ST KITTS & NEVIS · CARIBBEAN
Two islands. A volcano. A sugar-cane train.
St Kitts and Nevis sit two miles apart across the Narrows. The scenic railway and Brimstone Hill, Mount Liamuiga and the South East beaches, and the slower pace of Nevis on the far side. Reviews of the tours worth your time on both.
Only on these islands
Three things you’ll only find on St Kitts.
Beaches, rum punch and catamaran days run right across the Caribbean. A working sugar-cane railway, a fortress this size, and a crater hike like this one do not. Build the trip around these, then fill in the rest.
On the old sugar line
The St Kitts Scenic Railway
The last working railway in the West Indies. Narrow-gauge track laid a century ago to haul sugar cane now carries double-decker rail cars three-quarters of the way around the island, past estate ruins, the wild Atlantic coast and the slopes of Mount Liamuiga. Nowhere else in the Caribbean still runs a train like it.
- 1 St Kitts Scenic Train Tour (Hotel or Ship)
- 2 Saint Kitts Train Trek
- 3 St. Kitts Scenic Train Experience
Above the Caribbean
Brimstone Hill Fortress
A UNESCO World Heritage fortress 800 feet up a volcanic hill, built by enslaved Africans over a hundred years and known as the Gibraltar of the West Indies. The cannons still face out across the sea to Nevis, Statia and Saba. Romney Manor and its batik garden sit on the road below.
- 1 Scenic Romney Manor & Timothy Hill or Panoramic Brimstone Hill
- 2 St Kitts Sightseeing Tour to Brimstone Hill Fortress with Beach Visit
- 3 Hike St Kitts: Wingfield Rainforest and Romney Experience
Into the crater
Mount Liamuiga Volcano
A dormant volcano and the highest point on St Kitts at 3,792 feet. The trail climbs through thick rainforest to the crater rim, then ropes down to a green crater floor far below. A guided half-day that ends with the whole island laid out beneath you.
- 1 Liamuiga Natural Farm Tour – St.Kitts’ Coffee Farm
- 2 St.Kitts Volcano Hike To Mt. Liamuiga (Highest Peak On Island)
- 3 Hike St. Kitts: Highest peak Mount Liamuiga Volcano
The whole-island day
If you only do one day, take the loop.
One circuit takes in Brimstone Hill, Romney Manor, Timothy Hill and a beach stop. The day most first-timers book on St Kitts.
The classics
The Islands’ Most Popular Tours
Brimstone Hill, the scenic railway, Mount Liamuiga and the South East beaches. The tours most travellers come for.
Two islands, one trip
How to split St Kitts and Nevis.
They sit two miles apart across the Narrows, and most travellers base on St Kitts and cross to Nevis for a day. Three ways to plan it.
Base on St Kitts
Most of the tours are on the bigger island: the scenic railway, Mount Liamuiga, Brimstone Hill and the South East beaches. An easy home base for a week.
Cross to Nevis
A catamaran over the Narrows or the Charlestown ferry puts Pinney’s Beach, the hot springs and the foot of Nevis Peak inside a single day trip.
A few nights on each
St Kitts for the action and the history, Nevis for the plantation inns and the quiet. Switch islands halfway through and you get both speeds.
By place
Pick a corner of the two islands.
Basseterre for the markets and the rum shops. Brimstone Hill for the fortress. Mount Liamuiga for the climb. The South East Peninsula for the sand. Nevis for the quiet.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
ATV if you want the back roads. The catamaran if you want the Narrows. Snorkelling, rainforest hikes, the sugar train, a sunset sail, and the rest.
Sand and reef
Where St Kitts goes to the beach.
Cockleshell Bay, Frigate Bay and the reef off the South East Peninsula, with Nevis across the water. If we had to pick three, these are the ones we’d swim first.
Out on the Narrows
Sails, snorkels and sundowners.
Catamarans run the two-mile channel between the islands, with a snorkel stop and rum punch on the way back. Our three favourites for a day on the water.
Off the main road
Into the back country.
Up the old plantation tracks and rainforest trails the tour coaches skip, on an ATV or a dune buggy. Three rides worth saving for a second day.
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