Hi again,  On December 1, we left Punta Cana  and headed to the big-city and beach in Santo Domingo; the capital city of the Dominican Republic.   We took an APTPRA bus to Santo Domingo.  It costed $9 per person to ride about 3.5 hours through the countryside.  Ticket purchasing was super easy with the assistance from our super helpful taxi driver.  We couldn't figure out why the bag porter was acting weird with our bags.  Lightbulb moment....we didn't pay for bags.  He sure had a big smile on his face when we grabbed our bags and gave him a nice tip to compensate for our mistake.  We also did not know we had assigned seats. We discovered this before the ride started.  The bus was pretty empty, but each stop more and more people got on and in the end the bus was full.  Second floor seats for us.  We were surprised that everyone on the bus plays their stuff out loud so there was music and videos playing and people talking o...