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Santo Domingo Historical Tour: Explore Underground Caves and Visit Iconic Locations
3.9
18 Ratings
Santo Domingo
Embark on a historical tour of Santo Domingo, exploring underground caves and visiting iconic locations. Discover the city’s rich history and enjoy a typical Dominican lunch along the way!
Embark on a historical tour of Santo Domingo, exploring underground caves and visiting iconic locations. Discover the city’s rich history and enjoy a typical Dominican lunch along the way!
Duration:
5 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- The 3 Eyes National Park - After being picked up at your hotel, the first stop will be made in the National Park of the 3 Eyes, where we will have our meeting with our national tour guide. Where we will descend to this magnificent underground caves with 3 lakes and hidden nature that served as an indigenous refuge in colonial times
- The 3 Eyes National Park - After being picked up at your hotel, the first stop will be made in the National Park of the 3 Eyes, where we will have our meeting with our national tour guide. Where we will descend to this magnificent underground caves with 3 lakes and hidden nature that served as an indigenous refuge in colonial times
What's Included
- Tickets to museums included
- Lunch
- Official Tourism Guide
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Visit to the caves of the 3 Eyes
- Visit to souvenir stores
- Tickets to museums included
- Lunch
- Official Tourism Guide
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Visit to the caves of the 3 Eyes
- Visit to souvenir stores
What's Not Included
- Tips
- Gratuities
- Tips
- Gratuities
Additional Information
THE ULTIMATE HISTORICAL ADVENTURE IN SANTO DOMINGO!
- Our journey kicks off with an assembly in the foyer of your hotel or a prearranged location with our operator to commence our city exploration.
- The first attraction on our itinerary is the three eyes caves where you’ll delve underground, guided by our expert tour leader.
- We’ll pause at the…
THE ULTIMATE HISTORICAL ADVENTURE IN SANTO DOMINGO!
- Our journey kicks off with an assembly in the foyer of your hotel or a prearranged location with our operator to commence our city exploration.
- The first attraction on our itinerary is the three eyes caves where you’ll delve underground, guided by our expert tour leader.
- We’ll pause at the Colon Lighthouse to capture memorable photos of this landmark inaugurated by Pope John Paul 2.
- We will also check out the presidential palace and various noteworthy sites in the city’s modern sector.
- Next, we will proceed to the colonial area where you’ll explore attractions such as: The Alcazar de Colon, National Pantheon, the Primary Cathedral of America, the Dominicus Convent, Las Damas Street, and the Amber Museum.
- We will then break for a traditional Dominican lunch at a venue rich in local history and culture.
- Lastly, we’ll stop by a local store selling typical local products.
- We will then escort you back to your hotel.
Location
The 3 Eyes National Park
Avenida Las Americas, Parque Nacional del Este
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.9
(18 Ratings)
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Tanya_n
Sep 2, 2024
3 eye cave tour - He treated us with kindness because we were late to the meeting place and he never even mentioned it . Made he called us “family”and he treated us as family. He was so informative about all the history and culture. A++++
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Lynda_v
May 14, 2024
We only had one full day... - We only had one full day in town. It was a great way to see the city. Francisco was a great guide. Very knowledgeable. My advice, bring a small towel for after the caves as it’s hot and sweaty and a bottle of water. The Amber stores were typical gift shop. Had we known we were going to two we would have waited. But overall very happy.
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Arop64
Mar 27, 2024
First timers in the DR - It was a fantastic tour! Our family enjoyed all the stops and the lunch! Our guide, Daniel, was so knowledgeable and he made it extremely entertaining. He took so many photos of us and we so appreciated them all. Our driver, Willie, was also very nice! We accidentally saw our family friends and he did a brief stop for us to say hello and take a group photo. That was an unexpected treat! Overall, we highly recommend this tour!!
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Leonora_h
Jun 21, 2024
Tour - 3 eyes caves was lovely!! But the guide wanted to do everyting so fast so that could have been better.
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Cole_b
May 2, 2024
Great Morning in Santo Domingo - The Tres Ojos Cave is hard to beat. The staff were polite and punctual. For the half day tour, the museum portion is very rushed, and they will take you to a specific but not unique gift shop to buy souvenirs if you want. The included lunch was a delicious buffet. Overall a very good experience.
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Elizabeth_r
Jan 7, 2024
Victor was an excellent... - Victor was an excellent guide who spoke beautiful English bit also gave us an opportunity to practice our (rather poor) Spanish. Loved the walking tour of Zona Colonial.
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John_p
Jan 1, 2024
Worth your time - The history you learned is pretty neat, and our guide was amazing. and the local shops are not very pushy.
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P71heoliverc
Jun 28, 2023
Fun morning with lots of photos. Mixed historical accuracy. - The tour was okay...
Our tour guide was bubbling with friendly excitement and was very keen to take amazing pictures of us in lots of different places. He was a fun person and became our personal paparazzi for the morning. The tour also started with a private car driving us between the different locations which was incredibly helpful as they clearly had a well rehearsed and efficient route of places to drop off and pick up so we didn't have to stand around.
However...
It felt like the guide had tried to memorise a script for the different places, but didn't have a great understanding of the historical facts around the script. He also had fairly mixed English. That combination meant that he either didn't understand our questions (despite several attempts to re-word them) or he answered with information which we fact-checked later and discovered was not true. We also found it funny that he admitted the souvenir shop he took us to was owned by his wife.
The buffet lunch at the end of the tour was tasty and the restaurant staff friendly.
If you want a fun morning with a private driver and a photographer for your Instagram, then this is probably a good fit. If you want a well-informed historical tour so you can learn a bit more deeply about the country, maybe not (or at least fact check what you're told later on).
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Nreza23
May 31, 2023
Average experience - The tour was ok. A little scary at first to be honest because it was just me and my friend in the tour and the driver picked us up without the tour guide. The tour guide met us in the 3 eyed cave and the driver didn't speak any English and his driving wasn't good. We had lunch at a local restaurant and the lunch wasn't that great either.
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Dynette123
May 28, 2024
Depressing.... So depressing !!! - We visited a nice Punta Canta resort and decided to take the day trip to Santo Domingo for the day. My goodness, it was SO depressing. The ride from Punta Cana to Santo Domingo we took the back highway which we got to see a lot of the natives and the extreme poor living conditions, lots of small run down shacks where people have to live and then we saw many groups of men standing on the side of the roads waiting for trucks to arrive to choose them for work/labor. Then on the highway poor people have to drive these very small scouters for transportation, with usually 2 people on a small scouter on the dangerous highway, no helmets and a run down scouter. Also when driving we saw piles and piles of garbage/trash just sitting on the side of the road, I found out from the travel guide that it is just what they do with their garbage.??? Once we arrived in Santo Domingo... oh my god!!! The stray dogs, everywhere!!! It was SO sad, unhealthy, dirtly groups of dogs just running the streets. And there was a "river' as we can into Santo Domingo and the smell is awful! Absolutely disgusting - but people were sighing in this river! We could not believe it. The smell of the river was so bad that we had to hold our breathe when we crossed over the bridge. And the city was so dusty and directly. This was not a good trip, I felt so bad for the people living here . Not all parts of Santo Domingo was like this, there was 'some' nice areas, but overall it seems as though the poverty there is overwhelming.
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