Diamond Valley Trip Overview
Enjoy a taste of Barbados on this delightful full-day tour. Begin with a taste of nature with a visit to Anthony Hunte’s masterpiece garden followed by the breathtaking Bathsheba. Next, taste the flavor of Barbados with local cuisine served up at the lunch stop a seaside restaurant. Follow up lunch you a taste of history with a visit to Cherry Tree Hill and St Nicholas Abbey. The final stop for the day will give you a taste of Barbados wildlife at the Barbados Wildlife Reserve.
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Diamond Valley, Caribbean
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Full-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Diamond Valley, Saint Philip Parish, Caribbean
Enjoy a taste of Barbados on this delightful full-day tour. Begin with a taste of nature with a visit to Anthony Hunte’s masterpiece garden followed by the breathtaking Bathsheba. Next, taste the flavor of Barbados with local cuisine served up at the lunch stop a seaside restaurant. Follow up lunch you a taste of history with a visit to Cherry Tree Hill and St Nicholas Abbey. The final stop for the day will give you a taste of Barbados wildlife at the Barbados Wildlife Reserve.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Hunte’s Gardens, Highway 3A Barbados
Hunte’s Garden is a picturesque and path offers many surprises, thanks to the superbly created series of mini-gardens embedded within the main large unit, combining vibrant colours and textures of rare exotic plants to offer the visitor a most uplifting and fulfilling experience. The owner and creator of this beauty, Anthony Hunte, is the heart and soul of this place. You may meet him in the garden or around his extraordinary house and you can be sure to be welcomed with fascinating & colorful stories.
Be sure to have your camera ready, as birds and animals love to visit this garden too!
Your exquisite experience is gloriously heightened by classical music subtly wafting in the air, adding an extra layer of delight to an amazing ambiance.
This magical garden has been featured in many Gardening publications and TV series.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bathsheba Beach, Sandy Beach, Bathsheba Barbados
Bathsheba is located on the Eastern coastline of Barbados. It is said that this area was named after the wife of King David whose name was “Bathsheba”. Legend has it that she bathed in milk to keep her skin beautiful and soft, and the rolling surf waters of Bathsheba’s “Soup Bowl” resembled Bathsheba’s bath. The area is popular with surfers. It is a popular area for locals and visitors alike and is dotted with several seaside cottages.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Cherry Tree Hill, Barbados
Cherry Tree Hill is eight hundred and fifty (850) ft above sea level and is a part of St. Nicholas Abbey plantation. Actually due to the size of the St. Nicholas Abbey property, Cherry Tree Hill actually borders, St.Peter and St. Andrew. Many years ago, the drive on either side to get to it was flanked by cherry trees, thus the reason for its name; however these were replaced with mahogany trees which now line the road. The trees were planted in celebration of the signing of The Treaty of Paris in 1763
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill, Morgan Lewis Barbados
The Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill was built in 1727 it is one of the many Barbadian windmills once used to produce sugar, and one of the two last functioning sugar windmills in the world.
The Morgan Lewis Mill ceased grinding sugarcane for commercial purposes in 1947 and was subsequently given to the Barbados National Trust
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: St. Nicholas Abbey, Cherry Tree Hill, BB26007 Barbados
St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere. It’s similar to the English Jacobean-era manor houses of the first half of the seventeenth century, the period between the Tudor and Georgian styles, beginning in the reign of James I.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Barbados Wildlife Reserve, Farley Hill Barbados
The Barbados Wildlife Reserve lies in an enclosed area under a canopy of mahogany trees with winding red brick pathways beneath. If you look closely at the bricks, you can still see the stamps of the manufacturing companies. The bricks were brought to Barbados by ships, which used them as ballast. During the 17th and 18th centuries, these red bricks were used to construct boiler furnaces in Barbados sugar factories. The large wheel in front of the snack bar was acquired from an old sugar factory and was once used to drive rollers for crushing the sugar cane.
The most popular animal at the Reserve is The Barbados Green Monkey. The monkey has brown and grey thick fur that has yellow and olive green flecks in it as an adult. In some lights, the monkey can appear green. This is why they are called green monkeys. Barbados Green Monkeys generally live in groups of fifteen to twenty. Within a family group, males gain their dominance by their size, strength and their ability to fight. Females, however, get their rank by the size of their families. Most infants are born during April and May.
Duration: 45 minutes
Pass By: Glory Tours & Beautiful Barbados Tours & Excursions Ltd, Bridgetown Cruise Port, Bridgetown Barbados
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