Our first St Lucia port guide film got nearly 50k views, and we have been back and found more!Castries in St Lucia is a busy town with a mile long port that can take five ships, even the largest cruise ships. There is a beach just 2km away, which is about a 25 minute walk, and it is empty. The A1 bus takes you out of town and leaves you close, just ask the driver. It is effectively the other side of the airport if only you could run across the runway.
Our new film also includes the highlights of the trip to Soufriere Volcano, the Rain Forest Zip Wires tour and Hike, and the Botanical Gardens.
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It is easy to walk around Castries, but the trolley train will get you around more than you may care to walk with guided information, and a Segway tour may offer a more personal approach with a chance to ask questions and stop where you want, but there is little to see in this port town that cannot be done easily.
Like all colonial islands, there is a huge church. This one holds a congregation of 2000. Those and the market give you a taste of the island, on which you will notice that every window has iron bars, not just at ground floor level. This need for security may be an indication of your personal care when walking around town. St Lucia has the familiar Caribbean buses that will stop and take you anywhere for a couple of EC dollars or one US dollar, so a 1A bus stopped just at the edge of town on the road that runs towards the airport is a quick way to the beach. You can stop anywhere along the seafront when you have got to the far side of the airport runway, there are trees for shade all along. This is Vigie Beach, very walkable if you have time, water, a hat and sun cream – which you will have if you are off to the beach. Our film shows you a little about the town and the walkable beach. We got a friendly policeman to drop us there, and a bus part way back so never walked the whole route. However, we guess it is just over half an hour’s walk. Currency – Eastern Caribbean Dollars. They will always take US dollars, but it will cost more. Temperatures are normally always in the 80’s. It can rain, but it is warm, and cameras will need protection.
Here we show you the town and walk to the local beach which is not far.
Other Beaches – Rodney Bay is about 20 minutes by cab, Marigot Bay is a little further and costs more. The cabs can be without meters. The 1A bus and a walk might be easier.
St Lucia has an embarrassing and bloody history but survives as a jewel with much to see from fishing villages to volcanoes and forests. It is the second largest of the four islands that make up the Windward group. Its neighbours are St Vincent and Grenada. Columbus arrived in 1502 and the British in 1605 but they failed to survive. The island has changed hands many times. In the port town, Derek Walcott Square is the old Columbus Square, but it was renamed in 1992 when the locally-born poet and playwright won the great prize. There is also a bust cast of him in the park alongside their other Nobel prize winner. The market day is Saturday, but it is well-represented every day except Sunday.
We suggest this is an island to enjoy the beach or take a tour. The rainforest hike we did is tough, but there is a sky ride that requires no effort. See those adventures here on Doris Visits.
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