Tropical Joe.... Alone in the Dominican Republic. A trip full of Excursions.

Hey folks, how are you? Joe here. I'm in the Dominican Republic. This is freaking Joe in the tropics. Never seen this before. I got a really good last minute deal on a flight and a booking here in Puerto Plata. So I took it and we're going to go do some adventures. We're going to go do some waterfalls and jump into pools and slide down rock slides. There's also a dune buggy tour through the city and a horseback riding tour through the mountains that I'm going to get done while I'm here in my short time that I do have here. This is all new, exciting adventure for me. I'm hoping that you guys are interested in seeing something like this as well. I just thought I'd give it a break from the winter humdrum videos that you're seeing from all the Canadian content creators right now. So after this is done, back out into the cold, but for now, Tanned Joe. Hey folks, how are you? I'm happy to say that I've partnered with Anchor for another sponsored video. 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A little cruise ship out there This is Taino Bay Port Taino Bay Port Taino Bay Port Taino Bay Taino Bay is a public property Real big My brother from another mother he's gonna be explaining you the stuff here He's gonna be in charge to give you the information that you need from this place okay he is my brother from another mother but we love each other anyway thank you i think i took too many oh wow that is flavor so if we break it it's gonna look like this right so it's gonna look uh right and then we put in the song it's gonna be like all like mixed i mean uh pilon and this we use for smashing this we call mano de pilon yeah now we're gonna introduce here we have we have a nice uh woman the single now present to you she's gonna do all this okay Okay, like Mama Julia. You can say Mama Julia first. And then Mama Julia will let you do it. I'll do it this way. You have to do it by yourself. I'm going to show you how to do it. She's going to kiss you first. On the count of three, we're going to say Mahando, and you guys are going to say? Okay, one, two, and three. Mahando! Mahando! Mahando! The picture died, the picture died. Coffee, yeah, you're gonna smell it. I will set your world. Wow. Are we good coffee makers? You should make this coffee, the one you're gonna have today. So now she's gonna show you how to make it. When it's already powdered, we're gonna put it in the boiling water for one minute or two. Natural, organic, with the wood. you when you eat this kind of food and these plants and the fogon with the wood it's gonna have a different taste organic taste certainly very very very good food and you can you can feel the difference right away when you cook with the gas and when you cook with the wood no doubt we call leña leña yeah is that the type of wood no no just what would it just the way yeah okay La leña Hardwood Very nice What Are you cooking, sir? Oh, you know, just whipping up some coffee and chocolate, no big deal Can you make me one fish? One fish? For sure Sí Move it, move it Do you have a, do you want me to put in a thing for you? Let's go, alcoholic VIP sexy family! ¿Todo bien? ¿Todo bien? ¿Todo bien? ¿Bien? ¿Bien? that's what we're having for lunch yeah hey buddy so those are cocoa beans starting this is a small one careful with yourself i'm sorry no no it's you you're going i'm okay i'm okay i'm okay i've been around okay now If we try to come here each, I want to try to take a picture with the frog. Okay. Come in, inside there. Like this? Okay. There is a nice place to show you over there, and this is the plant over there. This is the pineapple. This is the way that the pineapple grows. Wow. That's it. This is the pineapple, and this is the way that the pineapple grows, you know, the trees. Wow. That's it. Dame aquí, dame aquí también. Wow. Slipped. Yeah. Yeah. This is the sun cigars. Very nice. But he is not ready. Of course. Yeah. Gents, before Israel start giving you a whole information about the process of tobacco, I want to let you know that this is the Mamajuana. This is what I've been talking about. Many people make Mamajuana in the country, but not everyone got the experience to make a very good Mamajuana. The sun, the most. Very strong, at the same time, provides the cigar of the smell, okay? If you want a very strong cigar, you need top sleeve. This cigar is not for rookies, sorry. You can be in trouble. If you want a mild cigar, you have to use the middle of the leaf. And if you want a Winston Churchill cigar, it's not very strong, but it's not very mild either, you put 50-50. Erickson, he's the man, come a little closer, we are a small group, please. He's the man in charge to mix the cigars, okay? He needs to know how much he put. And then look, what happens? Now we dry the leaf. Look, this is when the leaf goes from green to brown. It takes two months. Once the leaf has dried, begin the aging process. This has been a pretty cool tour. Our guide is very attentive, and we keep getting the VIP alcoholic family treatment, so good times. Mommy. Hey, sir, how was the pool? Let's try it. What do you think is this? Can you guess? Huh? Cinnamon. Cinnamon! Yeah! Oh it's so bitter! Well today I'm out on a dune buggy ride. I got some old Yamaha four wheelers and stuff here. That's it. It's kind of weird being here by myself I'll tell you that. These are thoughts from a first time Canuck outside of the freaking cold. In Dominican it's better to have dollars I believe, American dollars, than pesos. They would appreciate that more when you tip. I'm at an all-inclusive resort. That's certainly not the only way you need to go. I just didn't know anything. I didn't want to have to worry about food or anything. And I got a good deal on it last minute. But you should bring American dollars to tip. Tipping is not necessary, but you feel like you should once you're here. They need to bring down the number, the height of the number of pesos. It's like 10,000 pesos is roughly $17 US. So it's like you want to buy something that's 100 bucks. it's like uh like 5,000 pesos so that's the conversion i didn't get at first um there's no prices on anything ever and you probably shouldn't pay the first price that you hear but i'm really really really horrible at negotiating so i usually do um but they're willing to they set the price high high high and they're willing to come down quite a bit um everybody's pretty nice you don't really have a concern i've been off the resort quite a bit like i said the drinks are plentiful and good and they they make them strong the beers are decent the food is okay i'm getting used to it now they have a few restaurants which i think would be better but i just been eating at the buffet type thing because you need to to reserve those and i'm just a last minute kind of guy you can have a cigar anywhere i have been given two free boxes of cigars and i bought probably 15 single cigars and the mamuana national drink of this island is pretty good i had never tasted anything like it before but every single place i go to they make me try it and i say i've already tried it they said have you tried mamuana brother i said i already tried it they said it's not mine it's always different so it's like tree bark honey red wine and rum fermented i think if i'm not mistaken but um yeah everybody everybody's chill everybody wants you to buy stuff and uh you can straight up be no and like straightforward and say no and they won't really bother you too much after that but if you're bad like me and have a problem saying no they they get you they get you all the time i stopped here at this local farm having a cerveza there's things to buy cigars to buy cf motos none of their stuff's pretty but it all works they move the rads to the back engines in the back cf moto as fast as i want this is the guy taking a half hour break here there's places to get drinks so we can go swimming if we want then we get the cold from being in the air conditioning he's gonna like run up my arm and oh there he goes I should probably leave him alone I like the cigar Hey buddy good papa just chilling at somebody's house right now we're waiting for uh I don't know what we're waiting for to be honest with you but we're going on a horse ride and I think it's just me and one guy so me and the guide so that's pretty awesome his dog's gonna come he's a Malinois so I'm excited about that I don't know what we're waiting for hopefully it comes soon okay it's okay to get on that way thank you that's okay that's great yeah very good good yes sir thank you kick him yeah all right all right all right good good let's go good boy come on good elisa joe yes you again jose yes very similar we're going up there yeah good good yeah there you go there you go there you go yeah good thank you yeah lots of time and money and pain oh man thousands thousands of dollars in like seven different times yeah yeah yeah thank you i i'm i feel too skinny so i want to cover my body up with tattoos so i don't look so skinny my legs are next is it salisa or no seniso seniso thank you seniso good horsey good horsey yeah my father I don't like yeah my mom don't like it Good. Oh, yeah, okay. It seems like a nice place to live up here. Yeah Away from the city a little bit away from the city a little bit town. Yeah, you're farther out. It just seems less busy Yeah, yeah Very nice. Good. Well, cheers, bud. The first time I've ever been to a resort first time I've ever been overseas We're in Puerto Plata pretty awesome. I'm almost done my time here just finally getting able to relax it's not my uh first few days doing explorations and excursions i've only been here for a few days so close out of this i got a good deal so i decided let's go we took will on our birthday trip to banff last month so couldn't get a babysitter for this trip hence why i'm by myself it's kind of freaking weird to be honest with you everybody here has people people like why didn't you come with someone it's weird it's weird next time I got to bring the kids and the family for sure it's safe it's fun I didn't know what to expect you know what I mean plus no babysitter so anyway it's all learning experience Joe in the Dominicana por favor si señor grazie I mean gracias Tom Collins Canada US funds dominican pesos i was at this spot earlier today today's just like a chill day i was at this spot earlier today and there was mad not mad cows a lot of cows i don't know if they were mad a lot of cows coming this way and the security guard had to freaking run up and pat them off at the pass and throw some sticks at them and stuff there's cow patties all over the beach as soon soon as you pass this freaking sign we'll go over there in a little bit go uh test the waters i've been going off resort quite a bit and it's fine it's totally cool everybody's chill the biggest thing is they just try to swindle you like is and i can't even blame them like it's not they're trying to rip you off by any means they're not trying to take your stuff and go without any kind of product they're just trying to get the most amount of money they can and i can't blame them most freaking gringo whiteys here not even knowing their language not knowing the the conversion you know i mean they're just trying to feed their family i get it they freaking hustling hard i respect the hustle you know i've been freaking uh i've been supporting i've been supporting don't don't worry about that no anyway this uh this white boy is getting getting some sun here we're gonna go swimming in the ocean i haven't done that yet this is the atlantic ocean and i certainly have to swim in it before i leave it's all for your health damn i guess i don't know What did I expect you it burns the eyes don't look at the GoPro underwater Oh, it burns the eyes so bad It's the saltiest thing in the world And burns, I've also found out that the vast majority of people here are Canadian I figure it's because Canada on a whole is colder than the US But it's a lot of Canucks here a lot of Montreal