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costa rica waterfalls, llano de cortes
Costa Rica's Llanos del Cortez has all the elements you look for in a tropical waterfall, including lush foliage, a dramatic drop and a pool of cool, ...
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Costa Rica Cloud Forest
High in Costa Rica's Tilaran Mountains, the air is cool and crisp and the trees are laden with bromeliads and shrouded in mist. This is the Monteverde ...
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Big Island Rainbow Falls
Near the town of Hilo, on the big island's eastern shore, the Wailuku River takes an 80-foot plunge into a frothy pool shrouded in greenery. In morning ...
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Grand Cayman Ortanique
From an outpost of the empire to a center for international finance, Grand Cayman Island has certainly grown up. And the worldly travelers who come to ...
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Martinique Mount Pelee
There's a slumbering giant on the island of Martinique, and you can climb its shoulders. It's been nearly a century since Mount Pelee erupted in volcanic ...
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Kauai Napali Coast
The end of Highway 560 at Kee Beach marks the beginning of the wild and unsettled section of Kauai known as the Napali Coast. To explore this pristine ...
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Dania Pier, Fort Lauderdale
At fishing piers scattered along Florida's southeastern coast, saltwater anglers can wet a line without having to wade into the surf or charter a boat. A ...
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Exumas Bahamas Sea Park
A short sail from the glitzy resorts of Nassau, a very different side of the Bahamas awaits. Stretching for more than 100 miles southward, the string of ...
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BVI Virgin Gorda Baths
There's nothing like it anywhere else in the Caribbean. At The Baths, giant granite boulders are scattered helter-skelter along a white sand beach, as if ...
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st lucia marigot bay
Ringed by green hills that provide shelter from wind and waves, St. Lucia's Marigot Bay is what mariners call a hurricane hole. But you shouldn't wait for ...
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USVI St Thomas Magens Bay
Best known for shopping, dining and nightlife, this US Virgin Island sometimes gets passed up as a beach destination. But with 40 stretches of sand, quiet ...
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Florida
Siesta Key Beach
What does it take for a stretch of sand to be named "America's Number One Beach"? That depends on the findings of coastal geologist, Dr. Stephen ...
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St Maarten Sonesta
Planning a vacation can seem like work, from budgeting for meals to planning activities and finding the right accommodations. All- inclusives take a lot ...
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Trinidad and Tobago Pigeon Point
One of my absolute favorite beaches in the Caribbean is Tobago's Pigeon Point. It's hard to find a more idyllic, with palms bent over the water's edge, a ...
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Turks & Caicos Caicos Cafe
The Turks & Caicos are appended to the very bottom of the Bahamas archipelago, almost an afterthought. But the little country that could has come ...
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