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Choose Cap Juluca In Anguilla For Your Truly Relaxing Beach Getaway
Friday, April 05th, 2013 /

Cap Juluca is an exclusive Caribbean hotel that’s located to the southwest coast of Anguilla, of the British Virgin Islands. The resort is set on 179 serene acres, and flanked by white sandy beaches, palm trees, and water so clean that you can see to the bottom.

Visitors of the Cap Juluca resort are accommodated in 18 beachfront layout villas that will house no more than 6 rooms each. The rooms measure a minimum of 700 sq. ft. in size and feature huge marble bathrooms, white tile floors, and louvered doors that will open wide to let in the fresh sea wind. The visitors’ rooms offer more comfortable new Stearns and Foster beds and Frette linens, 40″ HDTVs and DVD players, Wave stereos with iPod docking stations, totally free wireless internet as well as boosted terrace furniture pieces. During the morning, visitors can enjoy complimentary continental breakfast which is served on their own secluded terrace.

The Cap Juluca also offers six pool villas which are flanked by foliage within the edge of the beach. The pool villas offer a private or shared swimming pool, sundeck, as well as golf carts to help you travel around the premises. The resort design and style includes exotic arches, domes, turrets, and parapets. The white villas that are nestled along the white sands of the mile long Maundays Bay, is encircle by exotic blooms, palm trees, and breathtaking fountains. This beach getaway boasts numerous really good actions such as aquatic events, croquet, a health club, herb and endangered species gardening purposes, children’s program, nature trails and even tennis. Cove and Maundays Bay provide a mile of beach, where one can take pleasure in kayaking, sail, snorkeling, water-ski, and also sailboard steering. You may also arrange for island trips at the Cap Juluca in Anguilla to look around the numerous beaches, go scuba diving, and even deep-sea fishing. In relation to excitement around the water, this resort has something to provide almost everyone in your family. The spa providers at the Cap Juluca include customized treatments such as Cap Juluca for 2, a Thai massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, as well as kinesiology.

Cap Juluca offers visitors two dining places along with a round-the-clock room service. One of these, George’s, features swimming pool and beachfront eating, serving guests’ modern-day exotic food inclusive of salads, seafood, burgers, and even snacks. Another restaurant, Pimms, is decorated with white Moorish arches and serves French-Asian food within easy reach of the Caribbean Sea.

If you’ve been searching for a good beach vacation, the Cap Juluca in Anguilla will give just what exactly you need. The world prominent beaches have been enhanced with the addition of high quality chaise lounges and beach service stations. Furthermore, beaches are cleaned many times weekly causing them to be completely impressive. There will be something here for your family, regardless of what your family likes to achieve. Getting up on an island with the sea at your back door is truly an amazing experience – which is what Cap Juluca is really all about.

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Travel Destination: Philippine Beaches
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 /

The Philippines is an island archipelago in Southeast Asia with more than 7,100 islands. With a coastline twice the length of that of the United States and at least a beach on every island, the Philippines is Asia’s beach capital. Just the mention of the Philippines brings images of warm crystal blue waters and long, white sandy beaches. Here is a list of the most popular Philippine beaches:

● Boracay Beach – the most popular beach located on the northwestern tip of Panay island, Western Visayas. Boracay has 4 kilometers of powder-white beach touted as the “finest beach in the world”. Today the island of Boracay has numerous restaurants, bars, cafes and has one of the most vibrant nightlife among Philippine beaches.

● Macatan Island, Cebu – located also in the Visayas, Cebu’s Mactan Island has hotels and resorts water sports facilities, bars and restaurants to guarantee every tourist an enjoyable stay during the day and a nightlife of music, food and drinks.

● Panglao Island, Bohol – Panglao is a small island on the southwest of the bigger island, Bohol. The island has several resorts along beach with accommodations, restaurants and bars. Panglao is famous for its splendid underwater corral reefs surrounding the island.

● Puerto Galera, Mindoro – A favorite vacation hideaway for local and foreign travelers due to its proximity to Manila. Puerto Galera is composed of several beaches in northern Mindoro where tourist can choose which beach to go. Puerto Galera has accommodations for all kind of travelers – from the classy to the basic. For the budget conscious, Puerto Galera is the beach to go. It also has one of the best dive spots in the archipelago – a favorite for diving enthusiast.

● Honda Bay, Palawan – North of the capital city of Palawan is Honda Bay. One can find islets dotting the bay with fine sand beaches. Take a boat ride and island hop to the different islands to swim, snorkel, dive or have a picnic on the beach and enjoy the view of clear blue waters. The bay is studded with patches of coral and sand. The rich marine life of the bay will surely make snorkeling and diving more pleasurable.

● El Nido, Palawan – Surrounded by towering marble cliffs that are homes to a number of tropical birds, El Nido is the source of one of the most scrumptious soups specially found in Chinese restaurants – the Nido Soup, made from the bird’s nest found on the cliffs that abound in the area. Palawan is known as the country’s last frontier; with its virgin forest, unspoiled beaches, corral reefs, caves and beautiful sceneries unmatched anywhere in the Philippines.

● Pearl Farm, Davao – located in the Philippine island of Samal, off the coast of Davao City, Mindanao. Pearl Farm is a world-class beach resort that was once a pearl farm where thousands of oysters were cultivated for their white, pink and gold pearls. The pristine island of Samal boasts of its beautiful white sand beaches, panoramic landscapes and seascapes. Pearl farm is a relaxing vacation retreat set in a tropical paradise.

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Unforgettable Cape Cod Vacations: The National Seashore Gift
Saturday, June 30th, 2012 /



Take a captivating trip through the Cape Cod National Seashore with miles of white sandy beaches, trails and hikes to take your breath away, and majestic dunes. Just keep reading and you can visit all those places right now.

The Cape Cod National Seashore is a 4,308-acre park set aside by an act of congress in 1961 to preserve and protect a unique geological area and wild life habitat of New England.

Cape Cod is about 60 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts. It was formed when the last glaciers to visit the region melted about 12,000-years ago leaving a large lake. Because of special features and material surrounding the glacial lake, the water drained out exposing the sediment and deposits left by the glaciers from earlier times.

With the rising sea level and the protection from the battering ocean provided by Georges Bank gone, nature started to reshape the whole of Cape Cod — especially the Atlantic facing National Seashore area.

The relentless shaping of the Cape continues even today. But this is the place to come to escape. This is the place to come to experience nature.

So let’s take a brief Cape Cod vacations trip together. Are you ready?

Nauset Beach…

The first stop on your trip is Nauset Beach in the town of Orleans.

The entrance to Nauset beach is located in East Orleans at the end of Beach Road, where there’s a large parking lot. The lot is about 2 miles from Routes 6/6A. During the summer months you’ll pay to use the lot.

Protection is the name of the game at Nauset not just for the dunes, but the birds nesting in the spring. Always pay close attention to beach erosion and bird nesting protection signs anywhere during your Cape Cod vacations. Heeding the signs means the area could still be here next time you visit.

At the entrance to the beach you can turn left and walk North, or take the South walk by turning right. Both walks offer spectacular views and hidden areas of the Cape even many residents haven’t discovered. Time your walks to be at low tide so you’ll be walking on exposed sand bars on the North walk, or have a dry crossing to Pochet Island on the South walk.

In the summer Nauset beach is very popular with vacationers, but there always seems to be room even at the busiest times. Swimming is good — but stay close to the shore. It’s the Atlantic Ocean so it’ll be a little cooler than on the Cape Cod Bay side or the Nantucket Sound beaches.

National Seashore Eastham Visitors Center…

The Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham is your next Cape Cod vacations stop. It’ll orientate you to the park, and provides short films, a museum, and free maps for hiking and biking trails.

Note: The Salt Pond Visitor Center building has been closed for renovations since 2003. It’s due to reopen in 2005 – in fact right about now!

Starting from the visitor center is the short and easy 1-mile loop Nauset Marsh Trail that follows a path around the salt pond and Nauset Marsh before returning to the visitor center. It’s a varied terrain of salt marsh grasses, juniper and bayberry bushes, and a great place for bird watching due to the proximity of the marsh.

The salt pond itself is a glacial kettle pond that was once freshwater but the ocean has seeped through.

The Lighthouse Beaches…

Two wonderful beaches to visit in the Eastham area are Coast Guard Beach and Nauset Light Beach.

Coast Guard Beach can be reached by bike from the bike trail from the Salt Pond Visitor Center, or by car from Nauset Road off Route 6 directly after the Visitor Center — just follow the signs to the lot on Doane Road. This beach is a favorite walk of mine at low tide, and was the area where Henry Beston wrote The Outermost House. Sadly the blizzard of 1978 washed the cottage where he lived while writing the book — out to sea.

Yet another example of the awesome forces continually sculpturing the Cape Cod National Seashore.

But here’s another gem of a beach for you…

Nauset Light Beach can be reached from Brackett Road also off Route 6, and then Cable Road and Ocean View Drive. The parking lot is small and fills up quickly in the summer.

Close by the beach is Nauset Lighthouse. Originally built in Chatham in the late 19th century, it was moved here shortly after, and moved again in 1996 when erosion of the cliff threatened to collapse the lighthouse.

The beach is popular for the imposing and towering cliffs and clean white-sand, and walks that create memorable Cape Cod vacations.

Great Island Hike in Wellfleet…

The Great Island hike in Wellfleet is a 6-mile hike, so allow yourself at least half-a-day to explore this wonderful area.

Located on the Cape Cod Bay side of the Cape in Wellfleet, drive to the trailhead off Chequesset Neck Road, and prepare yourself — and camera — for an exhilarating hike. The area is pretty open and so take sunscreen and a hat.

What will you see?

Marvelous views of Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay await you once on the island (hint: it’s not really an island anymore).

Another hint: this is a real nature hike. There’s no sandwich bar or coke machine waiting for you at the end, so take your own snacks and drinks. Of all the trails in the Cape Cod National Seashore Park, this is perhaps the most remote — and I like that!

Out on the Island itself there used to be a secluded Tavern used by Whalers and the like. Nothing remains of it today except for a sign to mark the spot where it was.

National Seashore Province Lands Visitors Center…

The visitor center in Province Lands is off Route 6 and on Race Point Road. This is the northern tip of the park, and marks our final stop together on this Cape Cod vacations trip.

The Visitor Center itself has an observation deck where you can view the majestic surroundings of ocean, forest, and the omnipresent towering dunes. The area includes two swimming beaches — Race Point and Herring Cove — a bike trail, and a walking trail. There’s also a beautiful lighthouse at Race Point.

The bike trail is a challenging 5.25-mile loop that you can start from the visitor center. I’d describe it as undulating bordering on hilly.

There’s also a fair amount of hairpin turns, and so helmets and a safe speed are a must. Believe me the downhill stretches are so exhilarating, but you can easily forget and misjudge bike traffic coming the other way. I’ve seen many a tangled mess — Ouch!

And that’s the end of this brief trip.

Wow! You did a lot in a few minutes – from your chair. But now it’s time to do the real thing. Are you ready?

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