St.Lucia,is simply beautiful and no doubt you are quite excited about your visit. If you havent as yet check out our Why Visit St.Lucia blog to get stoked for St.Lucia.
So now that you have your trip planned and your primed for your visit to St.Lucia here are a few things you need to put on your checklist of things to do in St.Lucia.
Jazz- Festival
We touched on the St.Lucia Jazz Festival in our last post, and it is definitely one of the top things to do in St.Lucia the next Jazz Festival is from April 29th to May 8th of 2016, so when booking your flights to St.Lucia keep those dates in mind. Excelent cuisine and amazing music by artist such as Robin Thicke, Flo Rida, Beres Hammond and John Secada. The St.Lucia Jazz Festical is known worldwide and is a great opportunity to experience a large festival while still enjoying the Caribbean.
Treetop Adventure Park
Trees flying by, wind rushing through your hair, soaring over a rich green canopy. Zip-lining is such a rush of adrenaline and no adventure vacation to St.Lucia is complete without a visit to the Treetop Adventure Park not onliy is ziplining available but many other adventurous activities that you will find absolutely thrilling, it is a must.
Adventure tours website : www.adventuretourstlucia.com/
The Pitons
After your exciting adventure at the Treetop Adventure Park, head over to the most iconic mountains on St.Lucia if not in the entire Caribbean. The pair of mountains called the Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton ). The Pitons are gorgeous standing side by side towering into the sky the pitons are beautiful from both land and sea, but why stop at just admiring the beauty of these mountains, an amazing view of the island can be had after hiking up Gros Pitons, the hike is about 2 hours and can be strenious so definitely not for the feint of heart.
Soufriere (Worlds only drive in Volcano)
Soufriere welcome to what is advertised as the worlds only drive in volcano, If you are envisioning driving through a cave with lava flowing down the walls into pools of magma, like some journey to the center of the earth, that would be awesome but incredibly dangerous. on the other hand Soufrier allows you to drive up the side of the volcano to the top where your able to enjoy sulphur Baths as well as soaking in water heated from the volcano below
Rodney Bay
It’s time to wind down, we’re taking a trip to Rodney Bay one of the best beaches in St.Lucia. Perfect to kick back and relax, Swim and Snorkel, grab a jet ski and have some fun. While your at Rodney bay don’t forget to check out Pigeon Island.
Pigeon Island
Pigeon Island, located next to Rodney Bay, is beautiful and steeped in history. It is home to numerous forts, used by the british to spy on french ships. But the island is not only a historic site but it offers beautiful beaches to enjoy, and is ranked pretty high on the things to do in St.Lucia list.
Splash Island Water Park
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Within Rodney Bay itself is a rather new attraction but an awesome one, and it is called Splash Island Water Park, no day at the beach (Rodney Bay in specific) is complete without experienceing the Splash Island Water Park. Lots of fun to be had and a great place for the entire family to hang out
Splash island water park website: www.stluciawaterpark.com
Jounen Kweyol
Get engulfed in the culture of St.Lucia with the fesitval Jounen Kweyol (Creole Day). Local dishes and drinks like roasted breadfruit, Green fig and Salt fish, Souse, fried bake and floats, golden apple juice, cocoa tea and many more, as well as lovely Kweyol music. The culture of St.Lucia really does come alive in festivals such as these. Jounen Kweyol is celebrated on the last Sunday of October, this year that will be October 25th, dont miss it.
St.Lucia is indeed beautiful and deserving of a visit, it seems to have the complete package (Adventure, Beaches, Historical sites,Culture rich festivals and international scale events). Yet we have barely scratched the surface of things to do in St.Lucia. We will revisit St.Lucia in the future to tell you of even more things to do in St.Lucia. But for now, Stay Beautiful St.Lucia.
Video courtesy of Stlucianow.com the official tourism board of St.Lucia