How to reach

Starting from Las Americas airport nearby Boca Chica, get the new  Samaná Highway that leads to the peninsula.  Approximately, it is a two hours ride. Caribe Tour and Metro bus leave from the Capital city. Arriving by plane to Puerto Plata on the north coast, the trip takes two hours, along the coast. Finally, an alternative route for enthusiast explorers. From Boca Chica to San Pedro, then north as far as Hato Mayor inside the mountains. Tortuous descent to Sabana de La Mar, on the south coast of Samana bay, beside Los Haitises Natural Park, very impressive, to visit by boat, among the mangroves. Finally, ferry from Sabana de La Mar up to Samana.

Why Samana

If you love nature, the green colors of the forest, long white solitary sandy with turquoise water and lovely little towns, this is your ideal place.

If you love active vacations, walking, diving, snorkeling, horseback riding, sailing, then this is your destination.

You can spend your time on a beach right in front of your hotel, but this is truly a place for explorers, Cozy hotels, whale-watching, national parks, but I get ahead of myself.

This is my list of the main attractions of this lovely peninsula, and there are many. I’ll try and not leave any out.

You'll find most of them in our excursion section.

To the south side is Cayo Levantado, an easy and well-known excursion, just 15 minutes from Samana. It is a lovely island with white sand beaches (playa Bacardi) flanked by coconut trees.

Los Haitises National Park has mangrove forests and caves

A Canadian married couple of French language, spending the winter during January, February and March in Dominican Republic, word for word says:

''We divide our long vacation between Samana peninsula and Boca Chica. In the north, we find virgin and uncontaminated beaches of Las Terrenas, surrounded by luxuriant hills (because of rains more frequent), while in Boca Chica there is a beach no virgin but spectacular, with all services, a bay with warm and calm water and always good weather. And we are nearby Santo Domingo Capital City, rich in colour and night life.''

From Samana is possible to reach the impressive beaches of Las Terrenas, Las Galeras and Playa Rincon, that extend for miles, with a a thousand colours ocean , easy and safe to swim inside the reef. Only for expert scuba divers the diving over the reef.