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Turks and Caicos General Brochure BEAUTIFUL BY NATURE Columbus’ possible A LONG HISTORY A S A Pla CE OF first landfall in 1492 When we describe our islands as “Beautiful by Nature,” ISCOVERY A N D EFUGE take us literally. Crystalline turquoise waters and white D R sand beaches are trademarks of the 40+ islands and cays TCI has a long history as a place of discovery and refuge: from Beautiful and historic that make up the country. Dive, fish, golf, windsurf, Columbus’ first landfall in 1492, to the Bermudian salt rakers and water-ski to your heart’s content in an intact corner in the late 1600s to British Loyalist cotton planters fleeing the WithCaribbean no income, capital architecture gains, or property of the Caribbean only 575 miles southeast of Miami, American revolution in the late 1700s. The Islands also host tax, TCI offers a fiscal welcome for and developed with a difference. With migrating Atlantic humpback whales crossing the “Belongers," as TCI’s citizens are known, investors as warm as its weather. 80% of the archipelago uninhabited and 22-mile wide Columbus Channel separating the have good reason to relax. Mostly accessible only by small plane, ferry Turks from the Caicos islands. Our size, 193 square descended from African slaves and a Venture beyond the or boat, Turks & Caicos is where those miles of land area stretching hundreds of miles west turbulent history, they now enjoy enviably resort center of who’ve got it, go. to east, located south of the Bahamas and east of stable democratic government as a British Crown Colony Providenciales Cuba, guarantees virgin beaches and waters and presided over by Her Majesty’s Governor. Belongers and to Grand Turk, includes the third largest coral reef system on earth. those who make TCI a home-away-from-home both enjoy all the guarantees of the rule of law and property owners’ and Grace Bay Beach is one of the world’s ten best, but the seat of government and home investors’ rights which TCI’s Crown Colony status provides. there are dozens of other pristine beaches here that to charming and historic Bermudian rival it. Our shallow seas Colonial architecture. After a 20 minute abound with countless flight from Provo, stroll the quaint, gated species of colorful tropical lanes to soak in the reminders of salt-raking and sea- marine life. Our lobster, faring days in the past. Visit the well-respected National conch, and grouper - Museum, housed in 150+ year-old Guinep Lodge. cooked fresh and served in any local style - make for a perfect welcome. 0 5 10 15 20 25 miles 0 5 10 15 20 25 kilometers ATLANTIC OCEAN ✈• Whitby Parrot Cay Kew• CAICOS Bottle Creek Pine Cay NORTH • PASSAGE Little Water Cay CAICOS • Conch Bar Leeward • Bambarra Islands that never feel crowded Blue Hills • • MIDDLE Downtown CAICOS • Lorimers UST A IN A B L E EVE L O P MENT ✈• • The Bight S D • Five Keys WIT H A IFFERENCE PROVIDENCIALES D EAST Many of our guests now arrive via the Grand Turk Cruise CAICOS Centre, featuring an 18-acre recreation complex with two white WEST CAICOS sand beaches, swimming pool, FlowRider attraction, duty-free CA ICOS IS la N D S shopping, and the Caribbean's largest "Margaritaville" themed bar and restaurant. Yet even with the arrival of the cruise business, Grand Turk has not lost its quaint island TURKS charm. Neither will the rest of our islands, even as they attract world-class investment ISLAND and development. In keeping with our sustainable development and environmentally- PASSAGE friendly policies, all new development must French Cay CAICOS BANK SOUTH CAICOS undergo extensive ✈ environmental impact Cockburn Harbour • assessments to ensure Cockburn Town • Long Cay that TCI remains GRAND TURK ✈ "Beautiful by Nature." And don't forget, the country boasts 34 protected West Sand Spit URKS S la N D S Fish Cays T Cotton ICay national parks, nature reserves, East Cay sanctuaries and historical sites. Balfour Town • SALT CAY AMBERGRIS CAYS Bush Cay Big Sand Cay ATLANTIC OCEAN Grace Bay Beach , voted one FROM EXC L USIVE OP U L ENCE TO of the world’s ten best The most developed of the Islands, Providenciales EC L U D E D E la X A TION (or “Provo”) is the gateway to our country. Our S R commercial capital and most populous island, Covering 38 square miles, Provo Provo is home to many ultra-luxury resorts and boasts eight national parks, nature reserves and historical sites. Princess spas lining its most famous 12 mile Grace Bay At Chalk Sound National Sapodilla Bay in Chalk Sound and Malcolm’s Bay Alexandra Marine Park is home to Beach - consistently voted one of the world’s Park you can kayak on Provo’s northwestern tip are fine secluded JoJo, the famously interactive wild best beaches by international travel magazines or paddleboard the beaches. Mangrove Cay, Donna Cay, and bottlenose dolphin. Here you will also and travelers' websites. For the more discerning turquoise inland lake Little Water Cay, all a short boat ride off the find superb reef and wall diving and all traveler, Provo guarantees exclusive opulence and with hundreds of cays north coast of Leeward, are nature reserves varieties of water sports. indulgence as well as serene solitude and pristine and a large variety of which protect the native Turks & Caicos nature, and an easy escape from civilization. bird species. Rock Iguana (Little Water Cay), ospreys, At the Caicos Conch Farm, the only pelicans, and other waterbirds. On Provo, one of its kind in the world, see Cheshire Hall is a historic site holding how Caribbean Queen Conch remnants of a cotton plantation built by are grown from eggs to four Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late year old adults ready for the 1700s. The Bight, Five Cays and Blue Hills are Provo’s local cuisine or export. In Northwest Point oldest native settlements, each with a unique, Marine National Park find deserted beaches and authentic atmosphere. spectacular wall diving that the Turks & Caicos is famous for. TH E MIGRATION OF AT la NTIC HUM P B A CK Whal ES IS ONE OF NA TURE ’S GRE A T SIG H TS Our historic and political capital, seven square mile Grand Turk is home to Cockburn Town, a fascinating collection of traditional Caribbean architecture. Compact enough for a leisurely walking tour shaded by bougainvillea and yellow elder, Duke and Front Streets are lined with restored landmark 18th and 19th century Bermudian buildings of the salt raking era. The Governor’s The Turks & Caicos National Museum includes well-done exhibits residence at Waterloo, built in 1815, is located that tell the tale of the Islands right on the beach in Columbus Landfall Park. from their Lucayan roots through to modern times. Grand Turk offers divers one of the world’s Collections include Taino artifacts, a presentation on maritime excavation greatest wall-diving meccas, with a drop of centered around the Molasses Reef wreck (the oldest known shipwreck nearly 7000 feet. This "Mount Everest" of wall in the Western Hemisphere), relics from the Colonial era, a coral reef dives is just ¼ mile from the beach. re-creation and an exhibit on space exploration, detailing John Glen's The lighthouse, which once warned passing splashdown off Grand Turk's shore. boats of the treacherous reefs, was shipped in pieces from the UK and constructed in Grand Turk has only 70 hotel 1852. A prized historic site, protected by the rooms, so reserve early in National Trust, it provides shade, a picnic area high season. and an excellent viewing spot for the Atlantic humpback whales’ migration in the winter months. Immerse yourself in our history, A GROU P OF IS la N D S A S DIVERSE marvel at our wildlife A S OUR ISITOR S NTERESTS V ’ I The most lush of all our islands, water sports lovers. North was originally At North Caicos’ east coast find North Caicos is known as the settled by Wade Stubbs, a Loyalist refugee Bottle Creek, a shallow passage of “garden island.” Located a short from the American Revolution. His Wades shimmering turquoise connecting trip from Provo by ferry, boat Green cotton plantation did not last long, the Atlantic Ocean to the or small plane, North’s greater but the haunting and well-preserved ruins Caicos Banks. Paddle down rainfall allows forests of Caribbean can now be toured. the creek, beach your kayak Now accessible from North Caicos via hardwoods to flourish in the and then float lazily with causeway, Middle Caicos is another island’s interior. While the village of the current from the passage’s favorite for heritage and ecotourism. Among the lush Bottle Creek is the geographic shallow waters to where the Sample local food at Daniel’s Café or vegetation are sugar and commercial center of North channel’s mouth opens to the sea. choose handmade local crafts at the apples, guineps Caicos, the settlement of Whitby, Middle Caicos Artisans Co-op. Arrange and the sweetest of on its main highway, is home to to take a shoreside bike ride to a picnic sapodillas, a cross between a kiwi and a fig. As a sanctuary for wildlife most of its guest houses and hotels. at spectacular Mudjin Harbor. Visit with and protected wetlands, North Caicos and its five national parks and With miles of deserted white the friendly residents of Bambarra and nature reserves are a unique eco-tourism destination for nature and sand beaches to enjoy in solitude, Lorimers, or explore the awe-inspiring Whitby is also home to one of TCI’s Conch Bar Caves in the nearby national natural wonders -- the hundreds park.
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