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Caribbean Life
Barbados, the gem of the Caribbean, has a lot to offer its visitors. With white sandy beaches and year round sunshine Barbados is without a doubt the destination of choice for any traveller.
Barbados is the most eastern island in the Caribbean, and is a tiny dot on most world maps with an area of 430 square kilometres (166 sq miles). Barbados has a population of about 260,000 - which is quite high considering its size. With 97 kilometres (60 miles) of coastline, Barbados has much to offer its visitors in terms of water sports and beach activities: We hope you will be spending much of your day relaxing there!
Come explore where you can stay, eat, shop, rent a car, tour, cruise and find just about everything you need. It's time for you to discover why Barbados is the most enchanting of all Caribbean islands. Have fun, and happy exploring!
http://wikitravel.org/en/Barbados
http://www.visitbarbados.org/
Found 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica is an island paradise that defines the spirit of the Caribbean. Known for its tropical beauty, leisurely pace and lively music scene, Jamaica is best described as a cultural melting pot influenced by a diverse population and thriving tourism industry.
The crystal waters of the Caribbean Sea, lush tropical beauty and centuries of history lend themselves to a vacation destination favoured by leisure travelers and honeymooners. Warm and humid all year round, the weather is fairly stable with only the occasional storm. As can be expected from any island destination, water sports are popular, with miles of powdery beaches, reefs and many sunken ships to explore. Land based activities are equally popular, and Jamaica offers some of the most spectacular and challenging golf courses, mountain hikes and tennis courts in the Caribbean. During the off-season there are fewer tourists and life on the island is even more relaxed and leisurely.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Jamaica
http://www.visitjamaica.com/home/Default.aspx
The history of Trinidad & Tobago has been one of invasion and conquest since its discovery by Christopher Columbus, who claimed it for Spain in 1498. In 1888, Tobago was amalgamated with Trinidad and administered as a single colony thereafter. The British sponsored the West Indies Federation as a potential post-colonial model, in the belief that most of the Caribbean islands would be unable to survive politically or economically on their own. The Caribbean peoples thought otherwise and the Federation collapsed in the early-1960s. By this time, Trinidad & Tobago had already been granted internal self-government and achieved full independence in 1962.
The home of carnival, steel bands, calypso and limbo dancing, Trinidad & Tobago's blend of different cultures gives them an air of cosmopolitan excitement. Liming, or talking for talking's sake, is a popular pastime, as is chatting about, watching and playing cricket. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean, thanks to its considerable reserves of oil and gas. Along the north of Trinidad runs the Northern Range of mountains, looming over the country's capital, Port of Spain. On the north and east coasts lie beautiful beaches.
Port of Spain, surrounded by lush green hills, is the capital and business hub of oil-rich Trinidad. Bazaars throng beneath modern skyscrapers and mosques rub shoulders with cathedrals. San Fernando is the island's second town and the main commercial center in the south. Close by is the fascinating natural phenomenon of the Pitch Lake, a 90-acre (36.4 hectares) lake of asphalt which constantly replenishes itself.
Tobago is very different from her sister isle 32km (20 miles) away. The island is so beautiful and fertile that just about every western European colonial power has fought to have it. It is a tranquil island with calm waters and a number of fine beaches, each with their own flavor. They include Pigeon Point on the southwest coast. Buccoo Reef, an extensive coral reef, lies offshore.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Trinidad_and_tobago
The tiny island of Bequia has a unique, magical charm which is hard to find anywhere else in the Caribbean. With fewer than six thousand inhabitants, it feels like home from the moment you arrive; friendliness is the watchword, and the pace is relaxed and easy-going. Don't be surprised if you are greeted with a warm hello as you walk along the street - a centuries-old dependence on inter-island shipping and trading has meant that Bequians have been eagerly welcoming visitors to their shores for generations.
The island's enduring seafaring heritage is one of its most striking features. Virtually every Bequia family has some connection to the sea either past or present, and today's fishermen, sailors and boat-builders are quietly proud to share their marine traditions with newcomers to the island.
Bequia fulfils many dreams of the perfect small Caribbean island: beautiful sandy beaches where more than ten people may constitute a crowd, lush green hillsides, attractive little villages, intimate, well run hotels and guest houses, hardly any traffic, places to get together and places in which to find that perfect solitude. Variety and choice on so small an island may come as a surprise - but there are both wherever you look.
Choose a holiday of total beach relaxation or exhilarating sailing and diving in some of the most beautiful waters in the world. Get to know the island on foot, or hire a car and discover so much more than just the golden beaches; take day or overnight trips to neighbouring isles or simply fill up another perfect day doing what is increasingly necessary to unwind - nothing!
Your choice of holiday home could be a luxury hilltop villa, air-conditioned self-catering apartment or first class small hotel, a friendly beachfront guesthouse or a privately chartered yacht swaying quietly at anchor off a deserted beach.
A choice of nightlife too awaits you - gourmet international cuisine, or delicious local cooking; elegant cocktails or sundowners in a local bar; a lively jump up to steel band music or a wonderfully romantic candlelit dinner far away from it all.
And then of course there are the warm tropical nights, with an orchestra of singing cicadas and gently murmuring surf, and the brilliance of the star-studded sky which tells you, if you didn't already know, that this is where you have always wanted to be.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines
http://www.svgtourism.com
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