Summary Our travelers Justine Shapiro, Ian Wright and Megan McCormick set out on a voyage around the massive gulf that separates the North and South American continents to delve beneath the perception many people have that the Caribbean is merely a rich man's playground to bring you the Ultimate Caribbean experience! There are hundreds of tiny islands strung out across the Caribbean but the largest islands have the strongest characters. We visit Trinidad, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic to discover the history of the Caribbean - and its decidedly dark underside. It was colonized by European settlers who put the native Carib and Arawak Indians to work on the sugar plantations; when they were virtually wiped out the colonists brought over millions of African slaves. Our travelers visit Santo Domingo, a plantation on Jamaica and the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves who still live in the hills) to discover more. If you want to avoid the crowds, head to some of the smaller islands such as St Kitts which still has a seriously English feel while Dominica remains a jungle paradise. Tobago is a beautiful peaceful island and a great place to get involved in local events - where the Bacoo Goat Race is the place to be seen at! Just outside the Caribbean the Turks & Caicos Islands are the place to escape. Animal lovers will find another sort of paradise in the Caribbean from exceptional diving to swimming with dolphins to keeping out of the way of alligators and communing with massive leatherback turtles. If you want to get trekking, Dominica has the biggest rainforest in the Caribbean and big tracts of it are still untouched while the Dominican Republic's pine forests are a great place to go mule riding as Megan discovers! Jamaica also offers some wonderful views - for an amazing experience climb the Blue Mountain in time for the sunrise - a perfect way to end our Caribbean odyssey!

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