Backpacking the Caribbean emerged from a three-month backpacking trip the founder, Damaly Gonzalez planned and accomplished in the summer of 2012 throughout Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. While planning the trip, Damaly noticed the lack of resources to help plan and understand the Caribbean outside touristic traps. Realizing the challenge of navigating the islands without little resources during her journey, she returned and created Backpacking the Caribbean.
Backpacking the Caribbean emerged from a three-month backpacking trip the founder, Damaly Gonzalez planned and accomplished in the summer of 2012 throughout Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. While planning the trip, Damaly noticed the lack of resources to help plan and understand the Caribbean outside touristic traps. Realizing the challenge of navigating the islands without little resources during her journey, she returned and created Backpacking the Caribbean.
Damaly Gonzalez is a Travel and Latino Culture Writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of BackpackingtheCaribbean.com and was recently nominated as the Global Ambassador for the Women in Travel Summit 2017. She is the Travel and Latino Culture Contributing Writer for Hip Latina. Her writing was recently published in the Huffington Post, New York-based magazine, LatinTRENDS, for its June and July 2016 issues, and PopSugar.
