CAYMAN ISLANDS DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM
LEFT TWO PHOTOS BY KATE McCLARE
ONE HELL OF A TOWN
CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Limestone formations inspired the name; the devil’s gift shop; welcome to . . . oh, you know.
If your cruise director tells you to go to Hell, don’t be insulted. He’s probably just recommending a tour that includes the town of Hell.
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That’s the town’s real name, inspired by the jagged limestone formations resembling menacing flames, which jut up from much of the ground in this small
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hamlet near George Town. People do live here, but you’re more likely to meet one
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of the island’s ubiquitous green iguanas. Hell’s chief export? Postcards, available at the gift shop and the post office, on which visitors scrawl such devilishly clever greetings as “Having a Hell of a time — wish you were here.”
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Inside the gift shop, a staff member in a red devil suit demands with mock impatience, “What the Hell do you want?”
10 Shedden Road, corner of Harbour Dr. & Shedden Rd. (right next to the National Museum) PHoNe: 345 949-8166 • e-mail: bluewavecayman@candw.ky
It’s a must-do for the first-time Grand Cayman visitor — if only so you can say you’ve been to Hell and back.
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