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{{Infobox Country
|country = of the Dominican Republic
The '''Dominican Republic''' is the eastern part of the [[Caribbean]] island of Hispaniola.
1. Walk along the road until you find shadow.
Check out a hitchhiker's personal experience [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcXDTZ2iJA&index=1&list=PLKvXdnK3gVW0p4OmRNlCnh2v14Xv4vIO_
here on YouTube.]
== Sleeping ==
Dominicans are very friendly and hospitable people and they´ll they'll probably invite you by times.
There are a lot of private beaches and areas you can't enter next to the sea, so it's hard to find a nice spot to sleep/and camp there, but possible. In There are good places to find in the countryside nobody will have something against you camping on their field except that they might invite you. Usually, and as a white person or obvious traveller anyway, you usually don't get there are no problems with the police.
It seems hostels and guest houses are relatively expensive, in Punta Cana a girl recommended me a cheap hostel and it was 20 USD per night.
Couchsurfing works super well, also last-minute, you don't have to send too many requests (more than 5), as kinda kind of everybody will invite you who sees the message in time. Dominicans are easy-going with that and they usually don't mind that you don't know your exact arrival time or date, you. You'll be welcome.
There are a lot of empty houses and apartments. "Se alquila" means for rent and "se vende" means for sale. At some places, also along the coast, it's possible to just use them as a shelter for a few days. There is mostly a broken window to find somewhere around the house. Some of them though are already used by Dominicans as a sleeping place. A wooden plate behind an empty window frame is an indicator for an entrance.
== Eating ==
In local restaurants, ask for "plato del dia" (, which means plate of the day), and they'll give you . You will be provided a typical dominican meal for a cheap price, mostly of no more than 150 pesosor 200 Pesos. It's usually rice with beans and meat, and a lot. If you're on a tight budget or not too hungry, ask for a smaller portion, which is still a lot, and it's only 100 Pesos. If you just want to get 100 Pesos of rice at a restaurant or a public market for example, you can just ask "Hola, dame cien pesosde arroz, por favor."
If you smell the taste of food somewhere in smaller towns or the countryside, people eating together in the garden, you're lucky, as you can easily join (just ask for the way, etc.) without being supposed to pay, that's part of the culture and a reason why i I wanted to visit this country. Although, it won't happen too often.
If you arrive at a place in the noon around 12 - be it with your lift in a town, with a person you met at a house, or at a friend's place - people will always invite you for lunch without asking.
== Boat hitchhiking ==
It´s possible to hitchhike sailing boats to get around the Carribean. Two good ports for that are in La Romana and Boca Chica. From May till November nobody´s sailing cause of the winds. You can find the first boat out beginning of November. Recommendable is Boca Chica as it´s it's the bigger port, but if you don´t find any there, La Romana is very close.
The right port in La Romana is, if you go from the Jumbo Supermarket (kind of a cultural centre for this city..) across the river. If you stand on the end of the bridge, you can see the sailing ships already under and left of you, now you just have to find the way down there (it´s a bit longer than it seems).
== Cities ==
* [[Santo Domingo]]
* [[La Romana]]