Needed a change from the same old Cabarete-Sosua scene so headed out to Las Terranas with a wingman last Thursday. I had heard the LT chicas were suffering as there was no tourists around and maybe we could also get some fishing in.
The road from Gasper Hernandez to the LT-Sanchez turn off has just been resurfaced so we breezed all the way through with no hold-ups in about 2 hours plus a lunch stop in Abreu near Cabrera.
Expected the mountain road to LT to be slow as it has full of pot-holes for years so wasn’t really surprised when a few guys shouted out that the road was impassable. Yeah right!!
Went a few miles and started to encounter trees partially blocking the road, then trees and piles of rubbish, then trees and burning tires. Oh shit there’s a huelga (strike/riot) going on!!! Having experienced these before we knew it wasn’t too bright for 2 gringos in a nice car to be driving straight into one but we figured we’d come this far and we ain’t turning back so carried on.
Reached LT town and everything was shuttered up, broken glass bottles everywhere and no-one around. LT has a one-way road system with a fork to the right for traffic entering and we could see groups of masked guys hanging around burning barricades ahead of us. Looking down the left fork (for traffic exiting LT) we could see a PN pick-up truck full of cops.
So a dilemma, drive the correct route and encounter pissed off rioters or drive the incorrect route and encounter a truck full of cops. Guess which route we took!!!
The cops told us to get the fuck off the streets (I’m sure I heard the phrase including the words malditos/gringos and estupidos at least once) but they kindly escorted us to our hotel.
No problems.
Checked into a 2 bedroom apt at our hotel (www.residencialdelpaseo.com) , great place for RD$1,200 a night each
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