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Providencia What it’s known for

June 27, 2008

Fly to Providencia (PVA) through San Andrés (ADZ) on Avianca or Copa Airlines. avianca.com; copaair.com. From there, take a Satena flight to Providencia. satena.com

Stay on Providencia at the 35-room Sol Caribe Providencia on the Bahia de Agua Dulce (Bay of Fresh Water). solarhoteles.com

See the “town.” In the single-street hive of activity that is Providencia “town,” there are a few supply stores, a post office, hospital, school and an Internet/phone center where the phones may not work.

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Eat at Amalia’s Kitchen, one of the island’s few restaurants. It promises fresh snapper though may only have fried chicken on that particular day.

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