Our Cruise: Day 5 – Antigua
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A beach in Antiqua!!
Our fifth day was spent in Antigua. We docked early and decided to just get a taxi and have him take us around and teach us about the island. Damn am I glad we did. The port was not the nicest place I have been by far. As a matter of fact we were really pissed that all the taxi drivers were just hounding us as we walked around the shopping area. You could not walk more than 10 feet without being pestered and I am not exaggerating at all.
We finally decided to take a taxi and go around the island. The driver taught us a lot about the island and took us to some gorgeous areas. You could tell, like all of the islands I have ever been to that it was completely reliant on tourism and they did not live a lavish life at all. There was a lot of run down homes and such along our drive and it was kinda sad. That was until we came up on the zip line adventure. They had like 10 zip lines setup crossing this huge section of forest on the island. It was incredible. I can only imagine what it would look like as you are going across this area. I wanted to do it so badly but unfortunately it was pretty pricey and we did not have enough time to do so.
Paradise!
After leaving the zip line area, we passed the second nicest beaches I have ever seen. Holy CRAP these were gorgeous beaches! Take a moment to look at the photo galleryto see some more pictures of this beautiful area of Antigua! We stopped at one of them for about 30 minutes and it was incredible. F Maegans Bay being a top 10 beach with this one around. This thing kicked Maegan’s Bay’s ass! After hanging out in beauty, we headed back towards the boat on the scenic path and stopped at a fruit stand to pick up some fresh pineapple and mango. MMMMM!
Like many of the other islands, there is a some poverty but my goodness were these beaches gorgeous!!!
