{"id":1068,"date":"2012-02-22T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2015-06-11T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:24:53","slug":"new-explorica-educational-tour-dominican-republic-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/new-explorica-educational-tour-dominican-republic-highlights","title":{"rendered":"New Explorica Educational Tour: Dominican Republic Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060\" title=\"New Educational Tour in the Dominican Republic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dominicanrepublic.jpg\" alt=\"Women dancing in the Dominican Republic | Explorica Educational Travel\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><br \/>\nThis week Explorica introduces three new student tours to our already stellar lineup.\u00a0 All three of these new tours were created due to customer feedback from our avid educational travelers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Venture underground, on the streets and underwater in Explorica\u2019s newest Latin-American tour \u00a0destination: the Dominican Republic. If you&#8217;re looking an experience similar to our popular Costa Rica tours while experiencing\u00a0 a brand new country, then this tour is for you.<\/p>\n<p>Explore north of San Cristobal where 2,000-year-old drawings cover the walls of the Pomier Caves revealing stories of early inhabitants. Then snap back to modern Santo Domingo where merengue music lures you into one of the Caribbean\u2019s most vibrant capitals. Take your time walking the cobblestone streets in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus. And take in the late Gothic architecture with Romanesque characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Then go from man-made marvels to natural wonders as you spy hundreds of species of tropical flora and fauna en route to one of Puerto Plata\u2019s best-kept secrets. Cool off from your day of discovery as you plunge down natural waterslides and experience the Damajagua Waterfalls etched out of limestone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/dominican-republic-highlights.aspx\">Check out the entire itinerary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Explorica introduces three new student tours to our already stellar lineup.\u00a0 All three of these new tours were created due to customer feedback from our avid educational travelers! Venture underground, on the streets and underwater in Explorica\u2019s newest Latin-American tour \u00a0destination: the Dominican Republic. If you&#8217;re looking an experience similar to our popular <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/new-explorica-educational-tour-dominican-republic-highlights\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}