VIDEO: A Legendary Caribbean Beach Bar

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - June 4th, 2016

In the beginning, there was Kali.

Long before St Martin was one of the Caribbean’s top travel destinations, there was Kali. Just Kali and his beach bar.

This is Kali’s, the first beach bar in St Martin when it opened on Friar’s Bay almost 36 years ago.

And today, the legend remains, serving cocktails and ti’ punches and lazy afternoons to all those who make the trek to this less-traveled sweep of sand on the French side.

“This is the place to be in paradise,” Kali tells CJ. And he’s exactly right.

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