The peninsula Samaná

For drop-outs, individual-travelling and Whale-Watcher

Samaná probably plays the most important "role of the outsider" for the dominicain tourism. Primarily it pulls individual tourists here. Samaná lies in the north-east of the land. Earlier the peninsula was completely cut off by the remaining land. Meanwhile a street leads in the principal place Santa Bárbara de Samaná and a street built anew (one of the best ones of the land!) about a ridge on the other side to the holiday centres Las Terrenas and El Portillo. Samaná has primarily white, fine-sandy beaches which are covered with palms and grass.


Samaná is a good diving district. In Las Terrenas some diving schools have settled. Martin and Petra Tolksdorf have taken over the oldest from them and offer very well organised and in this subject competent courses and tours. A specific feature is a cave diving.



Every year between January and March thousands of hump whales come to the bay of Samaná to pair off there or to bring her babys to the world. In this time vacationers can take part in a Whale Watching tour. Advocates see Whale-Watching as an alternative to the whaling. Whale catchers would not give up her work without economic alternative, they say.