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CARIBBEAN SAINT LUCIA DESTINATIONS


FAR LEFT: Scuba diving


LEFT: Jungle biking


BELOW: Jade Mountain


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Caribtours offers seven nights’ all- inclusive at Jade Mountain from £3,859, based on two sharing a Sky Jacuzzi Suite. Price includes return flights, lounge access and private transfers,


for travel between January 4 and December 21, 2019.


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hours round-trip and can be booked at the resort for $85. But for a significantly easier walk with equally impressive lookouts, there’s the Tet Paul Nature Trail. It’s a gently sloped, 45-minute hike past rolling farms, banana plantations and pineapple trees, with views of the surrounding beaches and towering Pitons along the way. The walk can be done independently or booked through the resort for $50.


◗ VISIT DIAMOND FALLS BOTANICAL GARDEN Just as rich on the nature front is Diamond Falls Botanical Garden, a six-acre stretch of green boasting an array of colourful flora, alongside a 17-metre-high waterfall tumbling down from the Diamond River above. Sulphur, magnesium and other


minerals have turned the rockface behind it a rainbow blend of orange, purple, copper and yellow, making its iridescent plume the crowning centrepiece of the park. There’s also a nature trail where


ferns, mahogany trees and red cedar hunch above a well-marked path, alongside three sulphur-heated thermal pools that were originally built in 1784 for King Louis XVI’s French troops.


◗ BATHE AT THE SULPHUR SPRINGS


Sulphur Springs is the biggest attraction in Soufrière. Visitors from across the island come to glimpse this dormant volcano, which last erupted in the 1700s and now expresses itself through bouts of steam bursting from cracks in the rock, and pools of mud bubbling away under the pressure.


For the best way of experiencing it, suggest a tour to the mud baths. Guests are guided into a pool of warm, murky grey sludge, touted for its healing powers, before climbing to the top of the volcano to see this dramatic nature show from on high. Tours here with Anse Chastanet cost $95, with a spa attendant on hand to offer mineral-rich mud treatments designed to rejuvenate and detoxify.


◗ EXPLORE THE ANSE MAMIN PLANTATION There’s plenty more in the way of nature. Just around the corner from Anse Chastanet, set on its own beach, sits Anse Mamin, a remote bay that looks like a clandestine cove cut off from the rest of the world. Despite its hideaway feel, it’s open to the public as well as guests, and boasts an


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PICTURES: NORBERT PROBST, BERND RAC/ANSE CHASTANET


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