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Caribbean Tours, Travel & Activities
The Caribbean Islands or West Indies have long been known as a vacation destination for honeymooners and retirees, but a small movement towards eco-tourism and backpacking has started to open the Caribbean up to independent travel. Explore the sights and have some adventures on your Caribbean holiday with our offering of tours and activities …
• Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua is one of the two islands that make up Antigua and Barbuda. It is a beautiful get away and many tourist enjoy the really energetic island culture but also the peace and tranquility that the surrounding seas bring. Saint John's is the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, and the only city on the island of Antigua …
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• Aruba
Aruba is a Caribbean island off the coast of Central America and north of Venezuela. The island is an autonymous dependency of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches. Its tropical climate is moderated by constant trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean …
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• Bahamas
Millionaire's Row as the name applies, is Grand Bahama's version of Beverly Hills. (The commercial business center located downtown, houses many businesses.) While there, visit a conch vendor and find out just how to make conch salad, then travel to the open air fruit market …
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• Barbados
Barbados is the 'Little England' of the Caribbean, but not so much so that the locals have given up rotis for kidney pies, or rum for bitter ale. Bajans, as the islanders call themselves, are as West Indian as any of their Caribbean neighbors. During a period of low rain from December til May the mercury usually peaks just under the 86°F (30°C) mark, making the conditions in Barbados at this time highly visit worthy …
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• British Virgin Islands
The British Virgin Islands are a self-governing British overseas territory, situated in the Caribbean just to the east of the US Virgin Islands. The BVIs, as they are called, are a popular travel destination for sailors, fishermen (and women), sun worshippers, and other independent travellers …
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• Cayman Islands
The three islands of the Cayman Islands are the exposed top of an underwater mountain. Underwater, the sides of this mountain are quite steep, vertical in some places, within as little as a few hundred meters from shore. In addition to the expected coral reefs …
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• Curacao
Curacao's beaches may be nubbled with coral or strewn with imported grains, and the local liqueur may be a first-rate rotgut, but it more than makes up for these niggles with high comfort levels, guaranteed balminess and a friendliness that constantly threatens to bubble over into a party …
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• Dominica
Largely rural, uncrowded and unspoiled, Dominica touts itself as a 'non-tourist destination' for divers, hikers and naturalists - partly because it trades the lazy white-sand beaches so predominant elsewhere in the Caribbean for verdant peaks, killer hikes and breathtaking underwater scenery …
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• Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic, (Spanish: RepUblica Dominicana) is a country located on the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica …
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• Jamaica
In Jamaica, both Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay receive hundreds of international flights daily. There are smaller airports in Negril and Ocho Rios, which can be accessed by smaller aircraft, such as Air Jamaica's shuttle and private aircraft …
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• Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a semi-autonomous territory composed of an archipelago in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands, approximately 1,280 miles (2,000 km) off the coast of Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States) …
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• St. Kitts - Nevis
The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis), located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest nation in the Americas in both area and population …
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• St. Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island in the Caribbean, off the coast of Central America. It lies between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago. The twin Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton) are striking cone-shaped peaks south of Soufriere that are one of the scenic natural highlights of the Caribbean …
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• St. Maarten
Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km2 island is divided roughly in half between France and the Netherlands; it is the smallest inhabited sea island divided between two nations. The southern Dutch half comprises the Eilandgebied Sint Maarten …
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• Trinidad & Tobago
Tobago and its big sister, Trinidad, are the Caribbean's odd couple. Tiny Tobago is relaxed, slow-paced and largely undeveloped. Trinidad is a densely populated, thriving island with a cosmopolitan population and strong regional influences. The islands' capital Port of Spain is a bustling metropolitan hub …
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• US Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of Charlotte Amalie. In 1917 St. Thomas was purchased (with Saint John and Saint Croix) by the United States for $25 million, as part of a defensive strategy in the Caribbean …
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