Flights to St. Lucia
St. Lucia is a Windward Island of the Lesser Antilles located in middle of the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands between Martinique and St. Vincent. Just 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, the island’s east coast is on the Atlantic Ocean, while the Caribbean laps at its western shore.
The island’s first settlement was French, established in the mid-1700s, but it was quickly taken over by the British, who colonized it for two centuries. St. Lucia gained independence as a Commonwealth in 1979.
The landscape is dominated by The Pitons, a pair of pointed volcanic mountains on the coast. Gros Piton is 2,530 feet high and Petit Piton is 2,438 feet high. Behind them is a lush tropical rainforest where visitors can hike, zipline, and cool off with a dip beneath a waterfall. More than 75 percent of St. Lucia is forested.
A popular cruise-ship port, St. Lucia boasts beautiful sandy beaches and fantastic watersports. For landlubbers, there’s golf, horseback riding, and tennis.