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Saturday Video: 3-Minute Culture & Heritage Guide to St. Kitts

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All Caribbean shores boast their own unique cultural heritage. There are similarities of course, but when you delve under the surface on your explorations throughout the region, you’re sure to be rewarded with one-of-a-kind experiences you can only have right where you are.
For a quick look at what you can expect the next time St. Kitts is where you are, check out this amazing video from UK-based filmmaker, Glen Milner.

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Nov. 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | No Comments »
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Taste of the Caribbean: Monkey’s on the Menu in St. Kitts & Nevis?

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I don’t know that too many people actually visit St. Kitts & Nevis expressly to check out the monkeys, but believe me, once you’re there, they are impossible to ignore. Whether taking a stroll across a golf course, frantically raiding a mango tree, as we witnessed at The Golden Rock Inn last year, or boozing it up with hilarious consequences, the Vervet Monkeys in this twin-island nation put on quite a show.
For visitors, the show is all in fun; an exotic attraction worthy of some serious post-vacation bragging around the watercolor back at the office.
For residents, especially local farmers, it’s quite the opposite.

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Oct. 4th, 2011 | Tags: , | 4 Comments »
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Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim, Here We Come!

View of Nevis from Cockleshell Beach, St. Kitts/Hiral Gosalia via flickr

“I can do that.”
Who hasn’t thought, uttered or loudly boasted those four words while standing on a beach like Cockleshell Bay in St. Kitts and gazing at a nearby island like Nevis off in the distance? Many sister islands in the Caribbean appear so close together that it’s easy to think that you could swim from one to the other with little or no problem. Many of us have shared this same thought, only to quickly revert our attention back to sipping rum and enjoying less strenuous seaside pursuits.
On March 27, 2011, all that will change for us…
That’s right, we’re making plans to compete in the 9th annual Nevis to St.

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Jan. 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »
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Uncommon Photo-Op: Nine Things to Love About St. Kitts

Rainbow at Cockleshell Beach

It’s not hard to love St. Kitts, especially if you love landscape photography. A scant 65 square miles in size (one or two hairs smaller than Washington, D.C.), this petit island paradise packs enough natural beauty to fill an area at least 10 times larger.
Just consider that St. Kitts has three distinct volcanic peaks - the North West or Mount Misery Range, the Middle or Verchilds Range and the South East or Olivees Range – and you get the sense that the landscape photo opportunities here are endless.
But that’s just part of what makes St. Kitts a photographer’s dream.
Way back in the Ice Age, when the sea level was much lower than it is now, the islands of St.

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Dec. 9th, 2010 | Tags: , | 1 Comment »
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Saturday Video: De Boozehound Monkeys of St. Kitts

Drunk Monkeys

In and out of discotheques,
In and out of wine bars.
Burnt out shell, looks a wreck, yeh,
Got to help him somehow!
Greets bartenders, drink firewater,
Dance bossanova, he topples over.

The lyrics to the classic Steel Pulse jam Man No Sober apply all too often to those of us who have, on occasion, “overdone it” while traveling in the Caribbean. For those who claim they’ve never been “that guy” (yeah, right), certainly you’ve seen him – face planted in the sand, clinging to a barstool as though for dear life, or dangling over the side of some boat, adding an unwanted hue to our already colorful coral reefs.

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Sep. 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »
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Wish You Were Here

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Admiring the view of Nevis from the St. Kitts shore.

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Aug. 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , | No Comments »
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On-Site St. Kitts: Reggae Beach Bar, a Watering Hole Fit for Man & Beasts

Reggae Beach Bar, St. Kitts/SBPR

So, a guy walks into a bar and sees a goat, a pig and a monkey sitting there… Sounds like the start of a good joke, but this is exactly what you’ll see if you’re ever lucky enough to find yourself at the Reggae Beach Bar in St. Kitts.
My love of beach bars and shacks (Sunshine’s, Le Petibonum, etc.) has been well-documented on Uncommon Caribbean, so I’m sure that none of you faithful readers will be surprised that I forced our cab driver to stop here on our way to the airport during the waning hours of my recent trip to Nevis.

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Jul. 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , | 6 Comments »