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ou could experience white sand beaches with waiters bringing your favorite cocktail with a pink umbrella right to your lounge chair, an in-room massage, an exotic night life, and many other similar amenities tailored to treat you like a King and Queen. Or... maybe there is something different, something real, that is off the beaten path, unique and unmatched anywhere else in the Caribbean. If this is the experience you prefer, Montserrat may be what you’ve been searching for! This gem of an island is often referred to as the “Emerald Isle of the Caribbean,” because of its deep Irish connections and also for the beautiful cliff-sides that plunge from Emerald green mountains into the deep blue sea. Hike high into lush rain, elfin and cloud forest. Dive deep below these shores to survey the stunning sea life that abounds. But for the most unique island adventure ever, join Sun Lea of
Montserrat Island Tours (www. montserratislandtours.com) to experience one of the most starkly contrasting microcosms imaginable!
Just a few years ago, you would have landed on the runway of the now buried Bramble Airport and walked throughout downtown Plymouth to mingle with many of the nearly 12,000 residents On a Day of Discovery tour, who then resided on this island you will journey through the of rich culture, often described northern part of the island, as “The way the Caribbean used where all appears to be just as to be.” You may have bumped island life should be. Along the into famous music stars like way you’ll pop into the Hilltop Sting, Paul McCartney, Stevie Coffee House and Welcome Wonder, or Mick Jagger if you Centre to take in an eclectic were lucky! These were some of museum-like array of displays the many who recorded at the and interesting information, (and famous Air Studios, built by none maybe a cappuccino and a double other than Sir George Martin of dark chocolate, chocolate chip Beatles fame. But in 1995, steam brownie!) Then you will venture and ash began venting from the south, where everything will mountains that rise directly above begin to look…very…different. this capital city. Over the weeks With Sun as your guide, you will and months that followed, ash experience both the wonders and began falling on Plymouth, as the the harsh realities of living with once sleeping lady of Montserrat an active andesite volcano. View awakened. Over the ensuing years, the remnants of a quaint, colonial evacuations, terrible loss, and town, completely destroyed by the devastation changed the island ashfall and lahars that have buried and her people forever. almost every building slowly…one layer at a time.