Saint Vincent and the Grenadines offer a pleasant mix of beautiful flora and fauna, wonderful beaches and relaxing times throughout all the islands. The region is becoming ever more popular with tourists and a number of islands have become luxury resorts to cater for these increasing numbers – conversely, there are still many islands that have been left untouched by the tourist market, and locals still rely on age-old traditions to make their way in life, building boats by hand and relying on the sea for a living.

Saint Vincent is the largest of any of the islands, and the capital of Kingstown is a thriving port, frequented by both commercial and passenger ships. The town itself offers visitors a taste of Caribbean life, with the market stalls, bars and eateries all giving a real feel for how people live in the region. St Marys Roman Catholic Cathedral is one of the architectural delights on offer for those who visit, along with Fort Charlotte and the oldest botanical gardens in the Western hemisphere, located to the North of Kingstown. The rocky East of the island is at complete odds with the beachfronts of the West, which are covered in wonderful black sand. Elsewhere on the island are attractions like the freshwater Falls of Baleine and the skyline-dominating La Soufriere volcano.

The islands of the Grenadines are numerous and vary from one to the other, with some offering – as mentioned before – resort experiences, and others showing visitors the old fashioned way of life still practised by the locals. Islands include Young Island, Mustique, Palm Island and Mayreau, along with the many others that are ripe for exploration. Boats are readily available to travel between the islands and it is an experience that should not be missed when visiting the country.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines offers a heady mix of things to do, places to go and people to experience and visits to the country can’t help but be pleasant. With areas of outstanding natural beauty, spectacular flora and fauna, friendly people and great food and drink, this sometimes luxury, sometimes old-fashioned destination is something that should be experienced before the inevitable masses descend on it in coming years.