Nassau, located on New Providence Island, is the capital of the Bahamas. The Paradise Island in its close vicinity forms a twin island famous for its tourist oriented culture. The city of Nassau has a rich colonial history and the same has been meticulously preserved in the beautiful mansions, churches and cathedrals, a fortress dating […]
The Grand Bahama International Airport is located at Freeport; it being one of the two in the Bahamas, equipped with lights for night landing. The visitors have many more options of reaching Grand Bahama Island in style from the Coast of Florida; charter flights, cruise ferries, cruise ships, private boats and even private […]
The highly developed tourism infrastructure caters for all kind of travelers; ritzy seven star hotels to low priced inns or fishing lodges. The Westin Grand Bahama Resorts, the Sheraton Resorts, the Viva Wyndham Fortuna Beach Resort and Pelican Bay Resorts and Suites are few grandiose staying options. All these resorts are constructed over tens of […]
The fourth largest island of the Bahamas, just 55 miles from the coast of Florida is a unique tourist destination with a cosmopolitan vacation on high tech beach resorts or the plain charms of the fishing villages and eco-tourism. The Grand Bahama Island has world’s largest cave systems, fascinating marine flora and fauna, white sand […]
The Wrecking Reefs
The name Grand Bahamas originated from “Gran Bajamar”, a term coined for the great shallow reefs surrounding the island. The pirates thrived on the geography of the island, wrecking the ships on these reefs. The British claimed the Islands of Bahamas in the end 1600 and by 1720 tamed the pirates. The Islands […]
History of Bahamas
The history of Grand Bahamas goes back to the Stone Age Siboney Indians who settled in the Caribbean about 4000 years ago. The next to come were the South American Taino, later known as the Lucayans. The European entered the Bahamas in 1492 and forced the locals out to West Indies and many […]
The Abacos are a chain of islands in Bahamas situated 190 miles east of Miami coast and about 115 miles north of Nassau, the capital city of Bahamas. The people of Abacos are the descendents of the Loyalists during the Great War of Independence from the USA. The Abaconians, as they are generally referred to, […]