Bermuda's railway line opened in 1931 and was the most expensive ever built. It was closed in 1948 and sold to Guyana, together with its engine, Old Rattle and Shake. The old line is now a nature trail.
The Dominican Republic has numerous caves where the first inhabitants of the island once hide and practiced rituals by the first inhabitants of the island, and where speleology lovers nowadays go sightseeing and enjoy a fabulous experience inside these chambers marked with petroglyphs and pictographs.
Although speleology is a tourist activity that little by little is becoming more and more known in the Caribbean and the Americas, in European nations and other regions, speleology has been practiced for a long time. Speleology is not an easy sport, many times you will need help to descend to a greater depth or to move between the narrow caves, the worst mistake you can make when practicing this activity is to go alone.
The ideal is with groups of at least 4 people. In the Dominican Republic there are a great number of ideal destinations for is practice to which the hikers can access in the depths of natural parks and tropical jungles, where the ancient Taino caves offer adrenaline-filled caving adventures.
Cotubanamá National Park has caves with emerald-colored freshwater lagoons, while in the just outside of Santo Domingo, Los Tres Ojos National Park invites you to visit one of the country's largest subway caves linked by a series of lagoons. Enjoy hundreds of Taino pictographs in the Cueva de las Maravillas (Cave of Wonders) near La Romana,
It is very tempting for those who enjoy speleology and no less attractive in Cap Cana is the Scape Park, which invites visitors to explore the tunnels of the Iguabonita Cave, with its impressive limestone formations. In Samaná, the National Park of Los Haitises treasures caves with a great number of pictographs that can only be reached by sea.
The more adventurous like to delve into the proposals offered by the Fun Fun Fun Cave, since entering there is no other option but to rappel. In the Cotubanamá National Park, in Boca de Yuma, Punta Cana, is the Berna Cave, which stands out among the largest and most important caves in the Dominican Republic for its Taino evidence, due to its high number of petroglyphs.
While in the forests below the Sierra de Bahoruco, in Barahona, is the Cueva de la Virgen Escondida (Cave of the Hidden Virgin), to which hikers reach it after a thirty-minute walk through a rainforest that leads to this large cavern with pools. Another popular option for speleology lovers is the Cueva de las Golondrinas (Cave of the of the Swallows, on the undulating Atlantic coast of Rio San Juan, Puerto Plata, where you can swim in the waters of the natural pool that surrounds the cave and observe the rock formations that can be seen on the ceiling.
Also of interest is the Cabarete Cave, within the forest of El Choco National Park in Puerto Plata, a living expression of an underground network dating back millions of years. The Cueva de Cristal (Crystal Cave) is underground and houses a freshwater pool, while other caves, on the surface, are full of stalagmites and stalactites.
The least visited, but most impressive caves are in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, and include El Pomier and Las Caritas de los Indios. Undoubtedly, in this country speleology lovers can live a fabulous experience, such are its varied and attractive proposals.
Bermuda's railway line opened in 1931 and was the most expensive ever built. It was closed in 1948 and sold to Guyana, together with its engine, Old Rattle and Shake. The old line is now a nature trail.
