Pam Barry, the owner, can also advise on making a trip into the rain forest. Just as on St. Kitts, there's plenty of history to be had on Nevis. Charlestown, the capital, is home to the ruins of the Caribbean's oldest Jewish synagogue, and possibly among the oldest in the Western hemisphere, dating back to the 1650s. It was discovered in 1993. The nearby Bath Hotel and Spring, built in 1778, served as hotel, spa and brothel in its day.
Visitors can still sit in the soothing hot spring waters.
The hotel's dilapidated ruins are temporarily housing the local cop shop. Bits of china, apparently left over from the hotel's heyday, still sift up through the soil. Getting to Nevis can be half the fun. Just ask Capt. Kidd, he of pirating fame, who apparently stole a ship from the French garrison on St. Kitts and sailed it over to the Brits on Nevis.