Caribbean
Saint Vincent - Hollywood's Pirate Island
Wild and pristine, St. Vincent is a lush tropical island and much of the heartland is still covered with tropical forest reaching right up to the summits of the island’s many volcanoes. ... Full story
Saint Martin - a shopping paradise and world of entertainment
One island, two cultures; a two nation vacation! St. Martin is only 12 km in width and 8 km long, but its 88 square kilometres are shared by two independent nations. French Saint Martin, which is part of the EU and uses the euro as its currency, comprises the northern part, while Dutch Sint Maarten, a self-governing territory of the Netherlands royal dynasty, uses the Antilles guilder and covers the south. ... Full story
Saint Lucia - the island that never sleeps
Saint Lucia is non-stop Caribbean. in the daytime, all easy going: people bathing on palm-framed beaches, wandering around exotic fishing villages, hiking or jungle biking in dense tropical forests, or snorkelling and diving among colourful coral reefs. Saint Lucia is an idyllic place of tranquillity and tropical nature. In the evening, though, Rodney Bay awakens to a bustling nightlife: you’ll find more than 40 bars, restaurants and nightclubs along the trendy mile in the tourist centre. ... Full story
Martinique - The Queen of the Caribbean
As exotic and tropical as her sisters– lined by fantastic beaches and nestled in the turquoise blue sea - of all of the islands though, Martinique is the most majestic. ... Full story
Guyana - a safari extension to the Caribbean Islands
A Garden of Eden and paradise located side by side: Guyana is the continuation of the Caribbean chain of islands onto the South American continent. This country with its pristine tropical forests, jaguars hunting tapirs and monkeys, and its countless rivers inhabited by giant otters, caimans and anacondas, culturally and economically forms part of the Caribbean. today. Guyana’s official language is English, the radios here play reggae music, the most popular beer is the ‘Carib’, and the capital Georgetown with its Victorian timber palaces and churches is considered the Garden City of the Caribbean. ... Full story
Guadaloupe - colourful archpelago
The Guadeloupe archipelago is a diverse Caribbean universe with more than a dozen isles, each a world of its own, like satellites orbiting the double suns of Grande Terre and Basse Terre. These two islands make up the "mainland" of Guadeloupe, two butterfly wings, divided only by a narrow channel, but completely unlike one another. ... Full story
The Grenadines - out of a picture book
The Grenadines are a group of tiny islands with white beaches and swaying palm trees lined up between Grenada and St. Vincent like pearls on a necklace set in a turquoise sea. Carriacou is the most original island of the Grenadines: Caribbean the way it was 20 years ago with beautiful picture book beaches and a charming island capital. Grenada's small sister island, with its many reefs and offshore isles is a paradise for diving and snorkelling. ... Full story
Grenada - unexplored paradise
With its white palm-strewn beaches, turquoise ocean and miles of untouched nature and thanks to the fact that mass tourism never touched the most southern island of the West Indies, the charms of the unexplored exotic paradise have been preserved. Secluded bays line the coasts. Inland, extinct volcanoes rise up to 900 meters, covered with wild jungle and old spice plantations. ... Full story
Dominica - a natural paradise!
Situated between the two European islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, the wild and pristine Dominica provides a contrast that couldn’t be more striking - a totally different world. Dominica is the island of the Carib Indians, wild and untouched; with steep shores and narrow gorges which provided a natural barrier for the indigenous people against European invaders. ... Full story
Antigua and Barbuda - Delightful Twins
A twinkling star reflecting in the turquoise blue sea: Antigua’s coastline glistens brightly, with deeply cut bays seamed by more than 350 dazzling white beaches. An almost uninterrupted coral reef around the island smoothes the waves and offers beautiful dive sites. The two-hundred-year-old Nelson’s Dockyards attest to the fact that this was once the fleet base of the British Empire in the West Indies. Today restaurants and laid-back pubs have conquered these fortifications now restored true to the original. ... Full story
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Huntsville - a touch of southern comfort.
The city of Huntsville, nestled amongst the hills of north Alabama, is certainly not the backwater southern town that I perhaps expected. It manages to combine a delightful historical old-town with a state of the art high-tech modern city built around the U.S. space programme. ... Full story