Great Day Tour with Horseback Riding + Waterfall + Beach Time on a Island
Burgundy_H, May 2022
El Limon Waterfall and Bacardi Island Tour from Punta Cana
This was an awesome day tour if you like adventure. The day starts early, we were picked up from our hotel at 6:15am and joined two other groups on the bus then were transferred to another bus with the rest of our larger group from other areas. (this happens for almost all tours in Punta Cana because there are a lot of hotel/resorts and they are very spread out, so it actually saves time instead of riding on the bus for hours to everyone's hotel as there were about 25+ people in our group). The bus ride is a few hours to the coast where they take you on a boat to the Samaná peninsula, not to worry there is bathroom break about halfway! Then the boat is ride is about an hour, it can be choppy so if you get sea-sick take medicine before. Then once you reach Samaná you take a truck ride to the area where you have lunch and the horses are kept. You get matched up with a horse keeper and they guide you through the path to the waterfall Salto del Limón, it's about a 20-30 minute journey on horseback each way. Once you reach near the waterfall you do some walking which is about 10-20 minutes before you reach the waterfall. The walking is a sweat and a decent workout as its uphill and downhill (do not recommend if you don't want do any walking), we did this for my Dad's 66th birthday and he enjoyed it very much but he's also very fit and grew up on an island. So if you're not interested in getting a little dirty, walking, and sweating I do not recommend this tour for you. Then you spend about an hour at the waterfall and then walk back to your horse and ride back to lunch. Lunch is a typical buffet like you see on all the tours, the food was good and you can eat as much as you want. Then you take the boat to Cayo Levantado which is a beautiful island off the coast and hangout there for about two hours they also provide everyone with a pina colada in a pineapple with or without rum! After spending time at the beach you make your journey home the same way it started, boat, bus, hotel bus transfer. We're back to our hotel by 7:20pm. Overall the day and trip was beautiful and so much fun! We made so many friends and memories. Rafael was our tour guide and he was awesome! Great tour with friendly tour people and locals. Highly recommend this tour!
This was an awesome day tour if you like adventure. The day starts early, we were picked up from our hotel at 6:15am and joined two other groups on the bus then were transferred to another bus with the rest of our larger group from other areas. (this happens for almost all tours in Punta Cana because there are a lot of hotel/resorts and they are very spread out, so it actually saves time instead of riding on the bus for hours to everyone's hotel as there were about 25+ people in our group). The bus ride is a few hours to the coast where they take you on a boat to the Samaná peninsula, not to worry there is bathroom break about halfway! Then the boat is ride is about an hour, it can be choppy so if you get sea-sick take medicine before. Then once you reach Samaná you take a truck ride to the area where you have lunch and the horses are kept. You get matched up with a horse keeper and they guide you through the path to the waterfall Salto del Limón, it's about a 20-30 minute journey on horseback each way. Once you reach near the waterfall you do some walking which is about 10-20 minutes before you reach the waterfall. The walking is a sweat and a decent workout as its uphill and downhill (do not recommend if you don't want do any walking), we did this for my Dad's 66th birthday and he enjoyed it very much but he's also very fit and grew up on an island. So if you're not interested in getting a little dirty, walking, and sweating I do not recommend this tour for you. Then you spend about an hour at the waterfall and then walk back to your horse and ride back to lunch. Lunch is a typical buffet like you see on all the tours, the food was good and you can eat as much as you want. Then you take the boat to Cayo Levantado which is a beautiful island off the coast and hangout there for about two hours they also provide everyone with a pina colada in a pineapple with or without rum! After spending time at the beach you make your journey home the same way it started, boat, bus, hotel bus transfer. We're back to our hotel by 7:20pm. Overall the day and trip was beautiful and so much fun! We made so many friends and memories. Rafael was our tour guide and he was awesome! Great tour with friendly tour people and locals. Highly recommend this tour!