Dominican Republic, Punta Cana

We arrived in Dominican Republic on 7th January - Wednesday night. We had to stay the night in Punta Cana as there were no buses at night to Las Terrenas, our first destination. We stayed in a nice apartment in Bavaro. The area was not that great, a bit rough, but it was close to the bus station. So the next morning we woke up at 5 am (which wasn't a problem, as it was 9 am in the UK). The bus was at 7.30. We had to change once in Santo Domingo, but in general the journey was brilliant, very comfortable. It took about 6 hours and cost about 500 DR per person one way. In the evening we went to the local beach and had a swim in the wonderful, transparent, quiet, clean, nice temperature water. The only negative thing about Las Terrenas is that it's very noisy, because of the vehicles in the streets. Lucky our apartment is very quiet and comfortable.