Familiar Places:

If you are traveling around the Dominican Republic, you will see a lot of little stores called "colmados". Their appearance may vary but their purpose is the same. These are convenience stores and they sell many different things from groceries to cigarettes. In the city some even have delivery. This is useful because, if you are cooking but you forgot that you are missing an ingredient, you can call a "colmado" by phone and have them delivered them to you.
A Colmado

If you want to take shopping to the next level la sirena and carrefour are your places. La Sirena is a local department store while Carrefour is a French department store. In these places you can find anything a person needs, groceries, clothes, school supplies. These are like Walmarts but, because of their variety they are usually full of people. They usually have a food court, in other words, if you are hungry after some heavy shopping, you can regain your strength at eh food court.

Hospitals:

Hospitals can have several appearances. In the Dominican Republic there are public and private hospitals.





Hopiten is another Hospital located in Santo Domingo. It is a private hospital and is also located in other countries such as Spain and México.


School:

Has public and private schools. Dominican Republic’s public school are little and they have a yellow characteristic color.

A public school located in the Dominican Republic

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