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St.Vincent and the Grenadines belong to the smaller Antilles. The island country borders in the north to St. Lucia and in the south to Grenada. So St. Vincent lies approximately 10 flight hours away from the middle of Europe - a distance, that is worth to bridge. Because St. Vincent has no really international airport, you have to arrive over one of the more famous islands (Barbados, Grenada or St. Lucia) (400 - 500 Euro). From there you can fly by a small propeller driven aircraft of one of the Caribbean Airlines (for example Liat) to St. Vincent (150 Euro). A second variant is to go by a ferry, that frequent between the smaller Antilles. This is an interesting possibility for people with much time. |
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Most inhabitants live on the main island St. Vincent. The people are friendly and fond of life. They behalf themselves reservedly to tourists, but helpful. In total there are living approximately 110.000 people on the islands. Aout 25.000 of them in the capital Kingstown. Because of the small airport the tourism of these islands hasn´t the importance like on the neighour islands St. Lucia and Barabados. Along the southcoast, in the region around Villa, you will finf the most accomodations. Fortunately that aren´t gigant hotels. Normally the hotels or blocks of apartments are not bigger than three storeys. Agriculture is the most important part of the economy. Compared to the size of the island the plantations, where bananas are plant for export, are very big. They are shipped to Great Britain, where they mustn´t concurrent with the cheap southamerican bananas. Beside banananas other fruits and vegetable are grown for the internal consumption. On the small islands lying south of the main island, the Grenadine Islands, the life is more leisurely than on the main island. The islands have some very beautiful beaches. However, they are not as spectacular than they are market sometimes. The Grenadines don't have a varied vegetation like St. Vincent. Here you can swim, go for a walk, make boat trips and simple relax. St. Vincent belongs beside Dominica to the greenest of the smaller Antilles, that we have seen until now. Although you won´t find much real rain forest here too. In return the main island has many forests, where the most people feel like in a rain forest. Through some of the forests you can walk on trails or forestry ways. The most interesting animal, that you can see while walking, is the St. Vincent parrot called "Vincie", a only there living specie, like the name says. There are only a few hundred alive. High over the island sit the 1230 m volcano La Soufriere. After a 2,5 hour walk you will reach a meagre plateau, with the crater in it's middle. If it is not too much overcasted, you will have a fantastic view on both sides of the island. From here you can also see a few neighbour islands, if the view is okay. A own means of transport is completely superfluous on the islands. On St. Vincent minibuses frequent into every village for small money. The frequency is sufficient so that this is the ideal mean of transport for the traveller. At the ride with these buses you learn a lot about the population and the country. In Europe these minibuses would be allowed to carry only 8 passengers. However, on St.Vincent there are sometimes 15 passengers inside. Little unknown island => less books. The small guide book from the Hayit publisher in our opinion is the best one of the mentioned ones. But also from this book you should not expect too much. St. Vincent und die
Grenadinen St. Lucia Urlaubshandbuch
mit St. Vincent und Grenada St. Lucia, Grenada,
St. Vincent Sorry, we don´t have information about english guide-books. There are some interesting sites in the internet about the islands. Before we will publish them, we first have to check them again. |
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