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Broad Street is the main street of Bridgetown , there you can find banks, department stores and duty free shops. Other streets in Bridgetown are Swan Street, Roebuck Street and Tudor Street consist mainly of smaller shops and businesses.
If it is your first visit to Barbados, the ideal way to get a general idea of the island, is to take an Island tour . The guides are very informative, fun, and there is usually lunch and drinks included.This way when you see an area or place you would like to revisit and spend more time exploring.You can see a lot of tour company brochures at your hotel.
The Barbados National Trust operates Open House Day where you can visit selected houses on certain dates, these are usually Old Plantation Houses and Villas. Look out for information as to dates etc. in the free brochures usually at your hotel. Wednesdays is open House day.There is of course a small charge.
Animal Flower Cave is at the northern tip of the island, where the Caribbean and the Atlantic meet. The view from the inside and the outside of the cave is spectacular! Wear good walking/hiking shoes.
This was a really exciting trip. Atlantis Adventures has one of three locations worldwide at Barbados. It's not cheap, but then who ever thought that a submarine ride would be cheap. We waited at the dock, and then were taken by boat out into the middle of the bay. A submarine surfaced, and we climbed from the transporting boat into the submarine. Once inside and with the hatch sealed, we began to descend. A red-numeraled depth gage registered the meters we were below the surface. The sub made a circuit, and in the process we saw many kinds of ocean fish, coral, sponges, and even a sunken ship.
On our trip to Sunbury Plantation House, we were fortunate to stop at St. John's Episcopal Church, which is high up on Hackleton's Cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean to the east. According to Wikipedia, the parish goes back before 1640. "The present church building (the fifth) was built is 1836, and the chancel added in 1876. It is the prototype of the restrained Barbadian version of the Gothic parish church, and a beautiful Westmacott sculpture, commemorating Elizabeth Pinder, on the left of the main door." The day we were there, vendors of native jewelry had tables set up in the church yard, and I bought an ironstone necklace for my friend, Jan.
This excursion was offered as part of a Royal Caribbean Cruise on the Serenade of the Seas. We were driven by bus over both city and some curvy country roads. The plantation is way out in the country. The pictures say it all. We were allowed to roam through the house unattended, but then a guide came and explained many things about the plantation, the house and its contents. The house and plantation are maintained very well, and you get a true feeling for the elegance that the plantation owners lived in. After the tour, we were treated to lemonade punch on the veranda, and could walk the large yard and grounds for a while. A very enjoyable trip.
Great great experience"Experience an adventure of a lifetime on board the Atlantis Submarine in Barbados! Explore the aquamarine Caribbean sea, its intriguing coral reefs and a mysterious shipwreck through the view port in this unique way to view the underwater world - A REAL SUBMARINE! "
When we were here by cruise ship the second time in 2006, we took some tours one of which finished up in Sunbury Plantation House. Sunbury allowed photographs everywhere which was really nice. There were separate guides for this site.Sunbury was originally built in 1660 by Matthew Chapman, an Irish/English planter, one of the first settlers on the island. and was one of the leading centers of sugar production in Barbados for a long time. It was also one of the main loci of the 1816 slave revolt. The house was bought by someone who wasn't living there - they had a house down the road. It was carefully restored for tourists and includes antiques, china, silver, and furniture. Sunbury House was opened to the public in January, 1984After we toured the main house (upstairs and down) we went into a courtyard where they offered us free punch (with or without). There was also a display of...
The Emancipation Statue shows a slave breaking his chains. The slaves had been brought to Barbados from West Africa to work on the sugar plantations from the middle of the 17th century. Slavery was finally abolished on the island in 1838, when the 70000 descendants of the African slaves brought to the island took to the streets in celebration.
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