is paradise, there are mosquitoes and sand flies, in the afternoon. So take repellent. Not much hiking, as it is too hot anyway. I did not go there during summer, as I guess it would be too hot without air. But it was OK all the way to may.
Andy is real helpful, and if you can mention that David send you. He is also on skype his nick is "harleysheaven".
Oh I guess you can also arange excursion to see the whales, but that would be from Mitches I guess, ask Andy about it, he has some friends who do that.

Borec · #7 01-15-2008, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by bigbird

Both sets of pics are fantastic. You do wonders with a camera.

Thanks I try hard :-)

Borec · #8 01-15-2008, 07:52 AM

I guess his Spanish and English versions do not work yet, but there is his mail and phone. If anybody wants a detail map how to get there, I have one from google earth, I made for my friends when we went there last year. Just let me know

thurston · #9 01-15-2008, 03:38 PM

Hi Borec,
As most posts say your pic are very good, i love the one in the trees with the sun light filtering though the palm trees.

Sorry where is Mitches ?????????

montreal · #10 01-15-2008, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thurston

Hi Borec,
As most posts say your pic are very good, i love the one in the trees with the sun light filtering though the palm trees.

Sorry where is Mitches ?????????

I think he meant Miches

(It's on the northern part of the east coast nearing the samana bay)