Since we completed our targets successfully last year, our bosses thought of offering some rewards to us. As a gift they offered us a foreign trip. The choice of the destination was left on us. After lot of deliberations we chose Nassau. We negotiated hard and landed up with good airline deals to this place. As the budget allotted for our trip was limited we did not want to spend much on travel. Hence we had to do tough bargaining with various airline agents for cheap airfare tickets. After completing all the formalities we embarked on our trip. We were a group of seven people and were all mighty excited to visit this beautiful place. Though there are many flights to Nassau, we preferred to visit Miami and Florida first. After spending few days there we went to Nassau. It is the capital and largest city of the commonwealth of Bahamas.
The culture there was totally different from that of Miami and Florida. The beaches and the night clubs were over crowded with visiting tourists. Enjoying proximity with United States of America, it attracts many tourists. Introduction of cheap flights to Nassau worked well and it brought a number of visitors there. The city has been founded by the refugees from America and their slaves who came there during the American Civil War. Later the slavery has been abolished by a bill passed in the British Parliament. In between it was also conquered by Spanish and Americans twice. With all bloodshed wars and revolts, finally Bahamas attained freedom.
With its beautiful beaches it has been a popular shooting place for many Hollywood Hits. The destination has been captured beautifully several times in the movies. It featured in certain best seller novels too. The hotel where we stayed was in a crowded place. It was an ordinary hotel, still all modern facilities were offered. The hospitality of the natives is well known and it is another thing that attracts many visitors. There is a place called Cable Beach which has been recognized as a Hotel District. Many hotels are located in this area. You can find star hotels as well as the ordinary ones here. This allows people from all strata of society to stay here and enjoy the Bahaman culture.
When we reached there the festival of Junkanoo was going on. Usually this festival is celebrated between December 26 and January 1 every year. It includes a colorful street parade and people in great numbers participate in this parade flaunting their colorful dresses. We took it as a bonus that we could participate in this once in a year festival. People from US usually purchases cheap tickets to Nassau and they come here in hordes for participating in this festival.
In the coming days we visited several other important places like Bahamian Parliament, British Colonial Hotel, Pirates of Nassau museum etc. We were really thrilled to have Bahaman experience and while returning we all vouched to come back soon to Nassau.
The culture there was totally different from that of Miami and Florida. The beaches and the night clubs were over crowded with visiting tourists. Enjoying proximity with United States of America, it attracts many tourists. Introduction of cheap flights to Nassau worked well and it brought a number of visitors there. The city has been founded by the refugees from America and their slaves who came there during the American Civil War. Later the slavery has been abolished by a bill passed in the British Parliament. In between it was also conquered by Spanish and Americans twice. With all bloodshed wars and revolts, finally Bahamas attained freedom.
With its beautiful beaches it has been a popular shooting place for many Hollywood Hits. The destination has been captured beautifully several times in the movies. It featured in certain best seller novels too. The hotel where we stayed was in a crowded place. It was an ordinary hotel, still all modern facilities were offered. The hospitality of the natives is well known and it is another thing that attracts many visitors. There is a place called Cable Beach which has been recognized as a Hotel District. Many hotels are located in this area. You can find star hotels as well as the ordinary ones here. This allows people from all strata of society to stay here and enjoy the Bahaman culture.
When we reached there the festival of Junkanoo was going on. Usually this festival is celebrated between December 26 and January 1 every year. It includes a colorful street parade and people in great numbers participate in this parade flaunting their colorful dresses. We took it as a bonus that we could participate in this once in a year festival. People from US usually purchases cheap tickets to Nassau and they come here in hordes for participating in this festival.
In the coming days we visited several other important places like Bahamian Parliament, British Colonial Hotel, Pirates of Nassau museum etc. We were really thrilled to have Bahaman experience and while returning we all vouched to come back soon to Nassau.
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