Cayman Island Attractions and Things to Do

Unique Cayman Island attractions include Sting Ray City, our favorite excursion ever; the Cayman Turtle Farm with 16,000 sea turtles; and Pedro St. James Historic Site.

Noteworthy regular attractions include shopping, helicopter tours and  a high number of water sports. It's worth noting that the island has only one golf course, mainly due to high cruise tourism -- the brief visits don't easily allow golf excursions -- and low stopover tourism.


Stingray City easily ranks as one of the top Caribbean attractions. Nothing quite prepares visitors to step from a boat into three feet of water on a sandbar and have large stingrays pass gently by them, sometimes rubbing their wings over visitors' legs. The stingrays became used to human touch years ago when fishermen would stop their boats on the side bars to clean fish and throw the remains over the sides. Then divers began to feed the stingray by hand, and one of the great Caribbean excursions got its start.


One of the best Grand Cayman beaches to hang out on the north side of the island is Rum Point. It is ideal for swimming, snorkeling, sunbathing and dining because of its casual island atmosphere.


The town of Hell on Grand Cayman is famous for its name and the number of postcards sent from Hell via the post office. it also is known for its elaborate rock formations, which were formed 1.5 million years ago, although it isn't known in which Hell they were formed.


The park has a new T$800,000 Visitors Centre is now the first stop on the tour of the Botanic Park. The two-acre Heritage Garden showcases a restored early 20th-century, three-room, zinc-roofed Caymanian wooden cottage. The Floral Garden displays hundreds tropical and sub tropical plants over 2.5 acres.


The Museum has more than 2,000 items including old coins, rare documents and natural history specimens. The foundation of the museum is the private collection of historic memorabilia of the late Ira Thompson, whose collecting hobby spanned 50 years.


Boatswain’s Beach is the new home of the Cayman Turtle Farm and provides expanded facilities for visitor education. The facilities also have predators, birds, caiman, and other creatures. The park has a research and educational facility dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles.


Located in central George town this market place offers locally made wood & leathering products, Thatch and straw work and Local visual arts. Find yourself immersed in a unique Caymanian atmosphere where you can purchase a real part of Cayman whilst learning about our past and one of a kind culture.


Opportunities include Bat Cave, with a colony of bats;  Great Cave, which looks like a pirate cave; Peter's Cave, which is known as a hurricane refuge; Pirate's Caves, natural limestone caves located below the southern part of Bodden Town; Rebecca's Cave, which is named after a small girl, Rebecca, who fled with her family from the hurricane in 1932, died in the cave by accident and is buried there; and Skull Cave, which is named that way because the entrance looks like a skull.


Trails across Cayman Brac include easy hikes, a group of caves on the southern shoreline and two miles of trails through a reserve for the rare Cayman parrot and about 150 other bird species. Grand Cayman's Mastic Trail provides views of orchids, parrots, doves, woodpeckers, snakes and lizards.


Blowholes are fountains of water that shoot out of cavities in rocks. They are located on Frank Sound Road on Grand Cayman on the way to the Eastern Districts. In Cayman Brac they are scattered around the island.