Fresh-from-the-sea tropical conch salad made at a roadside stand? Yes, please, a hundred times over!!
You’ll find sugar apples, kanep and hogplum fruits that you can purchase from street vendors aplenty. Open a coconut, drink the fresh milk and eat the jelly.
Also, do not pass go or collect $200 until you’ve eaten their Guava Duff for dessert! You have to taste it to believe it. It’s truly out of this world incredible!
Want another truly local experience? Be sure to make your way over to the fish market at the far-east end of the island. Each day, fisherman haul in their fish, which is super fun to watch.
Take some photos of their unique catches, hold a giant lobster and purchase something to cook for dinner that evening.
If you like haggling on prices, head over to the Straw Market, near the waterfront, to do some shopping.
This is a traditional open-air market where you can find handwoven straw crafts great to purchase as special gifts for those you left at home. Pick up a special Bahamian souvenir for yourself, like the perfect Christmas ornament I found made out of a conch shell.
If you aren’t staying at Atlantis, never fear, because they DO sell day passes which enable you to visit their amazing aquarium and lagoons where you can see lots of fish, stingrays and jellies, as well as walk through their underwater shark tank.
When you’re done with that, grab your swimsuit and hit the Aquaventure Water Park.
Are you a chocaholic, like me? If so, be sure to take a tour of Graycliff Chocolatier. They have three different options: a factory tour, a chocolate-making tour and a chocolate-and-spirits-pairing tour. One of those will be sure to hit the spot!
Afterward, walk the hotel grounds, taking in the beautiful flowers, seeing their bottle tree in the lobby and then snapping a fun photo with the resident pirate or Santa Claus, depending on the season.
A short walk from the central square in Nassau, The Queen’s Staircase was hewn from solid limestone in the 1700s. Climb these 66 steps to get to the highest point in Nassau.
Blue Lagoon Island is a private island getaway, where you can also have a Dolphin Encounter. The best part is that it’s only a 20-minute boat ride from Nassau.
Does swimming in their hidden lagoon with clear blue water sound appealing? How about snorkeling right off the beach? You can also rent water sports equipment like kayaks and stand up paddle boards. There’s something for everyone in this tropical paradise!
John Watling was a pirate whose treasure is still buried somewhere in the Bahamas. This distillery bottles up his “Spirit of the Bahamas” into what locals refer to as “liquid gold,” shiver me timbers!
Kill-devil and firewater come together here to make Captain Jack’s beverage of choice: RUM. While it’s not really up my alley to imbibe, I always love learning new things. There are complimentary tours here seven days a week that definitely meet that criteria.
This sounds like something you might do in the Midwest, not the Bahamas, but ALAS, swimming with pigs on Big Major Cay looks like tons of fun and a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be sure! It definitely seems to be a bucket-list experience when visiting Nassau.
To do this, you’ll have to take a one-hour boat ride from Nassau on the crystal clear waters while basking in the sunshine. Yep, sheer torture, which I would gladly endure, since I’m writing this watching the snow melt out my window.
Well, since you’ve survived the “Jaws” encounter, you thrill seeker, maybe you’d want to risk your life again to dive with sharks! Sorry, but only certified scuba divers and certifiable adrenaline junkies can have, or would want, this thrill.
At Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas, you can get up close and personal with Caribbean Reef Sharks. From a pole, the guides feed these magnificent creatures that have been trained by the “dinner bell.”