The Caribbean is a tangled embrace of exotic and tropical, international sophistication and natural charm. No place is this allegory more evident than in San Juan, the shining star of the Caribbean.
Famous for blonde beaches, emerald forests, and the colourful Spanish-Colonial village of Old San Juan. Explore dark dungeons in El Morro Fortress or step across the fair threshold of Casa Blanca, the home of Ponce de Leon. The setting sun sears into your heart and horizon as we navigate towards Virgin Gorda, a curiously wondrous island in the BVI, where everything is extraordinary. Explore the behemoth black boulders at The Baths or venture to one of the 24 nearby islands including Anegada, the resting point of many a fish-filled sunken ship. The fertile islands of St. Kitts & Nevis include the largest fortress ever built in the Western Caribbean at Brimstone Hills, whilst adjacent Nevis features the birthplace of America’s founding father, Alexander Hamilton, and namesake of one of Broadway’s most successful productions. Like a romantic point on the map, Antigua & Barbuda are where the Atlantic and Caribbean seas converge.
Let us fly you to Barbuda’s 27-kilometre beach that is one of the world’s most ravishing stretches of pink-tinged coast as well as the Caribbean’s largest rookery of the fabled frigate birds that winter here before returning to the Galapagos. Wonders never cease in St. Vincent, not far from our anchorage at Kingston, which leads to the oldest botanic gardens in the western hemisphere (preceded by the Kew Gardens in London). Established in 1765, some of its early propagators include William Bligh, made famous from the Mutiny on the Bounty, who brought breadfruit tree seeds from Tahiti. Even several members of the British Royal Family have planted a tree in the Garden recently. Like the captivating swell of an ocean wave, the tempo of this journey builds to its grand finale in Barbados, an island of infinite wonders, that is an adored British outpost.
EJ135 Operated by Explora Journeys