Dominica

Dominica is known as the nature island because it keeps a far higher proportion of forest than the rest of the Lesser Antilles, thanks to an extremely rugged volcanic relief that made plantation agriculture difficult. It has nine potentially active volcanoes, more rivers than there are days in the year according to the local saying, and in Morne Trois Pitons national park, a World Heritage Site, lies the Boiling Lake, a flooded fumarole that is one of the largest bodies of boiling water on the planet. Its forests hold two endemic parrots, and its waters, very deep close inshore, sustain something exceptional in the Caribbean: families of sperm whales resident year-round.