Cabarete
Known as a mecca for kitesurfing, Cabarete offers great opportunities for water sports. Year by year, many enthusiastic kiters and surfers from all over the world or those who want to become one, choose Cabarete as their favorite destination for a holiday. Perfect wind and wave conditions, crystal clear warm water, lots of sunshine, and the beautiful Caribbean surroundings with its white beaches and thousands of palm trees are the best reasons to come.
Playa Encuentro
Encuentro is perfect for all levels and the best and most consistent surfing spot the Dominican Republic and probably also of the Caribbean has to offer. You can walk early to the surf and surf before and after breakfast without using transportation. The best surf you will find in the morning. However, there are lots of days with good surf all day long.
Coco Pipe (The Dominican Pipeline)
It is a powerful and hollow reef break. It favors high tide and north and northwest swell. It starts working at 3 - 4 foot and holds big swells. It is a great powerful wave on a good swell. It works left and right but better and longer on a right. You must watch out for the shallow reef on lower tides.
- Type: barreling
- Direction: left and right
- Suitable for: advanced and experts
- Length of ride: 50 - 100 meters length
- Crowds: a normal crowd
- Localism: not found here
- Best swell direction: north and northwest
- Best wind direction: all directions
- Tide: mid - high
- Hazards: shallow waters and some rips
Bobo’s Point
It is a series of consistent peaks with an easy take-off. It is powerful when overhead and works consistently on the northeast swell. It is good for beginners and intermediate surfers. Bobo's Point has lefts and rights.
La Derecha
La Derecha is the north coast’s most consistent spot. It has two peaks outside and inside with lots of waves and a reef that breaks like a point. It is good at smaller waves but can handle bigger size. It usually has long right-handers and when good, all the way to the shore.
La Izquierda
La Izquierda is a hollow barreling, performance reef break. Two sections that usually connect make this a fairly long wave and also very consistent. It has breaks on all swell directions but best on a northwest and north swell. You must watch out shallow reef at lower tides.
- Type: barreling
- Direction: left hand
- Length of ride: 50 - 100 meters length
- Localism: average
- Best swell direction: northwest and north
- Best wind direction: all directions
- Tide: mid
- Hazards: shallow waters and some rips
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