Black Rock Trip Overview
Glorious Gardens of Barbados highlights the rich horticultural beauty of Barbados. The tour visits 3 of our best gardens and a delicious Bajan lunch with a fabulous view.
The tour includes a visit to Flower Forest, Hunte’s Botanical Gardens and Andromeda Botanical Gardens.
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Black Rock, Caribbean
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Glorious Gardens of Barbados highlights the rich horticultural beauty of Barbados. The tour visits 3 of our best gardens and a delicious Bajan lunch with a fabulous view.
The tour includes a visit to Flower Forest, Hunte’s Botanical Gardens and Andromeda Botanical Gardens.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Flower Forest, Richmond Plantation St Joseph, Barbados, BB Barbados
Flower Forest Botanical Gardens is a horticultural park and tourist attraction near the village of Bloomsbury, Saint Joseph in Barbados. It is a scenic garden park with attractive flowering plants and tropical trees. The 50-acre property was formerly a sugar plantation
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Hunte’s Gardens, Highway 3A Barbados
Hunte’s Gardens is a botanical garden and significant tourist attraction in the St Joseph Area of central Barbados. It was created from the 1950s by horticulturist Anthony Hunte in an unusual sink-hole-like gully. This garden is world renowned and is one of the top attractions in the entire Caribbean.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bathsheba, Bathsheba, Saint Joseph Parish, Barbados
Bathsheba Beach, which sits on Barbados’ east coast, is a photographer’s and surfer’s paradise. For photographers, Bathsheba offers dramatic rock formations. And for surfers, there’s the beach’s famous Soup Bowl, where top-notch waves can be found. Named after the area’s foamy water, the Soup Bowl is so well-known that international surfing competitions are regularly held here. Do not, however, plan on swimming at Bathsheba. Because of the region’s rough waters and rock formations, it is not safe to swim there.
Our Lunch Stop for this tour is in Bathsheba
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes
Stop At: Andromeda Botanic Gardens, 3 Hwy, Bathsheba Barbados
Andromeda Botanic Gardens is the original garden of Barbados created as a private family retreat by multi-award winning scientist and Barbadian Iris Bannochie. It is the ony RHS Partner Garden in the West Indies and was featured on BBC Gardeners World, BBC World Service The Conversation and the RHS The Garden Magazine. Described as ‘unique and outstanding’ by a leader of global garden tours, the variety of plants is incredible and represents the most plant diverse area in Barbados. Lots of smaller intimate spaces combine to create an ever-changing journey through this wonderful landscape. Andromeda Botanic Gardens is a unqiue example of our heritage and a Barbadian treasure.
Duration: 1 hour
