Sosua can only be described as a true Caribbean seaside town. A small village jam packed, vibrant and colourful with restaurants, bars, beach shacks and a market, hotels and villas, gift and souvenir shops, bakeries and butchers and the best snorkelling reef on the north coast. Located east from Gregorio Luperon International Airport about a 7 to 10 minute taxi ride. Walk down to the beach, access from the centre of Sosua village and you will stumble across an awesome horse shoe shaped bay with every tone of blue you can imagine in the Atlantic waters.

Sosua really got itself on the map in the early 1940's as many Jewish settlers arrived here to escape the persecution of Nazi Germany. (See The Real DR history pages for full details). The refugees settled in the east part of Sosua known as El Batey and formed the successful Sosua Dairy co-operative, which exists to this day.  The dairy now produces most of the countries dairy products. There is a small Jewish museum detailing the history of the refugees next to Casa Marina Hotel.

Running parallel to the beach front is a market, stall and shack after shack of souvenirs and gift shops. Remember to haggle and shop around as the vendors are not adverse to taking advantage of a tourists lack of experience with the Dominican peso.  You will also be able to hire snorkel masks and fins from the beach to take advantage of the reefs in the bay.  The reefs are approx 60 metres swim out, if you are not so super energetic then there is also a glass bottom boat if you don’t fancy getting wet and banana boat rides if you do!  The reefs have been stood upon by many tourists and local fishermen over the years, however there is still an abundance of brightly coloured fish and if you want to experience a fish feeding frenzy take some bread or a banana with you and literally feed the fish while you are in the water - amazing! Click Here to take a fantastic Catarmaran and Snorkling Excursion .

There are a couple of all inclusive hotels in Sosua offering a high quality of accommodation and facilities  particular the Sosua Bay Hotel and Casa Marina Reef Hotel.   If you have just arrived on a flight only and have no reservations at all then Sosua has an abundance of villas, apartments, private condo’s and room only accommodations to rent by the day, week or even hour!

Similar to the town of Puerto Plata the streets are somewhat over run with motor conchos (motor bike taxis) so do not be alarmed by whistles and hooting the drivers are just trying to drum up business.

Try Tanya’s Swiss bakery (it has a big blue cow outside) for her delicious hand made chocolates, cheese cakes, pastries and coffee.  Mosers bakery is a well established German bakery and is a must for all bread lovers (black forest gateaux is a speciality here) and also the German Butcher called Dani. His sausages are famous all over the north coast and sells the best pork chops for miles around!

Sosua town also has a couple of pharmacies, supermarkets, cigar and liqueur shops.  The town is divided into two halves from El Batey to Los Charamicos. The main road running through the town is called Pedro Clisante and commences in El Batey. Here  are tons of restaurants,  bars and coffee shops.  Pleasant and safe enough to stroll around and dine out in the evening.  Heading in a westerly direction Los Charamicos is a maze of roads and streets predominately a residential area for local Sosua townsfolk and is the old part of Sosua or the old town.

Just west of Sosua and before you arrive at the airport is Columbus Aquapark, a water park with 25 different rides and slides. Amongst the rides there is a lazy river to float around on and a children’s pool area for small ones plus a high dive and the terrifying “Kamikaze” water ride for those of you in need of some on the spot colonic irrigation!  Open everyday avoid Sundays as every body is off work this day and it can get too busy. Worth a mention for eating out in Sosua town are the Morau Mai restaurant(pianist on a Friday night)for great seafood and steaks, Las Rocas for all round good family value meals. The Waterfront for a special evening and also La Puntilla de Pier Giorgio afford the best dining in the evening as both have fantastic ocean views and are the perfect setting to watch the sun go down (however one will pay for the setting so don’t forget your credit card just in case!). If you fancy tripping the light fantastic and dancing till dawn there are a few discos in and around the main high street Pedro Clisante. Be warned however that Sosua has more than it’s fair share of prostitutes so keep one hand on your beer and the other firmly on your wallet!