On the Samaná peninsula, far from the all-inclusive strips, Las Terrenas is the Caribbean with a Latin-European accent: palm-crowded beaches, cheap colmado beers, whale season in February and March and guesthouses at prices Barbados forgot decades ago. Quad bikes and moto-taxis stand in for hire cars. Playa Bonita, ten minutes away, is one of the Caribbean's most underrated beaches.
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