A warm and friendly Colombian-Mexican couple have cultivated a rural Dominican village experience at this hostel spread among several colorful traditional Caribbean clapboard shacks. Despite being a mere 10-minute walk from Macao Beach, it feels worlds away, with cows and horses grazing in pastures across the road (where unfortunately a resort development is being built), and chickens, cats, dogs and a community donkey roaming freely.
There are four rustic private rooms with mosquito nets and a five-bed dorm along with simple, bamboo-walled bathrooms and a guest kitchen. Village kids hang around and a community chef whips up Dominican meals with advance notice (RD$150). Guests can take surf lessons and horseback rides or kick back in hammocks during the day, and sit around the fire at night with Andrés and fellow musicians providing the soundtrack.
Ask about visiting other rural community developments in the area; they're trying to organize an overnight circuit for travelers.
