Candelita

The Dominican Republic's Samaná Peninsula Offers a Quieter Alternative to Punta Cana

"We settled into Candelita on the Las Terrenas beachfront from its chalkboard menu and spent two hours enjoying a typical Dominican seaside meal—fried capitán (hogfish) with tostones and avocado—while locals drank Presidente beer and a couple danced barefoot to bachata, the cacophonous motorbike traffic along the beach later making me appreciate the lodge's quieter hilltop location." - Lebawit Lily Girma Lebawit Lily Girma Lebawit Lily Girma is an award-winning Ethiopian-American travel journalist and the editor-at-large at Skift. Her writing and photography have been published in major publications, including BBC, CNN, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Afar, and multiple in-flight magazines. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines