What's the Dominican Republic Really Like? Family Welcomes Me to Home Outside Santo Domingo 🇩🇴
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- What's the Dominican Republic Really Like? Taking a day trip from Santo Domingo, I head north to remote Higuero, where I visit a rural village. I get fed an array of exotic food along with fruits, cacao, nuts and ice cream by a local Dominican family, before learning about the chocolate making process. I also stop in a Colmado and Comedor, soaking in a day in the life of people in the real Dominican Republic (República Dominicana).
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I'm Jason, a full-time British Travel Vlogger and TH-camr who's been to 56 countries, travelling around the world full-time since 2017. So far, my trips have taken me to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
I have travel series' from many of the world's best (and least) known destinations. I filmed the first vlogs on my channel in the summer of 2016 after spending a year living in China. A solo trip around Eastern Europe followed, after graduating from University in the summer of 2017 - taking me to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. This trip marked the start of my efforts to make TH-cam my full-time job.
I then went heavily into exploring Asia, visiting India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea and Kazakhstan.
In recent years I have also travelled to North Africa and the Middle East fairly extensively, filming videos in Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
To date, I have not yet been to Australasia or South America. Though I am hoping to visit the latter sometime in 2022.
I've travelled to North America just once as a TH-camr, visiting Mexico in 2021. Though I have been to both the USA and Canada, this was when I was very young, going on family holidays.
So far in 2022, I've taken my first trip to Sub Saharan Africa, visiting both Kenya and Tanzania. The Middle East followed, stopping in Dubai and Lebanon. From there I made my way to Europe, covering both the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus, and afterwards going back to Italy for the second time to cover Milan and Sicily. I'm now in the Caribbean for the first time, exploring the Dominican Republic.
#dominicanrepublic #santodomingo #republicadominicana
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visit Philippines soon 🥰
The algarrobo is also named "poop in box".
I'm Dominican and I loved this video. How this guy showed you the real Dominican contryside. Keep it up! You are doing great! Thank you for allowing this to your chanel.
We are the Dominican Republic; a country full of spice, music, entertainment, hospitality, big heart,humility. We make sure you feel welcome and that you enjoy every second of your stay.
Thanks for this video.
Hugs from Santo Domingo❤❤❤❤❤🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Gracias!
We went to the Dominican for our honey moon, such an amazing country, friendly people, lots to see and do.
Agreed, really cool country!
Thank you for those words. Glad you liked it here❤🌹🤗🇩🇴
you guys are welcome back anytime 😁
Hi Jason, I really appreciate your in depth engagement with the local populace, which gives your viewers insight into customs and culture that the other 99% of travel TH-camrs neglect. This angle to your videos sets you apart. Good job!
Thanks, appreciate that
Hear! Hear! Brave he is indeed! Eating those fly infested fruits and drinking that mudwater! Let's hope it's not from those puddles they walked by! LOL God bless his heart
@@Andrelour Yep. I was thinking exactly the same thing. Sometimes Jason engages in risky business.
Nice video, I liked it. I dont know if you're taking recommendations but I recommend also going to Jarabacoa and Constanza, big mountains and hills, pine forests, and cool weather, definitely not what someone pictures the DR to be like. Puerto Plata is cool too, beautiful historic center and seafront.
Thanks for those - let’s see how much time I end up with!
Gente de campo de República Dominicana, gente buena y bonita
Nice vlog Love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Saludos desde filipinas 🇵🇭🤝🇩🇴
Gracias por visitarnos y compartir esta experiencia....
Tengo varias compilación en este canal pero este me Eeencanta....good luck...
I am interested in about chocolate. Chocolate tea, looks soooo amazing. Dominica more nicer country than I thought. Colorful houses are very impressive. Pretty.
Thanks for showing~
Thanks Lily!
Its not Dominica, is Dominican Republic, Dominica is other country close to South America
Love this experience. I will definitely book it when I return to the DR. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome
We’re going to the DR for a month this Oct/Nov. Stopping first in Santo Domingo then spending time in Las Terrenas. Perfect timing to discover you and your videos! We’ll be following you.
Im not seeing the name or link to your tour guides in the description. Can you provide that again?
Great to hear! It's the first link with airbnb.
You guys are welcome. Hope you have a great time and enjoy every experience here.
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@@vroe9107 He mentioned in another comment that this was an 'AirBnB Experience'. When you are on AirBnB there are multiple experience options to choose from. Hope it help and welcome to DR, enjoy your stay.
From Dominican republic I have only tried the soup called Sancocho Dominicano and it is the most delicious soup 🍲 👌👌👌👌👌so so good I love it ❤ but I guess they have more yummy foods for sure
Loved this foodie video, Jason! All the fruits you tried looked so delicious! I love Caribbean passion fruit and coconut. The cocoa making process was fascinating. Thanks for showing us what life is like hanging out with the locals in the more remote areas. Always makes the experience much more rich and interesting. Much appreciated! Safe travels.
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You are a good teacher, always finding out of the way places and unusual foods that entice us to experience these foods and places. Thanks!
Appreciate the kind words!
We moved here to DR almost two years ago. This is wonderful content that shows how the DR should be shown
Thanks, appreciate that. It’s a country I think I could happily live in!
Hey Jason, I’m a Dominican living in USA, I really enjoyed your video, it translated me back through the time to my lovely country.
Thank You for sharing those videos.
👍🏾Great insight into the other perspective of the Dominican Republic.
Wonderful that you can enjoy the ours culture i’m Dominican I’m glad 😀
Had a lot of fun in this video!
You are a Arab Dominican but not the original!
Hi Jason, welcome to the dominican republic, I love the nature of your videos, keep'm coming. Enjoy your stay cheers 🍻
Thanks Junior, appreciate that!
Just great!!! Un gran video, muy real, muy instrutivo,, muestra realemente la cultura dominicana tal cual es. Bendiciones para ti por ser embajador cultural de la RD
🙋🏻♀️¡Buenas tardes Jason! ¡Miy interesante tu video! ¡República Dominicana tienr sitios muy bellos! Estuve allí hace un tiempo, y me encantó 🏄♀️🌊🏖🏊♂️🐋🐬🐠🌴¡Saludos desde Buenos Aires! 🙋🏻♀️😘🇦🇷
Garcias Marina!
Great report. DR is a great country with beautiful people
Hi Jason that was a really interesting coverage of the village
Higuero. So humble people
And all the different fruits there. Thanks for showing us. Cheers and peace
Cheers Daniel, filming this was a lot of fun.
The fruits from Dominican Republic is the best😋 The Mango is sooo sweet you can't find thos mangos in the US😥 All the food and dessert from DR taste so good 😋i love my country ❤️🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Amazing array of fruits and other foods!
I was impressed just how many there were..
Thought about Dominican Republic for a significant numbered birthday yrs ago but decided on New Orleans instead . I think it came down to air travel schedules. Thanks to your videos of late I've put it back on the list of places to see. Good work as always!!!🙌👍🏆🥇
Thanks, it’s certainly worth a visit, the next few videos will show just how beautiful the northern part of the country is too.
It is very beautiful to see how people from other countries come to visit your country is simply perfect
Another great video, always interesting and real... I like that you always interact with people in the most 'genuine' way 😃Those exotic fruits and the ground cocoa made me droooooool 🤤
Thanks a lot
3:54 Tropical fruit, Carambol, we call it here in the Caribbean Five Fingers.
Ah, good to know!
This is awesome ! Encourages you to make friends and see the rural lifestyle in DR.
Really Loved this👍. Awesome Experience 😀. Safe journey Jason. Cheers.☘🥰.
Happy to hear that!
This is beautiful and loving tour. ❤
It was a lot of fun!
This was a great video Jason fascinating stay safe and happy travels
Thank you!
Love this video❤
You are very brave, Jason, trying all those different fruits and foods!
Or lucky, they were so fresh
@@JasonBillamTravel in spite of those nasty flies? God knows where they landed on, before attacking those fruits 🤣 You're a brave dude! Love all your videos and travel style! Thank you for sharing it with us
Thank you for your presence there
Jason Billam, I think Dominican Republic is great vacation destination for family fun!
I think you’re right on that
Awesome watching Jason.
Great experience at el campo!!!
Welcome broth . mi esposa y mi hijo viven en Birmingham soy dominicano espero la pases super bien y que vuelvas Saludos
Hi Jason, after a while not watching your videos I'm catching up with this carebian great videos
love the video bro !!!
Happy to hear it
Jason Billam, I hope you enjoy exploring Dominican Republic!
Certainly am!
Pobre chico! Venir de tan lejos a trabajar como en los años de la prehistoria,eres muy bello, gracias por visitarnos.
i love your Videos bruv. Bring it on.
Thanks!
Great experience! Need more of these on AirBnB
Agreed!
Very interesting
yeap, a lot of people in SD are from rural places like this, and they go back there everytime there's a long weekend or vacations. Everything is so natural and peaceful that you kind of detox yourself
That's how our campos (countryside) in Puerto Rico looked like back in the days.
Now...our campos are gradually disappearing😔, more like rural looking suburbs. No old style wooden homes outdoor bathrooms and kitchens. Only cinder block modern concrete homes.
Food quite similar.
After Cuba's trip, Puerto Rico, then compare all 3 Caribbean Islands.😁
Similarities and differences.👍✌️
it's interesting because the same thing is happening in our rural areas. it's getting more and more rare to see our vernacular architecture
Serene village farming life .
Amigo que bueno que la pasas bien
Sí, una experiencia diferente
Hey Jason!!!! I love these videos, I just wanted to recommend a place that I know you’ll love a lot- San Felipe de Puerto Plata. It’s kinda like the Santo Domingo in the North. Has a beautiful historic district and a Spanish fort and a modernesque huge amphitheater. There’s also the Museum of Amber which is nice and the beaches are really beautiful. The whole city is in front of a huge mountain that has a Christ on top (lowkey copycats of rio but we dont talk bout that haha)
Good nice I been in DR love it you are doing great 👍🏻
Nice to see that you having a good time in Dominican Repúblic Jason.if you have time go to the south to Barahona and then to playa los patos.there is the shortest River in the word and also beautiful beaches.cheers.👍👍💯
Thanks for the recommendations!
Nice video as always.
Thanks mate!
Si tomas cualquier carretera de República Dominicana,te encontrarás con ese tipo de comedores en todo el trayecto hasta llegar a tu destino!,sea al norte,sur o este que te muevas o a cualquier pueblo que visites
This is an interesting video love you bro
Happy to hear that
thanks to show my contry to thr rest of the world.
cool, good job
Cheers!
Great Country
Bija is used to give color to food. Other names for bija is Achiote and Annato.
Good to know!
They are a very very nice people. I meet them here . Dominicans
Super friendly!
genial
Interesting and I like the food that you try. John in Chicago
Wish we had more Dominican people here in Chicago nice people.
good videos jason
Thank you
Espero que te guste mi país. I hope enjoy my country
Love from Luton ❤️🌹
The coffee is the best
This really makes me want to go to the DR! Did you see a lot of stray dogs out there? I kept seeing a couple running out of frame while you were at the comedor 😂
There’s a few here and there but nothing to worry about. I’ve seen countries with a lot more strays than here in the DR.
visi constanza, is a cool wheather there
The country side is so awesome. I am so sad I have to move to the USA
Just really how amazing black peoples are so friendly and welcoming.
Yes, and many are actually part of the Haitian diaspora and descendants. Some are well integrated in Dominican society.
@@nydomirican6193 self-esteem of many afroamerican is so low...
@@folgendeinemtraumen995 I feel you, that’s why many Haitians deny their Haitian origins and claim being Dominican.
Half of Haiti in DR and always saying they are Dominican
nice
🥀VERY GOOD FULL WATCHED 🥀🥀
Hello Jason ! Great video
I have a question did your Airbnb Host give you this tour ? If yes is it Included in the Airbnb price ?
No, this is an airbnb ‘experience’ which you can find in a different search category on the website to accommodation. Hope that makes sense!
how on EARTH do you bowels hold up on these journeys!!! respect!
I need to visit my country and try those fruits. How can I visit that place?
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I'm Dominican.
They need to fix the kitchen and get the fly traps
How did you get to Santo Domingo Jason? Did you hear bachata music
I took a bus after landing in Punta Cana airport.
@@JasonBillamTravel good to hear that
This video gives me hope that the political situation that is happening in Central America with issues of shortage of food and gasoline due to the inflation the world is experiences is not so bad in D.R but then again you don't mention it. I wonder if you will be making a surprise visit in Costa Rica. I will be planning my first trip there soon.
Glad to hear it. I'd love to visit Costa Rica at some point, not sure when!
All pure an naturalask him about kavi an mamajuna
Hello Jason it's great to be here on your channel😇 thanks a lot and respect your very nice and friendly content of your video and your personality as well. Btw I'm a bit of familiar to British people and English culture since my childhood secondly, I also went to a preschool called Eurosun which is related to Britain :) I lived with English culture when I was a child indeed love british culture 😊 I still love British movies, series, foods etc. 😇 my mother used to say I had a British accent unfortunately I lost it:( sorry for unneeded details
much love to you and always welcome to Türkiye. 🇹🇷❤️🇬🇧
Appreciate your comment, thanks a lot. Glad you have a bit of familiarity with the UK!
@@JasonBillamTravel You're very welcome not a bother 🙂
Wow bro showing good thing .love you from india
Cheers!
If you ever get a chance to come to Taiwan after COVID restrictions and the borders open pop me a message and I will show you around. Enjoy the vids mate, good info and nice to see places I never had the chance to go to.
It’s in the plans!
@@JasonBillamTravel If you want to pop me a message when you make it here.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC🌎👪🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴❤ WE AREN'T EUROPE WE AREN'T UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA WE AREN'T CUBA WE AREN'T VENEZUELA WE AREN'T AFRICAN WE ARE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PEOPLE LOVE PEACE AND FREEDOM OF GOD
Jason Billam, you're from England?
Yep!
This is a house in the countryside in a country where 80% of the people live in cities. Further research to see if slums are home to the majority of the population, but what is found that the vast msjority of Dominicans don't live in slums. This simpky shows that the real Dominican Republic is where most people live and those places are not the countryside or the slum areas of the cities.
Anyway, nice video.
Good to know, thanks for sharing!
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TAINO CASABE,GUAYO,GUERO,BATEA ,BIJA🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴😎
Te van a matar,con tantas frutas juntas de comer! Jaja,son muy ricas.
Are you on world tour ? Yea right ?
Not quite, I pass by my home (UK) in between a lot of my trips. But I’ve been travelling full-time for the last 5 years.
I am Dominican and I have never eaten algarrobo. That fruit is scarce, it does not reach Santo Domingo.
me neither i didn't even know it existed
Thanks I like to discover local ppl business! You could try to fix your camera on your bike helmet! 🤣
I was thinking of doing that but didn’t have a thing to hold it in place. I also left my chest mount at home - next time I’ll bring it!
Como dominicano, veo que es una excelente forma de mostrar nuestra vida rural pero, el molino de cacao deja mucho que desear, en cuanto a higiene! Los dominicanos somos mucho más limpios que eso!
De todos modos, gracias por mostrar todas las potencialidades de nuestros campos. Somos capaces de producir una multiciplidad de frutas y vegetales, pues nuestro país cuenta con innumerables microclimas que favorecen el desarrollo de variadisimas especies cultivables