Rent a Villa on Salt Cay travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

Salt Cay calls itself ”the island that time forgot”, because since the salt trade dried up, it has stood still. All around it, Caribbean islands have soaked up the tourist traffic and grown luxury hotels; 2-mile-long (3.2-km) Salt Cay, however, has planted its feet in the past. There you can rent a villa that has no key – because you don’t need one. Roosters wake you in the morning, there are few cars, cell phones have no receptions.

The island is not just for those who wish to switch off and enjoy rum punch, sunset, and grilled fish. Divers admire the pristine reefs, especially the 7,000 – foot (2,134-m) Columbus Passage, a top drift-diving destinations. Between 3,000 and 5,000 North Atlantic humpback whales migrate around these islands every year, from December to mid-April, making it the world’s largest humpback whale breeding grounds. Photo by: James R.D. Scott

Only around eighty people live on Salt Cay. Tourism is still small scale, and you might find yourself one of the only non-natives here. You are certainly will have a large part of the island’s white-sand beaches to yourself for romantic strolls, beach-combing, an whatever you wish, before technology and moder world cluttered it up. 

Location: Turks and Caicos. Photos by: candisfl