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I'm Gary Bembridge of tips for travelers
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soon Thomas is the main island of the US
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today it's modern and highly efficient
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port and occasion has made it the second
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most visited to cruise stop in the
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after Puerto Rico like most islands it
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was discovered by Christopher Columbus
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but it's actually colonized by the Danes
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who made it a free port once a popular
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hiding place for pirates it also was
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home to the largest slave market in the
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world after slavery is abolished his
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fortunes declined and the United States
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bought it from the Danes in 1917 for 25
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million dollars tourism is now the big
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revenue with cruise passengers and
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tourists flying in during the popular
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all day catamaran tours he's stopped a
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buck islands turtle cove with shoals of
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tourists snorkel and hope to see the
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endangered green sea turtles groups of
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catamarans float about why the
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enthusiastic crew keep reminding that
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it's a ten thousand dollar fine for
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stepping onto the protected black island
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from there you set sail again by the
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update crew serve punish buzel logo and
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on the back to bow raise the bull south
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of the crew be my tip women visiting
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sometimes is to go on honor these cats
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the port in town can be very busy who's
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very congested with up to seven ships
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and fifteen thousand to twenty three
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thousand passengers important so scape
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deceive to avoid the crowds is very
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advisable the Catherine will take you to
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a beautiful and quiet beaches of Thomas
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like this lovely Beach honeymoon beach
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where you'll have lunch a chance to swim
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in the crystal clear and very calming
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so Thomas is a beautiful island with
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great snorkeling and swimming it's
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efficient clean and orderly and with its
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strong us links it has a more Western
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feel than a more boisterous chaotic
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inauthentic Caribbean feel of the more
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southern islands in the Caribbean if the
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get around trip does not appeal from the
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port of chante Emily you can go to the
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magan's beach named as Rafa top ten
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beaches in the world national
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geographic which is just three and a
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half miles away from the port by cab
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