We’re off for 6 days in St Lucia and then 3 days in Guyana, the Guyana part is mostly to see Kaiteur Falls. We booked back in March, based on it being just after rainy season in Guyana, so that in theory the falls will be full, but we’ll have good weather. We also planned the trip around direct flights from Toronto-St Lucia and St Lucia-Georgetown.
We were up at 4:45am to catch the flight to St Lucia. For some reason we both had viewed anything in the Caribbean as a ‘short’ flight, even though it’s 5.5 hours to St Lucia. We actually took off 20 minutes early!
Unfortunately most of the North American flights arrive in UVF around 2pm, so there’s a big spike in tourists and line ups for all the arrival stuff. We got through immigration really quickly cause we had filled out the online form earlier in the week. But then we waited about an hour for our luggage. Felt like we were at Pearson!
Picked up our car rental, a Suzuki Jimny from Sixt. Yet another country with left-hand drive where we’ve rented a car (now 10 out of 13). Set up my phone mount and then we were off on our adventure!
The main ring road in St Lucia is nicely paved. The secondary roads aren’t too bad, single width in some stretches, but least without sharp drop-offs like in Dominica. Our hotel was 45 minutes from the airport, in the SW corner of St Lucia, just south of the pitons.
We’re staying at Tet Rouge, a small place with 8 chalets. There’s only one other couple here right now so the hotel was expecting us as we drove up. Checked in, and then arranged for dinner in an hour, at 6:30pm. We hadn’t had lunch and were on very little sleep, so an early dinner suited us just fine.
Cleaned up and cooled down in our air conditioned room. The hotel has a cute little outdoor restaurant, with an excellent kitchen. We ordered a bit too much, although it was all delicious. My favourite was the tuna ceviche appetizer. We were in bed very early, the heat and lack of sleep getting to us.
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