In addition to Art Gallery
and Museum tours,
Anguilla's land-based daytime activities offer choices
including
horseback riding, biking, hiking, and birdwatching.
It's always a good idea to bring along your
camera, whether you're focusing your lens on tropical
scenery, friendly goats and colorful birds, quaint
West Indian architecture, modern architectural designs
of world-renowned resorts, or the beautiful and
inviting
facades of our many churches.
Horseback
Riding Visitors can ride horseback along
white, sandy beaches and scenic trails, and even
'take a dip' with their horse. Fees run about
$35 per one hour, $50 for two hours. Private rides
are approximately $60 for up to two hours. After
4:00 pm, fees rise slightly. English and Western
saddles are available
El
Rancho del Blues
264-497-6164
Seaside
Stables
264-235-3667
Anguilla Horses
Zambezi/Cynthia
264-729-3361/4465
Available for Beach rides and swims
www.anguillahorse.com
Biking
Biking is an excellent way to see the island.
Flat terrain, easily explored side roads and one
main road make exploring easy. Bikes are available
at many hotels, or can be rented for approximately
$10 per day. Mopeds are also available at about
$20 per day.
A&S
Scooter
264-497-8803
Flambayo
Heath Depot
264-497-5370
Exotic
Plus
264-497-8528
Bob
Green's Anguilla News
www.news.ai
Hiking
Hiking is great way acquaint yourself with Anguilla's
interior. Hikes to natural and historical points of interest
are available; maps are available through the Anguilla
Tourist Board and many of the properties. Escorted hikes
are reasonable and easily arranged. Contact Oliver Hodge
264-497-3696/772-3826.
Birdwatching
Anguilla’s salt ponds, the only wetlands on the
island, serve as sanctuaries for Anguilla’s 136
different bird species ncluding white cheeked pintails
and black neck stilts. Of particular note are Sandy Ground,
East End, West End and Little Harbour ponds where pelicans,
falcons, gulls, brown boobies, terns and herons all congregate.
Bird Identification Cards (US$5) and A Field Guide To
Anguilla’s Wetlands (US$10) are available from the
Anguilla National Trust in The Valley.
Island
Tours
Visitors
can tour the island on their own, renting a car, bicycle,
scooter to visit even the most remote parts of Anguilla
easily and safely. It is also possible to arrange a
private tour through a taxi driver or through your hotel
concierge.
Tennis All
major properties have lighted courts that available
to their guests and some have resident pros. There are
two public courts in the Valley at the Ronald Webster
Park. The Anguilla Tennis Academy (ATA), world class
tennis facility, currently under construction in Blowing
Point is expected to open late 2006.