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There is a gift shop which sells Turks and Caicos Islands' centric artifacts. Some of the local products of interest are sea-glass jewelry made out of glass found in the beaches, straw hats and baskets from Middle Caicos, salts and bath salts from Salt Cay. [9] A walking tour of the Lucayan Cave is offered to explore artifacts made of wood.
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; [7] / ˈ t ɜːr k s / and / ˈ k eɪ k ə s,-k oʊ s,-k ɒ s /) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. [8]
The island contains about 1,000 acres (405 ha) of land, a mile-long beach and features a high-end beach resort with 61 rooms. [2] Parrot Cay became a private island resort in 1998. It is located about 575 miles (925 km) south east of Miami, and can be reached by a 35-minute boat ride from Providenciales, the main island in Turks and Caicos.
Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian jetted down to Turks and Caicos for a girls-only trip seemingly as a belated 40th birthday celebration for Kourtney, several weeks after her star-studded birthday ...
Beaches Resorts is an operator of all-inclusive resorts for couples & families in the Caribbean, founded in 1997. [1] Beaches Resorts and Sandals Resorts are part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI) which is a parent company to five resort brands across seven countries.
JAGS McCartney International Airport (IATA: GDT, ICAO: MBGT), also known as Grand Turk International Airport, is an airport located 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
The seat of government ever since 1766, Cockburn Town was the first permanent settlement on any of the islands, founded in 1681 by salt collectors who arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The city supposedly lies on the place where Juan Ponce de León first landed on the island. It is named for Francis Cockburn, former Governor of the Bahamas.
Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands is in the middle of the humpback whales' annual migratory route to the Silver Banks, a humpback mating and nursery area, north of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea. It is a 75-square-mile (190 km 2) shallow coral reef area, an underwater plateau of limestone. It is believed that the whales choose ...