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[St Croix, USVI] [St Eustatius] [St John, USVI] [St Kitts] [St Lucia]
[St Maarten] [St Martin] [St Thomas, USVI] [St Vincent]
[Tobago] [Tortola, BVI] [Trinidad] [US Virgin Islands] [Virgin Gorda, BVI]
Anguilla Vacation Rentals
Anguilla, in the British Leewards, is 12 miles of spectacular bleach white sand and is considered some of the most prized beaches in the Caribbean. While locals continue to maintain the great maritime tradition of living from the sea, the island develops at an incredible rate as sun worshippers discover the beauty of its beaches. While there are some moderatly priced accommodations, Anguilla is more commonly known for its upscale resorts and fine dining.
Antigua Vacation Rentals
Antigua, in the British Leewards, is famous for its simplistic and casual living. With its many beaches, there is a local boast, however exaggerated, that you can visit a different one each day of the year. Other popular pastimes include snorkeling, sailing, diving and shopping. Once a poverty stricken island -- it is now an elegant destination for the rich, middle and lower-income tourists.
Aruba Vacation Rentals
Aruba, in the Dutch Leewards, is one of the most popular destinations in the Caribbean and has one of the highest rates of repeat visitors amongst the islands. Arubans are famous for their friendliness and hospitality, the climate is perpetually sunny and welcoming, and great care has been taken to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the environment. Sports enthusiasts will love Aruba - golf, tennis, windsurfing, scuba diving, parasailing, and more.
Barbados Vacation Rentals
Known by locals as "England in the tropics", it is a country sustained by tourism, agriculture and manufacturing. The people of Barbados have developed an impressive cultural identity in literature and the arts including dance, music, art and drama. Barbados has a few unusual and entertaining tourist sites including North Point, the northern most point on the island, where there is a large blow hole that shoots like a geyser where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic.
Barbuda Vacation Rentals
Located in the middle of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, Barbuda is a flat coral island with an area of only 68 square miles. Barbuda is one of those very few islands in the Caribbean that remains--and probably will remain for some time--so undeveloped as to seem positively deserted at times. Barbuda's seemingly endless white and pink sand beaches are left for the few who wish to share it with the islands primary inhabitants - the graceful frigate bird.
Bonaire Vacation Rentals
Over the last two decades, Bonaire has consistently ranked as the finest snorkeling and scuba diving destination in the Caribbean. Since 1979, while they encourage visitors to their island, Bonaireans have worked diligently to protect their island and will go to any length to do so. The treasures found in Bonaire are found under the water amongst its powdery white sands, turquoise waters and incredible coral reefs.
British Virgin Islands Vacation Rentals
Considered great cruising waters, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are made up, depending on which ones you count, between 40 and 50 islands. Some of these islands are simply small cays, surrounded by hidden coves and small bays. Still a British Crown Colony, BVI is a grouping of mountainous lush islands which attract the yachting set. There are hints that tourism is building on the British Virgins, but for now, it is for those looking for peace and quiet.
Curaçao Vacation Rentals
Curaçao, one of the Dutch Leewards, is made up of 50 nationalities in, what is now, a cosmopolitan community. Few places in the world have found more creative uses for historic buildings: ancient forts shelter restaurants and shops; a landhouse may be a museum, a liqueur factory a hotel, and town mansions restored to house professional offices. With its diverse cultures, and warm people - Curaçao attracts those looking for duty-free shopping, casinos and watersports.
Dominica Vacation Rentals
Dominica, part of the British Windwards, is the largest and most mountainous island of the Windwards. While the beaches are primarily black volcanic sand - one visits Dominica, not for its beaches, but for its lush flora and rare fauna. Visitors to Dominica enjoy hiking to and through its numerous secluded waterfalls and rushing streams and climbing its mountain slopes. Enjoying Dominica means enjoying the out-of-doors.
Grenada Vacation Rentals
The southernmost nation of the British Windward Islands, Grenada is known as the "Spice Islands." Filling the air is the aroma of fragrant fruits, exotic flora and the appealing bouquet of cloves, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and more. Grenada's physical beauty is richly complemented by her history and vibrant, living cultural heritage. Within Grenada, visitors find white beaches, secluded coves, lush nature trails mixed with tennis, golf, snorkeling, scuba diving, and yachting.
Grenadines Vacation Rentals
The Grenadines are 32 small islands which extend over a 40 mile area south of St. Vincent. Often seen as mere spots on maps and nautical charts, this chain of islands is recognized for its quiet beauty and secluded beaches. Often people visit to enjoy the locals who are still craftsman building boats by hand and whalers who still go out in wooden boats with hand harpoons. Still, most of the islands are simply sleepy hollows where one can enjoy the sun, sea and sand in solitude.
Guadeloupe Vacation Rentals
Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, is actually two islands separated by a strait of water. The first, Grande-Terre, is made up of rolling hills, sugar plantations and the remains of her French forts dating from the 18th century. The other, Basse-Terre, is a rugged island where La Soufriere, her 4800 ft. volcano, is still active. People come, as Teddy Roosevelt predicted in 1916, to Guadeloupe for her natural beauty and beautiful white-sand beaches.
Martinique Vacation Rentals
Martinique, also in the French West Indies, is a rich, highly developed island with a six-lane highway, the biggest shopping malls, and some of the finest restaurants in the Caribbean. Everything about Martinique has style. It's no surprise, then, that the island, along with Barbados, has one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean. Topless bathing is almost the norm, the driving is frenetic, and poodles are everywhere. This island is not like France. It is France.
Montserrat Vacation Rentals
At the present time, travel to Montserrat is not recommended. This view is shared by the foreign affairs departments of several nations, including Canada and the U.S. There are a few establishments offering accomodations in northern Montserrat, but limited resources and continued volcanic activity make the island a less than ideal destination. It's hardly the paradise it once was, but holds a fascination for those who'd like to see life as lived on the brink of a disaster.
Nevis Vacation Rentals
Nevis seems to embody a kind of lush tropical paradise usually associated with the South Pacific. The atmosphere here is luxuriant, an intoxicating blend of sunlight, sea air and fantastically abundant vegetation. The ground rises upward into a cloud forest filled with elusive green vervet monkeys and brilliant tropical flowers. For anyone who enjoys stunning natural beauty, Nevis cannot fail to exceed expectations. Nevis offers a rare opportunity to visit the "Secret Caribbean."
Saba Vacation Rentals
While the Caribbean is full of islands, few seem more islandlike than Saba, in the Dutch Windwards. Partly because of its size - a tiny dot of land amongst a vast ocean - but also because it seems so far removed from the wider world. The number one activity on Saba is scuba diving, rated amongst the best sites in the Caribbean. Beach lovers may want to think twice about booking passage though as sandy shores are almost nonexistent on the vertical, rocky coast of Saba.
St Barthélemy Vacation Rentals
St Barthélemy (better known as St Barts or St Barth), in the French West Indies, is a small, hilly island on 13 sq. miles of verdant terrain ringed by pleasant white-sand beaches. This island’s beauty, luxury and exclusive company come with a steep price tag, though. The beaches are secluded, the water warm, and the lush, volcanic landscape lovely to look at. St Barts is sophisticated, yet laid back, with a world-class cuisine, quality accommodations, top-notch service and a decidedly French ambience.
St Croix, USVI, Vacation Rentals
St Croix, the largest of the three USVI, lies 40 miles to the south of St Thomas. Unlike the bustling island-city of St Thomas, its harbor teeming with cruise ships and its shopping district crowded with bargain hunters, St Croix has a slower pace and a more diverse economy, mixing tourism with industry. St Croix is a study of contrasting beauty. There is a lush rain forest in the northwest, the eastern end dry, and palm-lined beaches with clear aquamarine water ring the island.
St Eustatius Vacation Rentals
St Eustatius, in the Dutch Windwartds, is an extinct volcano rising 2,000 feet above the sea. St Eustatius, locally called Statia, has the distinction of being the first foreign territory to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation. The island is ideal for scuba diving, and its reefs are not impacted or overrun by divers. You can snorkel over 17th and 18th century ruins, and hike the lush tropical extinct volcano. Beach lovers note: volcanic, black-sand beaches.
St John, USVI, Vacation Rentals
St John, in the USVIs, is volcanic in origin, mountainous, and has a desert like climate to its windward side and lush tropical jungle to its leeward. Unlike most other Caribbean Islands where large hotels dominate the beaches, on St John, the beaches are as they have been for thousands of years, pristine. St John appeals to those who seek natural beauty, solitude and privacy. The best night life is listening to the tree frogs, as you gaze into a star-lit heaven patiently waiting for the next shooting star to wish upon.
St Kitts Vacation Rentals
Tucked away in the eastern Caribbean, St Kitts, along with Nevis, promotes itself as "The Secret Caribbean." So breathtakingly beautiful is the landscape of this island, it's no wonder residents want to keep a secret of their dormant volcanoes, lush rain forests and palm-lined beaches. Separated only by a two-mile-wide channel, these sister islands of volcanic origin are found in the northern part of the Leeward Island chain. Come enjoy the amazing white-sand or black volcanic sand beaches.
St Lucia Vacation Rentals
St Lucia is the sort of island that travellers to the Caribbean dream about--a small, lush tropic gem that is still relatively unknown. The Atlantic Ocean kisses its eastern shore, while the beaches of the west coast owe their beauty to the calm Caribbean Sea. The island's steep coastlines and lovely reefs offer snorkeling, scuba diving, hiking, and birdwatching. Of course, the island possesses facilities for golf, tennis, and sailing. Not to be missed: Soufriere volcano, the world's only drive-in volcanic crater.
St Maarten Vacation Rentals
The island of St Maarten / St Martin is the smallest land mass in the world to be divided between two governments. Its dual owners are the Dutch and the French, who have shared the tiny island peacefully for almost 350 years. The most precious and attractive characteristic of St Maarten is its unusual serenity. Dutch St Maarten is 16 square miles of verdant, rolling hills that languidly rest above mile after mile of beach, salt pond, and lagoon.
St Martin Vacation Rentals
The smallest island in the world ever to have been partitioned between two different nations, St Martin / St Maarten has been shared by the French and the Dutch in a spirit of neighborly cooperation and mutual friendship for almost 350 years. Each side has managed to retain much of the distinctiveness of its own national culture. The French tend to emphasize comfort and elegance. The beaches secluded, the resorts lavish, and the restaurants offer the finest dining experiences anywhere in the Caribbean.
St Thomas, USVI, Vacation Rentals
St Thomas, in the USVI, is a mountainous island stretching west to east and having several distinct regions. The west end is the reclusive "French quarter". The north side is tropically lush and dotted with homes, and the famous Magens Bay. The east end is arid and resorts conspicuously planted on each and every beach. The east end is the windward side of the island and contains some spectacular views from the cliffs over- looking the Caribbean sea.
St Vincent Vacation Rentals
St Vincent is the largest of a group of islands unspoiled and waiting to welcome you....with a mountainous, heavily cultivated interior and a rugged coastline dotted with beautiful black and white sand beaches. St Vincent is a well known spot for sailing, yet is little known for the exotic scuba diving opportunities it offers. Volcanic in origin, the island is a paradise with wild parrots, rainforests, a volcano, waterfalls, streams and deserted black sand beaches to explore.
Tobago Vacation Rentals
Tobago, in the southernmost portion of the West Indies, is an idyllic place to lie down and relax - somewhere that eases the mind as it warms the skin. Here, palms sway above you, the turquoise sea shimmers before you, and glass bottomed boats put the reef beneath you. From lying on the beach, eating some of the worlds best seafood, diving below the sea and exploring Tobago's magic kingdom, taking a cruise, to the all inclusive door-to-door tour in "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" Tobago.
Tortola, BVI, Vacation Rentals
A vacation on Tortola, in the BVIs, is about relaxation and simple pleasures. This island has maintained its quaint and remote feel, while many other Caribbean islands have developed a tourist meca infrastructure. After a short stay on Tortola you begin to sense that most of the island habitat was born from life at sea. Marine centers are found in every navigable cove and islet, and for decades, Tortola has attracted the vacation sailor, for the Virgin Islands are known as one of the best boating regions in the Caribbean.
Trinidad Vacation Rentals
Trinidad, where you find the allure of an old world civilization overlaid with a new world energy. This is the birthplace of calypso, limbo, the steel pan and the steelband. The culture and heritage of Trinidad boasts ethnic influences from every continent. Trinidad is sophisticated, possessing a savoir faire that is seen in the artistic expression of the people. The home of Carnival, a unique expression that has spread far and wide, yet only moments away from lush forests where wildlife and flora testify to the richness of the land....Come to Trinidad and live life to the fullest!
US Virgin Islands Vacation Rentals
The US Virgin Islands are a beautiful, romantic, and cosmopolitan corner of the Caribbean, with a long, colorful history. US Territories since 1917, and bustling ports since the 1600's when they were centers of sugar, piracy, and slave trading, today the Virgin Islands are the Caribbean's most popular tourist destination. Beautiful beaches, exciting attractions, great sport activities and duty-free shopping are all found right here in the US Virgin Islands. Everyday, the US Virgin Islands welcome people from every corner of the world. And everyday, these visitors fall in love with America's Paradise.
Virgin Gorda, BVI, Vacation Rentals
Getting to Virgin Gorda, in the BVIs, can be an arduous experience, but it is well worth the time and effort. There are three distinct regions of Virgin Gorda, "the valley" or Spanish town, "the mountain" in the center of the island and the "Virgin Gorda Sound" on the east end. On the far west end of the island, giant boulders are strewn about the landscape and are called the "Baths". The baths have become a must see for visitors as they provide a stunning photogenic playground.
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