{"id":1209,"date":"2023-05-12T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/05\/12\/discovering-why-saint-lucia-is-truly-the-best-island-in-the-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:54:14","slug":"discovering-why-saint-lucia-is-truly-the-best-island-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/discovering-why-saint-lucia-is-truly-the-best-island-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering why Saint Lucia is truly the best island in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saint Lucia was recently voted Best Island in the Caribbean by Global Traveller magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So it was the spur to visit and see if it deserved such a lofty accolade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is an easy eight-hour flight from London<\/a> and the descent to St Lucia’s Hewanoora airport offers a bird’s-eye view of the most spectacular volcanic peaks in the Caribbean – the mighty Pitons, a Unesco-designated World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n CHOCOLATE HEAVEN<\/span><\/p>\n Saint Lucia’s volcanic soil is rich in minerals and the local cacao industry produces some of the finest chocolate in the world. When I first heard that there was a chocolate-themed hotel in the island’s rainforest, the ‘Rabot Hotel from Hotel Chocolat<\/a>‘, I imagined we would find an eccentric Willy Wonka type and a theme park-like factory of delights, complete with a gently flowing chocolate river.\u00a0<\/p>\n