Caribbean Islands - Barbados (Chapter)

This is the Barbados chapter from Lonely Planet’s Caribbean Islands guidebook.

As well as blissful beaches, Barbados has lush scenery amongst rolling hills dotted with fascinating survivors of the colonial past, and several botanic gardens exploit the beauty possible from the perfect growing conditions.

• sample Barbados’ most popular meal, a flying-fish dish at a cafe in Bridgetown
• maps
• revel in one of the Caribbean’s great parties, the weekly Oistins Fish Fry
• transportation
• restaurants & accommodations
• join the raucous crowds at a cricket match, one of the island’s sporting passions

Coverage includes: Understand Barbados, History, Culture, Landscape and Wildlife, Survival Guide, Directory A-Z, Getting There & Away, Getting Around, Bridgetown & around, South Coast, Hastings & Rockley, Worthing, St Lawrence Gap & Dover Beach, Oistins, Silver Sands, Southeast Coast, Crane Beach, West Coast, Paynes Bay, Holetown, Mt Standfast, Weston, Mullins Beach, Speightstown & around, Heywoods Beach, Shermans, Central Barbados, Bridgetown to Belleplaine, Bridgetown to Bathsheba, Eastern Barbados, Bathsheba & around and Bathsheba South to Christ Church Parish.