Caribbean
Cuba
ln an amazing balancing act, Cuba is at once poor and broken, and rich and thriving. From the beat of the music echoing through towns and villages to the hustle of Havana’s glorious, crumbling streets, Cuba challenges and enchants all who venture in. lts political isolation has prevented a tourist flood, and locals are sincerely […]
Dominica
Dominica is largely rural, uncrowded and unspoiled. It has a lush mountainous interior of rainforests, waterfalls, lakes, hot springs and rivers, many of which cascade over steep cliff faces en route to the coast. Apart from its natural splendours, including the highest mountains in the Eastern Caribbean, the island has an interesting fusion of British. […]
Bahamas
The Bahamas has successfully promoted itself as a destination for US jet - setters, and a lot of it is Americanised. Yet there are still places among its 700 islandsand 2500 cays to disappear into a mangrove forest, explore a coral reef and escape the high - rise hotels and package - tour hype. The […]
Barbados
Barbados is the ‘Little England’ of the Caribbean, but not to the point where the locals have given up rotis for kidney pies, or rum for bitter ale Bajans, as the islanders call themselves, are as West lndian as any of their neighbours, and have tended to appropriate rather than about English customs. Tou’ll notice […]
Aruba-Netherlands Antilles
lt’s possible that the Dutch Antilles is the most concentrated area of multiculturalism in the world. Papiamento, spoken throughout the Netherlands Antilles, is testament to this face - the language is derived from every culture that has impacted on the region, including traces of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and local lndian languages. The islands are […]
Antigua-Barbuda
Antigua’s tourist office that the island has 365 beaches, ‘one for each day of the year’. Lt has great reefs and wrecks for diving and snorkeling. On neighbouring Barbuda you can track the island’s fabled frigate birds and visit the Caribbean’s largest rookery. Barbuda is a quiet, single - village island that gets very few […]
Anguilla
Anguilla, the most northerly of the British Leeward lslands, retains the laid - back character of a sleepy backwater. lt’s small and lightly populated, but the islanders are friendly and easy -going. lt also has some of the finest beaches in the Caribbean. The interior of the island is flat, dry and scrubby, pockmarked with […]
