A lone Baobab tree
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The Baobab Tree
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When:
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Daily
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Where:
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Queen's Park
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| Costs: |
Free
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| Opening Hours: |
Dawn to dusk
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Barbados boasts two of the biggest trees in the Caribbean, each a natural wonder in their own right. The most impressive can be found in Queen's Park, in Bridgetown, and has a trunk 55 feet in circumference. It truly is a natural wonder that has to be seen to be believed.
It takes 15 adults holding hands to reach round the sides of this tree, which is over 250 years old. The other name for the Baobab tree is the Monkey Bread tree, monkey bread being the name given by locals to the peculiar fruit the tree bears. The trees, originally from Africa, are thought to live as long as a thousand years and anyone who cuts one down will be haunted by the spirits that live within their branches.
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