TIME GVADELUPY
The difference with Moscow: winter - minus 6 hours in summer - minus 7 hours.

PEOPLE GVADELUPY
About 448.7 thousand people. Basically negros and mulatto, came from Europe and "matinontsy" - descendants of settlers from the northern coast of France. Also Hindus live here, mestizos, people from Asia Minor (the Syrians and Lebanese) and other nationalities.

CLIMATE GVADELUPY
The climate is tropical marine - hot and humid with strong winds. The average air temperature is about 26 ° C. From December to February temperature is kept around 22 ° C mark, from March to May the temperature rises to 30-32 ° C. In summer (June-August) temperature ranges from 26 to 28 ° C. Water temperature is 25 ° C almost all year round. The most humid period - from July to November, when over the territory of Guadeloupe pass tropical cyclones and sometimes - hurricanes. During this period, the humidity averaged 85%.

HOLIDAY GVADELUPE
For those who preferred active recreation, for there are many types of Guadeloupe leisure activities: tennis, fishing, diving, surfing, kanoing, yachting, traveling to other islands of the archipelago. Guadeloupe is ideal for a honeymoon.

WHAT PRIVEZTI FROM GVADELUPY
French goods: perfumes, porcelain, glass, champagne and wine, cheeses, light and dark rum, coffee beans, unusual spices, pottery, wicker and straw things lace.

SIGHTSEEING GVADELUPY
Visit, for example, water park, where you will see grow as the river crayfish, send to the park Mamel the opening of flora and fauna of the archipelago, at Gore orchids, walk on raskinuvshemusya in the three-hectare garden with various kinds of trees.
To learn all about the history and characteristics gvadelupskogo coffee, visit the Museum of coffee in there and try Bonifiri this magical drink (100% Arabica!). Another cognitive Museum - Museum of marine shells, where you can admire copies around the world!
Brilliant natural treasure in Guadeloupe - luxurious Grand Reserve Kyul-de-Sak Marin from the lagoon, covering about 15 000 hectares, located on two islands in the west. The reserve is restricted on the one hand the longest in the Antilles coral lagoon, and from the shore - a broad belt of forests mandrovyh - and serves as a place of reproduction of many thousands of birds.

KITCHEN GVADELUPY
Kitchen Guadeloupe can be safely called the "Caribbean branch" of French - are so closely intertwined local culinary traditions with kitchen former metropolis, and so great here the influence of local ways of cooking. You can take any famous French dish and find him here almost complete analogy. But even the most ordinary prepare meals here with his "highlight". Recently, prominent place on the islands have occupied the Mexican, Indian and Chinese cuisine, but locals here have brought some color - many indigenous Asian dishes here are preparing so that many cooks even consider this a culinary tradition. A Mexican dishes in the hands of local cooks are becoming thinner and softer taste. But many institutions and canonical professing the "clean" types of recipes.
At the local table is dominated by seafood, and it is not surprising that - an island situation obliges. Atlantic waters off the coast of the island is very rich in fish and fish on the Caribbean coast of the large number of crustaceans and mollusks, which are preparing for the French, Creole for, or using African and Asian recipes. It is most popular dishes of lobster, turtles, red lyutsiana, all kinds of marine shells and hedgehogs. By the typical local dishes include stuffed crab, boiled crabs with green bananas, clams quenching on the corner, all kinds of shellfish with vegetable garnish, stewed with spices crabs "matutu de krabes" boiled octopus "tent", brioshi of lobster, assorted fish and pork with vegetables "tinin-Golan-more", broth from the clams, fish ragout "La Creole, fried wild goat meat with spices" can-kolombo "and" December ", thin cakes" mouth "with various fillings, acute blood sausage "budin, fried chicken with rice and vegetables, vegetable ragout with bacon or seafood" kalalu "rabbit stewed with vegetables, stewed clams in wine, stewed rabbit with vegetables and roasted pigeon. Using various spices attaches to these dishes characteristic aroma of Creole cuisine, a subtle French processing methods and filing on the table - exquisite taste and distinctive appearance. By the meat supply side dish of vegetables, rice, rarely - potatoes, as well as exotic local fruits and vegetables - acclamation, environments, Cassava and even pineapples.
By table always served local fruit drinks that deserve special attention. Freshly juices guavy, annonas, pineapples, papayas, marakuyi, mandarin and sugar cane are known to repeal quality. Also popular local coffee and tea. And, of course, you can find almost any sort of French wine, champagne and other imported spirits.
Local rum is also good, but romovy punsh is a calling card of local winemaking.

RELIGION GVADELUPY
Most of the islanders are Catholics, but here vsterchayutsya razliynh adherents of religious denominations such as Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

HOLIDAYS GVADELUPY
January 1 - New Year's.
March-April - Good Friday.
April-May - Easter and Easter Monday.
May - Ascension.
May 1 - Labor Day.
May 8 - Victory Day.
May 22 - Day of the abolition of slavery.
Late May - Whit Sunday and Trinity.
July 14 - Bastille Day.
July 21 - Day Shelshera.
August 15 - Assumption of the Virgin.
November 1 - All Saints Day.
November 11 - Pominoveniya Day, Armistice Day in World War.
December 25 - January 1 - Christmas.
November - Day Konkordii on the coexistence of the Dutch and half French island of St. Maarten

TRANSPORTATION GVADELUPY
to date, Guadeloupe has a well developed infrastructure of roads, a network of deep-water ports and air transport.

VISA GVADELUPU
The Schengen, marked "the island of Guadeloupe", formalized in the French consulate within 2 - weeks, the necessary documents for registration of the visa: foreign passport, 1 photo, copy and the original ticket, invitation, medical insurance, a copy of the Russian passport.

Embassies
Guadeloupe Embassy in the Russian Federation no.
Russian Embassy in Guadeloupe not.
The interests of Guadeloupe in the Russian Federation represents French Embassy