Antigua Holidays
Destination Guide:
Antigua is a breathtakingly beautiful island located in the West Indies. The blue waterline surrounding this island, its exotic wildlife and the delicious dishes made in this place have made it a must-visit holiday place in the world. It is for such reasons that holidays lover find it pretty good to have a visit in the summer specially.
Historically, the original inhabitants of this island were the Ciboney Indians who hold a record of residing in this island for thousands of years. After them, it is the Europeans who explored this place and captured it. In fact, Christopher Columbus was who discovered this island while being on his second voyage in the year 1493.
Once you lend on this land of greeneries and refreshing waters and beaches you will find numerous attractive things to do. If you book holidays to Antigua in between the month of April to May the Antigua Sailing Week will be there. However, in May there is Annual Tennis Week and Antigua Carnival from July to August. Some other amazing things to do include going to the discs and night clubs of its beaches, tasting the mouth-watering barbecues, shaking legs on the rhythms of the Antigua music, playing water sports and enjoy doing Snorkelling & Diving.
The places to visit on Antigua holidays and its neighbouring cities are quite many and tourists can find very friendly environment along with great hospitality of the locals of this island. This island has some really great holiday spots like its amazing and lively 365 beaches, Golf course at Jolly Harbour, heritage-filled Nelson’s Dockyard, the charming and happening English Harbour with its restaurants and of course, Barbuda which is known as the little sister of Antigua.
Summer and winter, both the seasons are perfect for visiting the Antigua island. In summer there is 9 hours of sunshine in the beaches and that lets one enjoy lot many summer activities along with the water sports. This island is being considered to be one among the sunniest and driest of the islands and hence, the tourist will have to be able to cope up with it. The average temperature of the island remains 28 degree during the time period of May to November and in between May to October, it experiences rainfalls too.
Travel Tips for Antigua Traveler:
For a budget-based and affordable holiday to Antigua, you can buy travel packages that are quite easy to be found online. There are lot many holiday tour providers and the packages offered by these are quite good as it contains 4 to 7 days of duration for the complete tour and comprises of all good tourist sports of the island. You can go through the map of the island too for better knowledge of its hotels and guides and also of the modes of transportation.
