GPS map Republica Dominicana

Hola, guys! I want to tell about our journey to the Larimar mines, in the same Barahona region. What is the Larimar stone? This is a kind of semiprecious mineral, was discovered in Dominican Republic years ago. It has bright-blue colour, and people develop it the southwest mountains of Sierra-de-Baoruko (2 km above the sea line). The road is a little bit destroyed, so it`s desirable using 4×4 Jeep, 4wheel, or moto-bike to access the place. dominican_republic_gps.jpg To know more about the history of dominican larimar visit Larimar Museum in Santo-Domingo. The first time dominicans knew about this stone in 1916, thanks to spanish priest who found it. Migel Mundez has found this mineral of colour of Caribbean sea which washes dominican coast. Only in 58 years appeared a few mines in Barahona. To be honest Miguel Mundez named the town of origin – Larimar. Some people live there in a small houses, and some – in the city near the hill. The stone colour from light blue to dark blue, and the surface flickers grey and white. A very interesting jewelery are represented in Larimar Museum. Address: Arz. Meriño # 452, Esq. Restauración- Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Phone (809) 686 57 00 – 682 33 09 – 688 12 05. USEFULL TIP: It`s better to buy uncut stone, and when you return to your native country, I`m sure you have a good jeweller there. Dominicans extract larimar with the most primitive way: they do mine-hole, than break basalt with hammer, and take out the breed. The Government plains to develop this sistem by the innovative technology. If you need GPS Dominican maps with track of our trip for your Garmin device – U find it easily in the signature below my post. Bueno, como ya estoy por

Hello, guys! I wish to tell you about our trip to Dominican Zoo, located in Santo Domingo (capital of Dominican Republic). In the park beginning there is a children’s playground and a steam locomotive, which is used for making nice excursions. Open-air cages for animals very spacious, pure and beautiful. At hippopotamuses the kid recently was born. He already bathes with parents. Here it is possible to see Iguana-Ricordi. They live only in Dominican republic and them remains in the nature of all less than 2000 individuals. Well, and here there lives a white rhinoceros. It very big. My husband was not afraid to make the way to it. You can to download our GPS-Tracks absolutely free on this page and to place them to your garmin-gps-device for easily to travel across Dominican Republic. There will be a continuation of our travels =)) You can download Dominican Republic GPS Maps, also we have one for free. 2 versions: Dominican Garmin Maps and Android GPS offline application with Dominican Maps.