Barbados Travel DealsIt’s holiday planning time again, and you know for certain that you wish to spend it quite differently than during the past. A different holiday because maybe, the year so far has been a trying and nerve-wrangling one with all of the talk about job cut backs, industrial doubt, and now even swine influenza. Why not just simply take a hike, a hiking holiday that is, and on the relaxed tropical Caribbean island of Barbados. Get back to nature, engage with friendly people, refresh yourself with, scenic walks, unpolluted air, and the relaxing sounds of the waves against the fine sandy beach.
A Barbados hiking holiday takes you on a trip exposing the uniqueness of Barbados and Barbadians, by way of 4 scenic, unveiling, and certainly remarkable hikes. The hikes and their accompanying stories highlight how Barbados came into the world, allegedly out of nothing from 1627, when the Brit settled and transformed a jungle that others declined, to the jewel it is today. Even the island’s geological formation is a novel story of something “out of nothing”. Many visitors to the island look forward to meeting local town personalities, and finding out about excellent Barbadians of bygone days.
Hiking on a brown sugar coloured crunchy sandy east coast beach, one can explore the sandy coast, and may discover “sea coconuts”, “lucky seeds”, a washed up Portuguese Man of War, simply to mention some likely findings. Venturing inland, there are several walking surfaces, particularly grassy uphill footpaths, and rough sandy clay trails. One continues to climb to a height of 167m ( 547 feet ), to get to the extremely breezy lookout point, that gives a wide sweeping wide ranging view of 15 per cent of the island. Descending from this lookout point along more craggy footpaths, which give way to paved roads one enters a standard Barbadian hamlet. A village of timber chattel homes, concrete homes, at least 5 tiny churches, in this little community, and naturally not forgetting the rum shops, surprisingly only 2 serve this town.
Visit a town resident who is an excellent potter and is a descendant of potters going back 2 hundred years. These hills of the Scotland District, are a mix of sand stone, clays, and alluvial muds. This part of the island essentially looks like another country, compared to the other eighty 5 percent of the land mass. Actually geologists refer to this Scotland District as Ancestral Barbados, and it is truly the material of another country, that’s 300 miles south of Barbados. Out of this, allegedly insignificant material, Barbados was formed, rising like a sphinx out of the Atlantic Sea , only 2 million years back.
Study Manjak, its diverse uses as you visit what’s left of this mine. Manjak is a sort of hydrocarbon that was utilised as a fuel in the furnaces of the local trains, it was also exported to be used as a main ingredient in the construction of black paint, as well as in the production of the the earliest, but fragile, 33 [*FR2] vinyl music records. On a Barbados hiking holiday one may visit a countrywide park, the locale of the ruins of a ground-breaking Great House, and by way of cart roads a wild life reserve. An impressive, highlight, is a heritage site, a 355 year old Jacobian styled plantation great house, chock full of history, stories of gluttony and murder to name only a few. It is a functioning sugar plantation, with a totally redecorated and working 19th century steam mill used for removing sugar cane juice.
Just last year 2008 this old plantation won a global award for its extraordinarily fine rum, it’s excellent stories continue. In this area there are comfy country towns, a particularly scenic lookout point that provides a majestic view of the Scotland District. A 200 years old sugar wind mill, which operates in the local sugar crop season, effectively demonstrating how sugar cane juice was removed using wind energy. There’s also a fascinating goat farmer, who is a popular paper correspondent, and a musician in a local music band, superb personality in his very own right. There are down hill trails for people that don’t wish to engage up hill terrain, as well as trails that are flat coastal, craggy and scenic. Barbados offers trails leading between sugar cane fields, and into gullies ( sometimes called ravines ) with rock formations like stalactites, stalagmites, columns, and flow stone. A hiking holiday on tropical Barbados, is rewarding in such a lot of ways, healthy clean air, and exercise, with vitamin D from the sun, a welcomed relaxing change of pace, as you discover a new land and it’s folk.
Being out in the natural environment, is relaxing, and has proved to be healing for spirit soul and body. A healthy and rejuvenating way to spend a holiday.
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