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North Island Tour: Private Guide Exploring Tropical Forests, Waterfalls, and Historical Ruins
4.8
156 Ratings
Fort-de-France
Embark on a private North Island tour in Martinique with a knowledgeable guide. Explore tropical forests, waterfalls, historical ruins, and more. Limited to 8 people per minivan.
Embark on a private North Island tour in Martinique with a knowledgeable guide. Explore tropical forests, waterfalls, historical ruins, and more. Limited to 8 people per minivan.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Balata Cathedral (Sacre-Coeur de Balata) - Explore our cathedral, which shares the architectural style of Montmartre in Paris.
- Route de la Trace - Journey through the tropical rainforest along the renowned Route de la Trace to discover a beautiful waterfall nestled in the jungle.
- Pitons du Carbet - Admire the view of the six peaks,…
- Balata Cathedral (Sacre-Coeur de Balata) - Explore our cathedral, which shares the architectural style of Montmartre in Paris.
- Route de la Trace - Journey through the tropical rainforest along the renowned Route de la Trace to discover a beautiful waterfall nestled in the jungle.
- Pitons du Carbet - Admire the view of the six peaks, former volcanoes that shaped Martinique, serving as the island’s water reservoir.
- Domaine d’Emeraude - Enjoy a guided tour with a private guide through a botanical garden and forest park, learning about flowers, medicinal plants, and the Creole garden at Le Domaine d’Emeraude, an Outstanding Garden Awarded Place.
- Montagne Pelee - Make three stops to take in the breathtaking views of the volcano that destroyed the old capital, Saint Pierre, in 1902, weather permitting.
- Distillerie Depaz - Take a guided tour of the rum factory to learn about the rum-making process and explore the domain and its beautiful garden.
- Saint-Pierre - Walk through the ruins of the old capital, which was completely destroyed by the volcano in 1902.
- Le Carbet - Enjoy a beach restaurant offering delicious food, sunbeds, free showers, and delightful cocktails. Please note that food is at your own expense.
What's Included
- Very small group tour 8 paxs max per minivan
- Local and exotic fruits tasting (depending of the season)
- Wi fi
- Transportation and ticket included to botanical garden (domaine d emeraude)
- Very small group tour 8 paxs max per minivan
- Local and exotic fruits tasting (depending of the season)
- Wi fi
- Transportation and ticket included to botanical garden (domaine d emeraude)
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Food
- Lunch
- Food
Additional Information
Martinique’s Best Kept Secrets extends to you an exclusive, guided tour of the North Island. Accompanied all day by a private guide, you’re set to explore and learn. The tour, catering to a very intimate group of 8 members maximum per minivan, veers off the customary path to provide you with uniquely exquisite northern island trails. You get to visit…
Martinique’s Best Kept Secrets extends to you an exclusive, guided tour of the North Island. Accompanied all day by a private guide, you’re set to explore and learn. The tour, catering to a very intimate group of 8 members maximum per minivan, veers off the customary path to provide you with uniquely exquisite northern island trails. You get to visit the local church, our very own Sacré Coeur, and go for a swim in a picturesque waterfall. The course includes a journey through the tropical forest, a guided tour of a lush botanical garden and forest park - le Domaine d Emeraude, all led by your private guide. Your journey continues through a rum distillery, the remnants of Saint Pierre, the old capital city devastated by volcanic activity, and wraps up at a dark-sand beach bar for a meal or just some relaxed beach time.
This course through untouched nature promises absolute pleasure and serenity.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Infant meals not included
- From Monday to Sunday included every week
- Air conditioned Minivan Opel 8 paxs max + Driver
- Departure time could change concerning the cruise ship docking time
- This is a small group tour 8 paxs max per Minivan
- Departure Time indicative I need minimum 4 paxs to go or 40 minutes delay max
- I need you to have whatssap to send you pictures of the meeting point and communicate
- Depending of the weather I can skip a stop to substitute by another
- If your ship dock on time, and you are not on Time, Tour will start without you and you will not be refunded
Location
Cruise Terminal
Cruise ship Terminal main city Fort de France/ Departure time is subject to change concerning the cruise ship docking time
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(156 Ratings)
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Daniellj668pa
Feb 11, 2025
Fantastic Day in Martinique - What a great way to spend the day in Martinique. We started out late as two attendees did not show up to the meeting point. Notwithstanding, Daniel made up for the lost time and made sure our day was still the best. Daniel has found a wide variety of experiences to show his group all the best Martinique has to offer.
Be ready to get a little muddy, be prepared to jump into the water and plan for an amazing day.
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Peter_m
Feb 2, 2025
An Adventure in Martinique - We really enjoyed the entire tour. Daniel, our guide and driver, was prompt and exactly where we were supposed to meet him off the dock area. There were 8 passengers to a bus and we had 2 buses. Since it was a small group, Daniel was very accommodating to the passengers even rotating seats so people had a chance to sit up front with him to get a better view of the terrain. Although the weather was a bit uncooperative, it was a very pleasant day in Martinique. To maximize the experience, I would highly recommend this tour for those in good physical health due to the excessive walking up and down steps. You can do as much or as little as you’d like, but to truly appreciate the falls requires maneuvering a good amount of tricky steps and the botanical gardens is quite hilly. As retired educators, we enjoyed Daniel’s enthusiasm for having us experience the smelling and guessing of various spices and flavors found in Martinique. Our last stop was lunch by the beach, at our expense, which we shared with a lovely couple from the UK. This was quite an interesting adventure.
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Frederica_b
Jan 23, 2025
And outstanding guide! - Oh guide, Daniel was very knowledgeable and entertaining! The adventure was totally outstanding for the things we saw! The Catholic Church, the waterfall, and the botanical garden! He was very informative and knowledgeable of the island resources!
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Connie_l
Jan 22, 2025
Highly Recommend! - Highly recommend! Daniel is very energetic and knowledgeable. Excellent communication with scheduling pick up/meeting point.
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Helaine
Jan 12, 2025
He took us to interesting and beautiful places as well as a delicious restaurant for lunch and recommended special dish - Daniel was an amazing guide who went out of his way to make sure that all of us were involved and that our needs were met. He was interesting and well informed.
When the ferry that was supposed to take us back to our cars did not arrive, he came and picked us up, and drove us to our cars.
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Shirleyhall1401
Jan 9, 2025
What a great trip … fun and informative - We met Daniel and oue other travellers. There were only 7 of us and the van was air conditioned and he rotated us around so we all got to sit up front. Our guide Daniel was very knowledgable, kind and funny and we had a great time. We went to waterfalls, the botanical garden, the church and smeared ourselves in mud and swam and went and tasted very very strong rum - haha. Daniel sent us perfect instructions on where to meet and what time, he took lots of pics and had towels for her. He also took us somewhere next to the beach where we could have food, drinks and by the end we knew our fellow travellers more than the start. We had a great day.
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Adam_h
Jan 7, 2025
Memorable day trip - Had a lovely day trip. Our guide Daniel really made our experience even more memorable. Very clear instructions for meeting point.
He was very knowledgable and had a brilliant lively personality.
Enjoyed each of our stop off points and got some great photos, especially at the waterfall and stream where we could apply natural clay to ourselves and under high pressure to remove. Thanks again Daniel .
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Christopher_e
Jan 6, 2025
If you want to see it all… do this!! - We found this excursion very good. Daniel is on time and kept a tight schedule to make sure we were able to see everything that was promised. He’s very knowledgeable and a funny guy. If you are looking to lay on the beach all day and sunbathe, this is not the excursion for you. Be ready to walk and explore, if you have trouble with that, I recommend avoiding this. I also agree with his punctuality rules, he’s easy to find and communicates way ahead of time to make sure you are aware of where to meet him and he even sends a photo of himself with a descriptor. He gets to the port really early to make sure everything goes smooth, so if you are late and make the group late… there is a high chance you will be left behind, so be on time it’s not that much to ask to respect the group schedule. Overall, great excursion and he takes you where the ship excursions do not!
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Brianna_w
Jan 6, 2025
Get the cruise boat tour and sign up for this instead. - If you're into trees and flowers I would highly recommend this are guide was extremely knowledgeable about all botany. He kept us interested with lots of smash and sniffing of different plants. Making sure to point out every different plant possible. The room distillery was quite interesting very pretty. The cathedral was very pretty for as old. You might want to bring an extra roll of toilet paper with you for this tour as I found several of the locations were missing TP ladies. The waterfall was absolutely stunning also in our guides helped us to get some amazing pictures. Overall I would give this a 4.5.
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Scott_p
Jan 16, 2025
Might get stuck with a driver and not the guide - First of all, Daniel is a great tour guide and made the day fun. However, even though it says 8 people max, that only applies to the van and not the tour. My wife and I got put in Roger’s van, and while he was very nice, he didn’t say much. I feel like Daniel’s group had a much better experience. For example, some other reviews said that Daniel rotated people’s seats in the van so everybody got a turn up front. Roger didn’t, so we were stuck in the back in silence the whole time. Then two of our group took a long time shopping at the rum distillery and Roger didn’t hurry them up, so Daniel’s group got to lunch much before us while we had to wait around in the van.
Another thing is that lunch is served way too late. The tour started at 9 AM and we didn’t have lunch until past 2:30 PM, and that’s after sampling rum on an empty stomach! So I recommend bringing your own food.
It also advertised free WiFi, but I assume that was only in Daniel’s van because ours didn’t have it.
On the plus side, the botanical garden was our favorite stop as Daniel showed us all kinds of edible and medicinal plants.
Overall, it was a decent tour that would have been much better with only one van (Daniel’s). As it is, I can’t say I learned much about Martinique.
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