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Best of the Bahamas: Bahamas Top 10

For tropical holiday, the Bahamas are legendary. And with reason. Although one of the world smallest country, the Bahamas archipelago, which has about 700 small islands tinier 2000, offers a wide range of topography, plant and recreational activities and beautiful pristine beaches, as well. There are about 30 inhabited islands here, and over a dozen tourists expected.

So for those who visit Bahamas for the first time, or even re-consider, here are the top 10 'Island archipelago, which are also the most easily accessible to visitors.

1. New Providence

New Providence is the main island of Bahamas. It is by far the most populous, the most popular, and literally a pole attraction for tourists, especially Americans. It is Nassau, the largest city in the Bahamas and best known, which claims more than 175,000 people and over 400 Banks (Oh, did we mention that the Bahamas is a tax haven? No? Well, it is!)! The accommodation, catering options and other services for tourists are numerous here, and other sights in real time. Besides its history with its narrow streets and charged in Britain was the strongest, the boss calls here are the Atlantis Resort and Casino and the International Queen staircase, the second is a 65-step stone staircase, which is one step for each year of the rule of Queen Victoria, rising to 102 feet of Fort Fincastle. Popular popular activities are swimming, diving, windsurfing, parasailing, diving, sport fishing, hiking and biking.

2. Grand Bahama

Grand Bahama is the fourth largest island in the Bahamas. A travel brochure describes the island as "cosmopolitan glitz and glamor, with miles of pristine beaches and turquoise sea without end. "And that really sums up. The island has dozens of good hotels, some excellent restaurants along the beach, shopping earrings, two casinos, and miles and miles of sandy beaches. The main town is Freeport, which is the second largest and most modern in the Bahamas with a population of 50,000. The great attraction of the island is the Lucayan National Park, an event-type environment.

3. The Abacos

The Abacos, or simply Abaco is a group of small islands, islets and outcrops forming a 100-mile long archipelago itself. This is the second largest island in the Bahamas, and the most visited among the outputs of Bahamas islands. Its capital, Marsh Harbor, which is really a one-stop-light town, is the third largest in the Bahamas. There are other picturesque towns and villages in Abaco and other islands, with wooden houses, pastel, sunny beaches, abundant tropical flora, tranquil country roads, and more 50 species of tropical birds. Recreation in the Abacos include all outdoor sports during hot weather, you may think, so that services can be here described as modern.

4. Andros

Andros is by far the largest island in the Bahamas, 104 miles long and 40 miles wide, located north of Abaco, with the island a large population of 8000. There are three main cities of the Nicholl's Town Andros, Fresh Creek and the Bay of Kemp, all accessible by boat or by direct flights from Miami or Nassau. There are good facilities for visitors here, including a large selection of accommodation ranging from resorts to Houses full of guests Neat little. The island is especially popular with divers.

5. Bimini

Bimini, just a stone's throw from Florida (well, 50 miles) and was made famous by artists such as Ernest Hemingway and Zane Gray, is about fishing, fisheries and fishing. It comprises two different islands, with a combined land mass of less than 10 square kilometers and a population approximately 1,600 people, most of whom live in Bailey Town in North Bimini. However, Alice In town, the center of other people Bimini is the main station with all the hotels, restaurants and airlines charter fishing there. Most visitors travel to Bimini to fish, and the island is also locally known for more than 20 fishing tournaments.

6. Eleuthera

Eleuthera, which is perhaps the largest of the islands the Bahamas, more than 110 kilometers long and 60 miles west of Nassau, is the playground of the rich and famous. Therefore, it is also one of the most accessible of the Bahamas, with daily flights from Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Nassau. The island has a population of 10,800, and its cities are the main Spanish Wells, the richest colony in the Bahamas, Harbor Island, a resort island with clean water and a range of pink, Gregory Town, City Island Pineapple Festival, Harbor-governor, a town typically tropical, with history and charm, and Tarpum Bay, a community of artists where, among other artists Mal Flanders, an American, and Hughes MacMillan, a Scot, he will paint the landscape.

7. The Exumas

Located 35 miles east of New Providence, the Exumas up a chain of about 350 islands and islets are scattered along 95 km of open sea, all the way to Long Island. There are about 3,500 inhabitants in the Exumas, most of whom live in greater Exuma and Little Exuma, located in the southern part of the island chain in the major population centers in George Town and Williams Town, respectively. The Exumas are also well served by daily flights to Miami and Nassau. Boating, fishing, beachcombing and swimming are the main activities here, with excellent facilities for holidaymakers.

8. Cat Island

For the pure natural beauty and solitude, Cat Island is the best of the lot. A 50-square-mile Island, which offers a peaceful retreat with rolling hills, lush forests and vast stretches of beach windswept. There are some adjustments here and visitor activities are usually centered around the swimming, hiking and picking through the ruins of former colonial plantations. Attractions of the island are the Hermitage, a miniature, handmade, to the abbey Monte alverine, the culmination of the island to 206 feet and the ruins of the Deveaux Plantation in Port Howe, a real piece of local history in a spectacular setting.

9. The Inagua

The third largest, remotest and most southerly island of the Bahamas, are also the most populated Inagua. There are fewer than 1,200 residents here, all in Great Inagua, Little Inagua, just north inhabited. And while the Inagua hardly a first choice for tourists, the few who venture this far south are well rewarded by miles and miles of rocky shores and pristine wildlife than any of the other islands. Hiking, biking, fishing and observation birds are on the agenda. Besides, two sites of special interest here are the Inagua National Park, with its 280 miles of rocky shores, Inland, the saltwater flats, scrub and forest, peopled with its famous flamingos and over 200 species of birds, Matthew and the picturesque Town Lighthouse, standing at the south end of Inagua as a lonely sentinel.

10. San Salvador

San Salvador, located just north of the island of Bahamas' Long is 12 miles long and 6 miles wide, with less than 600. The main population nucleus Cockburn Town is the capital of both San Salvador and his younger sister to the West Island, Rum Cay. Virtually all the islanders live here However, it is one of the smaller communities of the Bahamas islands. Oh, and Club Med is here, if only a few kilometers of Cockburn Town.

About the Author

Baljeet Sangwan is a globetrotter, travel editor and travel writer who has published 12 travel guidebooks. He is a co-publisher at iChiefTravel and contributor to The Bahamas, the Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands and Aruba travel guides.

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