Antigua Site

Where would you rather spend your vacation? Inside a hotel room where the rates are probably burning holes in your pockets? Or in a spacious villa for long term rental in Antigua?

Jumby Bay, Antigua was known for several hundred years as Long Island. The reason is that the island often gives off an illusion that it is elongated in appearance when viewed from the Antiguan mainland. Later, however, it was found that a section of Jumby Bay, Antigua was actually a separate, uninhabited island located so close to the larger Jumby Bay that people thought it was but part of the latter. Now, the island is called Jumby Bay Island after the jumbies (”friendly ghosts”) described in local Arawak folklore.

Nestled between the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea and the mighty North Atlantic Ocean, Antigua is almost completely surrounded by well-preserved coral reefs, walls, and shelfs. Being as it is, it’s no wonder then that many people equate Antigua with great diving in the Caribbean.

In fact, both Antigua and Barbuda, two islands comprising one nation, boast excellent shallow dive spots that are some of the best in the Eastern side of the Caribbean. However, of the two, Antigua has the most number of dive sites.