Travel. British Isles.
A Tour of St Helena
Historical, scenic, and beautiful.
St Helena is a beautiful volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic. I sailed there from Namibia a couple of years ago with friends. This will be my third article about St Helena. For an overview, check out this article.
After we’d settled into the country a few days, we decided to do a paid tour of the island. There were 7 of us on the bus, all of us friends from sailboats in the harbor.
The town of Jamestown was quaint, and it had cool old buildings, but I didn’t find it overly beautiful. It sits in the valley of two sheer mountains, formed by lava with no trees growing on the slopes. It almost has an oppressive feeling to it as if the town is formed in the bottom of a trough, focusing the energy of the elements that come down. Luckily, the elements consist of wind and warm rain most of the time as it is in a tropical zone.
