Santo Domingo City Tours from Punta Cana

One of the most popular day tours from Punta Cana to destinations away from the east coast are all-day tours of the national capital city of Santo Domingo de Guzman. The main attraction in Santo Domingo is its historic center which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tours from Punta Cana be purchased a variety of different ways. The least expensive is probably to take the public bus to and from the city and arrange your tour with a budget-priced tour provider based in the city. Other options are to book a group bus tour, a private transportation-only tour with a driver but no guide, or the same tour but with a private guide.

About Santo Domingo de Guzman
One of the oldest European settlements on the continent known to Christopher Columbus and Europeans as the "New World". Buruial site of Chistopher Columbus. The city's colonial center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992.

Notes About Santo Domingo Tours
- Transportation is typically 2.25 to 3 hours each way
- For cathedral visit, be covered down to elbows and to knees
- Cave visit has many steep steps down and back (60?)
- May have about 2.5 hours of walking in Colonial Zone
- You may be picked up by small bus and taken to big bus
- You might have to stop at many hotels picking people up
- Some people praised their group tour lunch and some were disappointed

Typical Santo Domingo Tour from Punta Cana
- Early morning pick-up (usually between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m.) - Pick-up van usually has multiple stops to pick up other passengers - Tranfer to large a/c bus for 2.25 to 3 hour bus ride - Bus usually has A/C and there is usually one bathroom stop FIRST STOP - Mirador del Este Park and Los Tres Ojos (caves, lagoon) Catedral Santa Maria Christopher Columbus Lighthouse (his final resting places_) Colonial Zone - Calle Las Damas (first paved street in "new world") Colonial Zone - Columbus Palace (1514, home of CC's son Diego) Colonial Zone - First Cathedral of the New World Colonial Zone - Plaza de Espana Colonial Zone (16 square blocks) Columbus Lighthouse - built 1992 on 500th anniversary of CC landing Columbus Lighthouse - Final resting place of Christopher Columbus Columbus Park and Its Alcazar de Colon National Palace (offices of president and governmenty officials) Three Eyes National Park (underground caves and lagoons)

Runner's Adventures Santo Domingo Tour

Dos Bananas Santo Domingo Private Tour
$640 for 2 or 3 people)

Amstar Santo Domingo Tour
Begins at 7:30 a.m. in Punta Cana and returns 9 hours later.
- Video of the Amstar Santo Domingo Tour

Caribbean Dreams Santo Domingo Tour
LENGTH AND PRICE: 11 hours | $86 to $92 | includes lunch
SITES VISITED:
- Three Eyes National Park (underground caves and lagoons)
- Columbus Lighthouse (built 1992 on 500th anniversary of CC landing)
- Colonial Zone (16 square blocks)
------- Columbus Palace (1514, home of CC's son Diego)
------- Plaza de Espana
------- Calle Las Damas (first paved street in "new world")
------- First Cathedral of the New World
- Lunch
------- Restaurant with home style Dominican food
------- Dancing by waiters and waitresses
- National Palace (offices of president and governmenty officials)
- Gift shop visit (optional, you an also sightsee if you tell guide)
CARIBBEAN DREAMS TOUR VIDEOS:
- Santo Domingo City Tour Video
- Colonial Zone Santo Domingo Tour Video

City Tours Originating in Santo Domingo

If you arrange for your own transportation from Punta Cana to Santo Domingo de Guzman you can take one of these city tours originating in the national capital of Santo Domingo.

Grayline Santo Domingo Tour

Trikke Santo Domingo Tour

Luna Tours Santo Domingo Tour
- Hola Tours uses Luna Tours - Does Turismo use Luna? - Does Olympus use Luna? '- Stop at caves before entering city - 2.5 hour Colonial Zone walking tour with headsets to hear guide - Visited four historic buildings - House of Christopher Columbus' son - Christopher Columbus Museum - Lunch with live entertainment - Bus to Presidential Palace - Lots of Walking - One bataheroom stop on bus ride

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