FREE SHOPPING TOUR
WHAT IS A SHOPPING TOUR?
It is an opportunity to rediscover America, guided by the best guides in Punta Cana, who are full of knowledge about this land, about the hundreds of years in which this wonderful, interesting, and spectacular culture has developed, full of a mixture of colors, aromas, and flavors. A history that has been structured for more than 500 years, with traditions full of crossbreeding of races.
It is a trip to the heart of the Dominican Republic, which begins from the meeting point at the hotel where you stay, ready to bathe in knowledge, in the culture, in the rich flavor of Dominican happiness, the rhythm that runs through the veins of Dominicans to the beat of the merengue.
We will be transported in one of our qualified buses to the cultural and gastronomic center "TAINO GOURMET". At our first stop, when we enter, we will smell the chocolate, coffee, and roots of the mamajuana. We will make an interesting journey through the history of chocolate and Dominican coffee, its origins, its evolution, and its production processes. We will experience the delicious aroma and flavor of coffee through various tastings depending on the types of roasts we use. Ummm! all a pleasure that will spread through each cell of our body filling it with energy and vitality.
Afterward, we will taste the famous Mamajuana drink, a powerful elixir that tops the list of the country's legendary drinks and that keeps the secret of Creole happiness and good health. The Dominican Republic is the product of crossbreeding of races, cuisine, culture, languages, and regions. You will learn how it is composed and what are the steps for perfect preparation. This rich ¨soup¨ of flavors and ingredients was cooked in the cauldron of Caribbean history for more than 500 years, and you will be the protagonist in experiencing each of those ingredients, in the unique cultural and gastronomic center "TAINO GOURMET"
Thus we continue our journey until we reach our third stop, our great room with the largest variety of categories ranging from cosmetics, crafts, coffee, chocolate, rums, souvenirs, among others.
From the outset, we will find our Jewelry area, famous for having excellent lines of artists worked on the basis of the unique and incomparable Larimar stone. There in addition to seeing any number of beauties forged by notable Dominican goldsmiths and jewelers, we will know the beautiful history of the stone according to the legend that has passed from generation to generation. All the types and varieties that we can find according to the type of mineral coloration that composes it. You can see the result with your own eyes. Unique pieces mixed with gold, silver, blue amber, raw amber with which you can show off to your friends. You will learn how each of these jewels is associated with protective, healing properties until they are in possession of luck and love.
Then you can visit our Tobacco Shop, our area dedicated solely to tobacco, where you will find the best national and international brands and styles. You will witness its history and its origin according to the country of origin. You will see up close the process of assembling our own brand TAINO cigars from the hand of our expert tobacco masters, and to make it even better, you can taste with them our wide variety made at home.
But tasting a good cigar like this could not reach its maximum level if it is not accompanied by an excellent Rum. For this reason, we invite you to our tasting station where you can taste all our select lines of spirits.
To close our tour we will invite you to visit our cafeteria. After so many unique flavors, perhaps you will be encouraged to sit in our spaces and enjoy a delicious cappuccino coffee, a refreshing natural juice, and perhaps even your eyes will fall in love with one of our desserts or hot slices of bread. Any snack is valid in this area...!
We are experts in Dominican cuisine and we will guide you along the path of knowledge of our culture, through its products.
Make sure you have not forgotten to take as a souvenir, the flavors, and aromas in which all the essence of this island is concentrated.