Thank you Janus and staff for the bread and fruit and basic supplies since our flight was so late. First Class Host!!!

Michele & Larry (Canada)

May 5-12, 2019

What a fantastic week. There is so much to do around Soufriere that we decided not to venture more than 30 minutes away in any direction.

Highlights

• En Bas Saut Trail- we decided to take on Jefferson as our guide after he jumped off an ATV down hill and chased our car. Very enterprising 18 year old. He convinced us we weren’t too old to try a tarsan swing
• Gros Piton- you need to be fit for this trail. Our guide was lovely and slow o it was no problem. Bring a hiking pole if you have one
• Diamond Gardens – very relaxing and lovely for 1 hour- skip the mineral bath.
• New Jerusalem mineral baths – this was perfect (instead of Torille waterfall) There were only 2 others at New Jerusalem- would feel crowded if a tour bus showed up.
• Piton Falls and mineral baths- also perfect after a hike and is slow season with only a few others around
• Anse Chastanet – Kayak St. Lucia very professional tour.

 
Beaches

• Anse Mamin #1- we didn’t even go to Sugar beach as it sounds very resort dominated and the sand is imported
• Anse Chastanet – also great for diving and they have lockers for rent and non resort bathrooms. We just lay our towels down at the end of the beach
• Diving-

Tried both options and both world class

-Chester at Action Adventure at Soufriere Beach is a local guy running his own shop. We went back to the apartment with 3 lion fish that he speared.

Anse Chastanet Dive St. Lucia- very professional, great customer service, reef in wonderful condition- 5 star pad resort diving experience.

• Food- eroline has the best Basics.
• Bakery across is nice
• Fedos for a local meal is perfect.
• Zaka’s art – coffee and ice coffee
• Rubys was closed and reopening under a new name
• Orlandos- was lovely for a fancy dinner, they had live Jazz on Thursdays.

Saturday market- so much fruit and vegetables. Try the little red plums and regarding lime they were really hard to find this time of year. We asked a vendor and he slowly, reluctantly agreed to sell us a few hidden in his truck, harder than buying weed!!
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Lastly, thank you Janus and staff for the bread and fruit and basic supplies since our flight was so late. First Class Host!!!