Sandboarding & snorkeling in the Dominican dessert

Sandboarding & snorkeling

Discover the Salinas desert on a sandboarding and snorkeling tour from Santo Domingo. Slide down the sand dunes, snorkel in the Caribbean Sea, and enjoy a local Dominican lunch.

Pick-up information:

Monday to Friday:

Transportation is included only within the Colonial Zone, Ciudad Nueva, and Gazcue. If you are staying outside these areas, you can meet us at “Puerta del Conde” or “Parque Colón.”

Saturdays and Sundays, pick-up is available anywhere within the National District.

You may be asked to walk one or two blocks for your pick-up, depending on logistics. Please provide a WhatsApp contact number. Include your full address and the name of your hotel or building.

We depart at 8:00am (Pickup might start up to 30 minutes before), take a 2-hour road trip to Salinas, with some interesting stops on the way.

Then we arrive to the sand dunes and spend some time learning about them, taking pictures, and of course, sandboarding. I'm not a certified instructor, we're just having fun. No experience required.

After having fun at the dunes, we walk through the salt mines and its pink lakes, where we see the salt process and workers taking salt out of the lakes.

Our last attraction is playa El Derrumbao, where we are going to do some snorkeling. To get there, we take a 20 minute walk (one way) under the hot sun. We walk into the beach with urchins and grab the goggles to watch the coral reefs and fish underwater. It's beautiful!

Then, we walk back and change clothes by the car. There's no dressing room, Then we go back to a local place for some authentic Dominican lunch. After lunch, we return to Santo Domingo, happy and tired at around 3-4pm.