This isolated beach is a place to wrap a Do Not Disturb sign around your waist and get in some serious beach combing on an uninhabited island with an eight-mile-long soft, sandy beach.
Klein Curaçao (Curaçao) —
This isolated beach is a place to wrap a Do Not Disturb sign around your waist and get in some serious beach combing on an uninhabited island with an eight-mile-long soft, sandy beach.
Courtesy Curaçao Tourist Board
The coiling snake of asphalt that is Route de la Trace curls around bamboo forests and botanical gardens. Rising into the clouds on most days, the still-active Mont Pelee sits at the end of the road.
Route de la Trace (Martinique) —
The coiling snake of asphalt that is Route de la Trace curls around bamboo forests and botanical gardens. Rising into the clouds on most days, the still-active Mont Pelee sits at the end of the road.
Courtesy Luc Olivier/Martinique Tourist Board
Turtles are what most divers yearn to see, but you may find that the triangle-shaped box fish, hunting morays or schools of technicolor butterfly fish really steal the show.
Turtle diving (Bonaire) —
Turtles are what most divers yearn to see, but you may find that the triangle-shaped box fish, hunting morays or schools of technicolor butterfly fish really steal the show.
Courtesy Tourism Corporation Bonaire
Getting stung by a "killer bee" (or four) is a rite of passage in Nevis. Involving rum and honey, the "killer bee" cocktail is the most popular drink on the island, and one that locals will tell you is prepared properly only at Sunshine's.
The "Killer Bee" (Nevis) —
Getting stung by a "killer bee" (or four) is a rite of passage in Nevis. Involving rum and honey, the "killer bee" cocktail is the most popular drink on the island, and one that locals will tell you is prepared properly only at Sunshine's.
Courtesy Nevis Tourism Authority
This is what most of Aruba would have looked like in the 1800s -- a desert wilderness of abandoned gold mines, massive cacti, wandering goats, limestone caves and the odd mud-and-grass farmhouse.
Arikok National Park (Aruba) —
This is what most of Aruba would have looked like in the 1800s -- a desert wilderness of abandoned gold mines, massive cacti, wandering goats, limestone caves and the odd mud-and-grass farmhouse.
Courtesy Aruba Tourism Authority
The aptly named Valley of Desolation is filled with bubbling mineral pools, fast-flowing rivers and powerful jets of steam shooting out of the earth -- and far removed from the mainstream Caribbean experience.
Valley of Desolation (Dominica) —
The aptly named Valley of Desolation is filled with bubbling mineral pools, fast-flowing rivers and powerful jets of steam shooting out of the earth -- and far removed from the mainstream Caribbean experience.
Courtesy writingwithmymouthfull.com
You could find yourself taking in a traditional hog roast with a Cuban farming family, touring the orchards of fruit farmers in Ciego de Avila or chatting with workers at the sharp end of the Cuban economy.
Meet the People tour (Cuba) —
You could find yourself taking in a traditional hog roast with a Cuban farming family, touring the orchards of fruit farmers in Ciego de Avila or chatting with workers at the sharp end of the Cuban economy.
Courtesy Ivar Struthers/Traidcraft/Meet the People Tour
Knowledgeable guides at this nature center amid dense rainforest and mangrove swamps, can help you identify more than 400 species, including scarlet ibises, toucans, parrots, yellow orioles and the rare oilbird.
Asa Wright Nature Centre (Trinidad) —
Knowledgeable guides at this nature center amid dense rainforest and mangrove swamps, can help you identify more than 400 species, including scarlet ibises, toucans, parrots, yellow orioles and the rare oilbird.
Courtesy Pat Ganase/ASA Wright Nature Centre