The Helen of the West
St. Lucia (Loo-sha) remains relatively unspoiled, a checkerboard of green-mantled mountains, valleys, wild orchids, and fishing villages. The island has a mixed French and British heritage, but there’s a hint of the South Pacific about it as well. The music reverberates throughout St. Lucia, and the savoury smells of a rich cuisine waft through Marigot Bay and Soufrière. A favourite stop-off for island-hoppers, yachties and jet-setters, St. Lucia offers volcanic rock beaches, lush fruity landscapes, and lively nightlife of limbo, jazz, and rum punch.11
