Adventure Guide St Lucia 2007

A 304-page travel guide with color photos and maps throughout.

Annotation This is the only in-depth guide to these highly popular English-speaking Caribbean islands available. Dominica is unique in that it was never farmed over; its land remains jungle-covered, mountainous and it is the only island still occupied by the original Carib Indians. St. Lucia is more developed, but is breathtaking in its beauty, with high peaks and azure-blue deserted bays that are postcard-perfect. It also has some exclusive spas and restaurants.

Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure St Lucia is one of the most luscious Caribbean islands, home to dramatic vistas, sweeping beaches and a lively Creole culture. Be inspired to visit by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide St Lucia, a concise, full-colour guide to this tropical paradise that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that St Lucia has to offer. Inside Insight Pocket Guide St Lucia: Where To Go details all the key sights on this idyllic tropical isle, from the colonial architecture of Castries and iconic peaks of the Pitons to Anse Chastanet, popular with divers and snorkellers. St Lucia's attractions are covered in detail, including its spectacular rainforest, fine beaches and colourful underwater treasures. Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip, including the working plantation at Fond Doux Estate and the spectacular Diamond Falls. Perfect Day provides an itinerary for one day on the island. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from watersports and cycling to walking rainforest trails and birdwatching, plus nightlife. Essential information on St Lucia's culture, including a brief history of the island. Eating Out covers the island's best cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants. A-Z of all the practical information you'll need. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.

Delve into Dominica's rain forest and Carib Indian culture. Relax on romantic St. Lucia. Whatever you're looking for, this guidebook tells you what you need to know. A top-notch resort high on a mountain slope? Got it. Want to treat that special person in your life to a five-star restaurant? Got it. Or perhaps you want to relax on the best beach sipping a cocktail. Got it! This exciting Alive guide is absolutely packed with detail, offering hundreds of hotel review and restaurant recommendations. Plus, you'll find out all sorts of tidbits about the islands' history and culture. Alive Guides cover every aspect of travel in each exciting destination - places rarely covered by other guidebooks! Alive Guides focus on hotels and restaurants, with descriptions based on repeat visits by well-traveled authors. Establishments are rated with the unique Alive rating system, so you can find one to suit your taste and pocketbook. Particular attention is given to shopping in the exotic regions, with details on local artists, cut-price designer clothing and the best values on duty-free goods. Tips on what to do from sunup to sundown include tours, sightseeing, sunning, watersports and the best beaches. Piano bars, jazz clubs, places to meet people and even gay clubs are listed for nightlife. Transportation to, from, and around the area is also covered.

Picture the perfect Caribbean getaway: quaint fishing villages, reef diving, beautiful blue water home to reef diving adventures, and gorgeous volcanic beaches. Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, the feel of the sand between your toes, and hear the waves as they break against the shore in the distance. Sounds almost too good to be true, right? If this sounds like your dream vacation, a trip to Saint Lucia might be just right for you! Not sure how to get to Saint Lucia? No worries! Many tourists choose to travel to the island by flying into Saint Lucia airport or by booking a cruise that makes it a point to visit the island during its travels. Worried that you do not know much about the history, culture, and features of Saint Lucia? Don't be! This travel guide can help you to learn about the island's interesting history, discover the rich culture of the small nation, and evaluate the vast adventures awaiting you there! The chapters of this travel guide begin by walking you through a brief history of Saint Lucia, along with information about the island's geography, climate, and native wildlife. This travel guide then lists multiple options for where to stay while you are on your Caribbean vacation, as there are many available hotels and resorts in each city of Saint Lucia. The travel guide also explores some of the Caribbean island's best-known cities, as well as the smaller, less known cities. Vacation is not always problem-free, so this travel guide also features numerous travel tips from those who have visited the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia multiple times. These travel tips are designed to make sure that your island vacation is stress-free, fun, exciting, and above all, safe. After you have read this travel guide for the information about the island of Saint Lucia, it is a good idea to hang onto it to refer to just before or even during your trip. You can never be too prepared, and this preparation will be a great help in avoiding any mishaps during your Caribbean getaway. If you visit Saint Lucia, you can fill your vacation with thrills as well as lazy moments. Saint Lucia has an almost unlimited list of experiences to offer to you that range from scuba diving to sunbathing on the beach, and ziplining to shopping in quaint fishing villages. You will soon forget what day of the week it is, and your humdrum, work-a-day life back home will seem like a distant memory. You won't want to leave! You may find that you enjoy Saint Lucia so much that you visit it over and over again. Hang on tight as we discover all that the beautiful and secluded island of Saint Lucia has to offer; you just may find that you have a difficult time leaving such a wonderous, relaxing place! This travel guide will give you everything you need to know about a wonderful country - where to stay, where to visit, the history and more.

Packed with the detailed local knowledge of author Paul Crask, a long-term resident, Bradt’s Dominica remains the only up-to-date standalone guide to this Caribbean island. In this new, thoroughly updated fourth edition, a range of accommodation and dining options are described in depth, guide and tour-operator listings are extensive, and 19 detailed maps help orientation. Taking an environmentally conscious and socially responsible approach to travel, the author couples essential advice on activities and practicalities with rich insights into the country’s natural environment, history and culture – including the Kalinago, the last of the region’s indigenous Amerindian people, whose descendants continue to live here today. Formerly considered an undeveloped Caribbean backwater, English-speaking Dominica is an increasingly favoured tourist destination. The government has invested significantly in island infrastructure following damage caused by extreme weather events in 2015 and 2017, and upmarket boutique hotels are opening. Despite such rising popularity, Dominica remains a place of unbridled, off-the-beaten-path adventure and discovery. This island of mountains, unspoiled rainforests, volcanoes, rivers and waterfalls has much to enchant a variety of travellers. Explore Morne Trois Pitons National Park, a World Heritage Site housing a network of trails that traverse rainforest-covered mountains and connect rivers, waterfalls and the Boiling Lake, a flooded fumarole that is the world’s second-largest hot-water lake. Ardent hikers craving further exploration can walk sections of the Wai’tukubuli National Trail or make for national parks such as Cabrits and Morne Diablotin. Wildlife-watchers can seek out rare parrots found nowhere else on Earth, the mountain chicken (actually one of the world’s largest frogs) or even a boa constrictor that is the subject of Kalinago legends. Scuba divers and snorkellers can marvel at pristine marine reserves boasting healthy coral reefs, while those who prefer to remain above the waves can take boat trips to enjoy excellent views of sperm whales. Whether you love nature or culture, hiking through wilderness or exploring underwater, the depth of detail and breadth of local insights that characterise Bradt’s Dominica render it the indispensable practical companion to exploring this exciting country.

Provides a detailed guide to every aspect of the destination: history, culture, foods, restaurants, hotels, sightseeing, things to do. This guide covers St. Martin and St. Barts.