DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Like You've NEVER Seen It! Constanza is Breathtaking
well good morning everyone it's uh it's about 7:30 in the morning I just turned the camera on I just woke up it's why my voice sounds funny uh I'm the first one awake of the gang today and I walked upstairs to our place that's in the mountains uh we're in constanza by the way and this is the very first thing I saw this morning we are we are above the clouds that is clouds there's a town down there and that is mountains Dominican Republic constanza oh my God we rented this place we did not think we'd get to see this and it's happening I can't wait for everyone to wake up this is just wild you guys this is not the way we're going to start the video today uh we're on our patio we rented a place that has this uh amazing view that's overlooking the town but last night yesterday we could see the town you could see a hot tub here as well so hopefully later on today we'll get to enjoy that but I still cannot believe what I'm looking at there's no way the camera is picking that up uh as as well as my eye does but I've never seen anything anything in my life like this look I'm I just turn I can see an and she's just waking up do you see that oh wow I heard someone talking and I was like who who's up Trevor you're talking to the camera oh my gosh this is amazing this guy just woke up yeah oh wow have you ever seen him anything like that no we were just saying last night that we' never seen it and we've been in mountains before but we never seen like the floor of I know yeah this is uh this is just crazy I still can't believe what I'm looking at I know we thought it left for a second we had to wake Chris and Carol up so they didn't miss it but it settled back down it still looks so cool I know wow the DR just keeps blowing our minds [Music] 0:01:59.840,1193:02:47.295 [Music] [Music] no question that the views here are absolutely amazing this here might give you a little bit better idea of where we are right now yeah you can see uh well the house we call it a mountain house yeah it might as well be a mountain house I feel like we are in the mountain we are in the mountains it's absolutely a a mountain shall but but we have a view of the town in the valley of constanza now we will give them a tour a little later right yeah we're about to go do something really really fun as you've probably figured out a little bit of time has passed we got ready got my face on I'm not so uh woken up had some coffee and we're ready to go doing something super fun today I think it's going to be a little bit difficult to get there we will see but I think it'll be worth it for some reason if you guys don't know who we are my name is Trevor and this is Anna I didn't get to say that in the very first of the video Welcome to the channel if you're not new around here I hope you guys are enjoying this video so far because we're completely shocked we're still shocked this is this is in the Dr we're in the Dr this is crazy this is the highest town in the Caribbean we are up in the mountains we have been to herab bcoa before which is the next town down but this is the highest we've been and just wanted to let you guys know this is like the most requested place especially when we uh ask Dominicans where we should go they always say constanza I can't thank the Dominicans enough for constantly telling us where to go in this country because if you had have told us a few years ago before we came here we would have said this punta cana the DR is punta cana but hello we are in the mountains in such an amazing town right now we didn't think that our rental car was going to get us where we're going today so we've hired a driver to help us out we're going to a waterfall I don't think we said that the guys are in there see if I can uh you guys exciting yeah everybody's going to Pile in here [Music] well the uh drive up here was absolutely incredible the views I'm just going to keep saying this are out of this world unbelievable the road gets a little uh a little narrow yeah I was going to ask were you happy that you weren't driving yes uh we didn't have a 4x4 we didn't rent one so we're uh now at AQUA BL what what's it called I felt AGUA Blancos Blancos blanos so yeah this is going to be cool so I keep uh comparing this place to how AA or had AOA so far we've been there uh about a year and a half ago and it was out of this world but this is higher up in constanza here we're about uh I think it's around 4500 ft High and the whole climate here the landscape the trees everything is different there's no palm trees can you guys hear that yeah the waterfall is like right here first Glimpse oh my gosh you guys this is incredible and we're not even at I think the main viewing Point yet yeah I can see like another Landing uh further ahead but this is so cool yeah I think I actually read that this is one of the tallest uh waterfalls in all of the Caribbean so it's actually multiple levels I don't think we'll see that hopefully we'll actually get to fly the Drone though so we can get some perspective it's kind of cold up here huh yeah I I thought it was going to warm up but you'll be fine this is the half half Britain him Carol's just a little warmer Brazilian yeah it's kind of funny the perspective but do you guys find like do you notice how the whole like landscape different there's no palm trees and stuff I said to her it feels more like the mountains in California or something yeah it's like a it's like Canada up here the climate actually we were saying it's December right now it feels like summertime in Canada especially in Nova Scotia can get a little bit cool overnight and then you wake up in the morning it's like a little bit chilly in the morning and then it warms up during the day there's this uh kind of metal bridge and like an actual walkway so far which is nice we don't have to like use ropes yeah it's all built up here they have stairs they have walkways we haven't actually got to the waterfall yet but I think there's like a viewing platform so if you have any mobility issues or like are worried about having to hike definitely none of that here we're just making our way up to the uh up to the waterfall now just a couple things to note it is free to get in here which is incredible uh it only took us about around 30 minutes from the main town constanza there are bathrooms up here we read that but the doors were actually locked so yeah you it's starting to get louder isn't it yeah I can kind of see a glimpse of it we're almost at the very end end of the walkway is it going to be so cool well here we go this is the big the big reveal wow this is amazing I am just going to keep saying this over and over and over how is this in the Dominican Republic this is the Dr I know I'm shivering we we were just on the beach like what a day ago yeah like 30° weather now I think Carol can I borrow your jacket for no only only me has have that jacket so you might have to borrow a jacket yeah we've established that it's cold here but I could just keep staring at this beautiful waterfall all day there's actually another level which is hard to believe I I think it's one of the tallest waterfalls in all of the Dr you guys I know most of you come here for the beach that's what people come to the dr4 and and lot go to pakana but you have got to put this place on on your list especially when it's so close to the beach it's such a contrast it's so much fun and I'm so glad we are here I'm going to touch this uh water here yeah that's um that is U Mo Rio very coold so I was actually reading on like the official Dominican Republic tourism site and it said between November and March if you go swimming you have to be really really careful because the potential of getting hypothermia definitely goes up what we were saying how does that make sense with people to do c I know can someone explained it is it like a mind over matter thing if you accidentally fall in the water and get hypothermia it's like a you go into shock maybe but if you're like purposely doing it you know you're cold you don't get hyp like the icem man like the icem man well we're not going in no I suuck my hand in the water like 5 minutes ago and I know we already said it's cold and the water is abely breathing my hand is still cold I'm like doing the breathing on it to try to warm it up a little bit so if you are coming here especially in the winter time be prepared maybe you need a wet suit that might help then you could maybe go swimming but I was just thinking about all the amazing waterfall things into around the world and I know whenever you go to one it's always mind-blowing they're always amazing but the fact that it was we well we didn't have to drive to get here and then the walk was literally 5 minutes just to get right here super easy and there's nobody else here so I'm going to say this one wins out just for that that's alone I was just thinking too there's not much spray from it there's not and our lens the camera lens is not getting that never happens that never so I don't know if you guys know there's actually different types of waterfalls we've learned this before I don't have cell service to look it up but I think there's about three or four this one's actually called a horse tail just because it's thin I don't mean the name of the waterfall I just mean the type the style of it so it's good to know also we were just thinking about it since we are here I think it's a it's a Tuesday that's probably why there's not many people uh the tour guide today who drove us up here basically we used them for the ride told us on the weekends it gets quite busy with especially a lot of Dominicans come from like Santa Domingo and Santiago so that's super cool but I think in High season it gets a little busier but nowhere near like a place like Sana man this place ah the Dr absolutely love it but now it's time to go to another place we just came over to a place called lasina and it's super cool inside here there's so many beer cans and sures and right now it's early in the day not many people and this right here my friends is a craft beer from here and you might know no the color like what's happening it's not St Patrick's Day or anything like that it's just a green local beer I will try quickly for you cuz I'm sure you're like who makes green beer these guys doing castano I love that it comes in this like kind of mug this is so cool it's uh light in taste you don't really taste I'm assuming they add some kind of like syrup to make it green it's kind of like an easy drinking logger beer it's messing with my mind though I'll say that these guys got some stuff too let's see what they got I got the Uno the one also a bit from the Dominican not my favorite it's almost the twoo light but it's still okay it's still okay how much rum do you have in your um your Coca-Cola no not I just have a Coca-Cola she's ly she's lying Carol Carol's the only sensible one I don't often order an appol Spritz the Dominican Republic usually just cuz it's way more expensive than say oh moo so it's actually really well priced here maybe cu were up in the mountains um it was 240 pesos which is about 4 USD that's really good yeah and the reason we found out about this place was a recommendations yeah so we actually put a call out on Instagram and asked people for some recommendations and a few people recommended this place some of our food has arrived at least two of our dishes we decided to go for Tapas since this is kind of a tapas restaurant we're doing lots of small things so we got these K katti Bas Cabas catabas what's in the catabas so there were different types it's basically like a small and Pata but these are made out of Yuka and we got chorizo on the inside and then I believe we went for chicken croquettes there again was a whole bunch of different croquettes and I think we ordered chicken and now I kind of forget cuz there was so many options I'm going to try this guy first just honestly I don't know what to expect of it it looks like like a big chip or something that it arrived I thought it was going to look more like an empanada but I'm going to bite right in there assuming the meats in [Music] here oh more food gra is Amigo back to the Food review how is it really really good I honestly look well it looks like there's like cheese in there so I think it's just really small pieces of toizo but you super get that smokiness from it so you taste the Tre are right away but it's just like a nice little light bite snack let's quickly try the crocetta naoo out I always love the these things look at the inside if you haven't had a cook ad you just have to they're kind of like well they're deep fried but the way the chicken is inside it's not like chunks of chicken it's almost like a puree mixed with all the other goodies on the inside really good and a really good price we have two other dishes to try all right next up potatus bravis they don't look like the uh regular kind you get in Spain no often when you get them in Spain it's potato like fried potatoes same sort of shape but they have the red sauce and sort of a garlicky Mayo like a white mayoi sauce on the top is missing that but I'm hoping this will be spicy it's supposed to be spicy so they said yeah it's got a little bit of a Ki almost like there's a lot of maybe cayenne pepper in there it's got that kind of flavor to it that kind of heat and it's really just a really super tomatoey sauce our last dish to try is uh this guy so it's way bigger than we thought it would be uh lots of egg in here potato usually it's quite a simple dish so we'll see [Music] oh oh yeah it's taking me right back to Spain when we were there it's been quite a long time but we used to get this dish all the time obviously tapis is what you do here I just think it's super fun that in this town there's quite I think there's a few tapis restaurants so it's not the only one and the portions as you can see are very big I wouldn't get this one just like on my own if it was going to be wo fly if I was going to be the only dish I was going toy but when you have a bunch of other dishes to have with it and mix it up it's just super fun to eat all right what do you got here I got the German sausage really good there's like a I think there's some herbs in there I think it's mainly pepper though but the the the sauce is definitely the extra special part yeah the barbecue sauce toon toones my favorite see what Carol has yes I have fish which is the MEO Alan and it has a creamy sauce on top yeah there's a lot on there huh look at that yeah tons of and I went for the French price well we're now back where we uh started off in the video we are in our uh well I guess I'm going to say our house our rental this is a two-bedroom house we're going to show you guys around you can probably tell behind me it's a very big room some interesting ceilings super high made of wood as well so okay I'll try to give you a bit of a a bit of a rundown here you can see a big couch behind me there's actually a giant fireplace over there huh there is it actually works is wouldn't it we haven't had a fire here but you could cuz it gets cold at night yeah I mean there's a TV we haven't had that on but uh why would you when you got the view that you saw earlier we'll take you out there but the kitchen you want to go demonstrate the kitchen yeah it's a really good kitchen your full fridge over here a great big gas stove and oven over there so if you want to do some cooking you can do some serious cooking over here fridge and everything over here and I feel like this this uh kitchen is really well stocked yeah well stocked one thing we were looking for when the four of us got here was a place that we can kind of all work so we're getting close to the window little mess it's a little messy but you can see the yeah I mean this is the workstation a bit of a mess right now but I know where you guys want to go you want to check out back here all right here we go we're much more awake this time around you can't miss uh well the first thing you're going to see is that amazing hot tub yeah and it does actually get hot we used it last night and it was legitimately we had to keep getting in and out it get very very hot right now it's actually hot during the day cuz the sun's on yeah I know so it's much warmer now than it was at the waterfall earlier now it's like I'm pretty hot in the sunshine yeah we got a big old couch area here we haven't even hung out here yet but now that we're back we might yeah I think I might like grab a book after we've done this and just chill out here it really is though all about the view and of course well the hot tub the views up here you guys I mean you saw you saw earlier in the video but even now I mean there's none of those clouds and uh yeah it's just the whole scenery is different the whole vibe of this town just feels like a whole other place parts of it driving around like when we're when we're driving here reminds me a little bit of like even Napa Valley if there was Vineyards here it feels a lot like that feels like places in Croatia there's no palm trees around remember we're in the Dominican Republic not a palm tree in sight a lot of the greenery looks like things we'd find in Canada like what what the heck who knew I hope there's some people watching the video that had no idea you can do this here CU yeah I could I could just you know I could be in constanza for at least a month honestly so far we are loving it so we'll take you guys downstairs here so there's a another level it's quite big you see these big old wooden stairs and this big Corridor it sounds more eoy now that I'm here there's two bedrooms uh Jumping Places has that one they're the same kind like Style room yeah they're just basically the same exact room but mirrored to one another the only thing I don't like about this place is that both rooms have double like very small double beds almost singles so it's not really meant for couples I don't know quite what the intention was you could you could do it or sleep in separate beds but it's just like a weird it's kind of just an awkward layup yeah I don't know why if it were me I would have if you're trying to fit this many beds in here I'd at least put make one a queen something like that yeah the other thing to note just um you know Canadians and Americans would care about this but there's no screens on any window no screen so if you open the windows you're going to and we just had to try to get rid of a wasp upstairs so well it happens but here we'll take you guys into um the bathroom is this way so yeah the bathroom's pretty nice we got all our stuff again looks pretty lived in but uh yeah our swim trunks from last night are there and you'll see the vanity so it it pretty much does the trick there's nothing wrong with it's a really nice place there's just a couple things I would change but the upstairs is amazing it's probably obvious but the reason we're here is for that view because that's extra special but now we're just going to get a bit of work done uh busy morning busy day so far and I think later later on we'll pick you guys back up here especially at night if the weather holds up we'll probably get in that hot tub it's a little bit later and uh Chris is at the fire here it's pretty funny how we got this going we used what do we use toilet paper and hand sanitizer it's going though it is going but we also have these two secret weapons we've been turning on the backup charger which is absolutely hilarious and then in the back there's a button for this fan and watch the minute we turned that on now it's now it's clearly going we don't need it and you hear it though yeah but to get that fan came in handy look at that this great who would have thought hand sanitizer toilet paper backup charger fan improvising amazing fire yeah I'll also show you guys the uh the hot tub now take a look at this actually the power just came back on so you can probably see the lights for the for the the town uh we had no power up until just a few minutes ago so we thought we weren't going to be able to uh kind of film this part cuz we are going to try to get in there and we thought since we had no power we'd just light the fire so right now this is kind of cool again I remind everybody that we are in the Dominican Republic right now it's about 18° C in the evening we have a fire going with a view and a hot tub this seems like something we should be doing in like Switzerland Germany somewhere like that it's absolutely crazy we heated up the hot tub for an hour or so and I imagine you can probably see the steam that's coming off of it it's quite cozy in here I don't know if the steam's going to come across these guys are here what do you guys have some wine yeah red wine and me a bear oh same as before a beer you can see uh you can see the steam though it's it's hot in here huh a bit too hot for me yeah it's been a weird day of like hot and cold yeah hot cold hot cold the camera is going in and out of focus cuz of the steam it's funny for all of you guys that are new around here and um you're like a cool these guys are all together we actually have some history don't we yeah it's funny we've actually ran into a fair number of people when we were walking around cabarete and they were like oh my goodness it's playful Travelers it's Jumping Places you're together and they had no idea that we' met in the past so yeah so if you're wondering oh look at the steam if you're wondering where we met uh I think some of you would think maybe this we met last year in Thailand no we actually the four of us got stuck uh in in the Philippines when Co hit huh 2020 yeah but for like how long like four or five months I can't even remember yeah we were together that long and then Thailand was tylon was just a week right yeah yeah thailand was a week and um yeah we felt like we all went through the whole Madness of it all like I don't know if you guys think back to that time like no one knew what was going on like it was like the world was ending and the four of us just kind of like stuck together yeah and after that we always kept in touch we have an WhatsApp group and we always keep talking friends I know and now we try to meet up at least like once a year and do things like this I mean today was actually over the top how are we going to Top This I don't know honestly Ser if you guys have any suggestions for places around the world that can top this yeah I don't I don't know if this day can be top I mean this was this was pretty cool and no lockdown there was no lockdowns this time well it is the next day and we have one more thing we want to do while we're here in castanza one thing you might not know about this area is that it's very very famous for growing strawberries yes strawberries I'm sure that's not the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of fruits that might be growing here in the Dominican Republic but this area grows loads and loads and loads of strawberries so we've immediately come into the part where they are sorting and packaging the strawberries we're supposed to do a tour today but the person that we arranged it with isn't here so we're not quite sure what's happening but if anything we're just going to look around and see what's happening yeah take a look you can see all the uh strawberries here kind of packed back away and uh guys packing back there so it's pretty neat to see yeah so of course we couldn't come to constanza without trying some strawberry since it is one of the most popular things to do uh take a look at this there's so many of these like this goes as far as the eye can see and for where I'm standing it looks to be like dozens and dozens so it's a huge industry here in the Dr it's also stuff like I would I would just never think that this is a thing in the Dominican Republic but I guess this area is where they grow lots of strawberries and lots of other vegetables for the rest of the country I do wonder I didn't get to look this up I wonder if they exported um to other countries as well so yeah so cool I'm just learning so much about the tr day by day I can't believe how many strawberries are in here these whatever you want to call them what work in these basically like covered domes almost like a greenhouse but they just go on and on and on and on and on and on there's so many strawberries here and when you're driving through castanza you can see these all over the place there must be tons of strawberry farms it's interesting they're kind of white and red and I don't know if that's because they are organic yeah I'm also curious if there's a particular time of year that they are better or like more ripe we um they only speak Spanish here so we're we're relying on Chris and Carol unfortunately to have to translate everything for us we can make a few things I can get the gist of it but it good but it's not too sweet it's nice and fresh um I think the difference like maybe I'm comparing it to strawberries we have at home and I don't know if they're that are like inseason in season strawberries when they're fresh and they're like have a really big sweetness to them these are they're tasty like again I kind of like that it's a little bit tarp mhm this isn't even the only like strawberry farm up here in the mountains of the Dominican Republic it's a lot of fun to eat though and just kind of walk around by the way we had put a shout out I think we said this already on Instagram to ask people for recommendations in this area and so many people said we should go to frza Aras I think it's called I think it's another Farm around here and apparently it's really really cool but they're only open on weekends and we are not here during a weekend so that's the reason we didn't go there yeah I know people will leave a comment on that this is still pretty neat though but that place did look cool on Google Maps did you guys know before coming to constanza that like strawberries and farming was a thing no I didn't know anything about constanza besides mountains yeah we told them it was mountains but uh yeah it's pretty neat look at the we got quite a few strawberries by the way they don't just grow strawberries here in castanza they actually grow loads and loads of different types of fruits and vegetables loads of produce I think a large portion of the produce that you buy here in the Dominican Republic is growing here our uh tour guide was just saying that the best time um for well the season I should say the season to grow strawberries is from December to February which makes sense because it's the cooler months again you guys probably heard us say a few times now it's a little colder here than uh than the beach area and the Dr Who there's like a wire here one second but yeah so that's fascinating which would I understand now like when I see all these domes around there's literally so many U most of what they have here is strawberries although we did just walk by some like cabbage so there's clearly a few other veggies but I have a I have a feeling just because it's in season strawberries are where it's at right now so if you're wondering where we actually are it's called fras franchi we'll put a link or a map below in the description if you're trying to find it uh we contacted them in advance and they told us it's 200 pesos per person for the tour it takes about 20 minutes the girl or the person that we were in contact with isn't actually here so I'm not sure if we're getting the official tour or not and I think they also told us maybe we have a little surprise at the end but I'm not sure check this out it's a a papaya tree I've never seen a papaya tree it's funny cuz we often when we get like a breakfast thing in cabarete it comes with papaya and I never I wasn't really sure what a papaya actually looked like on the outside but I've definitely seen them around now that I see it on the tree yeah even like it's just really the leafy like I didn't expect the tree to be as leafy I don't know why it's almost like they're hidden hidden way back there oh what did you find this a Pap again I think it looks different to the last one cuz they just cut the branches that's why okay all over I think this is probably what I expected it to look like but I guess you cut the branches it's almost like looks more like palm tree a palm tree we asked her how you know when they're ready but she said you actually have to pick them leave them in the Sun and then they become ready so all of these can potentially be ready I think you just need to pick them and leave them in the sun well we're finishing up the tour with some strawberry tea here cheers everyone Cheers Cheers yeah it's kind of hot to the when you're holding the glass it's plastic glass it's really yummy a little bit sweet a little bit obviously strawberry but there's also some cinnamon in there which is a nice little Added Touch I know but this was like such a fun day but not not just that this whole time with you guys what it's been like a week and some now multiple videos flew by time flies when you're having fun and how many videos that we filmed together like four or five four or five so for you guys watching that's been probably a month or so so we hope you enjoyed having these guys along definitely subscribe to them if you're not already I'm sure most of you are but do it if not and head over to their Channel cuz they obviously filming kind of the same stuff as we were so you get to see a different perspective yeah so the big question is what next what are we going to meet up next I think we should plan something next year again I know maybe in the Caribbean again it could maybe here yeah if you guys have any ideas let us know cuz we keep you know we travel we're all travelers and we travel all the time but we're trying to figure out the next place cuz we've done the Philippines not on purpose we got stuck there together and uh Thailand last year and Krabi which was super fun yeah now here here it's going to be fun to figure out leave us a comment let us know but we're going to wrap it up close the video out if you got this far hit subscribe and all that stuff leave a comment hope you enjoyed it we'll finish up our tea and for us it's off to Santiago yeah yeah for you guys where you guys Virgin Islands Virgin Island Virgin Islands so we haven't been there so definitely go watch watch their stuff but all right guys that's it from constanza wishing you guys all delightful travels see you soon
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