Sosua and Puerto Plata Pictures
Below are some photos from Sosua and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. . .
Sign leading to Sosua beach. Many of the road signs in the Dominican Republic are sponsored by Brugal rum.
One of the smaller beaches near Sosua.
The famous Sosua beach. Bali is better if you ask me. Still, Sosua seems mercifully free of people hawking crap. There were plenty of little shacks selling trinkets set back from the beach, but nobody ever came and disturbed me when I was on the beach itself.
My vantage point for drinking rum on the beach. Actually, the one thing the beach was lacking was a good bar. There were no interesting drinks on offer, just the standard rum and coke etc. I ordered the one drink with an unfamiliar name, hoping for something exotic. I got. . . rum and sprite! The little mountain on the horizon on the far right of the picture marks the location of Puerto Plata and the Brugal rum distillery.
The same day I visited the Brugal rum distillery I also had a look around Puerto Plata itself. It’s a small town without a whole lot to see, but pleasant nevertheless.
The main attraction was an impressive Spanish fort.
Puerto Plata was for many years the largest city in the Spanish colony, and the fort was situated to protect the busy port.
A watchtower for monitoring shipping.
A traffic circle now sits below the ramparts. . .
The cannons in these old Caribbean forts always seem to be casually propped up against the walls. Not much chance of hitting anything this way.
Sensing the fort’s vulnerability, a pirate ship closes in?
Monument to one of the heroes of the Dominican Republic’s liberation.
Standing on the mountain above Puerto Plata and looking down the coast towards Sosua.
Clouds rolled in. . .
Jesus appeared in the clouds! Weirdly he was standing on top of a souvenir shop.
Puerto Plata in all its glory.
