Capesterre
Capesterre, on the southeast coast, is a seaside town with a little fish market on the main road near Feuillère beach, one of the nicest strands on an island full of them.
Capesterre, on the southeast coast, is a seaside town with a little fish market on the main road near Feuillère beach, one of the nicest strands on an island full of them.
Lying just 1km to the west of Terre-de-Haut, Terre-de-Bas is the only other inhabited island in Les Saintes.
Besides a crab festival every April, what brings tourists is the city-within-a-city at the cemetery, where N6 meets the N5.
After soaking up Anse Maurice go north on the D120 and follow the signs to Vigier.
The island’s northernmost point, Pointe de la Grande Vigie offers scenic views from its high sea cliffs.
Petit-Canal was a major landing point for slaves kidnapped from Africa to work on the nearby sugar plantations.
The first sight on the D120 coming from Le Moule, the nearly empty beach of Anse Maurice is accessed via a small road with concrete tracks and grazing goats.
Anse Bertrand, where the D120 starts to loop back south, has more of a rocky, crashing coast than a beach, but a few restaurants facing the local church, and friendly locals, make it worth a pit stop.
A good place for a leisurely day of exploring, with plenty of sunbathing on quiet beaches included.
Most often visited as a jumping-off point to Les Saintes, this sleepy town has sharply curving streets, is surrounded by lush vegetation and has fine views of Les Saintes, just 10km offshore to the south.
The N1, the road that runs along the east coast of Basse-Terre, travels through cattle pastures and sugarcane fields.
The road that heads across the center of the island, the Route de la Traversée (D23), slices through the Parc National de la Guadeloupe, a 17,300-hectare forest reserve that occupies the interior of Basse-Terre.
Pointe-Noire, between Plage de Malendure and Deshaies, is the epicenter of places that each specialize in one thing – chocolate, coffee etc.
From Trois-Rivières there are a couple of ways to get to La Soufrière, the active 1467m volcano that looms above the southern half of the island.
Unless it’s overcast, the drive up to the Chutes du Carbet lookout gives a view of two magnificent waterfalls plunging down a sheer mountain face.
The rather grim administrative capital of Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre is somewhat active on weekdays during work hours, but almost deserted after dark and on weekends, with most shops and restaurants closed.
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