more activities coverage, including the world's best windsurfing at Cabarete new environment chapter highlights the Dominican Republic's appeal for ecotravellers dedicated Itineraries chapter helps you plan the perfect getaway and the handy, compact directory provides all essential info; includes more descriptive sleeping and eating listings to help visitors make the right choices the Monasterio de San Francisco in Santo Domingo was the first monastery in the New World playing dominoes is a national obsession during Carnaval in the south, some men dress as 'Roba La Gallina,' a woman with an overtly painted face and exaggerated breasts and behind the finest cigar makers in the world operate here, many of them former Cuban companies that fled when Castro came to power one of the best places to see humpback whales is off the coast of the Peninsula de Samana
