Bridgetown
Barbados’ bustling capital, Bridgetown, is also the island’s only city and is situated on its only natural harbor.
Barbados’ bustling capital, Bridgetown, is also the island’s only city and is situated on its only natural harbor.
Crane Beach, situated 7km northeast of the airport, is a hidden beach cove backed by cliffs and fronted by aqua-blue waters.
This route takes you past sites that show the beauty of the myriad plants that thrive on Barbados.
Hwy 3 is a lovely road that goes up and over the middle of Barbados, on a 16km route that links the west and east coasts.
This is the west coast in a nutshell: a fish market and fruit stand on the waterfront with a couple of church steeples as a backdrop.
A popular and family-friendly beach along Hwy 1 between Holetown and Speightstown, the one off note at Mullins is the poor parking.
Popular with hawksbill turtles that feed on sea grasses just off its shore and with the snorkelers that come to watch, Mt Standfast also has a good beach.
Several important roads cross the rolling hills of the island’s interior.
Few people take the time to follow the coast south of Bathsheba.
Easily the most evocative small town on Barbados, Speightstown combines old colonial charms with a vibe that has more rough edges than the endlessly upscale precincts to the south.
Just past the road that turns inland to St Lucy, Shermans is a narrow enclave of fine holiday homes and lovely local places; they seem to be competing to grow the most flowers.
The best strand on the west coast for daytrippers from elsewhere on the island, Heywoods Beach offers good parking, a location well off Hwy 1, and lots of powdery, uncrowded sand (especially on weekdays).
The road going into the hills east of Speightstown steadily climbs through historic sugarcane fields.
St Philip, the diamond-shaped parish east of the airport, is sparsely populated, with a scattering of small villages.
This decidedly local yet modern town a few miles east of St Lawrence is best known as the center of the island’s fishing industry.
At the southernmost tip of the island, between Oistins and the airport, is the breezy Silver Sands area, which includes Inch Marlow.
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