also the reason why I like it, is that there is such a big difference in
such short distances.
This picture, for example, is taken only two
block away from the hotel I stayed in. It felt like you're suddenly in
Africa or something (not that have ever been there). 
The streets are filled with vegetables, clothes, shoes and e ven buckets filled withtoothpaste, medicins, garlic and lemmons (all in one bucket). The odour
isn't really nice there (although the rotting pineapples spread a nice
smell), because the sewers are sometimes flooding parts of the streets
and open sewers in this heat ought to smell like that.
Cars can hardly pass, but they do it anyway. It felt kinda awkward to
take pictures here (so I didn't).
Two blocks away from my hotel in the other direction was the main
street. There you have traffic jams al l the time, but not as bad as
during peak times in cities in Europe. Although they press the horn
practically all the time, they don't seem to be as stressed out in
traffic and the funny thing is, that sometimes it even seems to help.
They use the horn a lot just to provide an audible sign of their
approach towards motorbikes, pedestrian s and other cars (saves them
braking).
On the real busy crossings, a countdown-counter is installed so the
drivers can see how much time they have left before the light changes
(in both cases).
In the hotelroom we got a service that we've never had before. We had a
speaker in our room and a switch to turn it on and off. Dominican music
on demand !!
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