See how long it takes to get all the permits and licenses, and how many secret commissions are to be paid before the real investment can begin.

I suppose there are honest government officials in the country, but they are more expensive than the corrupt ones.

Yes, lets get rid of concrete monstrosities of resorts financed by crazy americans and get to real bamboo eco-resorts.
Many sticks of dynamite are needed in the DR to get rid of the concrete!
S.

abc200 agree!

En esa cascada esta bueno para bañarse con una cibaeña

Green is great...as long as it isn't you who lives in a shack and have no job. But then what do the self-absorbed greenies care. Remember. They are smarter and better than you so you better just shut you mouth and do what they say.

abc200 hates to see Americans and Dominicans progress... Go back to Cuba comie

concrete = progress?
S.

good for constanza...jarabacoa and constanza are dr beauty.

Written by: abc200, 1 Mar 2010 2:30 PM
concrete = progress?

Yes.
Concrete, Steel, Energy, Money = progress.

What you want:
Subsistence farming, Organic pesticides and fertilizers, Natural healing, Serfdom = the dark ages

abc look at Jarabacoa river club. They managed to make this resort without changing the natural beauty of the forest.

abc not every one has your taste-which is none.But know,the majority of people want those designs of hotel and remember,hurricanes come in from the ocean so I think bamboo isn't practical.lets go with bamboo in the mountains,constanza,barahona,etc.P.S.-Alot of those hotels are built by spanish(spain) companies.And I'm building a eco-hotel in Barahona and I am glad and proud to be an crazy american LOL

tass,
abc200 is stuck in the 1940's

I am not saying there should not be progress. An airoplane, a lightweight structure stands tremendous aerodynamic forces. Tents have been tested in wind tunnels up to 200 mph.
http://www.expo.planetmountain.com/Download/pdf/news/MHWTents.pdf
Lightweight structures are a practical housing vacation solution. They are also portable so should it be needed the land can be restored to its pristine state.
'They paved paradise and put up a parking lot'
Switzerland a backward deralict nation of yodeling imbeciles with absolutely no knowledge of tourism has long had villages buit mostly of local wood with no traffic, just a railway.
http://www.lawcrossing.com/article/1507/Switzerland's-yodelfest-the-biggest-hoot-of-summer-festivals
Is it time for some of the idiots who post here to say cuckoo.
Much employment would be gained if the corrupt concrete mongers were kicked out and local people employed making bamboo and softwood structures to advanced designs

The world has moved on - how come we still have the dinosaurs posting?
http://www.baliplus.com/ecobali.htm
S.

so you do not like Punta Cana abc200? Wait you always look for the 300 pesos per night sleezy hotel

ABC,-you blog does have some validity and the D.R. is diverse enough in terrain and micro-climates to do it all,but in the tourism business you are still in the minority.But to quote another crazy American "CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG' and do you also hate your self? LOL

" a backward derelict nation of yodeling imbeciles.".............abc describes his Utopian dream

abc go to haiti with your wacky ideas! let them stay in the 1940's!

They should build cabins and buildings only using local material WOOD and stone found at the site as possible.
The material should echo the surrounding environment.

This pristine area should be an ecological educational, leaning, environmental, recreational area that could be used as a learning center where kids from the cities and barrios can be exposed and fall in love with nature, learn to be environmentally responsible, and make this area a destination for the end of the semester. This should not be limited to tourists or people with money.
Otherwise it is a sin to not allow a big chunk of land for this cause for our youth.

abc, I love Lucerne and never seen such a clean village, just breath taking, Constanza and Jarabacoa should research what the Swiss have done in such villages, the view are spectacular and the buildings are kept minimum.

If we take a look at the American National Parks like Yosemite and Yellow stone, all, most cabins and buildings are made out of wood, and the revenues from visitors are incredible.

Thanks pop for your contbution. I for one do not think the Swiss are idiots as concrete loving xw does.
In Germany also they design car free commumities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?_r=1
http://gen.ecovillage.org/iservic....ations/genmag-2001/ecoliving4.pdf

Wengen is beautiful and has plenty of summer tourists to its little chalets and hotels set in the mountains. Not a car there.
http://www.wayfaring.info/2008/01....ome-people-love-wengen/#more-4505
S.

The yodeling imbecile speaks again from his rat hole in LT

our bumbling blogging buffoon is back!
S.

Hi, my name is Ana Mercado, a Dominican American Citizent, who's living in New York for almost 30 years. When I went to Constanza for the first time, that I saw those montains inThe Rio Grande section, where the new project is goin to be (City Century) I really went CRAZY, I remember only saying, NO!, is this EARTH, NO!, is this my Country, This is not Earth, this is paradise, I have to buy this piece of land today, 2 days after I went back from Santiago and I brought few acres of Land, and I make my VILLA that I Name "HILLTOP COUNTRY CASTLE", In the Year (2003)
El Castillo Campestre, right across the New Project, that is our Vacation Home, if you like check
My Wed side www.constanzacountrycastle.com evailable daily or weeklly for rent, chek pictures.