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Outside Frederiksted, there are a few places to take in on a
leisurely day trip.
The St George Village Botanical Garden is perhaps the
highlight, a few miles inland at 127 Estate St in Kingshill
(Mon-Sat 8am-4pm; US$5; ph 340/692-2874), with beautiful
botanical gardens flourishing amid the ruined buildings of
an old estate.
Just south, across the Queen Mary Highway, the Cruzan Rum
Factory offers tours (Mon-Fri 9-11.30am & 1-4.15pm; ph
340/692-2280), and
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the Estate Whim Plantation Museum,
back towards Frederiksted on Route 76 (Mon-Sat 10am-4pm; ph
340/772-0598), has been restored as it was during Danish
times, with a period museum of agricultural tools and other
exhibits.
If you like this, try also the Karl and Marie
Lawaetz Museum on Route 76, which also devotes itself to
mid-eighteenth century life on the farm; don't miss the
nearby St Croix Leap on Mahogany Road, a wood-working
studio that sells jewelry, furniture and other crafts by
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