Well’s Bay
As stunning as Saba is, the spike-shaped island doesn’t have a beach to call its own.
As stunning as Saba is, the spike-shaped island doesn’t have a beach to call its own.
Little St John’s, straddling a crooked cliff between Windwardside and the Bottom, was created when the locals could not decide where to build the island’s school.
The tippy top of very-vertical Saba, Mt Scenery (887m) is officially the highest point in the Netherlands.
Before Fort Bay became Saba’s official port, everything – from a Steinway piano to Queen Beatrix herself – was hauled up to the Bottom via the Ladder, a vertical staircase of over 800 steps.
A mishmash of concrete structures, electrical parts and oil drums, Fort Bay is Saba’s main port and probably the ugliest place on the entire island.
The aptly named Flat Point is precisely that: a flat point (Saba’s only flat point, in fact), and the perfect place to plunk down an airport.
The Bottom is Saba’s official capital, and houses the island’s administrative and governmental buildings.
Although the Bottom is technically the capital of Saba, Windwardside is where most of the action takes place.
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