To be fair, I have to say that I have been more to Bávaro and Punta Cana than to Boca Chica, which I have only visited twice in my life, when I was ten and a few months ago barely.

Although a few months have passed, this last visit is not so far in my memory, from which I can save some memorable events. I interpret here, as some North Americans will have experienced on the site, that it is a question of living a playful experience, of which Boca Chica is an expert.

As other viewers will have seen, Boca Chica has a “problem”: it has personality. Known as “the people’s beach”, aided by rapid tourist contracts, in recent years it has acquired more personality and has been an interesting point of interest for city dwellers and foreigners who see the place as a ” cool” and entertaining.

Boca Chica was founded in 1779, a distant date, and has a well-timed history that tells us of ancient glories in different eras (Fulgencio Batista himself was isolated in one of his hotels). According to some chroniclers, at the time of Trujillo we can speak of personalities of the international jet set who came to Boca Chica to spend a few weeks. Kim Novak and Juan Domingo Perón also came, among other personalities.

On a recent trip, I saw some Americans eating pasta by the beach at a bar that is near the water. I also saw Canadians, accompanied by two Dominicans, sinking as deep as possible into the sea. There is no doubt: they wanted to improve their swimming skills.

On the coast, by the beach, I spoke with the owner of a local to learn to dive where she rents the instruments to sink deeper into the ocean. Very friendly and very enthusiastic, this lady was very kind to this writer, and ended up giving me her card, while explaining to me that her husband was German.

As on other beaches on the island, these divers, waiting to enter the sea in a few minutes, remind us of the famous documentaries of Jack Yves Cousteau, who, on his boat Calypso, led a group of divers who s sank the deepest of the sea Today in Boca Chica is the La Caleta Underwater National Park, ready for divers to meet. Canadians and other nationalities have a budget and it must be understood that each beach has its dynamics, Bahía de Las Aguilas and Las Terrenas, to name but two examples.

In this same text, I spoke above of the question of personality and it is true. You sit down and immediately a local asks you if you want some fish they are frying in the little street. The answer is generally positive: this same boy has provided you with plastic chairs in which you will wait for the delicacy of the sea, not lambí like in Samaná, but other fish like in Las Terrenas.

Between lambí, clams, oysters and fish, we wait a moment, between girls who say hello, smile and also sit with us. It is a nuisance for some travelers that the street vendors who, with particular insistence, look and want to “stick to the eyes” with their products: sunglasses, for example. They are very well known in the region. It can be said that there is a calm in the area that many could pay for. The mode of survival of these individuals from disadvantaged socio-economic strata must be respected.

A peaceful atmosphere reigns, of great camaraderie with the inhabitants of the region. The fish will soon be brought. Two meters from the water of the beach, I tell someone that we can do business, which my companion objects to. It’s as if they only intended to extort a few pesos from you. It is his daily task, the way to earn his living. The projects carried out – recently announced by the authorities – will have to find a life project for these street vendors, in the most democratic and humane way possible. But we can say that Boca Chica is a magical place. Over the years, this magic has been built thanks to the constructions around the beach, as well as the vegetation and the dynamics of the place.

Every year the truth is that Boca Chica fills up with people during Holy Week and it is a lot of work for the authorities due to the mess that takes place there. But when there is no holy week, it’s like the place turns into a very cool place to eat a fish in a few little restaurants and eateries, walk along the shore of the beach and watch some tourists that we have not surveyed (we want to know where they come from). Examining us from top to bottom, his companions tell us that they are Canadian. On the beach, some speak of slums and chaos, a never-ending question that involves taking into account the length of the beach and the number of people crowding it.

For the next few years, astute work carried out in this place informs us about the opening of new hotels, and the enhancement of existing restaurants. There are many people who live off the presence of tourists in this region. It would be very interesting to count those who come to Boca Chica, just as we are interested in the number that tourism counts compared to travelers from other destinations.

In the company of some friends, during one of my visits to this beach, I saw a tourist eating pasta on the shore: you will have to ask him why he did not choose Punta Cana and “the terrible truth” c is that his budget allowed him to make this place. You have to see how the area is listed among other tourist enclaves, which could lead some technicians to speak of “competition between enclaves”. However, others will see that it is a global participation that is defined by a single name: the Dominican Republic as a destination.

In recent days, a global solution in Boca Chica is what some sectors are asking for. And it is true that there are many problems to solve in this small town that even its Saint Tropez have. I know people from Santo Domingo who explore this site which over time has become a popular affair. People have learned that the fun isn’t just in pompous names, that golden fleece that everyone is looking for like a greyhound after a sausage.

The news that has been released about Boca Chica is cause for celebration: someone will do it with a Cabernet and another will do a ritual to buy the same fish that was once eaten here and seemed like a great dining experience at the supermarket.

This will surprise others that Haitian women know, like modus vivendimake the famous braids in the hair of the Canadians, type Bo Derek