Beauty.

Bold, breathtaking, make-your-heart-go-flutter beauty.

It’s the cornerstone of Caribbean vacations.

People flock to Caribbean resorts for the soft sandy beaches, the turquoise warm water, the technicolor coral, and those soul-stirring sunsets.  All that endless beauty.

We at La Vista Azul understand beauty.  Perched high on a hill, quite literally above all the other Turks and Caicos resorts, we offer a feast for the eyes that none of the other Turks and Caicos resorts can match.

But someone’s got us beat, though it’s not another resort.

His name is Ben Gearing, and he flies for TCI Helicopters.  And he can show you the beauty of Turks and Caicos from a completely different viewpoint – above and hovering.  Everyone knows “above,” of course, because almost everyone flies here on a jet.  But that’s “above” at 400 miles an hour.  “Above” when you’re stationary and floating is another kettle of fish altogether, and it will blow your mind.

This is beauty from a vantage point most people have never known.  It’s different, and it will leave you different afterwards.

Ben is a 36-year-old resident of Providenciales, and he has been flying for TCI Helicopters for eight years.  He turns Caribbean vacations into stories people tell for the rest of their lives.  Some people stay at Caribbean resorts on the beach and swim out to the many-colored coral reef.  Some lucky few get to hover above all that, for a few transcendent moments, looking down in wonder.

TCI Helicopters offers a range of tours.  The 20-minute excursion sticks exclusively to Providenciales Island.  Add another ten minutes and you can journey over the stunning islands of Pine Cay and Parrot Cay.  The 45-minute tour takes passengers to North Caicos and Middle Caicos.  One tour actually lands on Middle Caicos for a lunch stop at the famous Daniel’s Café.

Whether short or longer, a chopper trip will alter your perception of Turks and Caicos, and of much more as well.

La Vista Azul is above all the other Turks and Caicos resorts, quite literally, offering panoramic vistas that are endless.  You have to actually leave the earth to see more.  That’s where Ben comes in.

People take Caribbean vacations at Caribbean resorts for the sublime beauty of it all.  Ben will help you take it up a notch.

No one knows exactly what happened, but the driver was certainly in a hurry.

It could have been a visitor, who knows?  People on their way to Caribbean holidays at Caribbean resorts are always anxious to get there.  Fast.  Particularly if they’re on their way to La Vista Azul, the glorious hilltop hideaway that towers above the other Turks and Caicos resorts.

Or perhaps it was one of the locals, who just took a wrong turn.  Fast.

Whomever it was, they wrecked the roundabout … they smashed smack into it and destroyed the pretty pink flamingos that had been so lovingly rendered by the original artist.

The roundabout is the first thing people see when they leave Providenciales Airport.  And there it sat, mangled, for the longest time, because of that unknown reckless driver.

But not any more.

The eyesore has been transformed.  Now, visitors embarking upon their Caribbean holidays at Caribbean resorts will see a new, magnificent work of art when they drive out of Providenciales Airport.

Bahamian-born Amiel Cartwright has unveiled his masterpiece.  Featuring a vibrant depiction of JoJo the dolphin, one of the country’s most beloved national symbols, and incorporating the refurbished remnants of the pink flamingo sculptures, the roundabout has been reborn.

Caribbean holidays at Caribbean resorts are meant to be sublime.  But you don’t usually expect that to begin in the middle of the road when you’ve just left the airport.  But visitors to La Vista Azul, the newest and hottest of the Turks and Caicos resorts, are in for just such an early treat.

So, please, come and pay us a visit, and check out this wonderful new work by a marvelous artist.

But, please, drive carefully.

To keep our many friends updated on what’s going on at the resort and on Turks and Caicos, La Vista Azul Turks and Caicos Resort is now on Facebook! We invite everyone who likes the beach life to follow us on online and learn to love it.

To celebrate, La Vista Azul Turks and Caicos Resort is announcing a Caribbean Resort Getaway Contest for Facebook Friends. The first 500 people to visit our Facebook Page and “Like” us will be entered in a draw for a free three-night stay for two. (Airfare is not included.)

There is no more pleasurable way to spend a weekend than to lounge around La Vista Azul Turks and Caicos Resort and walk along the beaches of this wonderful Caribbean island. When you don’t have to pay for the pleasure, it’s one of the best Caribbean vacations you’ll ever find!

We know when our northern friends think of us most.

When the snow clots the roads and ice hangs in shards above frozen doorways.  When a sun bleached of color and heat perches lifeless against a slate-grey sky.  When daylight brings no warmth and darkness freezes the air in your lungs, leaving you curled beneath your comforter … to sleep … perchance to dream.

To dream of warm Caribbean vacations at lush Caribbean resorts.

That’s when you think of us most.  We on the Turks and Caicos Islands understand that.  In the minds of many, we are strictly a winter-time destination.

Well, think again.

The lush, lazy life on these islands is not a seasonal enterprise.  It goes on year round.

Spring and summer are jam-packed with festivals and fetes and fun happenings of every kind.  And this year, we welcome back an old friend.

Born in the early 1970s and named in honor of the island of Providenciales, Provo Day is a traditional grassroots festival featuring a fashion show, a float parade, boat races, and live music.  It was, once upon a time, the highlight of the summer social calendar, and it makes its much-anticipated return in July.  Also being reincarnated at this year’s Provo Day is the Miss Turks and Caicos beauty pageant.

And Provo Day is just one of a myriad of exciting summer celebrations.  There is an endless roster of fun things to do and happenings to attend down here on Turks in the so-called “off” season.

We are always on.

And of course, if you’re coming to Turks and Caicos, there is no better place to enjoy the show than perched high above Turtle Cove and Grace Bay Beach at the beautiful La Vista Azul Resort.

Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall.

Anytime.

Always.

Next week’s Royal wedding is already a special event here on the Turks and Caicos Islands.  The day itself, April 29, has been made a national holiday.  Natives and visitors alike are getting ready to let loose during a three-day weekend of fun and sun and long cool drinks celebrating young love and a new life begun.

But it may not end there for these magical isles, and the excitement here is palpable.

Some are speaking of two very special guests who may wander this way after all the “I Do’s” have been said.

And who could blame the young lovers?  A Turks and Caicos honeymoon is an enchanted event.  The sun, the sand, and the soft, supple nights … this land was made for lovers.

And British bookmakers are laying odds that the enchantment has been whispered into Royal ears.  The Turks and Caicos Islands are now second (behind Africa), according to London betting shops, as the destination of choice for Wills and Kate after they tie the knot in Westminster Abbey.

Will they come?  Plenty of English punters are betting plenty of English pounds that they will.

Of course, you don’t have to be Royalty to enjoy a Turks and Caicos honeymoon, or a Turks and Caicos wedding, either.  Thousands come here every year to do both.  And we at La Vista Azul can help make you feel like Royalty while you celebrate your special day.  A wedding with us, or the honeymoon following one, will live in your memory forever.

Do you want something like that?  Do you?

Go ahead … you know the answer … say it …

Say, “I do.”