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"A weekend in Santo Domingo..."

This weekend we had the opportunity to take a trip to Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is very different from Santiago. It is much more of a tourist city, much larger, cleaner, and right by the ocean.

We took tours of the city, ate in a variety of different restaurants, and went shopping...or bartering with incessant store/shop owners doing anything they could to get your attention and buy something.

We stayed at a hostel owned by an American...this a photo of where we stayed overlooking the road.

This guy was doing tricks on his bike on our way back from dinner the first night...I tried to get some good photos...but this is the best one I could get.

Jes trying to stay cool with a fan...I think.

The next day we took a tour of Santo Domingo...this is part of Christopher Columbus' brother's (Diego) home.

And from the inside looking out.

A street during our tour.

A sun dial that still works.

A musulo (not sure if I spelled that right...so a little help please)

These windows were a gift from Adolf Hitler to the Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo in the musulo. They are crosses...but if you look closely at the connections of the crosses...they are actually swastikas...scarey huh?

A painting on the ceiling.

A tomb in the musulo.

El Papa.

(Courtesy of Dominic)

Now I was really just trying to take a photo of the stone fence...but going through the photos I noticed the bird in mid-flight to the right of the photo.