City overview
The Turks & Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory of about forty islands and cays at the southeastern end of the Bahamian chain, best known for Grace Bay Beach on Providenciales and for the reef that runs the length of the archipelago. Providenciales holds almost all of the country's resorts, restaurants and shopping, while Grand Turk, North, Middle and South Caicos and Salt Cay stay quiet and largely undeveloped. Jewish life in the country is young and centres entirely on Providenciales: Chabad of Turks & Caicos Islands, founded by Rabbi Shmulik and Chaya Berkowitz at the end of 2019, is the only Jewish congregation anywhere in the islands. The resident community is small and expatriate, and it swells through the winter season with second-home owners and visitors. Kosher food on the island is limited but real, and everything Jewish sits within the Grace Bay area.
The Boiling Hole
Turks & Caicos · Free
A natural underwater fissure linking the ocean to the main salina on South Caicos, which colonial salt producers harnessed to flood their evaporation pans.
Time needed
10 to 15 minutes
Hours
Monday: Open 24 hours; Tuesday: Open 24 hours; Wednesday: Open 24 hours; Thursday: Open 24 hours; Friday: Open 24 hours; Saturday: Open 24 hours; Sunday: Open 24 hours
Tips
From Cockburn Harbour head west on Saint George Street onto the salina, where a limestone causeway of about 700 feet leads to a small parking area and a short walk along the salina walls. Time it for high tide, when the inflow gives the hole its boiling appearance. There is a shade gazebo but no restrooms.
Neighborhood
Cockburn Harbour, South Caicos
Activity providers
Kosher map of Turks & Caicos
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.