CAYMAN ISLANDS: The Caribbean's Richest Islands, Built by People Who Left | 4K Travel Documentary

By eight in the morning the Cayman Islands are already moving money for the rest of the world, while the families who live here are just starting an ordinary day. George Town is small enough to walk across, yet its banks hold more than 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars in foreign deposits, and people from over 130 nationalities share roughly 100 square miles. Not long ago the flow ran the other way. There was so little work here that Cayman men spent years at sea, while women braided silver thatch rope at home and traded it themselves. This 4K travel documentary follows that reversal across all three islands. You will see why catboats were built for shallow reefs, what islanders did one night in 1794 that a Queen later came to thank them for, how self-government began at Pedro St. James in 1831, how life in the Cayman Islands now runs from Seven Mile Beach to Little Cayman, and what it costs a small country to stay itself while the world moves in. #traveldocumentary #caymanislands #lifeincaymanislands #grandcayman