St Kitts was our last Port of Call on our Southern Caribbean cruise and ... the 30th country we have visited so far. Our ship docked at the Port Zante cruise terminal in
Basseterre, the capital city of St Kitts.
We learned from our taxi driver later that hurricanes in the late 1990s destroyed a huge part of the island, but the terminal - providing plenty of duty-free shops and restaurants - is finished and there is still an ongoing program of restoration running and, although the island still depends on sugar cane rather than tourism for its living, the restoration has made it a big hit with cruise passengers.
Palm-filled
Basseterre has an old town charm filled with local color - one of its main landmarks being the
Circus Clock Tower:
After a short walk around in the old town, we have easily found a nice taxi driver, who was not only willing to drive us around the island, but also offered local guidance and plenty of stories about the history and current life on Saint Kitts and Navis.
Our first stop was at
Romney Manor, a huge garden containing the ruins of an old sugar plantation, a batic 'factory':
and a tree to be believed more than a 350-year-old:
It was also here where we learned that the travelers' palm name is coming simply from the fact that is always showing the direction from east to west, which helps travelers find their way across the deepest jungle:
Next, we headed towards
Timothy Hill, a very spectacular look-out point, offering a gorgeous view over the southern part of the island, a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean (to the left) and the Caribbean Sea (to the right), with the volcanic hills of Navis, St Kitts' sister island in the background:
Being a very hot day, it was time to find a nice beach and take a little rest... so we just relied on the local expertise and let our taxi driver drop us off at the
Cockleshell Bay, where we enjoyed a nice lunch, a relaxing massage with real Aloe Vera and our very last swimming in the Caribbean waves ... while Gulliver took his surfboard and headed towards the Big Caribbean Waves - however, he found a big barrel of rum on his way, which made him change his mind about his plans for the rest of the day:
We only returned to our ship after the sun went deep down the ocean, sadly thinking that our Caribbean holiday was almost over.
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St Kitts.
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