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Dominica
Fly via Miami, San Juan, or Barbados to the Caribbean's nature island — the one without the beach resorts.
A rainforest eco-lodge or a village guesthouse in the Kalinago Territory.
A boiling lake at the end of a hard day's hike, 365 rivers, the Caribbean's last Indigenous territory, sperm whales offshore year-round, and the 185km Waitukubuli trail.
Hike to Boiling Lake with a guide — the Valley of Desolation en route is as close to Mordor as the Caribbean gets.
February to May
Sa ka fèt — what's happening, in Kwéyòl.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys — Dominica's own, and the Caribbean's great novel.
Whale watching offshore — resident sperm whales year-round, found almost nowhere else.
The Boiling Lake trail is a serious eight-hour hike — weather moves fast; go guided.