I'm attaching more photos of our fabulous jeep tour on St. Kitts; scenery from a topographic high point.
Our drive-about focused on the sugar industry, which determined -- and to some extent still does determine, through its collapse, the lives of many residents, slave and owner alike. Here, tour operator Greg Pereira stands in a ruined mill and tells us about the sugar industry.
In the shade of this lovely tree we sampled island fruits and fruit-based cookies, spread out across the top of one of the jeeps.
Our tour's last stop was this Anglican church, still in use, which dates from (I think) the mid 1700s. It now has a thriving black congregation, but at one point the slaves had to wait outside while their owners attended services here. The building is surrounded by old gravestones.
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