Articles tagged with "Bahamas"
This guide carries the hurricane season dates a government publishes and nothing else, because no source in its register states a temperature, a rainfall figure or a monthly average for the Bahamas.
The Bahamas is an independent country that sets and enforces its own entry rules, and two of them surprise travelers arriving from its neighbors: a passport must carry six months of validity beyond your departure date, and the stay normally granted is thirty days.
The Bahamas runs on two calendars a visitor should read together: a hurricane season with fixed official dates, and a Junkanoo year that puts the largest street celebrations at the turn of the year and through the summer.
Lucayan National Park on Grand Bahama protects one of the longest charted underwater cave systems in the world, preserved remains of the Lucayan people, and a species of animal that was new to science when it was found here.
Inagua National Park protects the world's largest breeding colony of flamingos on the southernmost island of the Bahamas. UNESCO and the Bahamas National Trust both describe it, in different units and with different numbers, and this guide reconciles neither.
The Bahamas has no site inscribed on the World Heritage List. It has two on the Tentative List, and the first of them is a set of eleven lighthouses built between 1836 and 1887 by a service that was run from Britain until independence.