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For more about these islands and about getting there and enjoyinga great holiday CLICK HERE Click to go to the island of your choice: Anguilla Antigua Barbados the British Virgin Islands The island key features and images are by kind permission of The Definitive Caribbean Travel Guide, written by top travel journalist and author, James Henderson	Sandy Ground, Anguilla ANGUILLA is fashionable but low key, with ice-cool islanders and an unhurried pace of life, generally expensive but also some depth; not that easily accessible (but this keeps the crowds away); truly magnificent white sand beaches, some with beach bars, others barely developed; a small number of excellent and architecturally striking hotels, good service, some less expensive places to stay, also good villas; excellent restaurants; good day sails, good spas
	The Anchor, Galleon Beach, Antigua ANTIGUA is a lively, busy island with some good value. It is easily accessible, with many international and regional connections and is a popular port of call for cruise ships (and consequently has good shopping). It has magnificent sand and beaches, in long strands and isolated coves, some with good beach bars. There is a small number of excellent and stylish hotels among a large stock of mid-price resorts and all-inclusives, and just a few smaller, independent places to stay. There are plenty of good villas. Activities include excellent sailing, some good restaurants, casinos (it is one of just a few islands with them) and a very interesting visible history in Nelson’s Dockyard and many forts. BARBUDA is very quiet, with just a couple of expensive hotels and some very simple guests houses. It is a plane ride (and now ferry ride) beyond Antigua and has truly spectacular, barely developed beaches, some interesting nature and a very simple Caribbean life.
	Barbados Parliament Buildings BARBADOS has the greatest depth of tourism in any ‘small’ Caribbean island, with a full range of budget and exclusive possibilities; a busy, developed island with gracious and approachable islanders; easily accessible from Europe, the States and Canada; a good variety of excellent beaches, excellent hotels, superb villas, excellent restaurants; golf, watersports and on-land activities, good culture
	British Virgin Islands The BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS are sixty small but stunningly beautiful islands in the North-eastern Caribbean, grouped mostly around the Sir Francis Drake Channel; not that easily accessible, but once you are there, they are some of the finest sailing grounds in the world. Tortola, the main island, is quite developed, some are extremely dozy, others contain nothing but a luxurious hotel. The BVI has superb beaches, on the main islands and on offshore cays (many to sail to), and a beach bar in virtually every cove. There is a small number of first-rate hotels, good depth with a few inns and some excellent villas

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CARIBBEAN MAP
The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate. The countries and islands of the Caribbean are located to the south and east of Mexico and to the north and west of Venezuela, South America. There are at least 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cayes in the region. They are organized into 25 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies.

The name "West Indies" originates from Christopher Columbus' idea that he had landed in the Indies (then meaning all of south and east Asia) when he had in fact reached the Americas. The name "Caribbean" is named after the Caribs, one of the dominant Amerindian groups in the region at the time of European contact. The Caribbean consists of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and is often considered part of North America.

The Caribbean area is also famous for its sea pirates.