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St. Lucia Hotels European Plan
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Introduction to St. Lucia
The rest of St. Lucia remains relatively
unspoiled, a checkerboard of green-mantled mountains, valleys,
banana plantations, a bubbling volcano, wild orchids, and fishing
villages. The island has a mixed French and British heritage, but
there's a hint of the South Pacific about it as well.
A mountainous island of some 623 sq. km (243 sq.
miles), St. Lucia has about 160,000 inhabitants. The capital, Castries, is built
on the southern shore of a large harbor surrounded by hills.
Writer Derek Walcott was born in Castries. His father
was an unpublished poet who died when Walcott was just a year old, and his
mother was a former headmistress at the Methodist school on St. Lucia. In 1992,
Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature. He prefers, however, not to tout the
charms of St. Lucia, telling the press, "I don't want everyone to go there and
overrun the place." Alas, his warning has come too late.
Additional Information about travel to St. Lucia
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St. Lucia (Loo-sha) is one of the most popular destinations in the
Caribbean, with some of its finest resorts. The heaviest tourist development
is concentrated in the northwest, between the capital, Castries, and the
northern end of the island, where there's a string of white-sand beaches.
