Travel guides

Explore the Bahamas.

Practical guides for visitors and locals — researched and written by people who actually live here.

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A Local's Guide to the Nassau Straw Market

How to find authentic Bahamian straw craft, talk to the weavers, and leave with something real instead of a souvenir-shop import.

How to ride for $1.25, where to wave one down, and which route gets you to the best beach.

What time to arrive on Bay Street, where to stand, and how the scoring actually works.

Fort Charlotte, Government House, Pompey Museum and more — what to see and what they really mean.

Cable Beach, Love Beach, Jaws Beach, Saunders — ranked by crowd, sand, and snorkel.

Schedules, fares, and what to pack for an overnight Bahamian mailboat voyage.

Dean's Blue Hole isn't on Andros — but the world's densest collection of blue holes is.

We welcome contributions from local experts, dive guides, historians, and lifelong residents.