TORTOLA - Cane Garden Beach, Bus Tour, and Town

[Music] there are about 50 British Virgin Islands only four are of any size it's a place to park your ship and park your money but if you're on holiday three things to do walking tour bus tour or the beach you can pick up a brochure and we're going to do the walking tour of roadtown today most people head straight for the beach and the most popular and the nearest is Kane Garden Bay two ways to get there well two versions of the same way is a taxi bus from roadtown outside there's all the buses there's the open top ones there's the closed in ones for the bus tours or you can hire scooters the buses and the taxis are the same vehicle it's just the taxi takes you direct and the bus takes you on a tour all the approved drivers wear a government shirt I've made a new friend this chicken's following me for the ambitious anaga island is beautiful but it's probably best to get a private tour rather than a ferry behind me is the ferry terminal so if you want to go across to one of the other Islands that's the place to get your Ferry Sage Park the National Park is a rainforest or you can take the bus tour this is kitty Kitty is famous so I was told to search her out the first thing we passed was the dolphin attraction taxi to beach is straightforward or this tour and get off at the beach enjoy the beach and take the taxi home is the second option every month they have have a full moon party and people come from all over and they go down to bomber Shack and party and have a brilliant time and then he'll drive you home if you need it full moon party is roads closed and hundreds in the street if you decide to stop here ask he might drive you home if you get to the shack for happy hour or spend a couple of hours after 10:30 p.m. at night B have cars will drive you back the road separates Shanty Shacks from expensive Holiday Homes a familiar site in all the Caribbean islands is fishermen cleaning their catch being swoop by Massive Birds oh my goodness look wow from Stout's Lookout you can get a fantastic view down to the bays and up to the 1,740 Ft above sea level peak of sage Mountain before tourism the biggest money spinner here was agriculture bananas coconuts mangoes sugar cane it gets twice as much rainfall as Britain so that's why it's all so Lush just want to give a shout out to Stout's Outlook very important for any tourist the L are spotless so the bus tour does give you a good look at the island before the beach this is coolwood rum Distillery the only one in the British Virgin Islands on torola and you still have time to do all this stay on the beach and then walk around the town later is there another one that's the one that doesn't taste though isn't it oh that's [Music] sweet yeah wow how much is that $5 and now to the beach cane Garden Bay it's almost the last thing on the tour so you could get off as long as you check with the beach bar that you can get a taxi back which should be easy this beautiful beach is called cane Garden Bay it's got everything you need from a beach very important it's got a beach bar Caribbean Flavor there's no doubt many people from your ship will be here and it's only about 20 to 25 minutes back so if you wish to visit roadtown which isn't that big you can plan to do that as well we finished our bus tour with Kitty Great Value only $15 we went all over up in the mountains so now we're going to do a bit of shopping we walked the back street and found this little place with the lights off but they switched them on for us this is the Virgin Island Folk Museum it's a government owned Museum on slavery and it's really worth a look this museum is listed on the leaflet they give you at the tourist center as you enter through the Port Village it's well worth taking one of those and having a look through it obviously most are adverts but this little Museum and a few other gems are listed this is the lower estate sugar works apparently you have to enter from Station Avenue so that will be interesting we'll have to go and find Station Avenue the reason you don't enter from over there is there's thick mud swampy mud there station roads over here we found the entrance to the sugar works Museum now I wonder if it'll be worth it it's very small and they wouldn't allow filming so we can't show you what was in there but if you pop your head around the door you can see it tsunami evacuation route you go up we've just been told what would happen in the case of a tsunami the lights would flash the lady would run out of the Hut shout tsunami wave her arms and everybody runs up the hill it's a garlic Vine but it doesn't smell of garlic behind me is the curator's house very Colonial looking this is fishlock Hall it's the curator's house and it's where they hold their meeting so the taxis are just outside the port if you want to go to roadtown and the Folk Museum turn left and if you want to go up and see the sugar Museum and the Botanical G Gardens turn right if you want to know what it's like to visit a rainforest we have a film of a hike in our St Lucia video please subscribe we're in the beautiful Port of St Lucia if you want the beach don't be tempted to turn left by the bay you've got to walk up to the roundabout and turn left by the airport walk all the way around come down here to the beach it's a beautiful Caribbean Beach not only is it a gorgeous Beach there's natural shade from the tree so you don't even have to hire a suned it's a shame you can't just run across the runway because the ship really is just over there a stone throw from the ship we found the church the square and now we're going to look at the market we had a little rainfall last night so the rainfall a little wet and also very slippery there are three activities here there's the skyline which doesn't take any effort there's the zip line which is going to take a lot of adrenaline and there's the height there are several varieties of snakes in the forest ample toilets there's a cafe and a shop all in all it's a brilliant experience we're on route to the springs and the volcano and this is a $1 washroom stop this is an active volcano and all the mountains around it are the rim so this could erupt so if you see I'm running you follow absolutely stinks warm once you're in I promise this is the S kits Cruise steel band and snorkel tour I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this tour and it was worth every penny everybody rocked off the ship and some guests came up to us and said it was the best tour they'd ever done if there are lots of ships in you may dock in the container Port but the shuttle bus will bring you here and from here you can get your buses and go out on your tours for the day we came with Debbie she dropped us off at Carambola Beach Club which is just along from Fri Bay just chill out on a deck chair and read my book cruise ship Heist the further away from the more expensive beach club the less golden and the more volcanic the sand gets but the more fun it gets is there's no timetable but the buses prices are quite reasonable if you thought the stone steps in Talon were narrow try these I think I could I want to take you somewhere special and I want you to meet someone special it's all the way to Nelson Stockyard cost $7 for two and they'd heard about it on visits this already feels like a great day out I think Nelson Stockyard is a very pleasant place to come a few officers at the time of Nelson left a bun in the oven ah the bakery very funny oh look expensive if you've seen Nelson's dockyard and you want to go to the beach come down to the red and white building go all the way up the hill and then turn left all the way down to the beach if you're looking for a natural car Caribbean Beach take the trip to Nelson's Stockyard and walk here it's Paradise so so far my antia beach trips cost me a pound this is the local bar it's called Sandra's Bar and Grill so two chairs and a parasol will cost you 50 Eastern Caribbean dollars which is about £15 but it's still cheap because we got there by bus this borrow is called Cast Away we're going to have an Indian meal they've got sport TV and Wi-Fi so the taxi here cost other Cruisers $30 it cost us four so the food was free if you're joining the ship here you will go in a coach bonded to the Port Terminal and check into your ship once checked into the ship you can visit Barbados number eight is the bearded Victory and it is how Barbados got its name Los Barbados the bearded one we having a beach day today in Barbados from the cruise ship and it's really easy to do cheaply if you like a rum punch and a snorkel this is the boat for you we'll show you North Southeast and west of the island a bit in the middle but tonight we're going out we're at MOS Bar and Grill and it's right on the side of the stage so the music's going to be loud the dancing starts late but if you don't get there early you won't get a seat very dramatic I think there's a wedding over there it's a baptism the very helpful young lady in the bar said that the botanical gardens are 5 minutes walk up here so fingers crossed I'm trusting her but it is quite a steep hill she's St her beer at the famous Sandy Lane Hotel God knows what it's going to cost