guadeloupe tourism

• Guadeloupe Is for the Adventurous

The butterfly shaped island is laid out like a split personality. Basse Terre, the west wing, evokes a lost world with its volcano and mountains covered with rainforest. Grande Terre, the flatter east wing, is sunny sugar cane country with the main tourist beaches along its south coast. The Route de la Traversee across Basse Terre gives easy access to rainforest hiking trails. Loudly buzzing crickets sound scary along the trails, but Guadeloupe has no dangerous snakes or other beasts, its tourist promoters emphasize. (Guadeloupe's rather scant wildlife is on display at Parc des Mamelles zoo, farther west.) Accommodation ranges from large hotels concentrated at Le Gosier to smaller-scale cottage units (called "bungalows") and hotels. Smaller attractive places near Deshaies in Basse Terr...

... in tropical rainforests, exotic agro-tourism focused on sugar cane, bananas and coffee, botanic...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 14, 2009