ST LUCIA
01 Make Some Chocolate
You don't need to wait until August's Chocolate Heritage Month to explore the island's centuries-long history of chocolate production. In recent years, a new wave of chocolate producers has emerged, offering tours and chocolate making classes.
High above Castries, the Howelton Estate hosts a bean-to-bar experience in one of the island's oldest houses, dating from 1837. Down south, guests at Jade Mountain or Anse Chastanet can visit the on-site chocolate lab to make bars from beans grown on its own farm. Or book a chocolate-themed massage, to be coated in the stuff. And why not?
And of course, the famed Rabot Hotel from Hotel Chocolat, in Soufrière, is a chocolate lovers' haven. Stay on this 140-acre working cacao farm, sample some of the spoils, and take a free tree-to-bean tour, guiding you through the process of growing, fermenting, drying
