St. Kitts, Caribbean

St. Kitts, Caribbean

TOP FIVE THINGS IN ST. KITTS TO DO

St. Kitts is one more country in Caribbean Island where I went with cruise ship.  This island is unique because a lot of monkeys live here and one of the excursion you can do is pet the monkey.

Top five things in St. Kitts to do in my opinion:

-Walking around and explore the place with shopping

-Beach day at Carambola beach

-Resort day at Palm Court Garden

-St. Kitts highlights and Rain-forest tour , tour around the Island

-Pet the monkey tour

First top five things in St. Kitts is walking around, do shopping and explore the down town. Interesting fact is that here on small area they have a lot of banks, mostly nationals and currency her is Caribbean dollar. One US is approximately 2.8 Caribbean and all banks do exchange but you don’t need because US is acceptable too. Walking around with my friend we found a park, very old church and primary school next to the church. 

There is a lot of coffee shops and store close to the ship but if you go further you can enjoy the view and see how people actually live here. On our way back, across one of the bank I saw a guy preparing smoothie on the street. You can choose any fruit you want. We paid $8 for both and it was definitely the best smoothie I have ever had. If you ever go to the church and park there don’t miss opportunity to have street smoothie.

Top five things in St. Kitts could be also beach day at Carambola beach. Shuttles are available as soon as you step out from the ship. Taxi ride till beach will cost you around 20$ per car and if is 4 people go there its good price. You will stop on view point where you have opportunity to see Pacific Ocean meet Caribbean sea and you also can take a picture with a monkey, which I skipped this time. Beach is very simple and on the opposite way from the ship. You have one bar with food and drinks and really good Wi-Fi Internet connection available even further from the bar. Beach chairs and umbrellas are for free and water is very nice.

The third top five things in St. Kitts to do is Resort day at Palm Court Garden .If you are not fun of the beach and you do not want to waste your time you can walk to the beautiful resort call palm court resort.  Taxi shuttle can drive there also just for $2.Resort is very approachable, they have good coffee, good internet Wi-Fi connection, pool, nice chairs and small garden and nice grass and some separated places where you can enjoy view on the sea and your ships too. It is always windy which is very interesting and because of breeze you don’t feel sun so bring a lot of sun scream to put on. Music is not loud so can enjoy and relax yourself. More information at https://www.palmscourtgardens.com/ .

My favorite top five things in St. Kitts to do was hop on hop off tour by open bus around the Island or St. Kitts highlights and Rain-forest , tour around the Island. Basically, you go out from the ship, find a tour what you want to see and how many hours you would like to spend and adventure can start. My tour was approximately 3 hours long and first we stop shortly in down town to see Cathedral Anglican Church dating from 17th Century and school next to it ,than we went through the street with different kind of architectural buildings, historical attractions too.

Road than took us to the Palm Court Garden, which I skipped this time and than we kept going to the rain forest and Caribelle Batik or Romney Manor. This place is UNESCO World Heritage Site and it is also National Park with a tree 400 years old. Very impressive and beautiful place . We paid the entrance $3 per person but its worth it every dollar.

After break to explore Caribelle Batik, our excursion was going back through the jungle and very small road that in one point I was very scared what If we get stuck here but plenty of buses are doing similar excursion and it is very safe. Next stop was the view point where Atlantic Ocean meet Caribbean sea which I already explained. This tour was my favorite because you see main point of St. Kitts and actually you have impression how big is Island.

The last top things in St. Kitts to do is pet the Monkey. There is a reason why it is called Monkey Island too. Basically, you will have chance to pet the monkey on every place you go, they offer you to hold the monkey, to pet, to put on your head and so on. Every monkey has a diaper , which is very awkward but make sense and you just pay the monkey owner some tips and you did excursion. Now , there is options to go in the main view point of St. Kitts where you have beautiful view on Ocean and sea and you pet the monkey here and take a pictures with amazing background or you can pet the monkey as soon you get out from terminal. There is short video about St. Kitts on my YouTube canal here :

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St. Kitts, Karibi

St. Kitts, Karibi

TOP PET STVARI U ST. KITTS ZA RADITI

St. Kitts je još jedna zemlja na Karibima gde sam ja otišla sa kruzerom. Ovo ostrvo je poznato po tome što veliki broj majmuna živi ovde i jedna od ekskurzija koju možete odraditi ovde je upravo držanje majmuna kao ljubimca (pet the monkey).

Top pet stvari u St. Kitts za raditi po mom mišljenju :

-šetnja i istraživanje mesta uz kupovinu (shopping)

– dan na plaži Carambola

– dan u odmaralištu Palm Court Garden

– St. Kitts tura obilaska ostrva sa značajnim mestima i odlaskom u prašumu

– tura slikanja s majmunom kao kućnog ljubimca

Prvi top pet stvari u St. Kitts je šetnja okolo, kupovina i istraživanje grada. Interesantna činjenica je ta da ovde na jako malom mestu imaju mnogo banaka , uglavnom nacionalnih i zvanična valuta je Karipski dolar. Jedan Američki dolar je otprilike 2.8 Karipskih dolara i sve banke vrše zamenu novca ali to vam nije potrebno zato što se primaju i Američki dolari. Šetajući okolo sa svojom prijateljicom našli smo park , staru crkvu i osnovnu školu pored crkve.

Pored se nalaze dosta kafe barova i prodavnica blizu broda tj. u samom terminalu ali ako malo više prošetate možete da vidite kako ljudi u stvari žive ovde. Na našem povratku nazad ka brodu , prekoputa jedne od banaka videli smo dečka koji priprema „smoothie“ i prodaje na ulici. Možete izabrati bilo koje voće želite. Platile smo 8 dolara za dva i to je bio najbolji „smoothie“ koji sam ikad popila. Ako ikad budete šetali ka parku i crkvi ne propustite priliku da probate ovaj ulični smoothie.

Top pet stvari u St. Kitts mogao bi da bude jedan dan na plaži Karambola. Taksi prevoz je dostupan odmah po izlasku sa broda. Vožnja od broda do plaže će vas koštati oko 20 dolara po autu i ako 4 osobe idu na plažu to je veoma dobra i jeftina cena. Staćete na mesto za slikanje s pogledom gde se Pacifički okean sastaje sa Karipskim morem i takođe možete da se slikate s majmunom , što sam ja preskočila ovaj put. Plaža je jako lepa i na sasvim drugoj strani ostrva u odnosu na luku gde je brod pristao. Imate jedan bar sa hranom i pićima i veoma dobar WiFi internet dostupan čak i dalje od restorana. Ležaljke i suncobrani su bez naplate a more je veoma čisto.

Treći top pet stvari u St. Kitts za odraditikoje bih preporučila je odmaralište Palm Court Garden. Ako niste fan plaže i ne želite da gubite vreme na šetnju možete posetiti ovo divno odmaralište. Taksisti su dostupni za samo 2 dolara po osobi u jednom pravcu. Odmaralište je veoma zanimljivo, imaju dobru kafu, dobar internet WiFi, bazen, dobre ležaljke bez naplate, mali vrt sa travom i mala odvojena mesta gde možete da uživate u pogledu na more i na brodove takođe. Uvek je vetrovito i zbog tog osećaja vazduha sa vetrom ne osećate sunce pa se može desiti da lako izgorite na suncu pa ponesite zaštitnu kremu od sunca. Muzika nije glasna tako da možete da uživate i da se opustite. Više informacija možete naći ovde :

https://www.palmscourtgardens.com/

Moja najdraža ekskurzija od top pet stvari u St. Kitts za odraditi je „hop on hop off“ tura sa otvorenim autobusom oko ostrva ili St. Kitts tura obilaska ostrva sa značajnim mestima i odlaskom u prašumu. U osnovi ,izađete sa broda, nađete turu šta želite da vidite i koliko sati želite da odvojite za ekskurziju i avantura može da počne. Moja tura je trajala oko 3 sata i stali smo kratko prvo u centar grada da vidimo Katedralu anglikanske crkve iz 17 veka i školu pored crkve, onda smo obišli razne ulice sa različitim arhitektonskim stilovima gradnje kao i istorijske atrakcije u tim ulicama.

Put nas je naveo na odmaralište Palm Court Garden, što sam preskočila ovaj put, i onda smo nastavili ka prašumi i Caribelle Batik ili Romney Manor. Ovo mesto je pod zaštitom UNESCO svetske baštine i takođe je Nacionalni park sa drvetom starim 400 godina. Veoma impresivno i lepo mesto. Platili smo ulaz samo 3 dolara ali je vredelo svakog dolara. Posle pauze za istraživanje Caribelle Batik, naša ekskurzija se nastavila kroz prašumu i veoma mali put da sam u jednom momentu bila uplašena da ćemo se zaglaviti ovde ali mnogi autobusi prolaze ovuda i veoma je sigurno.

Sledeće stajalište je mesto za slikanje gde se Atlantski okean sastaje sa Karipskim morem što sam već objasnila. Ova tura mi je draga zato što možete da vidite glavne tačke St. Kittsa i u stvari možete da vidite koliko je ostrvo veliko.

Poslednja top pet stvari u St. Kitts za odraditi je slikanje s majmunom kao kućnog ljubimca. Postoji razlog zašto ovo ostrvo zovu ostrvo majmuna. U stvari , imaćete šansu da držite majmuna u rukama, da ga stavite na glavu, ramena na različitim mestima gde god idete na ekskurziju. Svaki majmun ima pelenu, što je veoma čudno ali s druge strane razumljivo i vi samo date bakšiš vlasniku majmuna da bi ste slikali s njim. E sad, postoje opcije da odete na mesto slikanja gde se Pacifički okean sastaje sa Karipskim morem i tu se slikate sa majmunom sa divnom pozadinom i pogledom ili se možete prosto slikati i družiti sa majmunom na samom izlazu sa broda. Ovo je kratki video o St. Kitts na mom YouTube kanalu :

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