Marigot
: capital of the French
side
The
Fort Louis : Built
in 1765 to protect Marigot from the English.
This site offers an exceptional 180° view
of Marigot, Simpson Bay, the lagoon, Anguilla,
Marigot bay, Nettlé Bay up to Terres Basses.
From the waterfront, at the top of the West Indies Mall, you will
see the end of the guns. To get to Fort Louis, take the way starting
from the sub-prefecture building.
The
Market : fruits, vegetables,
fishes, spices, and craft every day.Walk through
Marigot streets, look at their traditional Creole
architecture.
Paradise
Peak: The highest point of the island: 424m
On the road to Grand
Case, halfway between Marigot and Gra nd Case, road signs
show the direction. The way to reach it is marked out. Up
there a 360° panoramic view of St Martin and neighbouring
islands.
-Leading to the
Peak, on your right, do not miss the Lottery
Farm.
With its mountain landscapes and its rain forest, the Lottery Farm
offers thousands of plant species, all with dream names: mahogany,
corossol, mango trees, papaw trees, guavaberry tree, medicinal
plants. The animal species are there too: iguanas, humming birds,
monkeys, mongoose, parrots.
Far from the sometimes electric atmosphere of the beaches and from
the daily activity which prevails on the island, the visitor who
enters into this exceptional place feels like being in a “paradise”.
For there, everything is different: scents, sounds or rather silences,
vegetation.
Some will be stirred by the spiritual vibrations which prevail
at Lottery Farm. Vibrations maintained by B.J who rules the place
and respects the memory of the three hundred slaves who, in the
1720s, worked in the sugar cane plantations.
B.J. had one objective: to protect this place from any human activity
which could have damaged it or brought any pollution breaking the
peace. Only a wooden “carbet”, at the starting point
of the walk, houses a restaurant where the walkers can relax or
eat, at lunch time, from Tuesday to Sunday and at diner time from
Tuesday to Saturday. In high season, Saturdays and Sundays, jazz
bands accompany the aperitif hour.
Fly Zone through the trees: at
Lottery Farm
Grand
Case: small typically
Creole village, by the sea, with its gourmet and local
restaurants and its arts and crafts. From January to May,
on Tuesdays, the “Mardis de Grand Case” or
the Harmony Night festival, with brass bands and West-Indian
orchestras, you will discover the local craft, the local
or gourmet cuisine in a festive, family and convivial environment.
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The
Mont Vernon Plantation: on the way to Orient
Bay.Being back to the yesteryear Caribbean at the
Mont Vernon Plantation. On
more than two hectares of a magnificent park among
plantations of cotton, coffee, manioc, tobacco, corn,
sugar cane and spices gardens,
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you
will discover the trade secrets of rum production,
the coffee roasting art, the mysteries of indigo. A
trip in the past, far from the agitation of this second
millennium. Visit and first steps in the discovery
of our elders’ know-how.
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View Point at the
top of Orient Bay:
Magnificent 180° view point on Orient Bay, Galion, St-Barths,
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The
Butterfly farm : Galion
A visit to the
Butterfly Farm is one of the best experience on the
island.
The speciality created Butterfly Sphere contains a beautiful
landscaped garden, waterfall, ponds, Japanese fish and beautiful
music.
As you walk through this tranquil atmosphere some of the
most beautiful butterflies from all over the world will be
flying around you, laying eggs and performing courting dances.
Early every morning it is possible to watch butterflies actuality
emerging from their chrysalis and taking their first flight.
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Visit
the Hold house : on the road to Quartier d’Orléans.
In a natural
country environment, and well ventilated, the OLD
HOUSE invites you to a journey back in time
around two distinct yet nevertheless perfectly complementary
museographies.
The visitor first discovers the interior of the old sugar
plantation in which the living room and the bedroom of the
planter have recovered their original aspect and all the
atmosphere of the old times : period furniture, family portraits,
souvenirs and collections of personal objects carefully preserved
for six generations.
Integrated to this traditional family ambiance, another part
of the sugar plantation sets us back into the great adventure
of rum in the Caribbean and its letters of nobility in the
remainder of the world in which this very trips of Christopher
Columbus, great era of piracy, life in the sugar plantations,
catastrophe of the Peeled Mountain eruption (Martinique),
times of war, how the West was won, prohibition times etc… Not
to mention the showcases honouring rum through advertising
representations as time passed
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Oyster
Pond :
Stop between mangrove and coral
reef to walk on the shells island.
Explore the mangrove in a canoe.
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Sint
Maarten:
Zoo :
Sint Maarten Park.
More than one hundred fifty animals of eighty different species
of Amazonian jungle live in relative liberty in the safari
reserve. You will take the tour while walking through a generous
and growing vegetation, that increases the impression to
be within a tropical forest.
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Reptiles,
hidden in marsh, will please of both adults and children.In
the Sint Maarten Park, you will fnd a lot of leisure
activities: painting competition, puppet show, the
possibility to playband get close to the reptiles.
Each week, there is a new program put in to animate
the park.
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Philipsburg :
Capital of the
Dutch side, Philipsburg accommodates the largest
cruise ships like the Queen Mary II. In its main
street, shops follow one another offering jewels,
and souvenirs.
By the sea, a board walk with restaurants and bars, offers
a spectacular sunset.
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