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Punta Cana Things To Do
photo courtesy of www.caribbeandreamto.com
Bring out the inner Tarzan (or Jane) in you and fly through the Dominican jungle on a zip line!
This Punta Cana Zip Line Canopy Tour tour consists of 8 cable lines where you’ll slide through the tree tops and over open mountain valleys getting a bird’s eye view of the Anumaya Mountain range and countryside north of Punta Cana. Read More→
The End of Bees – a story of survival
Summer Rayne Oakes (the world’s first Eco-model) with the Punta Cana Honey Bees
On the subject of Punta Cana Forest Honey and Puntacana Honey Bees, we found this beautifully crafted video by ABOVE magazine featuring the environmental scientist and world’s first Eco-model Summer Rayne Oakes. The video promotes awareness of Colony Collapse Disorder that has decimated billions of bees in the northern hemisphere. Read More→
delicious 100% natural Punta Cana Forest Honey
The Puntacana Ecological Foundation on the grounds of Puntacana Resort & Club
(see Map 7) is home to the Puntacana Apiary – a colony of honey bees.
Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the practice of maintaining honey bee colonies, usually in hives, in order to produce honey and beeswax and/or to pollinate crops. It’s origins date back to the Egyptian pharaohs and the Roman empire.
Since 1970 Puntacana Resort & Club’s founders Frank Rainieri and Ted Kheel encouraged their employees to keep honey bees and to sell the honey to earn extra cash. The tradition lives on today in the Puntacana Apiary. Read More→
Things to do in Punta Cana
photo courtesy of the Puntacana Ecological Foundation
The Indigenous Eyes Ecological Park and Reserve is a 1500 acre private reserve owned and maintained by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation. It’s located on the grounds of the Puntacana Hotel (See map 7).
The Indigenous Eyes (Ojos Indigenas) are crystal clear, freshwater lagoons fed by the underground river Yauya. The Taino Indians referred to the lagoons as “eyes” because of their shape. They are part of a lowland subtropical forest situated on top of limestone, and home to over 500 species of plants and 100 species of birds. Read More→
watch our Bayahibe garden’s progress!
A while back we moved from Punta Cana to live 90 minutes away in Bayahibe on the south coast (better sea and wind conditions for our Stand Up Paddle Boarding business).
We’re living in an apartment in a nice, quiet little complex that has some modest but beautiful tropical landscape planting. Part of our own garden runs along an ugly grey, featureless wall. I got bored of looking at it so decided to try my hand at gardening in an attempt to cover the wall with pretty climbing plants and Dominican fruits. Read More→
