An hour or so
from Sosua to the east with a guagua (pronounced "wah-wah"
- the workhorse of the public transport system in the Dominican
Republic, consisting of private minibuses - basically four wheels
and an engine plus anything that hasn't fallen off yet.) lies the
town Rio San Juan. 
With fewer tourists, a
less attractive beach and a little less noise this seemed a more
peaceful place to stay. We found a little hotel at the end of a
street, which gave us the hope of some silence during the night.
The only problem was that we got to the town just in time for a
local festival - the "Carnamerengue 2000". Huge
loudspeakers were placed only 20 metres from our room, and the
noise went on till 4 in the morning, only to be replaced by
garbage trucks and men cleaning up the mess. This went on for two
nights, which wasn't a bad thing in itself - the festival was
very interesting. But as we had no electicity or water for the
last 24 hours of our stay, and there was no generator at the
hotel, the smell started to bother us a little. So we went to the
guagua stop and went via Cabrira, Nagua and Sanchez
to Samanà - a long 4-guagua trip that
took the rest of the day.
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