PUERTO PLATA · DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Amber Coast in one open road.
Cruise port at Amber Cove, the only cable car in the Caribbean, twenty-seven waterfall jumps at Damajagua, the white sandbar at Cayo Arena, the surf shift down at Cabarete. The north coast of the Dominican Republic and the day trips that cover it.
Only on the Amber Coast
Three things Puerto Plata has on its own.
Catamaran sails, beach days and snorkel stops happen everywhere in the Caribbean. These three are specific to this stretch of the Dominican north coast. A river of waterfall jumps, a cable car nobody else has, and a cruise-port rhythm built around the gangway clock. Plan the rest of the trip around them.
In the gorge
27 Jumps at Damajagua
Twenty-seven natural waterfall jumps and stone slides stacked up a single river gorge in the Northern Range. A short hike up, then one drop after another back down through the canyon. Harness, helmet, river shoes. Nowhere else in the world has this concentration of natural jumps in one route.
- 1 7 waterfalls+typical food
- 2 Excursion in Damajagua’s 7 Waterfalls
- 3 Amber Cove/Taino Bay: 7 Waterfall Tour with Swimming & Lunch
Above the city
The Caribbean Cable Car
Eight minutes from the Puerto Plata harbour to the top of Pico Isabel de Torres at 793m. The Christ the Redeemer statue at the summit, botanical gardens around it, and on a clear morning a view east to Sosua and south into the Cordillera Septentrional. There is no other cable car like this anywhere in the Caribbean.
- 1 Puerto Plata: City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch
- 2 Puerto Plata City Tour with the Mount Isabel, Rum & Chocolate
- 3 Puerto Plata: City Tour, Mountain and Lunch
Off the ship
The Cruise-Port Day
Amber Cove and Taino Bay are the two purpose-built cruise ports of Puerto Plata. The half-day shore-excursion rhythm here is its own thing: pickup at the gangway, the cable car or the waterfalls or the buggy run, lunch on the way back, all-aboard by four. Few destinations are this set up for the gangway clock.
- 1 Puerto Plata City Tours from amber cove and Taino bay
- 2 Half-Day Buggy Guided Adventure for Amber Cove and Taino Bay
- 3 Amber Cove & Taino Bay Shore Excursion: 2 person Buggy Tour
If you only have one shore call
Start with the day everyone books first.
The most-booked excursion on the Amber Coast right now. The one that gets the timing right whether you came in on a ship or you're staying the week.
The Most Booked
Puerto Plata's Most Popular Excursions
Damajagua's twenty-seven jumps, the cable car up Isabel de Torres, the catamaran out to Cayo Arena, the buggy day off Amber Cove. The Amber Coast in its most-booked form.
By place
Six stops along the Amber Coast.
Each one is its own day. The old town for the fortress and the rum. Amber Cove for the cruise-port half day. Damajagua for the waterfall jumps. Mount Isabel for the cable-car view. Cayo Arena for the white sandbar. Sosua and Cabarete for the diving and the surf.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Waterfalls if you want the twenty-seven jumps. Buggies and ATVs if you want speed off the road. Catamaran if you want the sandbar. Cable car if you want the Atlantic view. Horseback through coastal villages, rum and chocolate stops, Monkeyland in the hills, the rest of the Amber Coast.
Off the ship by nine, back by four
The cruise-port half day.
Three excursions timed to the gangway clock at Amber Cove and Taino Bay. Pickup at the port gate. A buffer in the schedule for the drive back. The all-aboard call factored in before you book. The cruise-friendly runs travellers rate highest.
Above the harbour
The Caribbean's only cable car.
Eight minutes from the Puerto Plata harbour to the summit of Pico Isabel de Torres at 793m. The Christ the Redeemer statue at the top, botanical gardens around the platform, and on clear mornings a 360° view from the coast inland to the Cordillera Septentrional. No other Caribbean island has one. The cable-car tour pairs naturally with a half-day cruise call or a slow morning before the beach.
- 793m summit elevation
- 8min cable car ride
- 1of 1 in the Caribbean
- 360° summit view
When you want the dust and the engine
The adventure shift.
Quad bikes through coastal villages, dune buggies on the back roads behind the cane fields, ziplines through the canopy, combo days that string two or three together. Three operators that get the safety briefing right, the vehicles maintained, and the lunch at the end worth eating.
Out on the water
The catamaran day.
A sail out to Cayo Arena, snorkel stops over the reefs, lunch on a white sandbar where the sea reads like a swimming pool. The three boats most travellers come back recommending for the day on the water.
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