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Costa Rica Waterfalls: Llanos del Cortez, Bagaces, Costa Rica

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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Walk This Way: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica

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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Hawaiian Waterfalls, Rainbow Falls, Hawaii

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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Where to Eat on Grand Cayman

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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Island Escapes: Hiking Martinique's Mount Pelée

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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The Wild Side: Kauai's 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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Florida Snapshots: Dania Beach Pier

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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Island Escapes: Exumas by Land and Sea

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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Caribbean Snapshots: The Baths, Virgin Gorda, BVI

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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Caribbean Snapshots: Marigot Bay, St. Lucia

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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50 Shades of Blue: St. Thomas Beaches

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 Snapshots: Siesta Key

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's Best All-Inclusives

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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Caribbean Snapshots: Pigeon Point, Tobago

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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Where To Eat In Providenciales

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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