We highly appreciate your great review! Thanks!!

Thanks for your review!

We appreciate your review! Please notice that we do not promote a botanical garden, but a tropical garden!. We show you local plantations and some of our friendly animals :).

Thank you so much for the great review!

Thank you so much for the great review!

Thank you so much for the great review!

Thank you so much for the great review!

Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for leaving your review. The terribly heavy rainfalls the night before your excursion did such a damage to the countryside around our installations that we had to cancel your ATV tour for that day. We gave you a free upgrade to our Zip Line Adventure without charging you the US$30,- price difference. We offered you a free lunch as well. Our Zip Line Adventure consists of 8 different lines. Starting low and slow until getting higher and faster, our longest line being 2460 feet long. It’s meant to be an adventure for young and old, trouble-free, without our customer being involved in any breaking process. But with quite some adrenalin release for sure. At Country World we are animal lovers. We have horses, cows, goats, chicken, guinea fowls, peacocks, turkeys and more. Over the years we rescued some exotic animals as well, whenever we found that they deserve better. One of those is our beloved feathery-friend Elvis. He is a Macaw parrot. About 5 years ago he joined our family and since then has always been treated with the utmost care and love. When we first saw Elvis, he was in a very bad shape. With a broken wing, his previous owner had him locked in a tiny, dark cage where he could barely turn around. He was so depressed that he had plucked out most of his feathers. The owner even asked quite some money for him, but we knew we couldn’t leave him behind and brought him with us. We got him back to a healthy diet, but his wing did not heal well and most of the chest feathers will not grow again. Together with 2 other parrots he is allowed to be outside, walking through our tropical garden, climbing up trees and enjoy the environment without restrictions. He really loves having people around him and gets very excited when you start talking and dancing with him. He lost part of his visual beauty, but still carries plenty inside. No, we do not have a zoo. Some say petting zoo as many of our animals are tame and can be hand fed. For us, it’s our tropical garden with some rescued animals. At the entrance of the tropical garden is a gate with a sign, saying “Stop, do not enter without authorized personnel”. You should have asked me your host or your tour guide for an official tour through the garden. This would have been free of cost and maybe could have avoided this review. On February 16, 2022 the President of the Dominican Republic lifted all regulations regarding COVID-19, since most of the Dominican population is vaccinated, including all of our staff. We still have all our precaution signs hanging, and floor stickers indicate social distancing for those customers who are still under regulations in their countries and feel the need to apply them here as well. If our customers wear masks, our guides will wear masks as well. Our staff in the kitchen and behind the bar still has to wear masks all the time. The Dominican Republic has become a very attractive destination due to low infection rates and it is one of the first countries in the world going back to a normal life. I (Daniel) welcomed you at our ranch, introduced you to everyone and explained about the activity, received you again after coming back from the Zip Lines and talked to you and your partner for a while. You responded very positive when I asked if you enjoyed your day. It is sad that you did not mention anything about your garden encounter to me in person, so we could have taken your doubts away. Maybe you want to overthink your review and give us a second chance when back to the Dominican Republic. My apologies for any inconvenience caused, Sincerely, Daniel