Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The volcanic island of Saint Lucia is more mountainous than many other Caribbean islands.
In 1605, the first English settlers arrived on St. Lucia's Shores, only to be driven away by the native Caribs. The French tried their luck a few decades later and for the next 150 years, St. Lucia went back and forth between the French and the British. England got final dibs on the island in 1814, and even after St. Lucia gained its independence, the Caribbean island remained a part of the British Commonwealth. Yet the French influence is apparent in the culture, the local patois, and the names of historic towns like Castries and Soufrière.
The Pitons are two volcanic plugs in a World Heritage Site in Saint Lucia. The Gros Piton is 771 m, and the Petit Piton is 743 m high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge.
The Pitons are volcanic plugs. There are still sulfur springs and hot mud pools in the nearby Soufrière caldera, visible remnants of former volcanic activity in the area.
The twin peaks of the Pitons tower over the island's lush mountains and rain forests. So lush in fact that the island looks like it should be floating somewhere in the South Pacific. But its lively festivals, calypso music and flavorful creole cuisine are unmistakably Caribbean.
Marigot Bay is a bay in the Caribbean, located on the western coast of Saint Lucia, situated 20 miles south from Castries. It is surrounded on three sides by steep, emerald-colored hills.
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