Tuesday, June 2, 2009

RD$ 500 / hour

On the road to Las Terrenas, we found beautiful waterfalls in Limon (or smth like that, it´s not on google maps) in our Tourist guide. So we found a motorbike that wanted to bring us for 20 pesos, but entirely in the DR style, they dropped us off on a ranch, put us on a horse, pretended to be very busy and off we were. Only later we found out it was going to cost us 500 pesos an hour per person. We already had seen the waterfall from the top and we were descending to go for a swim, but when we heard this, we decided to turn around and bring back the horses as quickly as possible.
When we returned we had to pay 2500 pesos, but we only had 1800 and some eurocoins left (about 1,10 EUR). Of course they started making amok about it, but eventually they angrily dropped us off at the busstop for Las Terrenas and payed it for us.
Some 5 minutes later the owner of the ranch came back on his motorbike to return the euro coins.  Suddenly he was very friendly again and with a broad smile waved us goodbye as he left us behind...

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