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A guide to the Cayman Islands, focusing particularly on outdoor activities. Information on all the popular tourist sites is provided, including tips on shopping, getting around, where to stay and where to eat. The outdoor activities cover cruising, trekking, diving and horse riding.

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The Best Guide to the Caymans
To the outsider, the Cayman Islands – Cayman Brac, Grand Cayman and Little Cayman – are almost always equated with watersports and glorious beaches, plus offshore banking opportunities. This is hardly surprising, since the Cayman Islands do offer world-class scuba diving in crystal-clear waters, as well as a tax-free haven. But these three islands have so much more to offer the traveler who's willing to wander off the traditional tourist paths, walk away from the beachside resorts and explore by themselves. Diverse woodlands and pristine wetlands occupy much of the islands' interiors, rugged hiking trails meander across the peaks and valleys, and mangrove swamps cushion the shoreline, offering a unique breeding ground for many birds and fish. These protected wilderness areas are often left unexplored by lay-in-the-sun-all-day tourists, who miss some of the biggest attractions the islands offer.

Join our Caribbean expert team of authors in their quest to discover "the other Caymans," the islands' little-visited spots away from the crowds where you can trek for miles without seeing another soul, strip down and sun yourself on a secluded beach, or join a group and sail offshore as the sun sets. As with all Adventure Guides, this book introduces you to the history, geography and people of the region first, so you have a good background knowledge of the island chain. The authors then take you touring, visiting all the popular tourist sites and towns, and offering valuable tips on shopping, transportation, restaurants and accommodations. Then, it's on with the adventures: on foot, on and below the water, on wheels, in the air and on horseback. Among the many fun activities included are paragliding, sailing, catamaran cruises, soaring, scuba diving, trekking, hiking, waterskiing, windsurfing, snorkeling, driving trips and horseback riding. For all of these, the authors give a list of local operators who can set you up with equipment, ferry you around from site to site or actually guide you on ! walks or riding trips. Detailed town and regional maps. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Excellent resource for the Cayman Islands, 24 Aug 1998 By A Customer This review is from: Adventure Guide to the Cayman Islands (Adventure Guide) (Paperback) My wife and I spent 6 days in Grand Cayman. Overall the book gave great information on what to see and where to go. We especially enjoyed the section that points out where the movie "The Firm" was filmed. We are big movie buffs and that was fun to see the sites of some of the filming. The book did not point out that there are basically two spots to go see the stingrays in "Stingray City". We took two different snorkel trips. One trip took us to a reef in stingray city. The water was about 15 feet deep. We saw about 10 stingrays but had some trouble getting close to them because of the deep water. A second trip took us to a stingray area that was in water about four feet deep. This location was more enjoyable because you could actually touch the rays and hold them if you wanted. Also there were several more rays at this location. Both trips were great but I recommend going on the trip with the shallow stingray area first. The book was right about the climate. We went during the second week of August (Near Hurricane Season) and it rained for a few hours on a couple of days. The rain did allow us to leave the beach and see the turtle farm and Hell. We snorkeled in a few of the sites that the book recommends. The book highly recommends the Cemetary Reef. This reef was nice but after we got out near the reef, we were surrounded by gray jacks and other fish. The fish nipped a little at my wife's finger and it became quickly unenjoyable. We found out later that a lot of people feed the fish here and therefore they become more aggressive. In general, it wasn't scary but it was not fun with all these semi-aggresive fish around us. My wife especially did not like it. Finally, I recommend the Hyatt and renting a car for at least a day. The Hyatt is slightly more expensive but is well worth the money. Also a car was useful to explore the island and other snorkel sites. We will definitely go back and use this book as a resource.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Our family loved the Cayman Islands!, 5 Aug 1998 By A Customer This review is from: Adventure Guide to the Cayman Islands (Adventure Guide) (Paperback) Our family used this guide to plan our trip to the Cayman Islands. We stayed on Grand Cayman and took a day trip to Little Cayman, an idea we got from this guide. It was the highlight of our trip. We have been to Grand Cayman several other times but on this trip we found many new places to explore thanks to this book!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   First trip to the Cayman Islands, 19 Jul 1998 By A Customer This review is from: Adventure Guide to the Cayman Islands (Adventure Guide) (Paperback) My husband and I had no idea what to expect, until we read this guide, and we found it very comprehensive and informative. We were able to plan each day's adventure by consulting the book, from planning what to do and where, where and what to eat, what tours to take, what to do on our own--in short, it was invaluable, adding immeasurably to our enjoyment of this vacation.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 4 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews Up-to-date and Comprehensive but Could have used Better Maps This is a very recent guidebook (Feb 1998), and therefore, provided the most up to date information on what is available in the Caymans. Read more Published on 10 Jul 1998 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 4 customer reviews...