Route Nationale 3, the 128-km semi-dirt road northeast from
Port-au-Prince to Hinche requires a four-wheel drive and takes at least three
hours (much longer by public transport). About 70 percent of the this road is
now paved as of January 2010. It starts by crossing the Cul-de-Sac plain via Croix-des-Bouquets.
Here, a newly improved road branches off southeast through a parched, barren
region, skirting Lake Saumâtre before reaching the Dominican border at Malpasse.
Mission Aviation Fellowship charters flights to the airport in town. Before a
flight comes in livestock and people must be cleared from the airstrip
