Kachikally Crocodile Pool, Bakau, The Gambia. This sacred crocodile pool, home to around 100 crocodiles, dates back to the 17th century. Gambian women struggling with infertility still come to pray and wash here, although it’s a bit of a tourist trap now.
Short trip from Providenciales (the most developed island of the Turks & Caicos archipelago) to Grand Turk, the super sleepy capital island, on an adventurous tiny plane! Grand Turk is only 7 square miles large and has fewer than 5,000 inhabitants
Sapodilla Hill Historic Site. Overlooking Sapodilla Bay and Chalk Sound in the south of Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, this hill contains numerous rock inscriptions from travelers, pirates, and shipwrecked sailors from the 18th and 19th centuries. The carvings include names, dates, symbols, and descriptions of ships.
Late 18th-century cotton plantation ruins and reconstructed slave quarters in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. Cheshire Hall was established by Thomas Stubbs, a Loyalist planter from Florida, and then owned by his brother, Wade Stubbs. At its peak, the plantation spread over 5,000 acres and was worked by hundreds of slaves.
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