Day 1
- “Get to Know Your Steed” Day. Get comfortable on your V-Strom 650 and ride through the tropical Dominican Alps, blasting around Jarabacoa and its breathtaking vistas, mountain roads and Jurassic Park-like waterfalls. Along the way, you tour an organic coffee processor, lunch in a quaint mountainside resort and enjoy multiple photo-ops to share with the folks back home.
Day 2
- “Samana, Here We Come” Day. “Epic” is the only way to describe today’s journey to the idyllic Samana peninsula. Put a large memory chip in your camcorder, because your friends back home won’t believe your tale.
- The thrill of blasting the epic “Tail of the Iguana” mountain road will be a Memory of the Ages! 272 twists, turns and switchbacks in 21 miles with an amazing vista stop overlooking the Cibao Valley; you’ll ascend and descend 3300 ft.
- You’ll ride along the blue Atlantic Ocean, and lunch and swim on a virtually deserted white-sand beach on the crystal-clear ocean. Your journey through Paradise resumes and your day ends with great camaraderie over cold drinks and a remarkable dinner buffet in your tropical beach-front boutique resort in Samana.
Day 3
- “Ooh and Aah” Day. An End-of-the-Road-in-Paradise seaside village beckons followed by amazing back roads leading to fascinating ocean-front geological formations of Indiana Jones-style caves, mind-blowing scenic vistas and “hold-onto-your-hat” blow-holes.
- The day is still young. You make a spirited mountain run through sweeping curves toward a magical deep-jungle waterfall where you trade your V-Strom for a horse for the last stretch. Following lunch in an authentic Dominican “parador,” you’ll ride through the beach town of Las Terrenas and challenge another twisty high-mountain road, returning to your resort for another great dinner buffet.
Day 4
- “I Came, I Saw, I Beached It” Day. Early Birds may opt for the 6 a.m. “Rise and Shine with Ed Ride” with breakfast on the road. You’ll return in time to load up your swimsuit, sunscreen and camera for a van excursion to one of the most idyllic beaches on the planet, hidden by thousands of coconut palms. The MC crew sets up Camp Moto Beach, with shade tents, chairs, coolers full of your favorite beverages, snacks, beach toys and snorkel gear. Today’s goal: pure relaxation, Caribbean Style. Lunch will be freshly grilled seafood with all the trimmings, prepared beachside. You’ll take a quick cleansing dip in the cool, clear water of a nearby freshwater mountain stream flowing into the ocean, and van back to the resort. Your last evening in Samana finishes with an after-dinner beach bonfire.
Day 5
- “Can’t Get Enough Tail” Day! The expedition continues as you head back to Jarabacoa via the ocean-hugging highway and epic “Tail of the Iguana”. The adventure stops at a primordial crystal clear cave spring for a swim break and lunch at a local Dominican/French gourmet restaurant next to famous Laguna GriGri. You’ll settle into another Dominican resort in Jarabacoa with a marvelous Dominican meal.
Day 6
- Just when you think your adventure can’t get any better, you have to make a choice:
- “Best Ride Yet.” Many of our guests consider this the best riding day of the entire trip. You blast down the “autopista” and dizzying mountain road to the high-valley town of Constanza, the breadbasket of the Dominican Republic. Rallying to altitudes as high as 5000 ft., the road is spectacular, the scenery unparalleled and there will be multiple stops along the way for your photo album. Lunch will be served in a resort restaurant overlooking town.
- ~Or~
- “Day in Santiago, La Ciudad Corazon.” Take the van to Santiago, a city of over one million and considered the “Heart of the Country”, where you will visit the Centro Leon Cultural Museum, the La Aurora Cigar factory, and lunch either overlooking the city high in the hills or by the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration downtown. We stop by a unique gift stop on the trip back to the resort.
Day 7
- Rest and Relaxation
Day 8
- You rally through mountains and valleys to the nearly-hidden waterfront village of Las Salinas on a narrow peninsula snuggled between a bay and the Caribbean Sea. Along the journey, you’ll tour a cavern with ancient drawings by the indigenous people and see the vegetation morph from tropical green to desert arid. Dinner is served on the veranda overlooking the yacht basin. Simply magnificent!
Day 9
- “Into the Desert.” You’ll blast further into the only desert in the Caribbean. Along the route, you’ll venture onto side roads for lunch at a mountain ”rancho” and experience a strange place that gravity “forgot”…where your bike rolls uphill on its own! Your destination is the bustling town of Barahona where you’ll be greeted with tropical drinks at your sea-front resort. Dinner is a buffet of Dominican specialties.
Day 10
- “Loop of the Lake.” A fascinating day of amazing riding as you circumnavigate Lago Enriquillo, a salt lake 141 ft. below sea level in the only true desert in the Caribbean. The road is a riders’ dream as you blast through miles salt flats, rocky mountain passes and sugar cane fields, with stops that include a BBQ cook-out lunch in an real oasis, ancient cave carvings, and a National Park where giant iguanas scurry around like hungry kittens. A scrumptious dinner buffet ends a fantastic day.
Day 11
- “THIS is Adventure Touring!” Many of our riders have claimed this is their single greatest motorcycling experience of their lives, an epic adventure of pure motorcycling awesomeness and a day you will never forget. You’ll rally south along the majestic hills next to the Caribbean Sea for miles…think Pacific Coast Highway…through quaint seaside villages, then blast down a frontier National Park road ending in the border town of Pedernales.
- After a stop at the Haitian border crossing in Pedernales you’ll ride fantastic hard-packed desert roads to a tiny seaside village. There you’ll feast on a scrumptious seafood lunch in quaint thatch-roof restaurant just feet from the postcard-perfect blue sea. This is living large, MotoCaribe style, and you will NOT want to leave!
- And the best part? You get to ride those spectacular roads back to the resort!
Day 12
- “A Beach in Paradise” day. Early Risers can opt for the 6 a.m. “Rise and Shine with Ed” ride (who knows where he will lead) and be back to the resort in time to change for a van excursion to the beach. The MC crew sets up Camp Moto Beach, with shade tents, chairs, coolers full of your favorite beverages, snacks, beach toys and snorkel gear. Today’s goal: pure relaxation, Caribbean Style. Lunch will be freshly grilled seafood with all the trimmings, prepared riverside. You’ll take a quick cleansing dip in the cool, clear water of the nearby freshwater stream flowing into the sea, and van back to the resort in time for a beachside BBQ.
Day 13
- “Back into the Valley.” You get a lot of seat time today as your adventure leads back to the mountains of Jarabacoa. You’ll be making great time as you blast along highways with a lunch stop at a natural water park. A long riding day ends with a Farewell Dinner high overlooking the city.
Day 14
- We say our “hasta luego” and “Buena vieja” as our van takes you to Santiago International Airport for your departing flights, knowing you’ll be back!
Start Date End Date Tour
9-Jan 18-Jan Combo NE/SW
