AI generatedRoseau
Dominica · Saint George · 10 m
Short description of Roseau
Roseau is the capital of Dominica and where the great majority of visitors arrive, since the cruise berth sits directly against the town and the island's airports are small and far away. It is a low town of about fifteen thousand people, wedged between the sea and a wall of green mountains that rise almost immediately behind it. French colonial street names survive alongside West Indian gingerbread houses with fretwork verandas in various states of repair. The Botanic Gardens still keep a school bus crushed by a baobab in the hurricane of 1979 exactly where it fell.
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Travel seasons at a glance
Best time to visit: December – April
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All highlights and sightsBeta
- Roseau Bayfront and the cruise berth
- Old Market Square and the Saturday market
- Botanic Gardens and the bus under the baobab
- Sperm whale watching off the west coast (November - March)
- Dominica Museum on the bayfront
- Gingerbread houses and fretwork verandas
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Fair Haven
- Creole cooking and the callaloo soup
- Morne Bruce viewpoint above the town
- Dominica rum shops and bush rum
- Wotten Waven sulphur pools(Day trip)