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While the Dominican Republic doesn't have any predators or many snakes, especially venomous ones, there are much more interesting creatures you can encounter, even in the most unexpected places

I came home from work one day and went to take a shower. Everything seemed normal, but when I pulled back the shower curtain... BAM! There was a huge spider sitting on the wall! 😱 I'm not exaggerating - it was bigger than my palm. I decided to let the spider enjoy the shower alone, haha... and went to get a bucket.

What I didn't know is that these spiders can JUMP more than a meter! 🤯 So when I tried to catch it, it ducked right at me! I wasn't really afraid of spiders... until that moment, lol. Somehow I managed to catch it (they're insanely fast!) and let it out.

But that wasn't the only time one of these guys visited me... I caught the same spiders a couple more times, only a little smaller 😅.

There's another interesting creature you might encounter back home — one that you'd easily give a 100-five to! 😄

I was on a daredevil trip to Samana one time and was chatting with a guide from another company. I noticed a weird scar on his leg — an almost perfect circle, about 2-3 cm in diameter and at least 1 cm deep. It literally looked like someone had cut out a chunk of his skin. I've been injured a lot in the past and spent enough time in emergency rooms to see all kinds of wounds, but I'd never seen anything like this before. So I asked him about it.

It turns out that a scalopendra had crawled into his bed while he was sleeping! And those things are real monsters in the Dominican Republic — up to 20 cm long, damn tough, and almost impossible to crush. Oh, and they're poisonous, too. That scar? That's what a scalopendra leaves behind after a bite. The guy told me that by the time he got to the hospital, the skin around the bite had literally melted

aaaa, you added a phobia to my still small list, that's crazy)

It is very difficult to find scalopendra even in the Dominican Republic, and in Europe it is completely impossible)