Cruise Port Spotlight: Charleston, South Carolina

South Carolina’s gem –Margaret Mitchell made it Rhett Butler’s hometown in her classic, Gone With The Wind, Charleston is a refined city with mansions dating back to pre-Civil War times, historic neighborhoods with gardens filled with showy magnolia trees, fragrant jasmine, and other blooms, and gracious Southern hospitality and culinary specialties. It is a popular port of call on Colonial America and other cruise itineraries that visit the east coast of the U.S.

By Georgina Cruz

January 21, 2013