Guadeloupe standard of living is among the highest in the eastern Caribbean. Bananas and sugarcane are the principal cash crops. Tourism is one of the strongest sources of income. Still, high prices due to the protected French market are among the causes for the weak economic improvement of the last decades. Guadeloupe is a place of contrasts, where pockets of poverty and neglected infrastructures are interspersed between amazing nature and friendly people.
Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” adapted to time and place, Pointe-à-Pitre
(Delicious) coconut sorbet must give way to a tourist bus at La pointe des châteaux
Colorful tiles for the graves of Saint-Francois
Commercial district of Pointe-à-Pitre
Banana market in the outskirts of Pointe-à-Pitre
Beach of Raisins Clairs, Saint-François
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Previous and last episodes:
1. My lady of Guadeloupe
2. Sea life of Gwada (Guadeloupe)
3. La Métropole
4. Caribbean intangible cultural heritage
5. Guadeloupe on stage