A View from a Hill

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As I sat chatting with an acquaintance, she told me about this restaurant on a hill with a breathtaking view that she had lunch at in St. Joseph, Barbados called Surinam. It sounded wonderful, so I set about to discover this place. I am not very map savvy, so I asked my friend Steve, who had never heard of this place, to find it on the map for me, and sure enough he found it. We proceeded to Google the place, liked what we read and decided there and then that we were going to go there.

Six of us made plans and set out a week later to visit this breathtaking place. We were all pump up as we set out to see the awesome view and to have lunch at the restaurant on the hill. The six of us then set out in a van we hired, hyper as little kids, on the drive toward St. Joseph. We passed through St. Andrew, Saint Andrew, which is one of the eleven parishes in Barbados. We also passed many landmarks as we drove by, like the  St. Andrew Sugar Factor, which is the largest sugar processing factory in Barbados and St. Andrew Church that dates back to the 1600’s. The parish of saint Andrew also  has some awesome rolling hills, it  has the countries highest elevation of 1, 102 ft, called Mount Hillaby, offering the best view in Barbados.

As we continued on our destination toward St. Joseph, after witnessing  the rolling hills  in St. Andrew that we could not get enough of,  the roads seemed to narrow and we saw monkeys as we were passing by. The sighting of monkeys in Barbados never seems to get dull for me, I love to see the mischievous animals that even lovelier as a family of monkeys together. However, we finally arrived at our destination, jumped out the van and looked up to the restaurant on a Hill called Naniki.( ‘Naniki’ is the Arawak word for full of life.)

We could not contain our excitement, and all started talking at the same time. We rushed through the gate and the sight that met our eyes was unbelievable, we found paradise. We saw 10 wooden cabins, a swimming pool, hot tub, hiking trail, a beautiful garden and to top it off a restaurant on a hill with a beautiful view.

After exploring the place, we then proceeded to explore the restaurant, order lunch, and ate with a spectacular view all around us. After topping off our dessert, we decided then and there that we were going to come back to spend the weekend at Naniki.   

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