PLACES
There was a time when arriving to these islands was an adventure. Now, adventure can start from the very first moment since your arrival. No matter how you get here, on cruiser or yacht, even if you have opted for one or two of them for relax, because there are lots of places to explore: the bottom of the sea, the coasts, the tropical jungle mountains, and the streets of their small capitals.

Each island has their own characteristics, and provides much different sensations. Tourism, their main economic activity, allow visitors to enjoy being in the middle of a pure and wild nature, though there’s some controversy about risks in these natural paradises. St. John is a very quiet island a real nature paradise. Few kilometers away is St. Thomas, very noisy. Little St. Barths is so elegant as some aristocratic Parisian districts. In Barbados, British culture is very dominant, with traditions like tea time. Little St. Martin, ruled pacifically by two European countries, has a lively nightlife on one side of the border, while on the other there are peaceful beaches, and high quality restaurants. Trinidad stages each year what its probably the world’s noisiest street party. In St. Lucia, prestigious music festivals are celebrated, as well as the Opera season in Barbados. Aruba receives with open arms the thousands of people going to gamble in the casinos.

Waters surrounding these islands have always an excellent temperature, and have all the necessary conditions to practice sailing, and all kinds of water sports; from windsurf in the swollen sea of the Atlantic to water skiing in the quiet Caribbean harbors, passing through diving, that allows to discover splendid coral reefs or rests of sunk ships.

The inner lands also have a great variety of landscapes, and in some of them there’s a salt water lake, and in others an underground one, and even in Dominica, with mountains covered with dense tropical forests, is a boiling water lake. What little Saba can’t offer in beaches is compensated with the fascinating landscapes hidden in the depth of its waters. On the other side, in Aruba, plain and arid, there are lots of beaches.

In few words, it’s difficult to know what’s coming next, not only from one island to another, but after the next curve of a narrow road full of potholes. This is really one the greatest pleasures visitors can enjoy in the Little Antilles.