Exotic & beautiful St Kitts

St. Kitts occupied a critical position in the European nations struggle for possession of the West Indies, due to it's exceptional wealth due to it's sugar planations and being in a vitally strategic postion as one of the major gateways to the Caribbean. Kitts is a volcanic island, a fact to which it owes its dramatic central mountains, its rather unpredictable geologic history, and its lush tropical vegetation. Inhabitants once knew their island as Liamuiga, or "fertile land," a reference to the island's rich and productive volcanic soil, but today that name is given to St. Kitts' central peak, a 3,792-foot extinct volcano. The European connection with St. Kitts begins with the second voyage in 1493 of Christopher Columbus who sailed past the island but did not land.  Englishman Thomas Warner arrived with fourteen other settlers in 1624 to found the first non-Spanish European colony in the Caribbean, the island was known as St. Christopher's. Thomas Warner chose St. Christopher for its abundant forests and fresh water, its fertile easily worked soil, its accessible physical structure, and the presence of salt.

Today St. Kitts is the Caribbean's only Leeward Island that still grows sugar cane. However, sugar cane is very expensive to grow, harvest, and process. The fields are now state owned and the entire island crop is processed in one government-run factory. Here and there on the island one can still see a signature smokestack rising a hundred feet into the sky, or the egg-shaped base of an old windmill. But today tourism is the major industry with more and more people choosing St Kitts for the Caribbean holiday, and St Kitts have shown good skills in developing this with many typical Caribbean hotels such as the Royal St Kitts, Golden Lemon, and Ocean Terrace, and also superb converted plantation houses such as Rawlins and Ottleys. These and also accommodation in a Caribbean villa for your Caribbean holiday can be booked through Just Caribbean.