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The Caribbean Cultural Center is a tremendously huge entertainment complex that
includes many attractions, island villages, shops, restaurants, etc. Click a
particular spot on the park map below (or click a text link below the map) to
view more information about the venue:
12 Island Villages: This hallmark attraction
of the Caribbean Cultural Center has recreated historical settings and has
docents dramatizing period life.
- Cayman Islands Village: Our fisherman
will tell you all about the maritime history and show you their boats for
fishing and traveling in the Caribbean.
- Jamaican Village: Home to reggae, Rastafarian
and a sugar plantation, slaves will tell you their sad stories.
- Cuban Village: The Cuban docents will show
you the tobacco field, roll a Cuban cigar, and dance the cha, cha, rumba,
& danzon.
- Hispaniola Village: The great fort with
canyons, muskets, and guards also has meringue players entertaining the
soldiers and guests.
- Puerto Rican Village: Arawak Indians
welcome you to their tribe's village while a Puerto Rican works at the
coffee plantation.
- Virgin Islands Village: Come aboard a
pirate ship and meet Sir Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, or Blackbeard and the
other cut throats.
- French Antilles Village: The
Pineapple and banana plantation showcase our tropical fruit drinks and you
will see some handsome Frenchman.
- Windward Islands Village: The Caribs
Indians were the one of the first inhabitants of the Caribbean and you will
learn their customs.
- Leeward Island Village: Don't mistake
the British accent of our docents as they show you around the beautiful
botanical garden.
- Barbados Village: The replica of the Sunbury
Plantation House depicts owners living in a grand style and profiting from
slavery.
- Trinidad Village: We created an aviary
at this village and populated with toucans, the scarlet ibis, pelicans,
honey creepers, etc.
- Aruba Village: You can recognize the Dutch
influence with its pastel colored colonial houses and their curly gables.
Attractions: With tropical entertainment, water
activities, gourmet cooking. intellectual stimulation, and so much more, you are
going to have some fun, guaranteed!
- Hurricane Bay: Captain Hook's Revenge,
Black Beard's Plank, Coconut Drop, Castaways' Rafting Tour, Shipwrecked,
Bermuda Triangle, and Hurricane Five are all thrilling water rides.
- Aquarium of the Caribbean: A
premier tropical aquarium and research facility with an underwater tunnel,
virtual dive, tidal pools and corral reefs.
- Ports Of Call Marketplace: Little Havena, Old San
Juan, Kingston Town, and Frederick Street in Port of Spain are a shopper's
tropical paradise.
- Paradise Theater: This Imax theater presents the
films Tropical Adventure and Living Through a Category Five Hurricane.
- Island Exhibit Hall: Colonial and
Marine Exploration, Hurricanes and Tropical Rain Forests, Colonial
Imperialism and Slavery presentations enlighten the mind and stimulate
cultural awareness.
- The Caribbean Carnival Extravaganza: Our very
own five star Caribbean Carnival Pageant with live music, extraordinary
dancing, beautiful costumes, delicious food, and tropical drinks.
- Ocean Activities: Jet skiing,
windsurfing, boogie boarding, surfing, sailing, scuba diving, snorkeling,
fishing, or parasailing are waiting for the adventuresome.
- Restaurants Jamaican Plantation Hut, Black
Beard Gallery, Jamba Juice Hut, Felipe's, Caribbean Carnival Pageant Show.
Restaurants: Dining facilities cater to native
Caribbean dishes.
- Jamaican Plantation Villa: Open
for breakfast and lunch, expect a hearty meal as if you were going to work
on a grand plantation.
- Black Beard Galley: The
greatest fish dishes you will ever eat served by genuine captains and
pirates.
- Felipe's Gourmet cooks
serving classic and nouvelle French cuisine.
- Carnival Dinner Show: You will
be entertained, wined, and dined with gourmet food from each and every
island, a Caribbean Feast.
- Jamba Juice Hut: Taste all sorts
of tropical drinks, with and without alcohol, and the hallmark piña colada.
Ports of Call Marketplace is a city unto itself
featuring all kinds of native shops, street vendors, cafes, Don't forget to
visit such local hot spots and drop in the native shopkeepers:
To move around the complex, we have various methods of transportation:
- The Sugar Cane Trains
- Minute Cruise Ships
- River Boats
- Horse Carriages
- The Indian Canoes
- Red Double Decker Buses
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