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Lajas

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El Llano

Montellano

Puerto Plata Sosúa

Santiago

La Cumbre

Pedro García

Gran Parada

Mt. Isabel de Torres National Park

Camú30 km

Navigating with this guide is as easy as “ABC” Items in the guide are ordered from A to Q

related with marker signs on the highway installed every 2 kms

From Puerto Plata to La Cumbre, follow A to Q

From La Cumbre to Gran Parada follow Q to A

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From Gran Parada to La Cumbre the Panoramic Highway climbs to

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RECOMMENDED

Road Conditions: This

asphalted highway currently

has some 50 rough patches

of 10 to 70 meters in length.

The road is currently being

repaved in

the direction

Santiago -

Puerto Plata.

4WD is not

required;

any car can

navigate this

road except low-clearance

vehicles such as sports

cars. Our recommendation:

you’ll get more out of your

sightseeing experience if

you drive at 35-45 kph

Navigatingthrough

Santiago

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located halfway between the D and E highway

markers. Turn in at the info kiosk and go up 200 meters

to the end.

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Puerto Plata. A military post here controls the passage of

heavy vehicles, prohibited on this highway. $UHD�6HUYLFHV� corner stores, bars, bus stop, propane station. Try a taste of

Dominican-style charcoal roasted chicken. +LVWRULFDO�QRWH� site

of a car accident that took the life of Austrian pop star Falco of

Rock Me Amadeus and Der Kommissar fame.

C - &DP~� Km 4The residents of Camú enjoy the swimming holes and cascades

that feed the Camú River. This area is popular for hiking, horseback

riding and off-roading.

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From ocean to mountains: panoramic view of the town of Montellano and the vast sugarcane plantations that surround it, photographed from the Panormamic Route

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drive by; your visit will

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golden agers who live

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Luperon Tourist Highway as “The

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Route” and promote it as a vi-

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Dominican Republic

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as “30 kms of Pure Nature!”

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materials in the production of

artisan products

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amber jewelry, rustic furniture

and local value-added foods

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of the Panoramic Highway, straddling the provincial border

between Santiago and Puerto Plata. In this area you can visit

the DPEHU�PLQHV where some of the world’s most precious

species of blue amber is

found.

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martyrs of the anti-Trujillo

liberation movement, the

heroic sisters who stood

up to the tyrant dictator are

memorialized by a monument

at the place where their lifeless corpses were abandoned by

military assailants.

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located on the Gregorio Luperon Tour-

ist Highway. It is a non-governmental

organization constituted to create

frameworks for the development and

co-management of ecotourism and

cultural resources that promote sus-

tainable development in the region.

7KLV�SURMHFW�LV�¿QDQFHG�E\�WKH�Japanese International Cooperation

Agency (JICA) through the TURISOPP

initiative, focused on the development

of rural tourism based on public-private

sector cooperation in Puerto Plata

Province; and coincides with initiatives

of US-AID and the Puerto Plata Tour-

ism Cluster to reform Puerto Plata’s

identity as a tourism destination.

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a cosy country home

surrounded by tropical

plants, Carmen keeps

house and cooks for her

children and husband who

works in the amber mines directly across the street. Capacity 6

people, Spanish only. Call Carmen at 829 910-8586

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