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[Libor] It is said Saint Lucia,

with its magical volcanic peaks, rainforests and rare fauna,

is the most romantic island in the Caribbean.

Perhaps that is the reason why the English and French fought over it 14 times.

To this day it attracts romantic couples and adventurers sailing the oceans.

In spite of that, only few discover its real character.

What is hidden behind the boundary of perfection which many do not cross,

is Saint Lucia also a paradise for the locals?

[gentle music playing]

[Petra] There are moments we wish could last forever.

Particularly in places which we are attracted to like a magnet.

The local pristine kingdom of coral rises from the fathomless depths.

The desire to capture its beauty

and find a mutual connection between the quiet undersea world

and the colorful life onshore

became the goal of our next Escape to Nature.

[gentle music continues]

[man] The black sand beaches here on this island are truly amazing.

In today's hustle and bustle world,

um, one could really not ask for much more peace inside one's soul

than to live in a truly unique island such as Saint Lucia.

[Libor] Originally the site of one of the first Indian settlements,

today we can find the remarkable plantation of Balenbouche

with its 18th-century building.

It was about 30 years ago, I came here on holiday

and my father-in-law said,

"Uta, don't worry about the problems at the estate."

The farm was quite devastated after a hurricane.

He was telling me not to worry, the nature would heal itself.

Within several days I became convinced I could sort out many of the problems.

My parents taught me back home in Austria how to farm

and how to take care of a garden.

Later, I spent some time in the Far East working as an interior designer,

which gave me an experience of different cultures.

That background was good preparation for dealing with the local problems.

I sensed that Balenbouche was a very spiritual place

and I was feeling a strong bond to nature here.

I became the guardian of it.

Balenbouche really is a very magical place.

I am sensitive to spiritual energy

and that too made me decide to stay here and protect the farm.

Most people would not respect this aspect and would not take care of it.

[Libor] The riches of the locals are not only represented by their natural wealth

but also by a sense of humility and respect

for their own skills and talents.

I started with my mother at the age of nine, nine years.

We were learning to clean the pond and carry the clay.

And after I left school, I kept on doing the same.

[Libor] Irene Alphonse has devoted her life to traditional pottery.

Today her creations grace luxurious residences on the island.

In her 40 years of plying her artistic talents,

she has collected many prizes

and her distinctive pottery has been presented

in several international exhibits.

I'm now known as Zaka, [chuckles]

which is a lot easier than my real name

[Petra] Simon Gajadar,

a local artisan whose fame crossed the borders of the island,

grew up in London.

His masks are valued trophies to tourists

and many restaurants around the world use them

for their distinctive flair in decorating their interiors.

[upbeat guitar melody playing]

His art is inspired by motifs of plants, forests and the sea,

exploiting the natural structure and faults of tropical wood

accentuated by colors.

The name Zaka, which Simon chose as his business pseudonym,

is Haitian for "God of the forest, trees and Earth."

[man] Scuba St. Lucia is probably the longest established dive facility

on the island. Uh...

We've just received our 30-year PADI award,

that we are thirty-year members with PADI.

Uh, we are very well equipped. We have about 50 sets of dive equipment,

we have about 300 tanks,

which are 200 air tanks and 100 Nitrox tanks.

Uh, we offer all kinds of courses, from beginner courses to dive master.

We have some beautiful reefs to dive in so people come down.

Very good for macrophotography, videography.

[Petra] Just a few meters from the shore

we encounter a remarkable underwater creature, the frogfish.

Its fins are like feet, complete with small toes.

He hunts his pray - smaller fish and crustaceans - almost unnoticeably.

By quickly opening his jaws he sucks them in with a lightning speed.

Waiting in one place he tempts the prey on his first dorsal thorn,

which is pointing toward his eyes

and reminds us of a fishing rod with a bait on its point.

They camouflage well and blend with its surroundings.

[Libor] To miss the lonely sea horse is even easier.

Most often he is attached to sea weed and sea growths.

Through its snout he sucks in water and filters his food from it:

fine crustaceans and plankton.

The marine reservation in Soufrière was established 17 years ago

to help stop the tremendous decline in sea life.

The amount of fish and corals soon began to rise.

Today the fishermen know where they can and cannot fish.

[soft music playing]

[Petra] Some fish are satisfied with a very small territory.

The darkfin jawfish makes a corridor in the coral grit

or in the sand close to the reefs and hides there during the night.

[Libor] Evolution has equipped all creatures

with a way of protecting themselves.

Be it a leftover casket or poison in their skin or in its protrusion.

I tell everyone: do not touch anything.

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- [birds calling in the distance] - [serene music playing]

[Petra] We are heading for a nearby plantation, Anse Mamin,

to meet with our guide, Meno.

His friends call him the Shaman.

He knows the medicinal powers of local plants

and notices even the quietest inhabitants of the tree tops.

Today he plans to show us a little different skill.

I will show you how to open a coconut without a machete, if you're in survival.

Let's go.

Okay, you're lost in the jungle for three or four weeks

and you've got a coconut and don't know how to open it. You'll starve and die.

But if you know how to do the job, then you survive.

Let me show you how I do it in survival.

Find a nice rock. Go on the rock like a little monkey.

And now hit.

Mm-hm.

Mm-hm. Then I turn.

[grunts]

Turn again.

Okay?

See what happened then? There.

I peel.

There.

I peel.

Now, you see those stubs? That can light you a very quick fire.

So it's survival, you need a fire, you open the coconut and you'll get fire.

We make mattresses and pillows from those things.

Very good mulch for the garden, too.

So nothing wasted in there. Okay?

Now.

You're thirsty, you don't want to waste the juice, you want to drink it.

Watch how I'm going to crack open.

I use that same rock.

Some people use a drill or a machete, but I use my hands.

I crack.

There. Top off.

[Petra] Anse Mamin plantation was founded in the18th century

when Saint Lucia was a French colony.

Meno knows every stone here,

even the one you must give a wide berth to since it harbors a nest of wild red bees.

[peaceful music playing]

[Libor] Our trip to find jewels of vegetation

leads us to Diamante Botanical Garden

on the outskirts of a town called Soufrière.

The garden's allure is not only its beautiful tropical plants

but the promise of rejuvenation in its mineral spa.

These were originally built directly over the hot springs

by Ludwig XIV for his troops.

[birds chirping]

[Petra] Even Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte,

used to bathe in them and admire the local bromelias,

heliconias, orchids and ginger plants.

[Libor] Look! A hummingbird's nest.

An inconspicuous but noteworthy little bird.

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[water rushing]

[soft guitar melody playing]

[Petra] The 20th century also brought fame to the garden.

It was under this waterfall colored by mineral sediments

that Superman picked a rare orchid for Lois Lane.

[Libor] Unlike love, the orchid no longer grows here.

[soft guitar melody continues]

[Libor] The increasing smell of rotten eggs

assures us that we are on the right path approaching sulfur springs.

We expected a larger crater

because this path is described like a way to a volcano.

It used to be possible to walk among the little pools,

until one day the edge gave way and a guide fell in.

He survived but with heavy burns.

Since then, entry to the devil's field is forbidden.

[Petra] The combination of heat and the smell of sulfur

leaves my head spinning a little.

The locals are used to the sulfur smell,

although those who work here are regularly sent by the government

for medical check-ups of their lungs.

[overlapping conversations]

[Libor] The provincial town of Soufrière is named after the sulfur springs.

Early in the morning we make our way to the Saturday market

where the locals shop.

We want to acquaint ourselves with both the ingredients of local kitchens

and lifestyle.

- [people chattering indistinctly] - [thudding in the distance]

[Petra] The islanders guard their personal space

and any attempt to take pictures is a bit hazardous

unless there is a prior arrangement.

[woman shouting indistinctly]

[Libor] There are things in which Saint Lucians are uncompromising.

The beautiful but poisonous lionfish, which appeared here by chance,

are on the hunted list.

Should they spread,

it would seriously upset the fragile balance of life on the coral reef

by eating other fish and crustaceans.

Every diver is asked to report locations where the lionfish has been seen.

Then local professional divers mark the spot with a buoy

and, later, the fish is caught.

[Petra] Soufrière was once inhabited by Indians

and to this day it is referred to as the spiritual center of the island.

The French arrived in the 17th century and began to cultivate the very fertile land.

The first European settlers tried to cultivate bananas.

To this day, the streets keep its quiet French character.

The touristic atmosphere, so typical to the northern part of the island,

is absent here.

[Libor] Directly under the watchful eye of the Large Piton

in the most beautiful part of the island life flows in its undisturbed rhythm.

[serene music playing]

[Libor] It's getting dark.

With the sun's last rays we slip under the waves of the warm Atlantic.

Night dives are a doorway into a mysterious other world

filled with thousands of remarkable organisms.

[Petra] We can only see what is lit by the narrow section of our torch beam

and Libor's camera lights.

It is a strange feeling not to know what is hiding just a little outside the light.

We move cautiously so as not to touch the fragile Venus's fan.

That's the nickname of the beautiful gorgonian coral.

[Libor] They are a great refuge for many creatures:

for instance the trumpet fish.

A fascinating predator who usually approaches its pray

by hiding behind a larger plant-eating fish.

[Petra] No dumb fish, this one!

[gentle music playing]

[Libor] Strange creatures creep out of their hideouts.

[Petra] I'm amazed by the beautiful shapes

the coral has formed over hundreds of years

by the casings of polyps which slowly build around themselves

the next level of coral reef out of carbonate calcite.

Over time, the casings are reminiscent of antique vases.

[Libor] We are lucky to see the puffer fish in its different stages of growth

all in one dive.

A young one...

a teenager...

and an adult.

This predominantly nocturnal fish is a bad swimmer.

If it feels threatened it is able to blow itself up

by sucking in a large quantity of water

which results in its sharp spines bristling up and it becoming a spiky ball.

Careful, don't touch!

[soft somber music playing]

[Libor] Night time is usually hunting time for underwater creatures,

so caution is advisable.

Flashes of light and stressful situations

may provoke an attack on perceived intruders.

[Petra] The reclusive moray eel has inward bent, needle-like teeth.

If bitten, the bacteria from his last meal

would most likely result in a nasty infection.

[Libor] The only difference between a rock and a scorpion fish

are its unobtrusive eyes.

Almost impossible to spot in the dark,

its poisonous spikes cause very painful and dangerous wounds just by contact.

[Petra] Spiny lobsters, very impressive creatures

that have been living on this planet more than 200 million years,

appear mostly at night.

They are sociable but protect themselves against their main enemy, the octopus,

by using sharp spiny antennae longer than their bodies.

[Libor] The spiny and slipper lobsters may be buddies

since they have both been on the planet about the same amount of time.

[Petra] A night sighting of one of these small frogfish

is truly a stroke of luck.

[Libor] The greatest concern of the clever squid

is to have its supper as fast as it can

so it does not become somebody else's supper.

It hunts by aggressively attacking its prey

and is capable of biting through even a hard shell in an instant.

[soft music playing]

[Libor] As with all cephalopods,

this beauty with perfect vision lives fast and dies young...

often only after having sex just once.

[soft music continues]

[Petra] Perhaps that too is the reason why her beauty is so stunning and intense.

The glow of phosphorescent medusa we meet on our way up

is a preview of the starry sky awaiting us.

[dreamy music playing]

[Libor] Having spent several days on the southern part of the island,

we are sailing north aboard the Sealife to explore the capital.

Castries is the business center of Saint Lucia

and about a third of the 160,000 islanders live here.

The town was founded by the British

and it has survived several fires, hurricanes

and even 14 changes in ownership,

before it was finally declared British in 1814.

The islanders had to wait for their independence from the British until 1979.

Due to fires in the past,

the majority of government and business buildings

were built next to the wooden ones only in the second half of the last century.

[Petra] Life hasn't changed much in the last half century

in spite of there being great social differences amongst the people.

The locals can speak English

but amongst themselves they speak mostly Patois, based on French.

[Libor] Saint Lucia boasts the highest number of Nobel Prize winners per capita.

The Nobel Prize for economy to Sir William Arthur Lewis in 1979

and Derek Walcott for literature in 1992.

[Petra] The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

shows signs of the Saint Lucians' roots.

While the building itself is in the French style,

the interior combines influences of Carob and African cultures.

[indistinct speech in the background]

[Petra] Most of the islanders are Catholic of African origin.

[baby crying]

[Petra] They say, "To worry is a sin. It would mean we do not believe in God."

[Libor] Neither is worry in vogue on board the most luxurious catamarans

anchored in Marigot Bay.

In any case, the northern part of the island

is the shop window of the most modern yachts.

[hopeful music playing]

[Libor] Finally, we too are sailing off to look for new discoveries.

[birds calling in the distance]

[hopeful music continues]

[Petra] While our captain Wolfgang is writing funny stories and observations

from our life as yachties into his ship log,

we regard the colorful spectacle of the rugged shore.

[Libor] The fishermen are happy, it was a bountiful day.

The sea is their only source of income.

Despite the primitive appearance of local methods of cleaning and dealing with fish,

we have to admit you can always get the freshest and tastiest fish here.

The local catch even supplies the most luxurious restaurants.

[overlapping conversations]

- [laughing] - [man singing]

[Libor] Mahi Mahi, which means "strong-strong," is a favorite delicacy.

It has a fine yet firm meat with slightly sweet undertones and no fishy smell.

[man chatting indistinctly]

[Petra] The typical fish market odors sent me out among the local children.

The pictures in my cameras fascinated them

almost as much as I am fascinated by their bold behavior.

[soft music playing]

Away from the mainstream culture,

the Rastafarians live as devotees to nature.

[Libor] They don't drink alcohol and they don't smoke tobacco,

although they do smoke a lot.

They do not use any electricity or modern conveniences,

only what nature provides.

Their attitude towards the environment

was the inspiration for Shirin from Zion Lion organic farm.

I cut a piece from the coconut shell and polish it

and that's the spoon for eating the food, uh?

Very nice, renewable energy, renewable resource, uh?

No pollution. You can throw it, no pollution.

And sometimes with the ash of the fire,

because that's very clean, that's not dirty.

That's very clean, and nothing-- And it cleans good.

Uh? Clean. Cleans it nice.

[man] We live on this mountain between these two mountains of Saint Lucia.

It's one of the best parts in our community.

It's a part of Soufrière and this mountain is high.

Strangers have always kept looking at this mountain over there.

So what I have to say, the last part I had to bring with you all here,

is this part of the world will be one of the best in future.

My lunch. Rice and dashin.

What do you call it? It's a kind of fruit.

Pumpkin...

and such a... roast sardines in some oil. [chuckles softly]

Some coconut milk.

[soft music playing]

I sometimes call it a natural farm because there's no chemical, no fertilizer.

Just water, dry wheat and a little bit of peat moss every now and then.

In the front is the spring onion, or the chives.

Uh...

This here is coriander.

Rosemary, cashew nut tree.

It's very juicy. We can also eat the fruit.

Pick the nuts when it's brown in color

and allow it to dry a little bit more in the sun.

When I applied for the Guinness Book of Records

I had 20,500 dives

with 6.4 years' bottom time.

And I kept on diving.

Until last year, I got a card from SSI, Scuba Schools International.

Right now I have over seven years' bottom time

because when I applied for the Guinness Book,

I already had 6.4 years

and that's a few years ago.

So right now I have over seven years' bottom time

and over 27,000 dives, for sure.

At Anse Chastanet we have so many different dive sites

and there are so many things to see,

such as sea horses, frogfish,

scorpionfish, lots of turtles and so on.

And the marine life is very, very... You know.

There are over 150 different species of fishes that have been documented.

And whenever we go in the water with students,

anything of interest we see, we point it out to them.

That's why most people who know us call me the human submarine.

Well, I have nothing against the name.

They said only a submarine can stay underwater for this amount of years.

[dreamy music playing]

[Petra] Victor dives into the Caribbean waters almost daily,

frequently playing guide to novices.

He is a patient guardian of his charges in the undersea world,

mastering a gift only a few possess.

Underwater his enthusiasm is infectious.

While we float together with Victor in his favorite locale,

fittingly named "Fairy Land,"

I begin to perceive the charm of the coral world much more intensely.

[Libor] Nowhere else on Earth can you find such numbers of rich and vivid colors,

shapes and lifeforms as in a coral reef.

It's hard to believe that the underwater calcium cliffs

and whole islands have been created by millions of tiny creatures,

coral polyps.

[Petra] After so many years spent here, Victor, "the human submarine,"

knows every shape and creature living in this area.

We, however, need a very keen eye to notice even the smallest ones.

For instance, the flamingo tongue snail.

[peaceful music playing]

[Victor] I love the water.

I feel more comfortable in the water than driving my own car on the surface.

I wish I could build a house under the water and stay right there.

[laughs]

I would be a happy man.

[distant conversations]

[upbeat music playing]

[Petra] We are leaving the warm, peaceful waters of Caribbean Sea

and head for the wild waters of the Atlantic

on the southeast coast's Anse des Sables, meaning sandy beach.

Normally this is the playground of surfers and kite surfers

because of the strong and steady winds.

Today, local mothers are showing their offspring here.

[upbeat music continues]

[Libor] The sea is not only a source of pleasure, but a source of food;

to which there is no limit to fantasy.

In many places,

a water taxi is the fastest and most comfortable way to travel.

[serene music playing]

[Libor] These boys are promising to fulfill our wish

to anchor in the bay near the Pitons,

swearing to find us a free buoy at a nice spot, for a small fee of course.

With little time left before sunset, we decide to trust them

despite past experiences with shady characters and... it pays off.

[serene music continues]

[boat horn tooting]

[Petra] A floating fruit bar, a very original occupation.

It's our friends Filipe and Martin's favorite shop.

I don't know what people want?

[indistinct chattering]

[satisfied] Hmm... Thank you.

[Petra] Hmm, they even have rum! Caribbean Rum.

[horn tooting]

- ¡Adiós! - ¡Adiós, hasta luego!

[Petra] Even our guide, who will lead us on the demanding ascent of Large Piton,

chooses the nicer and faster way via sea.

We're extremely lucky: whales and dolphins pose just several meters from us.

We did not expect such a psychic moral boost for our hard undertaking.

[upbeat music playing]

It's a special tree you find only on the Piton.

It's good for when you have some bad bruise on the skin,

you just take one of the leaves,

you warm it up by the fire

and, after five minutes,

you put it on the place you have the blister

and you tie it up for three or four days,

and after, everything disappears.

We've got the French name for it by the name of shadow bainée.

If the weather was nice, everything is sweet and nice.

Just like the mango.

That's why we call Saint Lucia Patol Heaven.

[serene music playing]

[Petra] To make the best of it, we are taking our camera and tripod

to the summit of Large Piton.

Its peak of 798 meters above sea level

has commanded the area for close to 40 million years.

[wind blowing]

[soft adventurous music playing]

[Libor] This well-deserved view is awe inspiring

but the journey to the depths of the Caribbean tempts me much more.

After the grueling climb,

I can't wait to experience the liberating feeling of weightlessness again.

[ambient music playing]

[Libor] We descend into intoxicating silence of the deep

where the Lesleen is waiting for us,

sitting majestically on the sandy bottom at a depth of some 20 meters.

I like meeting old wrecks.

I sense the vessel's past and can imagine life on board as it might have been

when they plowed the oceans in their glory.

The cargo ship Lesleen did not sink by some unfortunate fluke.

It was scuttled internationally in 1986

to create an artificial coral reef

in a place where nature itself did not manage to create one.

[Petra] In the same way the roots of trees digest the walls of old mills

to change them into shelter for creatures on shore,

the walls of this ship are transformed into an undersea community

of corals, sponges and dozens of types of organisms.

I am drawn by the discoveries of this mysterious world.

I must move very carefully

so as not to catch my gear inside the old machine room

and not stir up silt with the sudden move of my fins.

[dramatic music playing]

[Libor] We have disturbed a huge crayfish in a dark corner of the machine room.

Just under the stairs he is guarding the way to the upper deck.

We carefully swim further and inspect young coral formations and life

which has found a hideout and food here.

If the corals manage to keep growing with the same intensity as they have been,

in a few years Lesleen will be unrecognizable.

[sinister music playing]

[gentle music playing]

[Libor] Our air is running low

and so, unfortunately, we must return to the surface.

[peaceful music playing]

[Petra] Saint Lucia inspires our enthusiasm

for adventure on land as well.

This time we are going to a rainforest in the very heart of the island

in an effort to find the St Lucia parrot.

[birds calling]

[birds tweeting]

[peaceful music continues]

[Petra] As luck would have it, after several hours of searching

we manage to spot the well-camouflaged parrot among the branches.

Although the bird is the national symbol of the island,

there are only several hundred of them living here today.

[parrot squawks]

[Libor] Their decline is due in part to man's encroachment

on large swaths of the rainforest.

Only 10% of the original forest remains.

[soft music playing]

[man] Emerald Farm is just outside of the little town of Soufrière.

This is where we get all our fresh, organic fruit and vegetables from.

We also get herbs and spices here.

So we're just going to take a little walk around and show you what's grown here.

So as you can see, we have a whole recycling program here.

All the food wastage that we have at the hotel,

we collect it and we use it for compost.

The cacao. This is where we get the chocolate from.

And the process to get from this stage to get chocolate is a very long one.

To cut a long story short, basically we take the pods out,

we polish them and then we roast them

and then we put them in a process with sugar.

And we just blend down the chocolate.

Depending on how much sugar we add to it depends on the cacao.

It's a very slimy kind of seed.

And like I say, these get polished and then roasted off.

[soft music continues]

You see the textures in there, in the chocolate.

Here we make our own chocolate from scratch using our local cacao beans.

We harvest them at the farm, we ferment them, then we dry them.

Then, over at the kitchen, we take the actual beans,

um, we roast them in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.

And then what that does is you get the shell,

you crack it

and you get the shell from the nib.

So what we have here is the nibs, which break up like that.

These are the holes which go in the garbage.

Then we take that and we grind this up in the machine

for 22 hours

and then what we get is chocolate as our final product.

Here at Jade Mountain we exclusively use Saint Lucian cacao beans,

uh, for all of our amenities, all of our deserts.

If you're having a wedding and you order a cake,

your cake is prepared only using Saint Lucian chocolate.

When you're tasting cacao, the best way to taste it is using all of your senses.

The first thing you want to do, like I said in the lab, is to smell it.

Get that nice aromatic... that's when you get your tastebuds ready.

Then you want to take a bite.

You want to taste a nice snap, make sure you... Wow, I love chocolate.

[Petra] Me too.

In fact chocolate is not the only thing attacking my senses.

None of the 24 rooms of the organically shaped Jade Mountain Hotel

has a fourth wall, so as to offer a continuous view of the surroundings

and a connection with the wild nature.

Apartments are accessed by individual gangways to enter one's own galaxy.

Rather a garden...

[birds croaks]

[serene music playing]

[Petra] Hummingbirds make their home here. It is a joy to watch them.

They're the only species of bird that can fly backwards

and, incredibly, they flap their wings up to 90 times per second.

[Libor] It is quite possible that days in paradise on Earth

pass faster than what we're used to at home.

The end of our latest escape to nature is definitely drawing near.

The most powerful experiences for me are always from the undersea world,

so I insist that we dive into the Caribbean silence once more.

[slow music playing]

I sense there is a very nice meeting waiting for us.

Finally, we can sail out.

[Petra] As we pass the Pitons and the Anse Chastanet bay for the last time

I'm trying to imprint them into my memory.

[slow music continues]

Libor can't wait.

[soft music playing]

[Petra] I am fascinated by a school of fish and their intelligence.

Hundreds of fish manage to swim in unison without any planned choreography.

[Libor] The sea world is a great inspiration for us.

Unfortunately, its beauty is being destroyed by human activity

more and more every day.

Turtles. They have survived the dinosaurs

and their evolution approaches perfection.

[soft music continues]

[Petra] Turtles have an outstanding sense of direction.

They lay their eggs in the same place where they were born.

During long voyages they find their way

by reflection of light off the sea surface,

by stars, sun and their ability to sense changes in the Earth's magnetism.

Unfortunately they cannot foresee where there are traps waiting for them.

Apart from being hunted and their eggs being collected,

the turtles get caught in fishing nets

and the sea pollution also causes them great harm.

[soft music continues]

[Libor] Here in the reservation my beautiful guide is safe.

As if she knew, she swims within reach of me

and she poses in front of my lens for a close-up.

[soft music continues]

There are many beautiful places on Earth

but those where the people's passion for life

and their humility towards nature go hand in hand are exceptional.

Our underwater encounters were also in many ways exceptional and quite unique.

Together with her surrounding waters, Saint Lucia is such a place.

We can attest to that from our own experiences.

We are convinced that, however different these visited worlds may seem to us,

they have one thing in common that is often overlooked:

a longing for happiness, peace

and, most of all, hope for the future.

[hopeful music playing]

[upbeat acoustic music playing]