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GREAT ADVICE from the woman who wrote the book on exactly how to find and experience the best of the Dominican Republic.

Of all the quintessential deserted islands in the Caribbean, none are as sweet as Saona... at least to lovers of a certain candy bar, anyway.

One thing I can definitively say about South Bay, though, is that it's all kinds of sweet... intensely so!

For 2015, one rum simply deserves a little extra recognition. Its name: Kirk and Sweeney.

Cerveza Presidente, the Dominican Republic brew, is a prime example of the fact that beer and politics tend to make strange bedfellows.

Sitting atop Pico Duarte, the tallest peak in the Caribbean, is just one of many awe inspiring West Indian experiences found nowhere else in the world.

If you could have a chat with the devil, what would you tell him? Shout at the Devil at Le Boca del Diablo on the Samana peninsula of the Dominican Republic.

American brands aren't always what they seem in the Caribbean. Sometimes, as with a restaurant in the DR for the uncommon seafood lover in you, they're better.