From car trunk speakers thumping merengue, to marketeers hawking fresh mofongo, Dominicans have many talents — spoiler alert: quietude ain’t one of them.
That is, however, until you ask about their secret beaches — then a silence washes across their vocal cords like so much seaweed upon their shores.
Of course, quisqueyanos quickly find their words and freely bloviate about Punta Cana, La Romana, Puerto Plata. These are the tourist traps. These are the ones meant to sunburn the likes of Drake and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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