Today we were stopped in St. Lucia. Today’s tour was your typical island tour finishing off with a beach stop but our tour guides made it amazing! We also got to try a ton of local food made by a lady who I think was one of the tour guides wives. We tried some very interesting and yummy dishes I never would have tried otherwise. It was great!
We started off by driving down the coast and seeing a few fishing villages. It was really cool to see all the villages and how people really live on the island.
Our first stop was the banana plantation where they told us all about banana farming. The bananas were really sweet and yummy.
After the bananas we went to a look out point where they had made us a huge breakfast of local foods. We tried fish cakes, fried dough balls, mango, avocado, mystery fruit, fried chicken, banana ketchup, coconut candy, guava cheese, some homemade fudge, and some other things that I can’t remember. We loved all of it! It was so interesting to taste so many different things that the local people eat every day.
The mountains in the background are the Pitons, a famous landscape in the Caribbean.
We then went to a pretty waterfall and a dormant volcano.
Then we took a water taxi to Jalousie Beach which is the beach between the two Pitons (famous mountains in the Caribbean) for swimming and snorkeling. The beach was in a gorgeous setting. It was so relaxing to sit in the shade and look out at the Pitons and the pretty water.
After the beach we stopped and got to try local hot bread and cheese. This was so fun. The bread was really hot and it was sliced down the middle (it was a big roll thing). Then you put a cheese stick like thing in it and it melts. Basically a local, Caribbean version of a grilled cheese sandwich.
Then we headed back to the ship where we, of course, ate some more and slept the afternoon away.
Our tour guide, Jean Claude:
Here we are at dinner. This is a typical dinner for us. Lol, and this isn't even showing the appetizers!
AND... Desserts!
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By the way, the "mystery fruit" was what I thought it was, soursop, but I kept calling it by the name I knew it in the Philippines, guyabano, which is why the tour guides looked at me like I was an idiot.
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