Pedernales

Pedernales is Dominican Republic's most remote and wildest destination, and for true nature lovers, the most fascinating. At the island's far southwestern corner on the Haitian border, it's the gateway to Jaragua National Park, the Caribbean's largest biodiversity reserve, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Oviedo Lagoon hosts the island's largest pink flamingo colony in a landscape of salt and silence that feels like another planet. Bahía de las Águilas beaches—considered by many the most beautiful in Dominican Republic—stretch pristine and inaccessible by land, reachable only by boat. Pedernales is for those who understand that true luxury is the absence of everything except nature.