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|country = of the Dominican Republic
The '''Dominican Republic''' is the eastern part of the [[Caribbean]] island of Hispaniola.
The most important word to know is "una vola" which means a ride in dominican spanish and makes clear what you want, as many people want to help you finding a bus.
Dominicans are very friendly and hospitable people and 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/camp there, but possible. In There are good places to find in the countryside nobody will have something against you camping on their field, and as a white person or obvious traveller anyway, you there are usually don't get 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 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'll be welcome.
There are a lot of empty houses and apartments ("Se alquila" = for rent, "se vende" = for sale), also at the coast, at some places 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, mostly a wooden plate behind an empty window frame is the door.
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