Tobago – Jewel in the Caribbean Crown

The island of Tobago lies quietly towards the foot of the Windward Isles, in the Caribbean Sea, between Trinidad and Grenada. This tiny paradise island is like a beautiful diamond, set in the glorious sunshine of the Caribbean. Although Tobago is relatively unspoilt, tourism plays a vital part in the economy, with increasing visitor numbers each year helping to maintain a consistent lifestyle for all those islanders involved. Tobago is totally English speaking and with all the towns and villages having recognisable names, you’ll soon feel very much at home. The weather is usually sunny and hot, with rain in short bursts that soon clear up. Temperatures rarely go above 86f during the day or fall below 68f at night. Driving in the Caribbean, especially Tobago, you’ll easily find your way around. The roads are generally very quiet, apart from the Scarborough on market day, and local maps are simple to follow. As for most islands, road signs do seem scarce in more remote areas, but you’ll never be far from someone to ask for directions. The centre of the island is made up of one of the oldest protected rainforests in the western hemisphere, where there is an abundance of both wild-life and birds, yet there are no poisonous snakes or other deadly creatures to surprise you. Tobago is fairly built-up around the South, where most hotels and holiday rentals in Tobago can be found, along with Crown Point International Airport. Scattered around the island, you’ll find beautiful white sandy beaches, along with numerous sheltered bays and coves. The seaside resorts of Grafton beach, Stonehaven and Store Bay are ideal and safe for sunbathing and swimming with near perfect conditions for snorkelling. Together with well known Mt Irvine Bay, close to the famous Golf course, they all have varying levels and grades of holiday rental accommodation and some luxury hotels too for visitors. Great Courland Bay has a wonderful one-mile stretch of white sandy beach, and with calm tides, this makes it a regular nesting site for Giant Leatherback Turtles. Turtle watching can be arranged during your vacation. Tobago is a great chill-out place to choose for tourists looking to relax and unwind for a week or two in the sun. There’s no finer, calmer place in the Caribbean than Tobago, to experience the laid back way of life that exists for most of its residents. To escape and explore more of the island from your holiday base, travel along the northern coast to Plymouth, then take the route through the rain-forest to Englishman’s Bay for a dip, before heading inland and southwards across the twisty mountain roads stopping at Argyle Waterfall before arriving in Roxborough. Travelling north again along the south coast road past Kings Bay, head on up to Speyside before reaching pretty little Charlotteville, the northernmost town of Tobago. The waters all around Tobago are generally teeming with fish, so you will always find tasty seafood and shellfish on the daily menus in restaurants and hotels. Some of the most beautiful Scuba dive-sites in Tobago and even the world are located at Speyside and around Goat Island. World renowned for at least 5 huge pristine coral reefs, the area is excellent for drift-diving and boasts many spectacularly named sights like Bateaux Bay, Black Rock, Goat Island and London Bridge, with reef depths up to 35metres. A little further off-shore you can visit a famous bird sanctuary on ‘Bird of Paradise Island’. Returning along the south coast, the route will take you past Prince’s Bay and the turning for Glamorgan Hill Waterfall near Goldsborough. The spectacular Hillsborough Dam and the Greenhill Waterfall can also be visited en-route before Mount St George and the French Fort at Belmont, before arriving in the busy capital, Scarborough. No visit to Tobago would be complete without seeing one of the most ‘photographed’ and beautiful beaches in the world, Pigeon Point. Pigeon Point is located at the far end of Store Bay, the pristine white sandy beach and crystal clear water provide a fabulous opportunity, not only to just swim or take a boat ride, but to snorkel over the shallow corals of Bucco Reef, it’s alive with beautiful coloured fishes, corals and plants.
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Stuart Johnston is a UK based travel writer,specialising in reviewing Tobago holiday rentals and other holiday destinations worldwide. Managing the busy Holiday Rental Centre website, he incorporates the ‘Holiday Advice’ section at www.holidayrentalcentre.co.uk which forms an increasing collection of articles, top-tips and travel resources.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an Island Nation in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and is a less frequented spot for a Caribbean Vacation Package, despite several of its small islands being well known. Islands like Saint Vincent itself, Bequia, Mustique, Palm, Canouan, Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Union, all appear in many holiday brochures, but somehow The Grenadines remains unknown and somehow off the beaten track. Even for sailors for whom a visit to the Tobago Cays is an essential part of any Caribbean vacation, seem blissfully unaware of all Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has to offer its visitors. So welcome to the Islands of the Grenadines, where you will find water in many shades of blue and turquoise, always warm with more wide white sand beaches than you could ever imagine. Here the coral is healthy and fish of every color and shape are abundant in the warm tropical water. The tiny islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines have rightly been described as paradise, perhaps only here can you experience the authentic Caribbean which some feel has been lost forever. A part of the Caribbean which consists of a number of islands each with its own special charm, with not very many residents, all of whom love where they live, and live in a traditional Caribbean family way where family values mean everything, and friendship is respected above all other things. Life is different in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines where small islands mean little need for cars. Where people work to live and don’t live to work. Islands where you can snorkel right off the beach, or hike winding paths worn smooth by generations of local feet. Beaches unspoilt by modern and noisy electrical appliances blaring out their raucous beat, not that you won’t hear a bit of Caribbean sound! Small family owned hotels where you don’t need air-conditioning, television, or fancy cocktail bars to tell your friends about, to know what a great time you are having – Grenadines style. Islands where you will a welcome guest in their neighborhood, where when you smile and say “Hello”, will mean the biggest Grenadines smile and response. A group of islands where the Tourist’s children are actually made welcome, and not just tolerated. The Grenadines may have undeveloped roads, they may be isolated from what now passes for mainstream Caribbean life, but this isolation has great advantages too. If you are worried about any issues relating to crime, then you can just about forget them in the Grenadines. If you have heard that certain parts of the Caribbean are less than welcoming and are disrespectful to tourists, then you will have no worries in this direction. If you feel their comparative isolation will make the Grenadines difficult to reach, then forget that worry too. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are some 1600 miles south east of Florida, and St Vincent can be reached by connecting flights from Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique or Grenada, all only a short hop. You can reach all the islands onward by connecting flights or ferry service. It’s remote, but it’s not difficult. For your next Caribbean Vacation Package, choose Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, because you won’t regret it for one minute. For more information on Caribbean Vacation Spots go to http://www.caribbean-vacationspots.com/pages/Site-Map.html
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