Dominica Summary

The first thing you’ll notice about Dominica (pronounced Dah-min-EE-ka) is how intensely green the island is. Lush, steep-sided peaks rear up 4700 feet to meet cloud-capped summits that receive enough heavy rainfall to feed hundreds of mountain streams. These in turn nourish the majestic * rainforest* vegetation that covers over sixty percent of Dominica’s centre.\n\n Lying halfway between Guadeloupe and Martinique, Dominica’s appeal has nothing to do with fabulous beaches – what few exist are paltry – or idle days spent under a palm tree. Rather, its abundant nature invites rigorous hiking to deep emerald pools, waterfalls and bubbling lakes. Offshore are superb drop-offs, volcanic arches and caves busy with stingrays, barracuda and parrotfish, making for some of the Caribbean’s best * diving, while *whales and dolphins often play off the southern coast, near Champagne, a unique effervescent bay.