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Escape Antigua’s tourists (but be ready to confront some grim secrets)

Caribbean encounters with beautiful Georgian architecture and the legacy of slavery

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

‘Tourism, tourism and tourism,’ said my Antiguan cab driver, when I asked what the country’s main industries were. Still, it’s easy to avoid the other tourists, even though the island’s just over 100 square miles. Take a quad-bike tour — arranged by my hotel, the Sandals Grande Antigua Resort — and you can go from one end of the island to another in a morning, without seeing another tourist.

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