"Island Tour" Top 5 Page for this destination St. Thomas Things to Do Tip by grandmaR

On one of our visits we took a tour in a taxi around the island. Island tours by taxi usually include the popular sites and scenic look out points like Drake's Seat. The taxi in the Virgin Islands is called a safari. Its a truck which has been outfitted with bench seating in the back. It is open air but covered. Safari buses vary in size, some can hold up to 26 passengers. Usually that means that the tour is a group tour.

Taxi rates, including taxi tours, are set by the VI Taxicab Association. For example, Sightseeing Tour for 2 hours; one passenger $50, two or more passengers $25 per person. Tour for 3 hours; one passenger $60, two or more passengers $30 per person.

Our tour was in one of those cab/bus/tourist vehicles which had space for 27 people. Since there were just the two of us in it we had our choice of seats. I took 132 photos and Bob took 5. But all of his were good, and I know some of mine are not going to be worth keeping. I missed a beautiful shot of a brown cow with a cattle egret on her back.

We went all around the top of the island looking things from the overlooks - at each place there were places to buy souvenirs, but I didn't get any. We ended up going through Charlotte Amalie, and then he took us right back to the ship. The tour (which was about 2 hours) was $50, and Bob gave him $60.

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