The Bahamas

Entertainment or Unique Tours:

Powerboat adventures, Island hopping by sea from Nassau to visit the islands of Harbour Island, Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera and Exuma.

 Shopping:

With a wonderful array of local shops and stores, Nassau Paradise Island is a shopper’s heaven.

What to shop:

local crafts, jewellery, clothing, and other authentic items that reflect the culture and creativity of The Bahamas.

Where to shop:

Fine fashions and designer boutiques at Crystal Court Shops and Marina Village in Paradise Island. Unique and popular shops on Bay Street in downtown Nassau. The bustle and Bahamian charm of local straw markets. you’ll be enthralled by the shops and products.

For more information visit https://www.nassauparadiseisland.com/things-to-do/shopping.

Culture / Events:

The Bahamas enjoys a diverse culture that evolved from a fusion of African with British and American influences, to a unique and colorful style of Bahamian self-expression, best described as easy-going, friendly, and hospitable!

Here are few of the most popular cultural aspects of Bahamas

Junkanoo: when thousands of people in ornate and colourful costumes and headdresses dance in the streets to rhythmic Bahamian music.

Festivals: The Bahamians love to celebrate and have fun. There is always some colorful carnival happening in the Bahamas. These are some festivals that you don't want to miss:

•       Great Bahamas Seafood and Heritage Festival: this October festival offer authentic Bahamian cuisine, traditional music, and storytelling.
•       New Year’s Parade: features Junkanoo and takes place every January 1st on Bay Street.
•       Junkanoo June Heritage Festival: features street dancing, craft demos, storytelling, native drinks and dishes and live performances by top Bahamian artists.

Other major festivals are Andros Crab festival, held in June; Fox Hill Day festival, held in August; Bahamas International Film festival, held in December; Eleuthera Pineapple festival, held in June. Bahamas Coconut festival and Conch festival.

Regatta: a series of boat races celebrated every year, during the Bahamas Labour Day holiday weekend in June, lasting for up to three days.

Performing Arts: Music and Heritage festival is a three-day annual celebration of Bahamian culture held every November.

Music: Bahamian music developed a distinctive identity called Goombay music.  This early style of music was typical for both song and dance. The derivation of the name is from an African drum called ‘goom-ba’, a membranophone made with goat skin and played with the hands.

 Lime & Dine:

Native Dishes: is diverse and delicious. Common ingredients include shellfish, lobster, conch, crab, fish, fruits, potatoes, pigeon peas, rice, and pork. Here are few must try dishes:

•       Starters: conch fritter, conch chowder and conch salad
•       Main dishes for lunch or dinner: crack conch, stew conch and stew fish
•       Desserts: guava duff, banana bread and peanut or benny cake

 Beaches:

With more than 700 stunning islands, spread across 100,000 square miles of the world’s clearest ocean making up the Bahamas, picking the best beaches is no easy task.

Below listed are a handful of breathtakingly beautiful beaches, in no particular order, that enjoy high touristic ratings due to its unique characteristics that include quality of fine powdery sand, clear sea water, proximity to a town or settlement, and more….

•   Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island
•   Treasure Cay Beach, Abacos
•   Cape Santa Maria Beach, Long Island
•   Tahiti Beach, Abacos
•   Pink Sands Beach, Harbour Island
•   East Beaches, Stocking Island
•   Shelling Beach, Great Harbour Cay
•   Fernandez Bay Beach, Cat Island
•   Great Guana Cay Beach, Abacos
•   Stocking Island Beaches, Exumas
•   Fortune Beach, Grand Bahama

 Water Activities:

Snorkelling, scuba diving, boat Race, sea cave exploration, kayaking, parasailing, kite surfing boat race, hydro flight.

Unique to Bahamas is to join an Island-hopping excursion, in which you enjoy unobstructed views of the Exuma Cays from a boat, see the Bahamian rock iguana in its natural habitat, visit the famous Pig Beach to see the swimming pigs and splash around with them in the clear waist-deep water, swim with nurse sharks, visit turtle island to snorkel and interact with a variety of local green turtles or enjoy the beautiful isolated beaches that these Island has to offer.