The Bahamas Complete Guide 2026: Nassau, Exumas, Eleuthera, Bimini and the World's Deepest Blue Hole
Browse more guides: Bahamas travel | North America destinations The Bahamas Complete Guide 2026: Nassau, Exumas, Eleuthera, Bimini and the World's Deepest Blue Hole TL;DR The Bahamas is not one island, it is 700 strung across 470,000 sq km of turquoise ocean between Florida and Cuba, and only about 30 are inhabited. I keep coming back because the colour of the water looks unreal on camera, the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay still wade out to meet boats, Long Island holds the deepest blue hole on Earth at 202 m, and Junkanoo on Boxing Day is one of the loudest street parties I have stood inside. This guide walks Nassau and Paradise Island, the Exuma Cays, Eleuthera with its pink sand, Bimini 80 km from Miami, Andros with the world's third-largest barrier reef, plus Cat Island, Long Island, Inagua's 80,000 flamingos and San Salvador where Columbus made first landfall on 12 October 1492. Indians need a US B1/B2 visa; Bahamian dollars are pegged 1:1 to USD; cars drive on t...