Caribbean Beat — September/October 2020 • Digital Issue

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Dominica 290 square miles Highest point: Morne Diablotins, 4,747 feet

courtesy Dominica Tourism Authority

Northernmost of the Windwards, Dominica is famed as the Nature Island — and no place better deserves that nickname. Here are volcanic mountains soaring into the clouds, laced with cold rivers and waterfalls plunging into verdant pools, plus a shoreline of black volcanic beaches, and the Caribbean’s best whalewatching sites. Within easy reach of Roseau, Morne Trois Pitons National Park — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — has a landscape shaped by volcanic activity, including the celebrating Boiling Lake, at the end of a six-mile hike, with its waters geothermally heated to 90 degrees Celsius (don’t fall in). Not far to the west are Middleham Falls, a 250-foot cataract cascading into a mesmerisingly blue pool, deep in the forest. And Dominica’s crown jewel is the Waitukubuli National Trail, at 115 miles long the Caribbean’s longest single hiking trail, bisecting the island from north to south. The route takes a full two weeks to complete end to end — that’s a challenge for your bucket list.

Scotts Head at Dominica’s southwestern tip overlooks protected Soufrière Bay

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Popular artists at El Museo del Barrio

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page 21

Must try: the taste of invention

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page 20

The Caribbean's rarest stamps

4min
pages 18-19

The Covid strategy

7min
pages 76-79

Music reviews

3min
page 24

Book reviews

3min
page 22

Inside this issue

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pages 6-7

Adam Cooper — Anti-stoosh

8min
pages 70-75

Discover St Lucia

1min
pages 68-69

Discover Curaçao

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pages 66-67

Discover Tobago

1min
pages 64-65

Discover Barbados

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pages 62-63

Discover Grenada

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pages 58-60

Discover The Bahamas

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pages 56-57

Discover Suriname

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pages 54-55

Discover Trinidad

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pages 52-53

St Vincent and the Grenadines

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pages 50-51

Discover Cuba

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pages 48-49

Discover Jamaica

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pages 44-45

Discover Guyana

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pages 42-43

Discover Montserrat

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pages 38-41

Discover Antigua and Barbuda

1min
pages 34-36

Discover Dominica

1min
pages 30-33

Q&A with Esery Mondesir

3min
page 26

Terri Lyons' calypso favourites

2min
page 16

T&T arts festivals move online

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page 14

A virtual Labour Day Carnival

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page 12

Shark Hole, Barbados

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page 10

Our unfinished revolution

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