International Travel Examiner: "It’s hard to even know where to begin your adventure when visiting Barbados, a very well developed island only 21 miles long and 14 miles wide. The island does have the largest spa in the Caribbean located at Sandy Lane so you might start there. Take a deep breath though and don’t try to take it all in, you can return another time too. One way to get a good idea of the island overall is to hop on an Island Safari Tour, which will take you just about everywhere from the highest cliff on the island to the gullies, forest and remote bays and all in a 4 X 4 Land Rover, of course."
I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari. One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'. In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections; The Colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history.Four centuries ago,Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap,kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los B...
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